The “brake” Erdogan Sweden and Finland’s accession to NATO is described in detail in articles and comments in most German newspapers, large and small. In Frankfurter General Assembly and Süddeutsche Zeitung The columnists refer to yesterday’s official handover of the application at NATO headquarters, a process that ended ignominiously. “The historic step of abandoning neutrality by Sweden and Finland after decades is completed in a non-spectacular way, in a maximum of 3 minutes,” writes the Munich newspaper. On Wednesday morning (18.05) the Secretary General of the alliance, shortly after 8 in the morning, entered a room of the building, where next to the NATO were the flags of Sweden and Finland. He was followed by the two ambassadors to submit his membership applications in white files. Stoltenberg praised the two candidate countries as close partners (…) a little later the 30 ambassadors of the alliance countries met to process them quickly (…) but Turkey is slowing down, its ambassador does not have the necessary green light from Ankara “.
“And Greece remained a member of NATO during the junta”
Her columnist Brand name argues that Turkey is once again proving to be a source of discord in NATO. “Moving away from the rule of law is as worrying as violating Western European etiquette diplomacy to achieve its own goals, as is now the case with the exclusion of Sweden and Finland from NATO,” the paper said. “So would expelling her from NATO be a solution? There are many reasons to watch (closely) Turkey. To chase her, something technically almost impossible, would be a huge mistake. The alliance would remove its influence in Ankara. And its military strength of 355,000 makes it an important pillar of NATO, in addition to its strategic position. In addition, the tolerance of black sheep in NATO is in a way a tradition. “Greece remained a member of the alliance even during the military dictatorship.”
The newspaper Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung argues that NATO will have to pay a heavy price to overcome all obstacles in order for the two countries to be admitted to the alliance. “Not only because of the threat of provocations from Russia, but mainly in the form of concessions to Turkey. The defense alliance will not be able to avoid rapprochement with Turkey over the banned Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) in Europe, and the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria. President Erdogan accuses Sweden and Finland of failing to take decisive action against PKK activists. He also criticizes the fact that the Americans support the YPG in Syria as a partner in the fight against ISIS. “As for the desire for new fighter jets, Turkey is now in a better negotiating position. And Erdogan knows that a failure of NATO expansion to the north would be a disaster for her that she can not and does not want to afford.”
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