Explainer-What Turkey gained in delaying Sweden's NATO bid
Illustration shows NATO, Turkish, Swedish and Finnish flags/ ANKARA (Reuters) -A Turkish parliament commission put off a vote on Sweden's NATO membership bid on Thursday, again holding up expansion of the Western bloc after 18 months of delays that frustrated some allies and extracted some concessions. In May of last year, President Tayyip Erdogan raised objections to both Swedish and Finnish requests to join the military alliance. The Nordic states made the bids in the face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine./ Turkey ratified Finland's bid in ...
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