The Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs commission approved Sweden’s NATO membership bid on Tuesday in a key step towards enlarging the Western bloc after 19 months of delays in which Ankara demanded security-related concessions from Stockholm. The commission, controlled by President Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AK Party, voted to back the bid – which Sweden made last year in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – after some four hours of debate, including talks on other matters. It had postponed a vote on the bid after an earlier debate on Nov. 16.
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