Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced his country will begin the process of ratifying Finland's application to join the Nato military alliance. Finland and Sweden submitted their applications to join the alliance on the same date — 18 May 2022 — but Turkey voiced the strongest opposition to the bids by the two Nordic nations among all current Nato member states. Erdogan's statement on Friday afternoon, and the now-expected green light from the Turkish parliament, would mean that 29 out of Nato's 30 current member states would have ratified Finland's application — with Hungary the only nation yet to do so