Turkey’s Parliament will let its foreign affairs committee carry out work during the summer recess that started Saturday, allowing the country to speed up its ratification process of Sweden’s membership in NATO.
Parliament voted to keep the foreign affairs committee on standby, before it went into recess that will last until Oct. 1, according to the Official Gazette on Saturday. The decision effectively clears the way for deliberations on Sweden’s NATO bid without delay if asked by the government.
Turkey — the only other NATO member along with Hungary that has yet to approve Sweden’s bid — agreed to support its membership on Monday while the Nordic country made various pledges to Ankara after months of negotiations.
