Türkiye, NATO, Sweden, Finland to hold quadruple leaders’ summit in Madrid
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye, NATO, Sweden and Finland will hold a quadruple leaders’ summit in Madrid this week as part of a pivotal NATO summit.
Turkish officials have held two meetings with their Swedish and Finnish counterparts so far to discuss the two countries’ NATO membership applications.
Türkiye’s presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin and Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Onal will pay an official visit to Brussels on Monday for a third round of talks while a fourth round will be held ahead of the Madrid summit.
This week, the Spanish capital will be dominated by the military alliance as NATO leaders are set to meet in Madrid to discuss what could be its largest military deployment since the end of the Cold War.
The NATO summit will run from Tuesday to Thursday, with talks expected to center on NATO’s response to the war in Ukraine and the Finnish and Swedish petitions to join the alliance.
This year’s summit will gain further historical importance because the alliance will be adopting its new strategic concept which will lay out NATO’s purpose and plans for the next decade.
Sweden, along with Finland, formally applied to join NATO last month, a decision spurred by Russia’s war on Ukraine, which began on Feb. 24.
But Türkiye, a longstanding member of the alliance, has voiced objections to the membership bids.
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