The Founding Members (1949):
United States of America, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Canada, Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Luxembourg.
Joined in 1952:
Greece and Turkey
Joined in 1955:
Germany
Joined in 1982:
Spain
Joined in 1999:
Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland (all were members of the former rival Warsaw Pact)
Joined in 2004:
Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. (all were previously Warsaw Pact - except Slovenia which was previously part of neutral Yugoslavia)
Joined in 2009:
Croatia (former Yugoslavia) and Albania (former Warsaw Pact)
The last time that NATO was enlarged, it brought in two more European countries. On April 1, 2009, Albania and Croatia both joined NATO.
The UK is still a NATO country and is aligned with all the other NATO countries.
Several countries have developed partnerships with NATO without becoming full members. NATO's goal is to create dialogues between countries and help solve international conflicts. Some countries that have or have had partnerships with NATO include Russia and Ukraine. These countries are represented by Heads of Diplomatic Missions or Liaison Offices located at the NATO Headquarters.
Africa's countries are not members of NATO.
Turkey
is switzerland apart of nato,seato,oas,or opec
NATO was designed to safeguard the freedom and security of its member countries by political and military means. NATO also plays a very important role in crisis management and peacekeeping with countries.
The 12 original members were countries of North America and Europe: - The US - Canada - Great Britain - Belgium - The Netherlands - Luxembourg - France - Portugal - Denmark - Norway - Iceland - Italy * France left NATO from 1959 to 2009, although participating in several NATO exercises.
NATO was not formed until after WW2.
Unless I am mistaken Turkey is a member of Nato.....
no.
There are 28.