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Turkey's Grand National Assembly approves Sweden's NATO membership bid.
2024-01-23

The Turkish parliament's foreign affairs commission delays a vote on Sweden's NATO membership bid.
2023-11-16

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan submits a bill on granting Sweden membership into NATO to the Grand National Assembly.
2023-10-23

Finland officially joins NATO, becoming the 31st member of the military alliance and expanding NATO's border with Russia by 810 mi.
2023-04-4

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announces that Turkey will begin the process of ratifying Finland's membership of NATO without Sweden, which Turkey accuses of supporting the PKK.
2023-03-17

All 30 members of NATO have signed off on the accession protocols for the membership bids of Finland and Sweden, which is subject to unanimous approval by the current members' legislative bodies.
2022-07-5

Prime Minister Sanna Marin says that a decision on Finland joining the NATO military alliance must be made before this summer, stating that "Russia is not the neighbor we thought it was".
2022-04-2

Russia demands that NATO end all military activity in Eastern Europe and never admit Ukraine as a member of the military alliance, saying that they want a legally binding guarantee to end further eastward expansion. Other demands include a Russian veto on Ukrainian membership in NATO, the removal of U.S. nuclear weapons from Europe, and the withdrawal of multinational NATO battalions from Poland and the Baltics.
2021-12-17

NATO intercepts Russian jets over the Baltic Sea while Sweden's six-day search for a possibly damaged Russian Navy submarine continues.
2014-10-22