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President Erdogan’s attempt to tie Sweden’s NATO membership to Turkey’s stalled EU bid marks a rare mention of the long-dormant process. Is it a sign of things to come?

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Turkey correspondent for The Economist, Piotr Zalewski, about the political implications in the aftermath of the earthquake there.

Takeaway is that nato has now formally invited finland and sweden to join the military alliance, something that has happened much faster even than this administration anticipated would be. they werent expecting that issue to be resolved, given turkeys objections while president biden was here on the ground, but now it has been and, of course, they are moving on in that process, which is not yet complete. i think a lot of questions that will be facing president biden and other world leaders as th...

From the blog of Faye Lincoln at The Times of Israel

Turkey has shown a willingness to repair relations with Israel, Egypt, and other countries in the Middle East. But Ankara’s relations with the Muslim Brotherhood, a sticking point for almost all of these bilateral ties, are more complicated than meets the eye.

Ten. maybe there will be tomgsz extend i if youre wondering where the white house is coming down on all of this, about an hour ago we got a readout off the call with erdogan. quote, donald trump spoke today with president erdogan of turkey to congratulate him on his recent referendum victory. he grachtd a president who has more than 100 journalists in prison and is ignoring evidence of ballot stuffing. excellent job, donald. excellently job. its a a given turkey and the u.s. have a complicated r...

Will be gathered here, as you mentioned, president hollande will not be here, but his finance minister will be here and obviously the foreign minister will be here as well. i have to tell you, really frankly whats expected to be a summit about economic growth and cooperation has been evolved into a defacto summit for president obama and other world leaders. as you pointed out, the president departed from washington this afternoon enroute to turkey for the g-20 summit. this is an important meetin...