Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared all the way back in July that his country’s longstanding objection to Sweden’s entry into NATO had been reverse. This was seen as the beginning of Sweden’s accession, and yet now as the year’s end approaches, it still hasn’t happened.
Certain legal and procedural hurdles remained within Turkish parliament, but it has delayed a final vote, leading to fears that Erdogan’s government is stalling due to the Israel-Gaza War.
Erdogan just a week-and-a-half ago in an incredibly awkward joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin attacked the West for allowing Israel to slaughter civilian men, women and children in Gaza. He even went so far as to say at the time that what Israel is doing is against the Jewish religion.
“Shooting hospitals or killing children does not exist in the Torah, you can’t do it,” Erdogan said. He also strongly suggested that Germany is too afraid to direct any criticisms against Israel because of the history of the Holocaust.
“I speak freely because we do not owe Israel anything. If we were indebted, we could not talk so freely,” he had said….
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