{"id":1968822,"date":"2023-07-10T16:29:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T20:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/turkey-agrees-to-move-ahead-with-swedens-nato-bid\/"},"modified":"2023-07-10T16:30:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T20:30:01","slug":"turkey-agrees-to-move-ahead-with-swedens-nato-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/turkey-agrees-to-move-ahead-with-swedens-nato-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey supports Sweden&#8217;s NATO bid."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fturkey-agrees-to-move-ahead-with-swedens-nato-bid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1968822&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Turkish President Agrees to Forward Sweden&#8217;s NATO Bid to Parliament<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to forward to parliament Sweden&#8217;s bid to join the NATO military alliance, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday, on the eve of a NATO summit in Vilnius.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m glad to announce &#8230; that President Erdogan has agreed to forward the accession protocol for Sweden to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/erdogan-urges-putin-to-teach-israel-a-lesson\/\" title=\"Erdogan Urges Putin To Teach Israel A \u2018Lesson\u2019\">grand national assembly<\/a> as soon as possible, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-chief-of-staff-biden-administration-taking-responsibility-for-covid-19-vaccines\/\" title=\"White House Chief of Staff: Biden Administration Taking Responsibility for COVID-19 Vaccines\">work closely<\/a> with the assembly to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-your-duty-to-americans-must-trump-your-infatuation-with-foreign-wars\/\" title=\"Congress, Your Duty To Americans Must Trump Your Infatuation With Foreign Wars\">ensure ratification<\/a>,&#8221; Stoltenberg told a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Stoltenberg declined to give a date for when Sweden&#8217;s accession would be ratified by the Turkish parliament, the grand national assembly, which would decide on the exact timing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Sweden and Finland&#8217;s Bid to Join NATO<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Sweden and Finland applied to join NATO last year, casting aside policies of military non-alignment that had lasted through the decades of the Cold War as Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine reframed security considerations.<\/li>\n<li>Applications to the alliance must be approved by all NATO members and while Finland&#8217;s was given the go-ahead in April, Turkey and Hungary have held off on clearing Sweden&#8217;s bid.<\/li>\n<li>Stockholm has been working hard at its bid ahead of the NATO summit in Vilnius, together with the United States and its allies, urging Turkey to abandon its opposition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Erdogan&#8217;s Concerns and Sweden&#8217;s Response<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Erdogan has said Sweden harbors members of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reports-u-s-airstrike-iranian-target-in-syria\/\" title=\"Reports: U.S. airstrike Iranian target in Syria\">militant groups<\/a>, mainly supporters of the Kurdistan Workers Party, who he accuses of organizing demonstrations and financing terrorist groups, while anti-Turkish protests in Stockholm have also raised his ire.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, Sweden has said it has fulfilled all the demands agreed upon in negotiations with Turkey last year, including introducing a new bill that makes being a member of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/turkey-agrees-to-move-ahead-with-swedens-nato-bid\/\" title=\"Turkey supports Sweden's NATO bid.\">terrorist organization illegal<\/a>, and stressed freedom of speech is protected in its constitution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban&#8217;s chief of staff said on Thursday that Budapest would not block Sweden&#8217;s NATO membership ratification.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by John Irish and Sabine Siebold; additional reporting by Johan Ahlander and Anna Ringstrom; writing by Justyna Pawlak and Niklas Pollard)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President Erdogan has approved Sweden&#8217;s NATO membership bid, according to Secretary-General Stoltenberg. This announcement comes ahead of the NATO summit in Vilnius. 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