{"id":31049,"date":"2024-01-24T09:58:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T05:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=31049"},"modified":"2024-01-24T14:28:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T10:28:33","slug":"turkish-parliament-approves-swedens-membership-in-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/31049\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish parliament approves Sweden\u2019s membership in NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Turkish parliament has approved Sweden&rsquo;s membership in NATO with 287 votes in favor, 55 against.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many NATO members had earlier ratified Sweden&rsquo;s and Finland&rsquo;s membership, but Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan decided to delay the process and instead approve each country&rsquo;s membership separately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a result, Finland completed the NATO membership process in April of last year, while Sweden has not completed it yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, only Hungary has not ratified Sweden&rsquo;s bid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sweden has not joined military alliances for decades, but came to this decision after the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Turkish parliament has approved Sweden&rsquo;s membership in NATO with 287 votes in favor, 55 against. Many NATO members had earlier ratified Sweden&rsquo;s and Finland&rsquo;s membership, but Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan decided to delay the process and instead approve each country&rsquo;s membership separately. As a result, Finland completed the NATO membership process in April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,82,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-turkey","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}