Eminönü district in Istanbul. Archival photoMOSCOW, 21 Jun. The United States should prepare to escalate relations with Turkey in the midst of a confrontation between the West and Russia, journalist Bobby Ghosh writes for Bloomberg.
«The US and Europe should prepare for even more mudslinging and opposition from Erdogan,» the publication says. 
Finland named a new date for joining NATO after the failure in the negotiationsThe author recalls that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has already opposed the inclusion of Finland and Sweden in NATO. In addition, he criticized Greece and demanded that it demilitarize the islands in the Aegean Sea. According to the journalist, in the coming months we should expect a sharp deterioration in relations between the United States and Turkey, as well as the EU countries, because Ankara is going through a difficult economic situation, and Erdogan needs find a scapegoat.
This will lead to the fact that cooperation between Turkey and the Western powers will weaken, which promises trouble for the United States in the competition with Russia, the article notes. 
Fox News: US to pay huge price for NATO expansion Sweden and Finland raised the possibility of joining the North Atlantic Alliance against the backdrop of a Russian special operation in Ukraine and submitted an application for entry on May 18. Turkey, in turn, blocked the process of considering it. The President of the Republic, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said that he had imposed a veto because of the position of Stockholm and Helsinki towards the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey.
Russia has repeatedly noted that NATO aims at confrontation. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that further expansion of the bloc would not bring greater security to Europe. At the same time, he emphasized that he does not consider the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO an existential threat to Russia. Vladimir Putin is sure that abandoning Finland's traditional policy of military neutrality would be wrong, since there are no threats to its security.
Media: Finland refused to fulfill Turkey's condition for joining NATO