The Turkish president, Tayyip Erdogan, said it expects Turkey’s NATO allies to understand its security sensitivities and support it.
Speaking to his party’s parliamentary group, the Turkish president said:
“The war between Ukraine and Russia has brought security balances back to the forefront. NATO seeks to strengthen its eastern borders. We expect our allies to understand, respect and support our sensitivity.
We have a sensitivity to protect our borders from terrorism. None of our allies showed respect for this sensitivity, as we expected. As long as the refugees did not turn to the West, we saw no allies to share our problems with. “These are our allies in NATO, without apology,” he said.
“It is obvious that our allies do not share this sensitivity, although they show unlimited tolerance in some countries that show all sorts of wrong things in NATO and the EU. It does not mean that we will say unequivocally ‘yes’ to every proposal that is presented to us.
It is, at least, inconsistent to support the PKK / YPG terrorist organization and ask us for support for NATO membership.
We asked for 30 terrorists from Sweden, they said we would not give them. You will not give in to the terrorists, but you will ask us to join NATO. We can not say “yes”.
This mistake was once made with Greece. Greece and France had left NATO, unfortunately we said “yes” to join later. We will not make the same mistake.
They wanted to come on Monday. Do not bother, there is no need. We are not plotting anyone’s territory. “Our only goal is to cut off actions aimed at destabilizing our country.”
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