Sweden will look to make constructive progress in talks with Turkey on Ankara's objections over the Nordic country's application to join the NATO defensive alliance, Foreign Minister Ann Linde said on Friday, Reuters reported.

Finland and Sweden applied to join NATO last month but face opposition from Turkey, which accuses them of supporting and harboring Kurdish rebels and other groups it considers terrorists. Those objections caught the Finns, Swedes and many NATO officials off guard and clouded prospects for a fast-paced membership bid ahead of a NATO summit in Madrid later this month.

"Our application has received broad support among NATO members," she said in a foreign policy declaration in the Swedish parliament. "Our ambition is to, in a constructive spirit, make progress on the questions that Turkey has raised."

Linde added that there should be no doubt that Sweden stood together with allies against terrorism.

The Swedish government survived a vote of no confidence Tuesday with the help of an MP whose demands for support for the Kurds in northern Syria could complicate attempts to join NATO.

Ankara also lashed out at Swedish authorities for stopping arms exports to Turkey in 2019 when the country invaded northern Syria.