Erdogan's Turkey: from Putin's friend to NATO's arms factory

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NATO's memory is selective. None of the leaders wanted to recall the good relations between Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin despite the invasion of Ukraine, Ankara's blackmail of Sweden to allow it to join the Atlantic Alliance, or the country's authoritarian drift, which has preemptively repressed and detained dissident activists and journalists before and during this week's summit. Three reasons why, in the past, allies set aside the hard core of the organization in Turkey, and some even suspended or restricted arms sales to the country.