Turkey is one of NATO’s most controversial countries. Would a country meet the membership requirements of a “community of democratic countries” if, like Finland and Sweden, it applied for membership only now?
Turkey joined NATO in the first enlargement of the military alliance, and through its 70-year membership has aroused conflicting sentiments in other member states. At the same time, it is one of the most important NATO countries.
As a NATO country, Turkey has occupied the northern part of Cyprus, changed president Recep Tayyip Erdoğanin increasingly authoritarian, persecuted the country’s press and bought anti-aircraft missiles from Russia.
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