.DanDePetris asks: Will Turkey's NATO showdown be resolved with F-16 sale?
The dispute pits most of the alliance against Turkey, one of the 33 oldest members. The arguments rest less on whether Finland and Sweden would contribute to NATO’s collective defense and more on what Turkey considers slow implementation of a deal reached in June. That deal saw the two Nordic countries promising to review Ankara’s extradition requests of accused Kurdish militants living on their soil. The Biden administration has been urging Turkey to lift its demands ever since. In the U.S.
Turkey’s veto is only compounding the country’s negative approval ratings on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle increasingly view Erdogan as unhelpful, dictatorial, and someone who should be kicked out of NATO entirely . Sen. Robert Menendez is opposed to sending Turkey any U.S. military equipment until the Turks address their democratic backsliding. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Menendez can essentially block the F-16 sale unilaterally.
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