Finland has cleared the last significant hurdle in its bid to join Nato after Turkey’s parliament approved the Nordic country’s accession to the western military alliance.
The General Assembly, controlled by a coalition led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development party, voted just before midnight on Thursday to ratify the move, making Turkey the last of the 30 Nato countries to back Finland’s membership. Neighbouring Sweden is still waiting for both Turkey and Hungary to approve its Nato bid.
The Nato enlargement comes at a time when relations between Russia and the west have reached their lowest ebb in decades in the wake of President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale war in Ukraine.
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