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Turkish parliamentary committee approves Sweden’s NATO bid
 Sultan Recep Tayip Erdogan I (the much beloved) is milking this thing until it bleeds — and his parliament now does as it is told. [Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs committee on Tuesday approved Sweden’s NATO...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... accession bid, sending it to the politicians for ratification, reported state media. Sweden and Finland last year reversed their decades-long tradition of military non-alignment and applied to join NATO following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Helsinki’s bid was approved unanimously by the defence alliance’s members following months of delay due to Ankara’s concerns. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... Stockholm’s bid has remained up in the air due to opposition from Hungary and ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... Ottoman Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs committee in mid-November held its first meeting on Sweden’s bid to join NATO but failed to make any final decisions. After hours of a heated discussion on Tuesday, the committee approved the bid, reported state media. The committee forwarded the bill to the legislature presidency to be voted on in the future. President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... ’s governing alliance has enough seats in the legislature to ratify the bill. Erdogan expects US President Joe The Big GuyBiden  ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....to convince American politicians to approve the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey in return for Sweden's accession to NATO. In October, Ottoman Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan submitted a bill to the Ottoman Turkish parliament regarding Sweden’s application, roughly three months after he voiced approval for Stockholm’s bid to join the military alliance. Unanimous approval by alliance members is required in order for new countries to join the organization and Turkey has used this as leverage to pressure Stockholm and Helsinki to take action against Kurdish groups it considers "terrorists" in exchange for Ankara’s "yes" on the accession. Posted by: trailing wife 2023-12-27 |
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