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Turkey’s been busy at NATO: Sweden’s bid, F-16s and war mediation

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan holds a press conference during a NATO leaders' summit in Vilnius, Lithuania [Kacper Pempel/Reuters]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been busy at a NATO summit in Lithuania, surprising observers after reversing course and approving Sweden’s long-awaited bid to join the military bloc.

At a press conference late on Wednesday following the summit in the capital of Vilnius, Erdogan touched on several issues for Turkey, including ratifying Sweden’s NATO bid, its F-16 jet defence deal with the United States, and the balancing act it continues to play between Russia and Ukraine.

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