President Erdoğan (L), secretary-general Stoltenberg (M) and PM Kristersson (R) (Image: AP)

Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will again Sweden’s bid to affix Nato.

After months of holding up the Scandinavian nation’s bid for membership, he has agreed to ship the accession protocol to parliament ‘as quickly as doable’.

Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg made the announcement after talks with Erdoğan and Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson on the eve of the alliance’s summit in Lithuania.

He stated in a press release on Twitter this can be a ‘historic step which makes all Nato allies stronger and safer’.

Stoltenberg declined to offer a date for when Sweden’s accession can be ratified by the Turkish parliament, the grand nationwide meeting, which might resolve on the precise timing.

Kristersson was greeted by an ovation as he walked into the foyer of his resort in Vilnius, shortly after securing the long-awaited assent.

This comes lower than two weeks after the nation gave the go-ahead to 2 males to carry a Quran-burning protest exterior a mosque, a ‘despicable’ choice which was broadly condemned in Turkey.

Sweden and Finland utilized to affix Nato final 12 months after Russia launched a conflict in Ukraine.

The leaders attend a gathering, on the eve of the Nato summit, in Vilnius (Image: AFP)

With the transfer, the 2 nations casting apart insurance policies of army non-alignment that had lasted by the a long time of the Chilly Struggle because the invasion reframed the safety concerns.

However Sweden’s accession has been held up by objections from Turkey since 2022.

Hungary is now the one Nato member who has not but agreed to it becoming a member of the alliance.

UK’s international secretary James Cleverly tweeted his approval of Turkey agreeing to assist Sweden, stressing it’s ‘in everybody’s curiosity’.

He wrote: ‘Their accession makes us all safer. The UK welcomes the steps Turkey has taken immediately to convey this nearer.

‘We proceed to face by our Swedish pals Tobias Billstrom.’

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