Turkey’s Erdogan and Hungary’s Orban pledge to strengthen ties in Budapest
Al Jazeera
The two countries are the only holdouts in NATO to not have ratified Sweden’s bid to join the transatlantic alliance.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban have pledged to strengthen ties after talks in Budapest.
The meeting on Monday marked the Turkish president’s second visit to the country in four months.
Hungary and Turkey are the only two NATO countries that have so far not ratified Sweden’s bid to join the transatlantic military alliance in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Earlier this month, Erdogan made Turkey’s ratification of Sweden’s NATO bid conditional on the United States Congress “simultaneously” approving Ankara’s request for F-16 fighter jets.
The two leaders did not comment on the issue in their address to reporters.
