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Turkey’s Parliament has voted in favor of Sweden’s accession to Nato and that clears a longstanding hurdle to Stockholm joining the Western Alliance lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favor of Sweden’s bid to become the 32 member of NATO after it won the public backing of turkey’s president RP T erdogan’s objections focused on Sweden’s perceived

Acceptance of Kurdish groups that turkey views as terrorists Stockholm responded by tightening its anti-terrorism legislation turkey’s approval now leaves Hungary as the only NATO member yet to ratify Sweden’s membership our correspondent Dorian Jones he’s standing by in Istanbul good evening to you Dorian so tell us more about the voting process

Today well there was no real surprise about the passing of of this motion to ratify Sweden’s joining of NATO given the fact that president erdan has a majority in Parliament and the main opposition was also supporting the motion so it easily passed 287 votes to 55 a massive majority but

Still there is a collective sigh of relief across NATO the US ambassador to Turkey Jeff Flake straight after the vote tweeted saying that uh it was great news for Sweden great news for turkey and for NATO while the Swedish prime minister UL Christensen also on tweeted

On X saying that uh this was a critical step step forward now president erdan still has to sign off on off on this ratification he said that he would do that in the coming days ahead so all eyes will be now on president erdan to sign off and take Sweden one step closer

To joining NATO yeah Dorian Sweden applied to join NATO back in May of 2022 why did it take such a long time for turkey to agree well I mean turkey had a long list of Demands here from SW Sweden they wanted to crack down on this Kurdish separatist group The pkk which is

Designated by European union and the United States as a terrorist organization anchor said Sweden wasn’t doing enough to crack down on that group also it wanted more legal protections to prevent Coran burnings which in Sweden caused outrage here in Turkey but turkey’s main demand was from Washington they’ve been looking to Congress to

Ratify the sale of US military jets to replace turkey’s aging Fleet now erdogan is saying that he would only ratify if the he would get a guarantee from the US President Joe Biden that that would pass through Congress now Joe Biden apparently spoke with President erdan

Last month and he said that the best way to achieve this was to get the vote through Parliament get NATO ratifying uh Sweden’s membership and then then it would be easy to overcome opposition within Congress now erdan has been skeptical whether Biden can deliver but he has delivered the vote here in

Parliament now he will be looking to Biden to make concessions movement on Congress he could well hold off signing until he sees some movement from Congress so it remains to be seen whether erdogan is quite ready to close the chapter on Sweden’s bid to join NATO yeah the world will be watching

Especially the Swedish World DW correspondent Dorian Jones in Istanbul thank you Dorian

Turkey’s parliament has approved Sweden’s application to join NATO, clearing a long-standing hurdle to its accession.
Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favor of Sweden’s bid to become the 32nd member of the alliance, after it won the public backing of Turkey’s President.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan had accused Sweden of being too lenient towards Kurdish groups that Turkey classifies as terrorist organizations. Stockholm responded by tightening its anti-terrorism laws. Turkey’s approval leaves Hungary as the only NATO member yet to ratify Sweden’s membership.

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23 comments

  5. What if the US leaves NATO when Trump gets elected again? Then Turkey do the same? And possibly followed by Britain? Europe needs to be massively more ambitious than another Nordic state joining NATO. Very quickly too. Say, within a year.

  6. Erdogan is a very good bazar trader. When he was younger he practiced on trading tomatoes on stambul market. Those tomato trades helped him to sell Swedish and Finnish joining to nato to get contracts for military supply from nato to satisfy his extremist ambitions. The west indeed has serious leadership crisis.

  11. It was all about the f-16s that the US did not wanna sell to turkey. Yesterday the US announced it will be selling new f16s to turkey, and today Turkey allows Sweden to join NATO. It is amazing how that fact doesn’t get mentioned. The media is blowing new lows.

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  15. So, if Israel was in NATO and demanded Hamas supporters were silenced so that Sweden could join, would the West throw Palestinians under the bus like they are doing to the Kurds?

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