JUST IN – Turkey will ratify Finland's NATO bid, Erdogan says.
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) March 17, 2023
BREAKING:
Erdogan announces that Turkey will ratify Finland’s NATO membership application before the Turkish elections in May.
The statement came at a joint press conference in Turkey with Finland’s President @niinisto.
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— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) March 17, 2023
ISTANBUL (AP) — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that Turkey would move forward with ratifying Finland’s NATO application, paving the way for the country to join the military bloc ahead of Sweden.
The breakthrough came as Finnish President Sauli Niinisto was in Ankara to meet with Erdogan and 10 months after both Finland and Swden applied to become NATO members in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, abandoning decades of nonalignment.
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— Steven Thomas (@aNdr0iz) March 17, 2023
h/t DOORBERT