Ukraine, Sweden, Turkey and NATO: It ain’t over till it’s over
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Should the EU backslide on Turkish entry, Erdogan could well renege on his commitment to support Swedish accession to NATO.

There was a post from a mass media site the other day saying Turkey was approving Sweden to join NATO. This turned out to be a bit of wishful thinking.

  • Derin@lemmy.beru.co
    203·
    1 year ago

    As a citizen from Turkey, sorry about that. We tried to vote him out, just didn’t take.

    • Dojan@lemmy.world
      163·
      1 year ago

      As another Swedish citizen, I’m also sorry. The stuff he’s done to your economy is soul crushing, and that’s barely scraping the top of it. I’m really glad my friend moved away from there, but I feel for everyone who can’t.

      I hope things get better over there eventually.

    • Sjatar@sjatar.net
      63·
      1 year ago

      Thanks <3 Yeah I was following the election, crazy close to getting him out. No idea how people wanted him still in power after the earthquake disasters. Feels like he used the anger towards Sweden (after the danish guy burned the Quran) to gain some votes by refusing us. What a mess it has become.

      • Serinus@lemmy.ml
        82·
        1 year ago

        Did they not know that Quran burning was propaganda? It happened, but it happened specifically to split Sweden from Turkey. I think it was discovered the person was working for Russia.

        • Derin@lemmy.beru.co
          52·
          1 year ago

          Most folk in Turkey can’t consume media from outside sources as they (genuinely) lack the language skills. Turkish media is either just tabloids or state owned propoganda.

        • Ooops@feddit.de
          52·
          1 year ago

          Why would Turkish media tell them? They are controlled by Erdogan (where public tv reports about the election didn’t even mention his opponent by name… he was just “that other guy”).

        • Sjatar@sjatar.net
          02·
          1 year ago

          Well not sure about that, the Danish guy that did it have been doing similar things for a while. So while maybe it was somehow encouraged I’m sure he could have gotten the brilliant idea himself. What a genius display of free speech it was…