Why Turkey is blocking bids by Sweden and Finland to join NATO

  • 📰 TheEconomist
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 18 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 10%
  • Publisher: 92%

United Kingdom Headlines News

United Kingdom Latest News,United Kingdom Headlines

Most NATO leaders have welcomed the two applicants with open arms. But Recep Tayyip Erdogan is using his veto. Why?

, whom he accuses of fomenting the failed coup of 2016. Such accusations could be levelled against many members of’s Syrian offshoot to fight against the jihadists of Islamic State, and is home to Mr Gulen himself.’s rules require all existing members to support the applicant, giving any one of them leverage. Greece, for instance, held up North Macedonia’s membership for a decade because of a dispute over the name of the new ally.

Turkey’s objections may have less to do with Sweden and Finland than with America. Mr Erdogan has felt snubbed by President Joe Biden, who has kept his distance, in contrast with Donald Trump, who embraced him. Mr Erdogan was not among the 100-odd world leaders invited to take part in Mr Biden’s video “summit for democracy” last year.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

ERDOĞAN DOES NOT VETO. TURKEY IS USING THE RIGHT OF VETO.

Boot Turkey.

Good stance, immature motivation. Why not leave out the blackmailing & keep the idea of the idiot outside Turkey? Erdogan is one of the many clowns 🤡 Proper reasoning & eloquent motivation would have been more on point here, for sure. It’s exactly that what at least 🇸🇪 lacks.

Because Erdogan is a typical turkish carpet salesman: he's not shy selling even his own mother in exchange of a small profit.

Fire Erdogan!

Time to dump Turkey from nato

If Erdogan is paid enough, he'd be okay with accepting even Russia into NATO

NYSE & SECGov & FBI & FinCEN_nUSA & jpmorgan ~ Something wrong in Story. The STORY in is NOT talking “Survivor”; Story say to Michel Maillet QE Person in Moncton NB has voting stocks belonging to Michel Maillet maillet.maol.com WHY is that POSSiBLE? Microsoft

Why is Turkey, the cruelest country besides Russia in NATO at all. And why are they making decisions for the rest of the world. Please read the history of turkey and the horrors that they inflicted on people including my grandparents

Sweden and Finland are home for Kurdish terrorists for long time. Most of their weapons are Swedish products. Erdoğan doing it right and he's got %100 support of Turkish people in this situation.

Applications to join NATO are filled in Ankara, Turkey near Russian S400 base, but not far from headquarters of ISIS & Hamas, & just by Halkbank that launders money for Iranian regime. All Erdogan's brothers in arms!🙃

He has a wood chipper.

I think that is very intelligent Turkish politics. I would definetely do what Erdoğan is trying to do now. Nato is trying to sorround Russia to make them angrier. Erdoğan is playing neutral role to balance this. Those are all my opinions. I did not search such.

Jerk!

Because of this! Weapons they donated are killing our soldiers. We need explanation!

Similes similibus congregantur

Mr Putin has a nato member in his back pocket 🐻👍😵‍💫🥸💯🤓👌😅

Kick turkey out

Finland & Sweden openly supporting terrorist group pkk also known as ypg-pyd-sdg is a national security threat for Turkey. EU and US have also designated a terror organization for pkk. How would you expect Turkey to welcome Finland & Sweden to NATO while both openly support pkk?

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

I suggest Turkey needs to justify its existence each year in NATO. Once they fall behind they get the boot.

Sweden and Finland can call in their 'freedomfighters' the PKK/YPG, surely they are up for the task embracing the Bear... If Recep Tayyip Erdoğan won't veto the NATO bid to join, he and his Akparti can say bye bye!

Erdogan follows his master.

Pure leverage. He’s playing everyone against each other to see what type of deal he can get. The faster the EU pushes on their membership, the bigger concessions he will be able to extract. NATO should integrate things as much as possible without this formal acceptance.

Sweden supports the terrorist Workers' Party and asks why!

To prevent a conventional war. He is a sane Leader.

There is no need to blockade Russia and escalate tensions.

Recep ignorant in terms of his national interests as Turkish lira declined in the past year this step will cost him more losses in economic grounds as there main market europe not russia

I guess Erdoğan does nothing for free.

Rusya yazan dallamalar, bu iki ülkede Türkiyede ki terör örgütünü desteklemektedir. Tüm terör örgütlerini destekledikleri için.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 6. in UK

United Kingdom Latest News, United Kingdom Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

What is Nato and why was it formed?Military alliance created in aftermath of Second World War in hope of bringing an end to bloody conflict between nations Guys rate my nude photos) NATO served it's purpose. Time for it to wind up west against east, christians against muslims, u need enemy to justify your wars n decisions, instead working hard for peace/ peace dont give u power n wealth, nato definition
Source: The Independent - 🏆 80. / 59 Read more »

Turkey says Nato hopefuls must ‘cooperate’ on fighting terrorism - follow liveA top Russian official has expressed suspicion that Ukraine could be paying for European weapons with grain exports 🔴 Follow the latest news ➡️ So what!! it’s more useful than ‘promise to pay bearer’ money.
Source: The Independent - 🏆 80. / 59 Read more »

Ukraine news live: Erdogan tells NATO chief he won't support Sweden and Finland joining NATO without their support in fight against terrorism; Biden signs $40bn aid bill for Ukraine;Ukraine latest as the US president signs a bill promising more aid; The UK MOD says Russia's high drone loss rate could compromise its effectiveness; Countries stage a walk out at APEC to protest against the war; and Russia stops its gas flowing to Finland. Ukraine have been smashed Dragging it out now Send in the dogs
Source: SkyNews - 🏆 35. / 67 Read more »

Ukraine war: Moldova should be 'equipped to NATO standard' to guard against Russia, says Liz TrussThe UK's foreign secretary says the aim is to ensure Ukraine is 'permanently able to defend itself', and this also applies to other 'vulnerable states' such as Moldova, which is not a NATO member. Yeah, and brits should be free to go fight there. Right lizzy? She has a point due to Moldova location and size. If Putin troops reach Moldova and size it quickly,Putin would have another front to attack western Ukraine. But,might be better to keep equipping Ukraine to push Putin troops back to Russia.
Source: SkyNews - 🏆 35. / 67 Read more »

Liz Truss says Moldova could be armed with 'Nato standard' weaponsForeign Secretary Liz Truss accused the Russian president of wanting to create a 'greater Russia' and feared Moldova, south-west of Ukraine, could be Moscow's next target. here are my naked photos What Moldovan army? They have perhaps a few thousand troops. Its simply not the same as Ukraine who had perhaps half a million combat veterans. They will need support in the form of manpower sadly British taxpayers are thrilled as they watch billions of their hard earned money go down the illegal war drain and line the pockets of the globalists and military industrial complex...
Source: Daily Mail Online - 🏆 135. / 51 Read more »

UK and allies discuss arming Moldova with ‘Nato standard’ weaponsForeign secretary Liz Truss wants to protect the country south-west of Ukraine from Russia no absolutely not russia has a base there as they are well aware off moldova is neutral under duress
Source: Guardian news - 🏆 28. / 68 Read more »