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Why Turkey is blocking bids by Sweden and Finland to join NATO
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NATO is basically a "your enemy is my enemy" and "your friend is my friend" kind of organization. The more diverse its membership, the more fragile it will become.
ltlee1, <news:8d0fa87f-febf-4076...@googlegroups.com>
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Why Turkey is blocking bids by Sweden and Finland to join NATO --------------------------------------------------------
NATO is basically a "your enemy is my enemy" and "your friend is my friend"I still think "beginning of the end of NATO" is too strong phrase.
kind of organization. The more diverse its membership, the more fragile it will become.
America is still capable to keep it in shape. However, the fact is,
Turkey doesn't have true friends within NATO. The Tirkish Turks en
masse hate America and dislike Europe, and they generally dislike
everyone except the brotherly Azeris and then other Turkic-speaking
nations. But Turkey occupies a geopolitically important location,
which doesn't allow the Atlanticism to put much pressure on Turkey.
The Turkish opposition to the acceptance of Sweden and Finland into
the club is not simply opportunistic (i.e. linked with the Kurdish question). It's also linked with some strategic concerns. Too much
"europe" within NATO - especially these northern "eurosocialists" -
will make Turkey itself feel less comfortable within the club.
Turkey is well-"westernized", but not truly Western, and the Turks
are not much enthusiastic about the west-centric unilateralism, as
their top politicans express plainly.
| .. If you establish a western-centred world order and
| impose your national interests as the common values and
| needs of humanity, everyone has the right to oppose it.
| Unilateralism in international relations is an invitation
| to conflict .. <https://tinyurl.com/y25mjr8b>
If China offers some attractive cooperation to Turkey, it might
help shift Turkey geopolitically closer to "eurasia", further from
the Atlanticism (but one also needs to realize that Turkey is a
wayward and volatile beast, and Turkey keeps its particular dreams
with regard to Eurasia <https://tinyurl.com/great-turan>).
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Why Turkey is blocking bids by Sweden and Finland to join NATO
THE PHONES at the “Kulliye”, the vast 1,100-room Turkish presidential complex, have been ringing incessantly as Western leaders and officials call to find the answer to an urgent question: what is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s price for
...whom he accuses of fomenting the failed coup of 2016. Such accusations could be levelled against many members of NATO—not least America, which has armed the PKK’s Syrian offshoot to fight against the jihadists of Islamic State, and is home to Mr
But Mr Erdogan astonished his allies earlier this month when he said he opposed the application. ...
He has accused the duo, especially Sweden, of being “a complete hotbed of terrorism” for harbouring members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), insurgents in the predominantly Kurdish regions of Turkey, and the followers of Fethullah Gulen,
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NATO is basically a "your enemy is my enemy" and "your friend is my friend" kind of organization. The more diverse its membership, the more fragile it will become.
--------------------------------------------------------allowing Sweden and Finland to join NATO?
Why Turkey is blocking bids by Sweden and Finland to join NATO
THE PHONES at the “Kulliye”, the vast 1,100-room Turkish presidential complex, have been ringing incessantly as Western leaders and officials call to find the answer to an urgent question: what is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s price for
...whom he accuses of fomenting the failed coup of 2016. Such accusations could be levelled against many members of NATO—not least America, which has armed the PKK’s Syrian offshoot to fight against the jihadists of Islamic State, and is home to Mr
But Mr Erdogan astonished his allies earlier this month when he said he opposed the application. ...
He has accused the duo, especially Sweden, of being “a complete hotbed of terrorism” for harbouring members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), insurgents in the predominantly Kurdish regions of Turkey, and the followers of Fethullah Gulen,
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NATO is basically a "your enemy is my enemy" and "your friend is my friend" kind of organization. The more diverse its membership, the more fragile it will become.
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