Turkey’s Erdogan asks parliament to vote on Finland’s NATO bid


Ankara (AFP) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ends months of delays by asking parliament to vote on Finland’s bid to join the NATO defence bloc – paving the way for the Nordic nation to join the alliance without its neighbour Sweden. Finland and Sweden ended decades of military non-alignment and decided to join the US-led defence alliance in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

©AFP

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