As the alliance prepares to gather in Lithuania for a critical summit, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban are holding up Sweden’s accession.
Diplomats are now scrambling — after months of voicing confidence that the summit in
presidential election in May, when he portrayed his opponents as sympathetic to Kurdish militants and as enemies of traditional Muslim family values, themes that resonated with nationalist voters and Erdogan’s base of supporters. While senior U.S. and NATO officials insist that Stockholm has met the terms outlined last year to allay Ankara’s security concerns — including amending its constitution and approving tougher anti-terror laws — Erdogan has refused to send Sweden’s accession protocol to Turkish lawmakers.
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