“Too Strong Turkey Policy”: Traffic Light Politicians Demand Erdoğan Fines

“A Stronger Turkey Policy”
Traffic light politicians demand fines for Erdogan

Turkish President Puts NATO to New Pressure Tests Erdogan is now again on top of his blockade threats for northern expansion: two traffic light foreign politicians are calling for sanctions against Ankara over its plans to join the Russian-Chinese Shanghai Group.

There are calls in the Traffic Light Alliance for tougher consequences for NATO member Turkey after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sought membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) around Russia and China. “NATO and the EU have to ask themselves how long they will let Erdoğan hang on their noses,” the Greens’ foreign policy spokesman Jürgen Tritt told the “Welt” newspaper at the Bundestag.

“Turkey is preventing NATO from monitoring the UN arms embargo on Libya. It’s drilling into Greece’s economic zone. NATO member Turkey is doing more to avoid Europe’s sanctions on Russia than China. Erdogan is putting the brakes on Finland and Sweden joining NATO. And now he’s joining the SCO with Iran. It is time for a “stronger Turkey policy.” Since no one can be excluded from NATO, economic coercive measures against Turkey should be considered.

“A Serious Mistake for Turkey’s Future”

Nils Schmidt, foreign policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group, called Erdogan’s plan a serious mistake and a new attempt to distract from domestic political problems. “In terms of foreign policy, this would be another symbolic step away from the West and its values ​​- a grave political mistake for Turkey’s future.”

NATO member Turkey is already a so-called “dialogue partner” of the SCO. Apart from China and Russia, this group includes India, Pakistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Russian President Vladimir Putin called for the SCO to become a global counter to the West.

At the SCO summit on Friday, Chinese President Xi Jinping called on member states to block each other’s efforts by foreign powers to support so-called color revolutions. The term refers to uprisings, especially in former communist countries. For example, Russia has repeatedly blamed foreign powers for this.

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