The Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs commission approved a bill Thursday that ratifies Finland’s bid to join NATO. Deputy Foreign Minister Burak Akcapar briefed the parliamentarians on the ...

Full unanimity is required to admit new members into the 30-member alliance, and Turkey and Hungary were the last two NATO members to ratify Finland’s accession. Sweden’s bid to join the ...

The two ultimately relented and Finland was accepted as NATO's 31st member in April. Turkey and Hungary remain the only North Atlantic Treaty Organization members left to ratify Sweden's bid 19 ...

Finland joined the alliance in April, becoming NATO’s 31st member, after Turkey’s parliament ratified the Nordic country’s bid. But Turkey held out on approving Sweden's bid, accusing the ...

But, unlike its megaphone diplomacy during NATO’s Nordic expansion the past two years, when Turkey tabled a host of demands from Sweden and Finland, Ankara is keeping ... of mentioning the Dutch ...

Finland became NATO’s 31st member earlier this year after Turkey’s parliament ratified its bid. Hungary, the only other NATO holdout on Sweden, has not announced when the country’s ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, right, arrives for a meeting of the European Political Community at Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, Oct 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) ...

The two ultimately relented and Finland was accepted as NATO's 31st member in April. Turkey and Hungary remain the only North Atlantic Treaty Organization members left to ratify Sweden's bid 19 ...

Finland joined the alliance in April, becoming NATO’s 31st member, after Turkey’s parliament ratified the Nordic country’s bid. Hungary has also stalled Sweden’s bid, alleging that Swedish ...