Turkey agrees to ratify Swedish NATO bid, alliance’s secretary general says. He expressed confidence Hungary will drop opposition.
Erdogan’s comments, whatever their intent, ensured that Turkey remained at the center of the conversation as Western allies met to discuss other critical issues related to Russia’s invasion, including military support for Ukraine as well as its own
request for NATO membership — bolstering Erdogan’s efforts to promote his government as an independent, if unpredictable, power broker with global reach. “Erdogan likes to throw people off balance,” said Asli Aydintasbas, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. The European Union quickly dismissed the idea of tying Sweden’s NATO bid to E.U. enlargement: “You cannot link the two processes,” Dana Spinant, a spokesperson for the European Commission, said Monday.German Chancellor Olaf Scholz echoed the sentiment, saying there is no reason to see them as a “connected issue.”
A spokesperson for the National Security Council said the United States had “always supported” Turkey’s E.U. aspirations “and continues to do so,” speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss diplomatic negotiations. While Turkey’s “membership and process” was between the E.U.
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