Time has come for Turkey to ratify Sweden’s NATO bid, Swedish minister says

The Swedish foreign minister said on Friday he remained hopeful that Turkey will ratify Sweden’s planned NATO membership when the Turkish parliament reconvenes in October, as agreed with President Tayyip Erdogan at a summit of the alliance in July.
“The Swedish government has not had any signals during the summer other than that the cards that were put down then are ones that are valid now in this question and that the statement given at Vilnius is still valid,” Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom told reporters.
Sweden applied for NATO membership last year in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and most alliance members quickly ratified its bid.
But Turkey has held out citing worries over security cooperation.