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Re:Sweden to Apply for NATO Membership by KptMarchewa on Monday May 16, 2022 @11:26AM (#31398851)
>Turkey has long been the champion of secularism in the area, and obviosuly everyone in NATO (and elsewhere) hopes that will remain the case, hence one is reluctant to push Turkey away too.

Exactly. With all the faults of current Turkish government, they are a mile ahead of everyone else in Middle East. The problem is the comparison: they were going forward with EU membership - their government just was way more sane in the past... And there's decent chance that Erdogan will be voted out in 2023.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2023_T...

Re:Sweden to Apply for NATO Membership by alkonaut on Monday May 16, 2022 @12:21PM (#31399676)
> there's decent chance that Erdogan will be voted out in 2023.

This isn’t irrelevant to what we are seeing now. He needs some good news/external foes/strongman aura these days.