Turkey backs Sweden's Nato membership
www.bbc.co.uk
The Nato chief says President Erdogan will drop opposition to Sweden becoming the alliance's 32nd member.
  • CMDR_Horn@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I wonder what had deal had to be made for him to say this. Also grain of salt till ink is dry.

      • Fisting for Freedom@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        They’ve had F-16s for years, producing most of them domestically (under license). Maybe some upgrades?

        Turkey’s been developing their own “5th gen” fighter, and they do have a pretty decent domestic military industrial base, but they got barred from purchasing the F-35 in 2019 when they bought an S-400 system from Russia - I wonder if he wants those. It’d need some US congressional cooperation to make happen, though.

  • itchy_lizard@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    Turkey had previously spent months blocking Sweden’s application, accusing it of hosting Kurdish militants.

    Man, fuck Turkey

  • Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This isn’t happening it’s just grandstanding before the summit. Sweden said they’ll put in a good word for Turkey to join the EU, Erdogan said he’ll put in a good word to Turkish parliament. After the conference someone will do something trivial and they’ll fake outrage and go back to Sweden not joining.