LONDON DAILY ARCHIVE

Turkey's Parliamentary Committee Approves Sweden's NATO Membership Turkey's parliamentary foreign affairs committee has endorsed Sweden's bid for NATO membership, moving Sweden closer to joining the alliance amid previously voiced concerns by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan regarding Sweden's stance on Kurdish activists

Erdoğan also ties Sweden's admission to a potential U.S. sale of F-16 jets to Turkey.

27 December 2023 · 22:33 UTC

Turkish parliament's general assembly has yet to schedule a final vote to confirm Sweden's membership.

All NATO members must agree for a new country to join, with Hungary currently being the last member yet to initiate the ratification process.

Following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Sweden, along with Finland who joined NATO in April, sought membership, departing from their longstanding neutrality.