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Thursday, January 25, 2024
From the Liveblog of
Thursday, January 25, 2024
Turkey’s Erdogan signs off on Sweden’s NATO membership ratification
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, second left, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg before signing a memorandum in which Turkey agrees to Finland and Sweden's membership of the defense alliance in Madrid, Spain on Tuesday, June 28, 2022. (AP/Bernat Armangue)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signs off on the parliament’s ratification of Sweden’s NATO membership bid, the presidency’s official gazette shows, marking the final step in Ankara’s approval of Stockholm into the alliance.
The Turkish parliament ratified Sweden’s NATO bid on Tuesday, clearing a major hurdle to expanding the Western military alliance after 20 months of delay. Hungary remains the only ally yet to ratify the Nordic nation’s accession into the alliance.
