Turkey Parliament Set to Vote on Sweden’s NATO Bid This Week
- Turkish approval would leave Hungary as the last holdout
- US made Turkey’s approval a prerequisite for sale of F-16 jets
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Turkish parliament is set to vote on Sweden’s entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization this week, bringing the alliance to the cusp of completing its Nordic expansion.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party, which commands a majority in the parliament together with its nationalist ally, will seek parliament’s approval to ratify Sweden’s long-awaited NATO membership, a senior government official who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter told Bloomberg on Monday.