The Turkish President, a few days before the crucial NATO summit on June 29 and 30 in Madrid, seems to insist on his tough stance
The “hard poker” played by Recep Tayyip Erdogan with regard to the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO.
The Turkish President, a few days before crucial NATO summit on 29 and 30 June in Madrid, seems to insist on his tough stance and does not intend, for the time being, to lift the veto which Ankara has set for the Nordic countries’ accession to the Transatlantic Alliance.
This was stated by Tayyip Erdogan, as reported by the SKAI correspondent in Istanbul Manolis Kostidisto NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during communication between the two men today.
In fact, he later contacted Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Anderson, in which he said that Turkey had no tangible results in its demands, that is, to stop supporting terrorism, as Ankara claims, and could not turn on the light for NATO membership.
According to Manolis Kostidis, for Erdogan’s plans in view of the NATO summit, until recently it would be difficult for Turkey to open two fronts, namely the veto in Finland-Sweden and at the same time to accuse Greece. However, he says that seeing Turkey raise the issue of demilitarization of the islands and airspace in response to the EU, no one can rule out doing something similar in NATO.
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