Playing games in NATO, Turkey eyes its role in a new world order
From the blog of James M. Dorsey at The Times of Israel
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From the blog of James M. Dorsey at The Times of Israel
U.S. President Joe Biden's increasingly hypocritical policy on NATO's increasingly difficult ally, Turkey, is badly zig-zagging between the U.S. leader's self-declared advocacy for universal democratic values and criticism of Turkey's democratic deficit
Since the summer, everything on the Washington-Ankara axis seems to have gone wrong. Is Biden the champion of human rights and universal democratic values that he claims he is? Or is he an unpleasant cheat with a disappointing fake democratic agenda?
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The group describes its mission as “encouraging Turkey to adopt more democratic policies and responding to the steady erosion of Turkey’s democratic institutions.”