Turkey agrees to recommend Sweden’s Nato application proceed

Recep Tayyip Erdoan agreed to set aside his veto following last-ditch talks on the eve of the Nato summit in Vilnius, Lithuania

Sweden is to be allowed to join Nato after Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoan, agreed to set aside his veto and recommend to his parliament that Sweden's application go ahead.

The Monday night breakthrough came in last-ditch talks on the eve of the Nato summit in Vilnius, Lithuania . It ended nearly a year of brinkmanship by Turkey, which has insisted it will not accede to Sweden's application to join Nato unless Stockholm did more to clamp down on exiled Kurdish activists.