Nato member Turkey has agreed to support Sweden and Finland's membership of the alliance. It had initially opposed the Nordic countries' bids to join. Turkey was angered by what it saw as their ...

Finland and Sweden allegedly are determined to ... However such incorporations need the unanimous support from all NATO members but apparently Turkey does not have “a positive opinion” of ...

Turkey's president has restated his opposition to Finland and Sweden joining Nato - just hours after they said they would seek membership. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the two Nordic nations should ...

Sweden’s accession to the Nato alliance was far from a smooth process. While the objections of Turkey and Hungary stole headlines as the main obstacle, there was also massive disruption caused ...

A day earlier Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, had shocked fellow NATO members by saying he could not support membership for either Finland or Sweden. Erdogan says Turkey not supportive ...

NATO chief Mark Rutte, speaking in Brussels on October 18, said the military alliance could not confirm the reports that North Korean troops were "actively engaged" in the conflict in Ukraine.

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NATO has slowly increased its control over the Baltic Sea with Russia now the only non-NATO country left that borders it.

Under Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) rule, Turkey’s standing in the world has ...

For Sweden and Finland to join the alliance will take time. To start with, membership must be approved by their parliaments, and those of all NATO’s ... need to be busy. Turkey has already ...

The organization has since grown to 32 members across North America and Europe, with Sweden the latest to join. April 4, 2024 marked NATO’s 75th anniversary, and the alliance gathered July 9-11 ...