Turkey’s parliamentary foreign affairs committee gave the green light to Sweden joining NATO on Tuesday, putting the Nordic country one step closer to membership in the alliance.
Now that the committee has approved Sweden’s membership the parliament itself could hold a vote in the coming days - and all eyes will then be on Hungary.
Viktor Orbán's government has been telling, both in public and in private, representatives of both NATO and the EU that Hungary "won't be the last” to ratify Sweden's NATO accession.
Were they telling the truth, were they telling what they
believed was the truth – or were they intentionally deceiving their Western allies all this time?
Watch this space…