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Patrice Franceschi: "By cowardice, we have just favored the expansionism of Turkey"

2022-07-03T18:28:26.892Z


TRIBUNE - In return for lifting its veto on the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO, Turkey forced these two countries to consider our Kurdish allies as terrorists, writes the writer, who sees in this a bad news for our security interests.


Patrice Franceschi is notably the author of

If there is only one left

(Grasset, 2021), a novel in which he evokes the fight of the Kurds.

On June 28 in Madrid, Sweden and Finland resigned themselves to signing a leonine agreement with Turkey so that the latter “authorizes” them to enter NATO – to put it bluntly and without diplomatic language.

Because the question of this agreement should never have arisen.

Turkey was alone against all the other countries of the Alliance in opposing its enlargement.

But no one confronted her.

Some may even have favored Erdogan's maneuver.

The latter has thus achieved his ends by one of those blackmails he is accustomed to and which he had immediately imposed on everyone: in return for lifting his veto, forcing two exemplary democracies to consider our allies as terrorists Kurds whom they protected until then in their fight against true Islamic terrorism.

In this matter,

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Source: lefigaro

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