Majority Of Swedes Believe Turkey Will Not Prevent NATO Accession

According to Swedish pollster Novus, 89% of Swedes believe their country will be admitted into NATO despite Turkey’s demands for concessions.

• The poll also shows that support for the NATO bid remains strong.
• Earlier today, Turkish President Recep Erdogan doubled down on objections to the Nordic NATO aspirations and suspended talks with Greece on East Mediterranean and Aegean Sea security.
• Erdogan said that Turkey would not change its stance on the Swedish and Finnish NATO application without 'binding documents' showing a stricter stance on Kurdish groups labeled by Ankara as terrorists.
• Erdogan told a meeting of his party today: 'We broke off our high-level strategy council meetings with Greece. Don’t you learn any lessons from history? Don’t try to dance with Turkey.'
• There has been speculation that Erdogan has deployed the threat of his NATO veto as a tool to gain approval from Moscow in the establishment of a secure buffer zone within the Syrian territory and to prevent the US from intervening in the operation.
• Selçuk Aydın: 'The ascension of Sweden and Finland to NATO is widely seen as a crucial step for the western alliance, and Erdogan believes the West would not resist another Turkish operation in Syria at a time when they need his support. In this way, Ankara is testing what it can get from the West in return for approving the Nato bid.'