Turkish Parliament Ratifies Protocol on Sweden’s NATO Membership - Broadcast

ANKARA (Sputnik) - Turkiye’s Grand National Assembly ratified the protocol on Sweden’s accession to NATO on Tuesday, Turkish TRT Haber’s broadcast showed.

The parliament's decision will come into force after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signs a corresponding decree, which will be published in the government's official journal. Should President Erdogan sign the decree, Hungary remains the only North Atlantic Alliance country that has not ratified Sweden's application to join.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia had no problems with Finland and Sweden and that their accession to NATO did not pose an immediate threat. But the expansion of military infrastructure in these territories "will cause a response," the president said.

"As for the expansion of the North Atlantic Alliance: yes, this is a problem that is being created, in my opinion, quite artificially in the foreign policy interests of the United States. <...> Russia has no problems ... [with Sweden and Finland].... But the expansion of military infrastructure on the territory of this region will certainly cause our response," Putin said, stressing that the actions of the Scandinavian states could aggravate "an already difficult situation in the sphere of international security."