Why Turkey is blocking bids by Sweden and Finland to join NATO

at the “Kulliye”, the vast 1,100-room Turkish presidential complex, have been ringing incessantly as Western leaders and officials call to find the answer to an urgent question: what is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s price for allowing to join ?Most leaders have welcomed the two applicants with open arms. In contrast with many recent members—the most recent being Montenegro and North Macedonia—the Nordic applicants would bring advanced military capabilities to the alliance and help to strengthen its northern flank. And by abandoning their tradition of non-alignment, their decision to join is a and its war of aggression against .