Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Friday that Turkey will ratify Finland’s application for NATO membership, which will speed up the country’s accession to the Atlantic Alliance and separately from Sweden.
The announcement followed a visit by Finnish President Sauli Niinisto to Ankara, where he met Erdogan.
Finland and Sweden applied ten months ago to join NATO after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, abandoning decades of non-alignment.
Turkey and Hungary are the only two members of the Atlantic Alliance that have not yet ratified the accession of Stockholm and Helsinki, which implies unanimous approval.
Ankara has indicated, on several occasions, that it is not opposed to Finland’s entry into the Alliance, but it imposes obstacles on Sweden, accusing the country, among other things, of not extraditing people accused of belonging to Kurdish organizations declared by the authorities. Turks as terrorist groups
Source: TSF
