The Economist magazine pointed out that “Turkey’s agreement to refuse to oppose Sweden and Finland’s accession to NATO is a major development in the two Scandinavian countries’ request for membership in the Atlantic Military Alliance, but Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will return from the NATO summit in Madrid with a victory.”

And the magazine noted: “Erdogan played football in his youth as a semi-professional player. As the president of Turkey, he no longer cares if he made professional mistakes in order to achieve what he wants in international politics.”

According to the magazine, his decision last month to resist requests from Sweden and Finland to join NATO at a time of grave Russian threat was as overwhelming as it was effective. On June 28, NATO leaders met in Madrid for a summit, and Erdogan received his reward for agreeing to join them and honoring his fellow leaders.

She stated that “in a joint memorandum of understanding with Turkey, the Scandinavian countries declared their strong solidarity and cooperation in the fight against terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, and also promised to withdraw their support for the PKK, a separatist group that has been fighting a decades-long war. against the Turkish state and its affiliate in Syria, the YPG.

She explained, “It’s not just talk. They agreed to lift an arms embargo on Turkey, restrict fundraising activities for the PKK, meet Turkey’s demands for the deportation and extradition of Kurdish activists, and amend laws to facilitate the deportation of terrorist suspects in exchange for Turkey’s support for their requests to join the NATO”.

The magazine saw that “NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has been working diligently and energetically for several weeks to overcome the dispute that threatened the summit. No ally has suffered more from the brutality of the terrorists than Turkey,” he admitted, doing his best to say Erdogan’s new and preferred name, Turkey instead of Turki. Other allies in the shadows worked to help Stoltenberg defuse America, which remained out of sight. but strongly warned Turkey that it could lose its F-16 order and congressional approval.