It was 2 a.m. in Turkey, and Jeff Flake had a promise to keep.

"I am not going to comment on behalf of the Hungarian government and their actions," said Kirby. Read also: Turkey puts Sweden's NATO membership a step closer despite ongoing security concerns ...

But with Turkey's decision to allow Sweden into NATO in late January – a move that required unanimous approval by all 31 members of the alliance – it's as if a switch was flipped. Turkey ...

Turkey's president suggested that he will attempt to stop Sweden and Finland from joining NATO. Sweden and Finland are soon expected to apply to join the military alliance, a development prompted ...

Turkey has acknowledged that Sweden and Finland have taken concrete steps to meet Ankara’s concerns over their bids to join NATO and the three will hold further meetings, Sweden’s chief ...

Finland and Sweden allegedly are determined to ... However such incorporations need the unanimous support from all NATO members but apparently Turkey does not have “a positive opinion” of ...

Finland and Sweden have formally applied to join NATO, but Turkey has threatened to block them from joining. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday explains why Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sees the ...

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, said in 2023 that Sweden had gone into “battle-array for war on the Muslim ...