Russian leader’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Ankara’s decision to ratify Sweden’s application to join the North Atlantic Alliance is a sovereign decision of Turkey.
Peskov emphasised that it is Turkey’s business as a NATO member to decide whose applications to join the alliance to ratify.
“This is Turkey’s sovereign decision,” he said.
On 23 January, Turkey’s Grand National Assembly approved a bill to ratify a protocol on Sweden’s accession to NATO.