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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ruth Michaelson

Turkey pushes back vote on Sweden and Finland’s Nato accession

İbrahim Kalın in front of Turkish flag.
‘We are not in a rush here, they are in a rush,’ said İbrahim Kalın, top presidential adviser. Photograph: Murad Sezer/Reuters

Turkey is unlikely to vote on Sweden and Finland’s accession to Nato before pivotal domestic elections expected in May or June this year, according to a senior Turkish official.

“We are not in a rush here, they are in a rush to join Nato,” İbrahim Kalın, chief adviser to Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, told journalists.

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