PodcastNATO and Erdoğan: What did he want, what did he get?
Murat Yetkin writes: "Erdoğan wasn’t the only one who couldn’t get all he wanted. For instance, Macron couldn’t get what he wanted from Erdoğan, which was an explanation of why he’s purchased the S-400s from Russia; this was not mentioned in the NATO final declaration either. NATO’s 70th-anniversary summit had two winners: U.S. President Trump, who turned his national target into a NATO target, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who’s no longer the only target of NATO, at least on paper."
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Renowned Turkish journalist Murat Yetkin, in an article which he penned to analyze the outcome of the NATO's 70th-anniversary gathering in London, argued that the two winners of the summit were U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to Yetkin, Trump managed to push other NATO members for more defense spending and also put America's number one adversary China on NATO’s agenda. As a result Russia now is no longer the only target of Russia, Yetkin's article suggested.
"Erdoğan wasn’t the only one who could not get all he wanted. For instance, Macron couldn’t get what he wanted from Erdoğan, which was an explanation of why he’s purchased the S-400s from Russia; this was not mentioned in the NATO final declaration either. Macron had even made a pass against Turkey, thinking that it could please Trump, but was disappointed when Trump replied that because his predecessor Barack Obama refused to sell Patriots to Turkey, Erdoğan went to the Russians," Yetkin wrote.
Murat Yetkin's full article can be read here