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Turkey 'not in a position' to ratify Swedish NATO bid

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (Credit: AFP/File)

Turkey said Saturday it was "not in a position" to ratify Sweden's NATO membership, despite a series of steps taken by Stockholm to meet Ankara's demands.

"We are not in a position to send a [ratification] law to the parliament," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's foreign policy adviser Ibrahim Kalin told reporters. 

Turkey said Saturday it was "not in a position" to ratify Sweden's NATO membership, despite a series of steps taken by Stockholm to meet Ankara's demands.



"We are not in a position to send a [ratification] law to the parliament," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's foreign policy adviser Ibrahim Kalin told reporters.