Swedish PM seeks to win Turkish support for NATO membership • FRANCE 24 English

Sweden’s new prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, is meeting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday in an effort to clinch Turkish approval for his country’s bid to join NATO. Sweden and Finland applied for membership in the military alliance after Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February, fearing that Russian President Vladimir Putin might target them next. But Turkey, which joined NATO in 1952, has been holding off on endorsing their bids, accusing Sweden and to a lesser degree Finland of ignoring Ankara’s security concerns. FRANCE 24's Jasper Mortimer reports from Ankara, Turkey.