This is the height of the reunion between the United States and its allies, after four years of Donald Trump's abrasive policy.
But it is also the height of the lull between Erdogan's Turkey and the members of the Alliance, especially with France.
Emmanuel Macron and his Turkish counterpart saw each other for 45 minutes before the NATO summit.
Erdogan was also due to have an interview with Joe Biden after the Alliance working session.
He spoke to Angela Merkel on the sidelines of the meeting.
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The noticeable lull for several weeks with Turkey is the conjunction of a set of circumstances.
There was the coup d'etat of the French president, who, by shaking NATO by the evocation of his
"brain death"
in November 2019 and then with the dispatch of fighter jets last summer to support Greece in the conflict between it and Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean, encouraged the launch of a strategic dialogue and enabled a group experts work on challenges and the future
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