{"id":8457,"date":"2023-12-19T14:10:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T14:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=8457"},"modified":"2023-12-19T14:10:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T14:10:22","slug":"erdogan-signals-from-us-canada-helps-turkey-moving-on-sweden-nato-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/19\/erdogan-signals-from-us-canada-helps-turkey-moving-on-sweden-nato-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan: Signals from US, Canada Helps Turkey moving on Sweden NATO Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted on Tuesday as saying that positive developments on the US sale of F-16 fighter jets to Ankara, and on Canada\u2019s arms embargo, would help Turkey\u2019s parliament move toward ratifying Sweden\u2019s NATO membership bid.<br \/>\nAfter long-time non-alignment, Sweden and Finland asked to join NATO last year after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. But NATO member Turkey raised objections over what it said was the two countries\u2019 protection of groups that Ankara deems terrorists.<br \/>\nTurkey endorsed Finland\u2019s membership bid in April but, along with Hungary, it has kept Sweden waiting.<br \/>\n\u201cPositive developments we expect both on (procuring US) F-16s and Canada\u2019s promises (on lifting its arms embargo) would help our parliament to have a positive approach on Sweden&#8230; All of them are linked,\u201d Erdogan told reporters on a flight returning from Hungary, according to a text shared by his office.<br \/>\nTurkey asked in October 2021 to buy 40 Lockheed Martin Corp F-16 fighters and 79 modernization kits for its existing warplanes.<br \/>\nUS President Joe Biden\u2019s administration backs the $20-billion sale, but there have been objections in the US Congress over Turkey delaying Sweden\u2019s entry into NATO and over its human rights record.<br \/>\nCanada, for its part, quietly agreed to re-open talks with its NATO ally Turkey on lifting export controls on drone parts, including optical equipment, after Erdogan signalled in July that Sweden would get the green light from Ankara, Reuters reported.<br \/>\nErdogan said that he discussed the issue of Sweden\u2019s NATO accession with US President Joe Biden in a call last week.<br \/>\n\u201cIn the call, Mr. Biden said: \u2018You pass this (Sweden\u2019s NATO bid) from the parliament and I will get it (F-16 sale) passed from the Congress\u2019,\u201d Erdogan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted on Tuesday as saying that positive developments on the US sale of F-16 fighter jets to Ankara, and on Canada\u2019s arms embargo, would help Turkey\u2019s parliament move toward ratifying Sweden\u2019s NATO membership bid. After long-time non-alignment, Sweden and Finland asked to join NATO &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8459,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457\/revisions\/8459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}