Turkish soldier with a flag in Syria. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 21Turkey should be excluded from NATO due to its policy and position on joining the Swedish-Finnish alliance, Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum, historian and orientalist, told TVP World. The specialist called Ankara's actions «blackmail». According to the orientalist, she is trying to negotiate advantages for herself in exchange for agreeing to expand the alliance. At the same time, the expert criticized all areas of Turkey's international policy in the past two decades. «From 1952 to 2002, Turkey was a very good ally of NATO, but over the past 20 years it has become extremely bad. Not even an ally. Ankara pursues a policy hostile to NATO members such as Greece , it invaded Syria, threatens Europe with Syrian migrants, buys S-400 systems from Russia,» Pipes said. He expressed the opinion that due to Ankara's policy and position on NATO expansion, Turkey is no longer actually part of the alliance.< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/3281b6f1694ef6dd463b5120274b6ba2.jpg" />Ukraine told what Turkey is trying to achieve by blocking NATO expansion»It's time to exclude Turkey from NATO. Let it go to Russia, China and Iran. Tablecloth the road,» Pipes concluded. Finland and Sweden had previously submitted applications to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to join the alliance. Turkey later stated that it could not say «yes» to these countries joining the military bloc due to their approaches to the Kurdish problem. that Turkey cannot abandon Russia
