{"id":32943,"date":"2018-03-30T07:34:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T12:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32943"},"modified":"2018-03-30T07:34:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T12:34:54","slug":"turkey-breaks-with-nato-refuses-to-expel-russians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32943","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Breaks with NATO, Refuses to Expel Russians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Turkey Breaks with NATO, Refuses to Expel Russians<\/a><\/h3>\n
Ankara <\/i><\/b>(<\/b>GPA<\/b><\/a>) \u2013 <\/b>Turkey has broken with their NATO allies and decided not to expel Russian diplomats at the behest of the UK.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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Following the alleged March 4th alleged Russian poisoning of Sergei Skripal<\/a>, an ex-double agent in the UK, several European countries and the US have begun ejecting Russian diplomats from their countries. With both the UK and US each ejecting dozens of diplomats, it stands to reason that every other NATO country would follow suit.<\/p>\n

However, several European Union members have yet to follow London\u2019s lead. One important NATO country isn\u2019t bowing to western Russophobia: Turkey.<\/p>\n

Despite calls from the UK for all of their allies to stand with them in \u201cpunishing Russia\u201d they have failed to convince many of their fellow EU members, Israel, and Turkey to follow their suggestions. While there isn\u2019t much London can do to their fellow European states, and obviously, they can\u2019t criticize Israel; tension between Turkey and the EU has reached a point where it\u2019s fashionable to demonize Ankara.<\/p>\n

Both the US and UK often pander to Turkey<\/a> due to the country\u2019s strategic location and their control of the second largest military in NATO. This, however, has become much more difficult in recent months due to the increasingly authoritarian governance of the country leading to arrests of western employees, global kidnappings, and blatant defiance of international law.<\/p>\n

This tense relationship between Turkey and the EU was on full display yesterday as Turkish President Recep Erdogan met with EU leaders<\/a> about his nation\u2019s prospects of joining the bloc. Predictably, no new results were achieved between Brussels and Ankara. This allows Erdogan to go back to turkey and play the victim, likely in anticipation of this announcement on Russia, which he will probably frame as \u2018retaliation.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Turkey Breaks with NATO, Refuses to Expel Russians Ankara (GPA) \u2013 Turkey has broken with their NATO allies and decided not to expel Russian diplomats at the behest of the UK. Following the alleged March 4th alleged Russian poisoning of Sergei Skripal, an ex-double agent in the UK, several European countries and the US have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4723,19306,279,284,19548,553,1908,694,19394,818,820,2080,827],"class_list":["post-32943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-ankara","tag-diplomats","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-jim-carey","tag-nato","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-russia","tag-sergei-skripal","tag-turkey","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32944,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32943\/revisions\/32944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}