NATO calls on EU and Turkey to deepen the connections

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NATO called on the EU and Turkey to strengthen US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from European security forces.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte called on EU leaders to establish a relationship with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after tense relations, informed about the words of the authorities

Brussels comes as way to enhance cooperation Turkey And neighbors not in the other EU as a mass-scale part of European defense capabilities.

Trump has resumed its relations with the United States and supported Ukraine to support Ukraine’s security guarantees and its threats to retreat its actions to the EU. As well as in a hurry to increase defense costs, some EU capitals became a champion in A “Wish Coalition” With countries without countries like Norway and England.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan supported Ukraine and wider defense issues at the meeting of the main military forces in London this month.

In February, he attached importance to the work of this work to increase the importance of increasing cooperation with Turkey and increasing the work with Ankara, he said that the information about the dispute to the process of working.

Sometimes Erdogan collided with Erdogan, a spokesperson for the Prime Minister Rutte, who collided with Erdogan, refused to comment. NATO Secretary General in January, the European Parliament “I believe in the EU EU’s defense industrial efforts and European security,” he said.

“Things change. At a certain point, you need to decide who you want in your team, regardless of any problem. “But at the same time, they need to sort uncertainty over Russia.”

In response to the full-scale occupation of Turkey, Turkey has not joined the EU and other Western allies in response to Moscow and protected strong economic and energy gardens with Russia. Athens pointed out that Turkey’s lack of sanctions.

Although the EU direct participation in defense and security is limited to areas such as military mobility and some peacekeeping and monitoring missions, there are significant financial arms to form a block defense industry cooperation.

Turkey’s significant weapons industry, three third countries are a wider tussle element between member states as a result of the benefit of defense companies to increase weapons from the EU initiatives. To increase the connection with Ankara, the push was directed to bilateral relations with the EU capitals.

Turkey is a technical point of view, but the process has long been moribund. Bloc, stopped various dialogue channels – including the fact that in accordance with the security and defense – partly due to the increase in tension with Greece.

A Greek diplomat said “not dogmatic, not dogmatic, not dogmatic, not dogmatically, in the growing protection cooperation with Athens Ankara. “Turkey should be constructive in dealing with the member states,” he said, adding that Greece and Cyprus added.

Cyprus, which has been split since 1974, is one of the largest obstacles to the deepening of the relationships in response to the north of the north in response to the north of the north in response to the north in response to combining Greece and the island. Turkish officials complain that the situation on the islands of more than 1 million people, Hamstrung initiatives to expand cooperation in European security.

Trump’s arrival changed the prospects, more than one diplomats explained their financial time.

“We are currently determining the best course of action,” said saplen, when Trump’s potential impact on Europe’s security regulations last week. “If a new European security structure results, we are ready to cooperate.”