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Re:Why Finland Selected the F-35A (2021) by mschuster91 on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @06:26AM (#34609103)
In the end, Erdogan's opposition to Sweden is mostly related to Sweden granting asylum to Kurds, and Sweden can't (and won't) extradite them because Swedish law forbids them to.

And if the opposition candidate wins, he will be busy repairing all the mess Erdogan did to Turkey's foreign relations - even if the nationalists in the coalition will whine, they can't afford wasting more political good-will for a couple hundred Kurds.

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Re:Why Finland Selected the F-35A (2021) by chii on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @07:45AM (#34609695)
turkey knows they are in a position to extract more concessions out of sweden (and the US). Sweden wants to be in NATO more than NATO truly need sweden, and turkey knows it.

Eventually turkey will concede, but not before squeezing every drop of advantage they can obtain. It doesn't really matter who's at the top in turkey - the incentive dictates the behaviour.

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