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Turkey’s Drift from the EU and NATO Could Be Permanent

WARSAW, POLAND – JULY 08: (From L to R) Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and Latvian President Raimons Vejonis arrive to watch NATO military aircraft fly past during the Warsaw NATO Summit on July 8, 2016 in Warsaw, Poland. German-Turkish relations cooled markedly recently following the Bundestag’s resolution to recognize the Armenian genocide. NATO member heads of state, foreign ministers and defense ministers are gathering for a two-day summit beginning today. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
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Posted: August 4th, 2017

 

Relations between Turkey and the European Union – already fraught – have deteriorated swiftly over the last few months. In June, the refusal of Turkish officials to allow German parliamentarians to visit their troops stationed at the Incirlik air base in southeastern Turkey, who are part of the fight against ISIS, encouraged Berlin to pull its forces surveillance aircraft out of the country and move them to Jordan.

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