Turkey’s president submits bill to ratify Sweden’s Nato membership

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, shakes hands with Sweden’s prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, in July at a Nato summit meeting in Vilnius. Photograph: Filip Singer/EPA

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has removed one of the final hurdles blocking Sweden from joining Nato by submitting a bill approving membership to parliament for ratification.

The move on Monday was in line with a commitment Erdoğan made to Nato at its summit in July when he said he would send the bill to parliament for ratification when parliament restarted in October.