Driven by domestic considerations, Turkey has triggered a major crisis inside NATO by blocking the Finnish and Swedish membership bids. This move inevitably plays into the hands of the Kremlin.It all started with a signature statement by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. He publicly went head-on against the preexisting consensus on NATO enlargement.
Turkey has issues with Finland’s and Sweden’s accession to the alliance, due to Stockholm cozying up too closely with Turkish Kurds and Helsinki implementing an arms embargo on Ankara
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