Turkish Parliament to vote on Sweden's NATO membership
Turkey's parliament is expected to end more than a year of delays that severely strained its ties with Western allies and approve Sweden's membership of NATO this week, AFP reports.
CNN Turk said a vote could be take place as early as Tuesday while a source told AFP that it might be held on Thursday.
Turkey's ratification would leave Hungary as the last holdout in an accession process that Sweden and its neighbour Finland began in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine nearly two years ago.
Finland became the 31st member of the US-led defence alliance last April.
Its membership roughly doubled the length of NATO's border with Russia and substantially strengthened the defences of three tiny Baltic nations that joined the bloc following the Soviet Union's collapse.
Sweden and Finland pursued a policy of military non-alignment during the Cold War era confrontation between Moscow and Washington.
