Turkey's resistance to Sweden joining NATO is currently threatening to collapse the Swedish government. The short version is;
Opposition has organized a parliamentary vote to remove the current minister of justice for local Swedish reasons (specifically, Sweden has a rising gang violence problem). (These types of votes are pretty common in Swedish politics.) The prime minister has threatened to resign if the motion passes, which would collapse the government.
The four parties that have joined in on this currently have 174 votes in the parliament, out of 175 needed to pass the motion and force the resignation. In other words, the government hangs on one vote.
The way this relates to Turkey and NATO is that there's one very specific undecided vote: Amineh Kakabaveh, an independent
Kurdish mp, who obviously is very concerned over the demands Turkey has placed on Sweden about the kurdish question. Turkey is demanding (among other things) that Sweden should send over kurdish opposition figures currently living in Sweden, something Kakabaveh obviously opposes.
So, as things are, if the current Swedish government tries to give in too much to Turkey on the Kurdish issue, Kakabaveh could realistically bring the government down and force an early election.
Who says politics are boring
