Turkey supports Finland and Sweden Nato bid
George Wright, BBC | 4 hours agoNato membership would end over 200 years of Swedish non-alignmentNato 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 willingness to host Kurdish militants. Sweden and Finland could not join Nato without Turkey's support.
Russia strongly opposes the two states joining and has used the expansion of the West's defensive military alliance as a pretext for its war in Ukraine.
But Moscow's invasion has had the opposite effect, with the path now clear for the two countries to join Nato.
Foreign ministers from the three countries signed a joint security pact that addressed Turkey's concerns. . .
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