Finland is set to join NATO following ratification of its membership by the Turkish government — the last holdout among the 30 nations in the military alliance.
The Nordic country and its neighbour Sweden each broke with decades of non-alignment by signaling last year that they wanted to join the alliance following Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine.
Their accession bids were ratified at the NATO leader’s summit in Madrid last June. Since then, member states have gone through their own processes of individually approving the requests. Ratification has to be unanimous among NATO members.
Both Finland and Sweden saw their bids held up by Turkey, which
