Turkey Is Impeding New NATO Defense Strategy, Vetoing Sweden’s Entrance Into the Military Alliance – Today’s Koran Burning in Stockholm Complicates Scandinavian’s Bid
NATO diplomats are scrambling to solve last-minute problems leading up to the summit set for July 11 and 12, in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital.
And many of those problems deal with Turkey’s participation in the defense block. For one, there was a frenzy to try to have Turkey’s leader Erdogan to change his mind and greenlight Sweden’s bid. It would be an embarrassment if they miss their stated target of having Stockholm join by the next summit.
But Turkey has additional demands that threaten to hold up the launch of NATO’s new defense strategy, said to be ‘the most ambitious overhaul to be drafted since the end of the Cold War’.
Al Monitor reported:
“With two weeks left before NATO‘s forthcoming summit in Vilnius next month,
