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NATO Family Picture in Madrid: This Will Not Be Erdoğan’s Last Blackmail
It was another happy time in Madrid, of half-baked, Kodak-moment pleasantries when the leaders of 30 NATO member states posed for the cameras with broad family smiles.
They were on display for Turkey’s Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, for having removed his veto against the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO.
- Burak Bekdil
- Gatestone Institute
How did that happen? The stick.
On June 23, Turkey’s top defense procurement official, Ismail Demir, said that Turkey must be cautious when it comes to delivering more weapons to Ukraine amid the war with Russia.
The statement was a clear sign that Ankara did not want to annoy Moscow with the…