Why did Turkey lift its veto on Sweden's NATO membership?
Analysis: Erdogan is trying to recalibrate Turkey's relationship with the West in order to fix its ailing economy.
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Analysis: Erdogan is trying to recalibrate Turkey's relationship with the West in order to fix its ailing economy.
The burning of the sacred Muslim text attracted widespread condemnation from countries abroad, including Turkey — a NATO member state that has pushed back on Sweden’s enrolment in the alliance.
As a new protest adds a further layer of stress in NATO talks between Turkey and Sweden, analysts believe that prospects are "close to zero" for the Nordic nation’s accession to the alliance before the bloc’s summit.
Analysis: A renewed relationship between the Eastern Mediterranean's two largest military powers is likely to shift geopolitical dynamics in the region and could resolve key deadlocked issues.
The two major regional powers have grown distant over the years due to Erdogan’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and the 2018 killing at the consulate in Istanbul of US-Saudi journalist Kamal Khashoggi.