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In June 2022, against the backdrop of the NATO summit in Madrid, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that his country was giving the "green light" to start the process for Finland and Sweden to join the North Atlantic Alliance.
About ten months later, in the spring of 2023, the Turkish side ratified the acceptance of Finland, but not Sweden.
Then in July 2023, against the backdrop of the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Erdogan announced that the way was now open for Sweden's membership.
About four months later, in October 2023, the Turkish president announced that he was sending Sweden's accession protocol to the Turkish National Assembly for approval.
Meanwhile, this November, the Turkish parliament's foreign affairs committee met to ratify Sweden's pending NATO membership, but did not vote on it. The relevant vote, which was supposed to be held this week, has been postponed until the next meeting of the competent commission, which, however, is not known exactly when it will take place. However, a date has not been set at the moment...
Since the beginning of the Russian occupation of Ukraine, in February 2022, 21 months have already passed. Meanwhile, the NATO-Russia axis underwent divisions, overturns and reorganizations. The only thing that remained "constant", in a world of rapid changes, is the attitude of Erdogan's Turkey, who is expected at the summit to announce in front of everyone the lifting of the veto, which, however, is in practice but not implemented.
Basically, of course, this is not a new Turkish practice. In other words, it is not the first time that Turkey raises obstacles for Western plans. On the contrary, he has done something similar before.
- In 2003, he refused the request of the Americans who asked Ankara to give the "green light" for the forces of the 4th Infantry Division of the American army to pass through Turkish territory, as part of the American invasion of Iraq.
- In 2009, he blocked the candidacy of Dane Anders Fogh Rasmussen for the post of Secretary General of NATO.
- In the period 2017 - 2019, received Russian S-400, despite American reactions.
– In 2019, it blocked Egypt's participation in NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue scheme, but also some of NATO's defense plans for the Baltics and Poland.
– Years 2022 – 2023, blocked the admission of Sweden and delayed the membership of Finland in NATO, the exemption from the obligation to implement the sanctions imposed by the West on Russia because of the Ukrainian one and the “support” of Hamas as the “Liberation Movement” against Israel , which Erdogan's leadership now denounces as a "terrorist state", even though it was Erdogan himself who had declared a success the meeting he had with Netanyahu last September in New York, on the sidelines of the United Nations Assembly.
Of course it doesn't end here, from the German capital Erdogan attacked Germany's Nazi past, as before in 2017 he attacked the Netherlands because the Dutch blue workers failed to prevent the Srebrenica massacre.
The Germans are "in debt" to Israel because of the Holocaust and therefore protect it, this was the message of the Turkish president.
For the rest, he defended Hamas, which is a terrorist organization for the West, and again attacked Israel, which is an American ally. The Turkish side asks the European Union and Germany whether its position is about lifting the entry visa requirement for Turks traveling to the EU, or about the 40 Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets that Ankara would like to buy from the Europeans. , in the absence of other alternatives (since the F-35s are not going to Turkey and the F-16s are being delayed).
"Under Erdogan's leadership, Turkey has become perhaps Germany's most difficult ally," commented the German Frankfurter Allgemeine (FAZ) underlining the obvious, while Die Zeit called it a "shameful visit."
The Al-Monitor website notes, however, citing Turkish analyst estimates, that Erdogan will maintain a tone of confrontation with the West until the upcoming Turkish local elections in March, with eyes focused primarily on the communicative benefits he could gain from a tactics like that, but also in those practical things.
"But what happens next...?" / Kathimeri
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