Turkish politician commented on Ankara’s readiness to withdraw from NATO
Demonstration of opponents of Erdogan in Frankfurt, Germany.
Earlier, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that the organizers of the NATO Trident Javelin exercise, which took place on November 8-17 in Norway, set up a stand with portraits of "enemies" as a target, one of which depicted Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, and another the current Turkish leader. The forty Turkish military who participated in the NATO exercise were recalled. The leadership of the alliance apologized to Erdogan, but he considered them insufficient.
He also said that the EU needs to interact even more with Ankara against the background of the country's internal problems, instead of punishing it (the EU recently decided to cut financial aid to Turkey due to violations of human rights and democratic standards in the republic).
Earlier, German Chancellor Merkel announced that she would offer Brussels to end negotiations on Turkey’s accession to the EU in connection with human rights violations in the country.
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