BREAKING: Turkey’s parliament ratified Finland’s application to join NATO, lifting the last hurdle for the Nordic country’s long-delayed accession into the Western military alliance.
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s parliament on Thursday ratified Finland’s application to join NATO, lifting the last hurdle in the way of the Nordic country’s long-delayed accession into the Western military alliance.
Alarmed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a year ago, Finland and Sweden abandoned their decades-long policy of nonalignment and applied to join the alliance.
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