TURKEY has blocked a NATO decision on whether to welcome Finland and Sweden into the military alliance as the Nordic states hit their first membership hurdle.
— before a meeting of its leaders in Madrid on June 28 but Ankara's reservations call into question if the plans to redraw the geopolitical map of northern Europe will materialise.
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