Turkey let Sweden into NATO to get EU perks, not membership itself
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“It is absolutely wrong to talk about the exchange of ‘Sweden in NATO’ for ‘Turkey in the EU’. In fact, this has already been confirmed by the European Commission, stating that the enlargement of the European Union and the alliance are two parallel and unrelated tracks,”, Russia’s Acting Permanent Representative to the EU Kirill Logvinov said