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[OPINION] Why is Erdoğan against the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO?

Fatih Yurtsever*   Whenever Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan triggers a foreign policy crisis and challenges NATO, the EU or the United States, his outbursts have...

Turkey expects concrete steps from NATO on national security issues, Erdoğan says

Turkey wants to see concrete steps from NATO on issues concerning Turkey’s national security, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Monday, the Hürriyet Daily...

Turkey summons US ambassador over opposition rally alert

Turkey's foreign ministry on Sunday summoned the US ambassador to express its discomfort with an alert issued by the embassy warning of possible police...

Turkey to pay first foreign ministerial-level visit to Israel in 15 years

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu will travel to Israel on May 25, the first foreign ministerial-level visit to Israel from Turkey in the past...

Turkey dreams of far-fetched gas pipeline with Israel

Turkey is ready for energy cooperation with Israel after years of enmity, reviving a project to pipe Israeli gas to Europe as Ankara seeks...

Erdoğan conditions support for Nordic nations’ NATO bids

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday said Turkey would not look "positively" on Sweden and Finland's NATO bids unless its terror-related concerns were addressed,...

Syria lambasts Erdoğan’s plan to return 1 million refugees

Syrian authorities on Friday rejected plans by Turkey to return one million Syrian refugees to a "safe zone" on the border, Agence France-Presse reported,...

[OPINION] Finnish and Swedish NATO applications a pretext for Erdoğan to target the US

Türkmen Terzi Finland and Sweden on Wednesday formally applied for NATO membership, breaking decades of military non-alignment following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Turkey's President Tayyip...

Turkey discusses opposition to Nordic NATO bids with Western leaders

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday said he was talking to Western leaders about Turkey's objections to NATO membership for Sweden and Finland, which...

[ANALYSIS] Could Putin use troll farms to manipulate the presidential election for Erdoğan?

Fatih Yurtsever* On Nov. 24, 2015 a Turkish F-16 fighter jet shot down a Russian Su-24 attack aircraft, straining relations between the two countries and...

Biden rallies behind NATO bids as Finland, Sweden plan to address Turkey’s concerns

US President Joe Biden on Thursday strongly backed NATO membership bids by Finland and Sweden in the face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine as...

Erdoğan ‘determined’ to block Nordic NATO bids

Turkey is "determined" to block Sweden and Finland's bids to join NATO, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Thursday, calling Stockholm in particular a "complete...

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