Turkish parliamentary committee to debate Sweden’s NATO membership bid
Associated PressJUL 2023
By initiating the parliamentary process to potentially approve Sweden's NATO bid, Erdoğan has simply opened decision-making to the legislative rather than endorsing a rubber-stamp process as many had hoped. Turkey will continue to deliberate on the matter, taking into consideration whether Sweden has reassured Ankara to an acceptable extent and what relationship Turkey wishes to hold with the West.
Turkey continues to hold out against Sweden's NATO bid in an attempt to apply further pressure on the US to supply the country with F-16 fighter jets, a topic that has not yet even made it to America's Senate. A year and a half after its application, Sweden continues to be unnecessarily frustrated by external and unrelated politics.