Turkish parliament approves Sweden’s membership of Nato

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Turkish parliament approves Sweden’s membership of Nato
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Now it's time for Sweden to let Turkey in the EU

Steady on. Erdoğan's Islamifying the place as a populist, undoing Atatürk's vision. Turkey belongs in the GCC rather than the EU if it's on its way to theocracy.

The GCC is Arab countries and Turkey is not an Arab country. And the GCC are dictators not theocracies.

The EU is not about to let Turkey join, and the main reason is that Turkey don't really want to.

So, they submitted an application in 1999 and then suddenly revoked it?

It's not revoked. It's stalled. There's a huge list of things they'd need to do to join, and they basically haven't completed any of it.

Cyprus is a major sticking point, along with Erdogan, who while not quite being a dictator in name, is probably only a little way off it.

Sweden has generally been pretty supportive of Turkish EU accession. Cyprus is a far bigger issue.