FINLAND’S Left Alliance has rejected an agreement signed by ministers with Turkey on Tuesday in return for approval of Helsinki’s Nato membership application, branding it a “political demonstration.”

Former education minister Jussi Saramo argued that the document “does not bind Finland to anything” as it has not been discussed by the parliament’s committee on foreign affairs. 

Turkey had vowed to block Finland and Sweden’s applications to join the military alliance on the grounds that both countries support what Ankara has described as “terrorism.”