ANKARA, March 18 — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ended months of diplomatically charged delays yesterday and asked parliament to quickly back Finland’s bid to join...
ANKARA, March 18 — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ended months of diplomatically charged delays yesterday and asked parliament to quickly back Finland’s bid to join Nato.
But it also dashes the short-term hopes of fellow NATO aspirant Sweden — a Nordic power whose litany of disputes with Turkey ultimately has sunk its bid to join the bloc before an alliance summit in July. But the bids still needed to be ratified by all 30 of the alliance members’ parliaments — a process that got hung up once it reached the turn of Turkey and Hungary.
“We decided to start the protocol of Finland’s accession to Nato in our parliament,” Erdogan told reporters after the talks. “The most important thing is that both Finland and Sweden become full members of Nato quickly, not whether they join at exactly the same time,” Stoltenberg said. Turkey has sought the extradition of dozens of Kurdish and other suspects it accuses of ties to outlawed militants and a failed 2016 coup attempt.
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