Finland To Join NATO Without Sweden Amid Quran-Burning Controversy
President Erdoğan has so far blocked both countries’ bids and is using his vetoes as political leverage in an attempt to get Sweden and Finland to meet his demands.
President Erdoğan has so far blocked both countries’ bids and is using his vetoes as political leverage in an attempt to get Sweden and Finland to meet his demands.
NATO membership for Sweden and Finland appears at the mercy of Turkey’s ever-expanding demands.
The Greek foreign minister condemned the threats by one NATO member toward another.
Erdogan has positioned Turkey as a neutral actor player in the Russo-Ukraine war—as pro-Ukrainian without being expressly anti-Russian. In doing so, Turkey has also placed itself as a potential peace broker in the conflict.
Greek Foreign Minister Dendias voiced concern that the fraught state of Greco-Turkish relations might weaken NATO integrity.
Erdogan stated that his country’s support for Palestine will not be diminished on account of Turkey’s recent normalization of relations with Israel.
Turkey’s open defiance of the rules upheld by the European Court of Human Rights has been a thorn in the EU’s side.
The Turkish government is primarily critical of how Sweden has allowed the Kurdish PKK to operate with virtual impunity.
This new book by a senior lecturer at the University of St. Andrews is a bracing, short but expansive, study of poetic expressions of the fall of two fabled civilizations.
There is nothing dramatic per se about a new party in the Riksdag. What is unique about the new party Nyans emerging in the 2022 election cycle is that it springs from the Islamist environment in Sweden.