The Turkish opposition is ready to approve Sweden’s application to the North Atlantic Alliance before the July NATO summit if it can win the country’s May elections. It has been reported Swedish radio Referring to the candidate of the opposition’s advisor, “National Alliance” Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu Ünal Çevikez.
Presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey are expected to be held on 14 May.
At the same time, the main rival of the incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is the sole candidate of the “Republican Alliance”, is Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the only candidate of the opposition “People’s Alliance”.
“I hope we can finish all these processes before the summit in Vilnius,” the politician said.
Ceviquez assured him that if the opposition won, the new authorities would have a plan to support Sweden, which was planning to join the alliance.
After the events in Ukraine in May 2022, Finland and Sweden applied to the NATO Secretary General to join the alliance.
Earlier it became known that the adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine is Mykhailo Podolyak. judicial Essential for Ukraine’s participation in the NATO summit in Vilnius. According to him, the main condition for Ukraine’s active participation in the event is a specific plan to join the NATO military alliance.