Newsweek he is hopeful that a new Turkish parliament will approve Sweden's delayed accession to NATO before alliance members meet for their next summit this summer—if President Recep Tayyip Erdogan loses next month's election. It also lifted a 2019 arms embargo on Turkey put in place after Ankara's incursion into Syria targeting the Syrian Kurdish People's Defense Units (YPG), a militia that is linked to the PKK and forms the core of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) which has fought alongside American troops against Islamic State militants. "I don't think that it's going to damage the Turkish relations with the U