Finland will now be formally admitted into NATO at its next summit in July in Lithuania. Earlier, Turkey had delayed Finland's bid to join the West's defensive alliance for months, complaining the ...

At the same time, the lawmakers said that Sweden, which filed a NATO membership bid jointly with Finland, has not fulfilled the provision of its memorandum with Turkey as of yet, and was therefore ...

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 ...

The Turkish parliament voted Tuesday to approve Sweden’s NATO membership bid, bringing the ... into law unless the US approves the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey. US Senate Foreign ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...