Finland has been given the green light to join Nato after the Turkish parliament voted to approve its membership. All 276 lawmakers present on Thursday voted in favour of the Nordic country’s ...
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 ...
Therefore, Finland has obtained legal grounds for joining the alliance. Turkey was the remaining NATO member to approve Helsinki’s bid. Earlier, the process was also delayed by Hungary ...
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's parliament will "highly likely" ratify Finland's NATO accession bid before it closes in mid-April, two Turkish officials told Reuters on Wednesday, a day before Finnish ...
Hungary and Turkey are the last two NATO members who need to give their consent to the applications of Sweden and Finland. “All eyes are now on ... Hungary has pledged to ratify the two countries’ ...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked Turkey's parliament on Friday to vote on Finland's application to joint the NATO defence alliance. "We have decided to start the protocol of Finland's ...
The court has approved the move ahead of NATO membership talks with Ankara. Turkey has used its NATO vote to pressure ...
Turkey had delayed Finland's bid to join the alliance, complaining the Nordic nation was supporting 'terrorists'. Finland and Sweden applied to join Nato after Russia invaded Ukraine. But Turkey ...
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 vote came after Hungary’s government frustrated allies in NATO and the European ... of the alliance had ratified Finland’s bid. With Hungary’s approval, Turkey is now the only one ...
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 vote came after Hungary’s government frustrated allies in NATO and the European Union by repeatedly postponing the measure for months after nearly all other members of the alliance had ratified ...