Turkey's Erdogan Rejects Sweden's NATO Membership Bid Over Anti-Turkish Protests
TL;DR
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Sweden's hopes of joining NATO before the Vilnius summit next month do not mean that Turkey will follow suit. Turkey has been hesitant to approve Sweden's candidacy due to concerns about Stockholm's support for Kurdish groups, including the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has a following in Sweden. Sweden and Finland officially asked to join NATO last year, but Sweden's candidacy has not yet been approved, unlike Finland's.
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