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Turkey’s parliament has ratified Finland’s application to join NATO, lifting the last hurdle to the Nordic country’s long-delayed accession into the Western military alliance

All 276 lawmakers present voted in favor of Finland's application. The action lifted the last hurdle in the way of the Nordic country's long-delayed accession into the Western military alliance.

Finland's NATO membership, once official, will more than double the length of the alliance's borders with Russia.

Turkey's parliament approved a bill on Thursday to allow Finland to join NATO, clearing the way for the country to become part of the Western defence alliance as war rages in Ukraine.

Finland looks set to join NATO soon, with Turkey's parliament voting to ratify Helsinki's membership bid even as it keeps Sweden's application on hold.

Finland's intelligence agency SUPO says Russia's spy operations in the Nordic nation have been substantially weakened over the past year

France’s top diplomat says that she hopes that the NATO applications of Sweden and Finland will be “ratified quickly."