Sweden's NATO Bid and Turkey's Resistance: Latest Updates.

Turkey will host a meeting with Sweden and Finland to discuss their bids to join NATO. While Turkey has approved Finland's membership, it is waiting for Sweden to address Ankara's security concerns. Sweden passed an anti-terror law in November, hoping to gain approval from Turkey. The meeting will be chaired by Akif Çağatay Kılıç, newly appointed chief adviser to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Nordic country seeks to take concrete steps to assuage Turkey's security concerns, including extraditing a man who was convicted of drug offenses in Turkey in 2013 and has been living in Sweden for five years.