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Some of Turkey demand are as follows:

NATO should classify not only the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) but also the Syrian Defense Forces (SDF) and the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) in the alliance’s list of threats.

The United States should then extradite Pennsylvania-based dissident cleric Fethullah Gülen to Turkey.

All NATO members, including Sweden and Finland, must cease any activity by the PKK, SDF, or FETO on their territories.

The United States and other NATO bodies must lift all sanctions related to Turkey’s purchase of the S-400, including sanctions upon the Turkish Defense Industry Directorate.

Turkey would not only receive the new F-16s and upgrade kits for its existing fleet, but Turkey will also be able to rejoin the F-35 program from which it was expelled after activating the Russian S-400s.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has publicly rejected Sweden and Finland’s accession to NATO. Because consensus governs NATO, every member has a veto. Privately, however, the negotiating is just beginning. Over at the national security and defense website 19FortyFive, I argue that the United States and European states should not bargain with Turkey but should instead play hardball.

A usually reliable source subsequently sent me a list of Turkish demands. While the State Department has not yet confirmed these, they appear consistent with past Turkish diplomatic démarches. In order to get Turkey to drop its objection to NATO enlargement, Erdogan demands the following:

NATO should classify not only the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) but also the Syrian Defense Forces (SDF) and the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) in the alliance’s list of threats.
The United States should then extradite Pennsylvania-based dissident cleric Fethullah Gülen to Turkey.
All NATO members, including Sweden and Finland, must cease any activity by the PKK, SDF, or FETO on their territories.
The United States and other NATO bodies must lift all sanctions related to Turkey’s purchase of the S-400, including sanctions upon the Turkish Defense Industry Directorate.
Turkey would not only receive the new F-16s and upgrade kits for its existing fleet, but Turkey will also be able to rejoin the F-35 program from which it was expelled after activating the Russian S-400s.
Lastly, the United States would cease preventing Turkey from exporting military products containing Western components.
In short, Turkey’s demands are impossible to meet. A Belgian court, for example, has ruled that the PKK represents not a terrorist group but rather “a party in a non-international armed conflict.” Likewise, Turkey’s dossier of accusations against Gülen failed to convince US diplomats or the Justice Department. If anything, its sloppiness raised doubt on the capabilities of Turkish intelligence and the legitimacy of its products. Regardless, Erdogan beclowns himself with such demands as he appears not to realize that outside Turkey, NATO member presidents and prime ministers cannot order their judiciaries to change positions or strip rights away from their citizens or permanent residents. The same logic applies to Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) sanctions. Even if President Biden wanted to assuage Erdogan, he cannot run roughshod over US law. The Syrian Defense Forces, meanwhile, proved a far more reliable ally against the Islamic State than Turkey.

In some ways, the most interesting demand, however, is the last regarding re-exports of American components incorporated into Turkish military products. This likely reflects real concern in Ankara at congressional moves to restrict the sale of some electronics to Turkey after revelations that Turkey used American computer chips in drones that it subsequently deployed against Kurds or Armenians, or sold to Ethiopia for use in its genocidal campaign against the Tigrayans.

If these demands hold, it becomes clearer than ever that Turkey does not belong in NATO.

https://www.aei.org/foreign-and-defense-policy/erdogan-issues-his-demands-to-nato/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-17/what-turkey-wants-from-sweden-and-finland-in-nato-expansion-spat

NATO and Russia wahala....

Russia don bribe these ones

Like the tweets indicated. NATO should find a way of absorbing Finland and Sweden into a security protection alliance and wait till next year when the election will hold in Turkey.

NATO has never been so United

They even sanctioned a NATO member inside NATO

Abfinest007:
Russia don bribe these ones

If you were Turkey, would you not choose s400 over American patriot?

Erdogan is doing gra gra.Let him calm down and understand that the world is technically controlled and dominated by the U.S.When they say yes no one says no.

VictorUSA:
Erdogan is doing gra gra.Let him calm down and understand that the world is technically controlled and dominated by the U.S.When they say yes no one says no.

how was your jamb kid ? You no wan reply, Abi you don fail ni?

Teazer4:
how was your jamb kid ? You no wan reply, Abi you don fail ni?

Whether i passed or failed, I'm not obliged to disclose my score to anyone here.Anyways, when i get back to the state capital, i will let u know.

Simple demands. USA would take care of it and they would arrive at a concession.

VictorUSA:
Whether i passed or failed, I'm not obliged to disclose my score to anyone here.Anyways, when i get back to the state capital, i will let u know.

well, you’re kiddo, I’m just looking out for you like a big brother, no pun intended. You have a bright future ahead of you, regardless of our divergent views here, I really wish you well in life son

Here na cruise, don’t get it twisted. As you no come Dey reply, nah why I Dey feel like pulling your legs

Teazer4:
well, you’re kiddo, I’m just looking out for you like a big brother, no pun intended. You have a bright future ahead of you, regardless of our divergent views here, I really wish you well in life son

Here na cruise, don’t get it twisted. As you no come Dey reply, nah why I Dey feel like pulling your legs

I was banned.I shud have replied you.WOW! I'm happy!

Teazer4:
well, you’re kiddo, I’m just looking out for you like a big brother, no pun intended. You have a bright future ahead of you, regardless of our divergent views here, I really wish you well in life son

Here na cruise, don’t get it twisted. As you no come Dey reply, nah why I Dey feel like pulling your legs

Na you go post and na you go like the post.

VictorUSA:
I was banned.I shud have replied you.WOW! I'm happy!

oh it’s ok, I thought you was avoiding that ni. Why are you surprised? We are not enemies nah, for what If I enter naija anytime, if we meet by chance we fit flex, here na cruise nothing, it’s not real life… my main moniker chop ban too…. Stay safe

chopnaira:
Na you go post and na you go like the post.

abi nah , shebi na the likes go feed me, why I no go like my own post with my alts

My username here Teaser4(main, registered in 2009) , Teeaser4, Teazer4 Teazerr4, and riccardoTeaser4 any other username ain’t mine, no be only me Dey report russia news here

Teazer4:
abi nah , shebi na the likes go feed me, why I no go like my own post with my alts

My username here Teaser4(main, registered in 2009) , Teeaser4, Teazer4 Teazerr4, and riccardoTeaser4 any other username ain’t mine, no be only me report russia news here

I like you jare. Your life na no stress

chopnaira:
I like you jare. Your life na no stress

na so my brother…. Gbayi

Teazer4:
oh it’s ok, I thought you was avoiding that ni. Why are you surprised? We are not enemies nah, for what If I enter naija anytime, if we meet by chance we fit flex, here na cruise nothing, it’s not real life… my main moniker chop ban too…. Stay safe

You dey yankee?

VictorUSA:
I was banned.I shud have replied you.WOW! I'm happy!

I just dey follow una chat like 2 lovers

Truvelisback:
I just dey follow una chat like 2 lovers

Sure? You can continue.

VictorUSA:
You dey yankee?

no, I live and work in SA. But I don visit yankee twice for vacation sha…..

Good afternoon….

Teazer4:
no, I live and work in SA. But I don visit yankee twice for vacation sha…..

Good afternoon….

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VictorUSA:
My father, you live in nelson mandela's country, propably cape town.

lol, I’m not your father….maybe your uncle that will be appropriate, no I live and work in Bloemfontein…..

Stay safe