Turkey's president says his country may allow Finland to join NATO without Sweden

Turkey's decision threatened to derail NATO's hopes of expanding the bloc to 32 countries at a summit planned for July.

TURKISH PRESIDENT RECEP Tayyip Erdogan said for the first time today that Ankara could accept Finland into NATO without its Nordic neighbour Sweden.

Finland and Sweden dropped decades of military non-alignment and applied to join the US-led defence alliance in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He drew a clear distinction today between the positions taken by Sweden and Finland in the past few months. And both nations have lifted bans on military sales to Turkey that they imposed after its 2019 military incursion into Syria.

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