Turkey won’t ratify Sweden’s Nato membership bid before October, Erdogan says

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the aim is to finalise this matter as swiftly as possible (Pavel Golovkin/AP)

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president, said that Sweden’s Nato membership bid would not be ratified by Turkey’s parliament before October.

Speaking at the Nato summit in Vilnius in Lithuania, Mr Erdogan said that the process would have to wait until after MPs return from a summer recess.