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Sweden closer to NATO membership after Turkish parliamentary committee vote • FRANCE 24 English

  • December 27, 2023



Sweden closer to NATO membership after Turkish parliamentary committee vote • FRANCE 24 English

Turkey’s approval of Sweden’s joining NATO is linked to the US Senate’s approval of turkey buying 40 F-16 fighter bombers from America um President Joe Biden has agreed to the purchase of those fighter bombers but the US Senate has the final word and Senators have said they’re not going to

Vote for turkey’s uh getting those fighter bombers until turkey ratifies Swedish membership of NATO but they’ve also said they’re concerned about turkey’s record on human rights last year the Greek Prime Minister kakos mitsotakis urged the congress not to sell war planes to Turkey and that had an impact uh so with

Yesterday’s uh approval uh by the Parliamentary commission turkey has taken the ratification process to the very Brink it only needs a vote in the general assembly of the parliament for the ratification to become final uh and I think what’s going to happen is that turkey is will wait to see what the US

Senate does what turkey doesn’t want to do is to finalize the ratification and then for the Senators to say well uh President Biden uh committed uh the sale of these fighter bombers to Turkey but we are independent and we have made no such commitment so I

I think you know the two countries are going to be watching each other very carefully in the coming days

The Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs committee gave its consent to Sweden’s bid to join NATO on Tuesday, drawing the previously nonaligned Nordic country closer to membership in the Western military alliance. Sweden’s accession protocol will now need to be approved in the Turkish parliament’s general assembly for the last stage of the legislative process in Turkey. “Turkey’s approval of Sweden’s joining NATO is linked to the US Senate’s approval of Turkey buying 14 F-16 fighter bombers from America”, FRANCE 24’s Jasper Mortimer said, adding that the Senate’s approval is contingent on Turkey ratifying Sweden’s NATO membership.
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15 comments

  1. Im so tired of erdogan and turkish politicians, we did what u asked and know its not even about us anymore, its about the u.s semding u equipment, wth does that has to do with our nato bid?

  2. Now its Hungary who veto it, But seriously what's the point of Sweden joining NATO? they're surrounded by friendly and NATO member's I think they're safe

  3. We all know thag Usa will try to crossover Turey on the sell
    Even if turkey accepts Sweden, Joe biden will say the Congress wont approve the sale, because the republicans have the majority

    In a way this is smart move from Turkey

  7. USA is the major country violating human rights and dignity around the world but use it as weapon to target other none white none christian countries. US hypocrisy and double standard is evil.

  9. The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is an American single-engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force, it’s not a bomber or bomb aircraft

  10. it is necessary to expand the European Union to include the Western Bałkans, Ukraine, Mołdova, Georgia, secular Turkey, and in the future also to include free democratic Belarus, and also Armenia, and perhaps Azerbaijan. It is necessary to admit these countries to the European Union

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