ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday rebuffed growing international pressure on Ankara to ratify Sweden's NATO membership bid before the Western defence alliance meets in July.“Sweden has expectations. It doesn’t mean that we will comply with them,“ Erdogan said in remarks released by his office.“In order for us to meet these expectations, first of all, Sweden must do its part.”Sweden and its Nordic neighbour Finland ended decades of military non-alignment and applied to join the US-led defence bloc in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Turkey and fellow NATO member Hungary ratified Finland's NATO membership this year.But both countries' parliaments have yet to
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