With a Wink at Putin, Turkey Drops Opposition to Expanded NATO

The Turkish president’s signature is not on the document certifying the agreement.

Bertrand Guay, pool via AP
Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with President Macron at the NATO summit June 29, 2022. Bertrand Guay, pool via AP

A small but important detail should be noted regarding Turkey dropping its opposition to Sweden and Finland joining NATO: The Turkish president’s signature is not on the document certifying the agreement. While it was President Erdogan who headed the Turkish delegation that conferred with the Swedish and Finnish leadership, the tripartite memorandum hammered out during the NATO summit at Madrid yesterday bears the signature of his foreign minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu. 

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