Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has submitted Sweden’s Nato accession bid for ratification by Turkey’s parliament, bringing the Scandinavian country one step closer to joining the western military alliance.
Erdoğan’s decision was announced by Turkey’s communications directorate on Monday, kicking off the process for the country’s parliament to debate and ratify Sweden’s Nato membership.
The president vowed in July to remove his objections to Sweden joining the bloc, but the process has been held up by parliament’s summer recess and persistent concerns in Ankara that Stockholm has not done enough to counter terrorism and Islamophobia within its borders.
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