Turkey expects to ratify Sweden accession to NATO 'within weeks' - Swedish minister

Turkey is expected to ratify Sweden's accession to NATO within weeks, the Swedish foreign minister said on Wednesday, quoting his Turkish counterpart.

"I had a bilateral with my colleague, the foreign minister ... where he told me that he expected the ratification to take place within weeks," Tobias Billstrom told reporters before a meeting of NATO foreign ministers.

"The Turkish foreign minister (Hakan Fidan) didn't present a date but said 'within weeks', he expected the ratification of Sweden's NATO protocol to be made within weeks. That was what he told me yesterday."