The meeting in Vilnius will be held on 11-12 July 2023. It is still unclear whether Sweden will participate in the meeting, but it has been mentioned as an important date for Sweden's application.
Many NATO advocates hope that a change of power can speed up the process, as Erdogan's challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu has flagged a realignment of foreign policy more towards the EU and the West. "It takes patience," Unal Cevikö, the Turkish opposition's foreign policy adviser, told SVT.