Turkey’s parliament has postponed a vote on ratifying Sweden’s accession to Nato, in a fresh snag to the Nordic country’s hopes of joining the western military alliance.
The parliament’s foreign affairs committee on Thursday debated Stockholm’s bid but held off from voting pending further review. The committee must give its approval before the parliament as a whole can vote on it.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, whose coalition controls parliament, vowed in July at a Nato summit to approve Sweden’s accession, but the process has been beset by delays. Allowing the Scandinavian country to join is a crucial priority in many western capitals nearly two years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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