BY GABRIEL GAVIN
JULY 10, 2023 12:46 PM CET
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Turkey would consider green-lighting Sweden’s application to join NATO in exchange for progress on its own bid to join the EU, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared Monday ahead of a key summit of alliance members.
“First, pave the way for Turkey in the European Union, and then let us pave the way for Sweden, just as we paved the way for Finland,” the Turkish leader said in a speech Monday at Istanbul’s Atatürk airport, before departing for the NATO summit in Vilnius.
At the same time, Erdoğan added, he will use the summit to “repeat our call to the allies who impose sanctions and restrictions on Turkey to quickly turn back from this mistake.”.........
