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A Swedish Nightmare Its name is —Recep Tayyip Erdoğan—.
Any political decision that involves the gift of a Natural Gas Hub has significant weight.
Maybe this Swedish nightmare should have the same name as Gabriel García Marquez's book: "Chronicles of a death foretold.” Where the end of the story is known from the beginning in this tragic microcosm, in which Gabo explores the ancestral atavism of the virgin in Hispanic culture and weaves together concepts like public morality, family honour, and class consciousness while also elaborating a masterful twist on the indissoluble link between love and death, helped him win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
"Go on, girl: tell us who it was. She took just long enough to say the name. She searched for him in the darkness, found him at first sight among the many and many confusable names of this world and the other, and left him nailed to the wall with her accurate dart, like a butterfly whose sentence had always been written. -Santiago Nasar", he said.
There has been a professional and in-depth analysis of the controversy surrounding Turkey's veto of Sweden's application for NATO membership from all angles, including historical, political, and gender-related perspectives, because, at one point, the former Swedish foreign minister, Ms. Ann Linde, was blamed for being a woman, which supposedly made it challenging to negotiate with a state where men have held power for millennia.
This contentious topic was discussed in a Bloomberg piece published on November 8 last year:
“Swedish Gift to Turkey in NATO Talks Evokes Centuries of History, PM Kristersson gives Erdogan copy of 1739 alliance accord.”
The accord with the predecessor of the modern Turkish Republic is a symbol of the two nations’ commitment to each others’ security, the Swedish leader told Erdogan. It was signed roughly two decades after Sweden’s King Charles XII sought refuge at an Ottoman castle following a disastrous defeat at the Battle of Poltava against the Russians.
The ruler later became known as Demirbas, Turkish for fixed asset, for having his expenses borne by the Turks.
Erdogan’s Surprise In return, Turkey’s president said he had a “surprise” for his guest: an undated letter from a Swedish envoy in Istanbul, which expressed his king’s gratitude for financial help from the Ottomans and their mediation between Sweden and Russia. Erdogan also gave Kristersson a decree from the same period that documented shipment of wheat to Sweden as a form of aid, citing it as a historic example of Turkey’s mediation role. “History repeating itself,” the Swedish premier said, according to the footage, in an apparent reference to Turkey’s role arbitrating in the war Russia started in Ukraine.“It would not, if lessons were to be drawn,” Erdogan answered.
“Very much agreed,” Kristersson replied.
Who is the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan?
According to POLITICO EU, in his nomination POLITICO 28, for the year 2023, President Erdoğan calls the Wild Car. Why?
Whose side is Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on? The answer isn’t always clear. Ostensibly, the Turkish president leads a NATO member and a European Union candidate country. In reality, his relationship with the West is often transactional at best and hostile at worst. He has accused Germany of “Nazi practices” and routinely threatens to “open the doors” for migrants to move on to Europe, despite the bloc paying Turkey billions of euros to keep them there.
His relationship with Moscow is a case in point. Russia and Turkey once came to blows in Syria, but since the invasion of Ukraine, Erdoğan, 68, has largely portrayed himself as neutral, even accusing the West of “provocation” of Russia. (He also provoked the Kremlin himself by intimating that Crimea is not actually Ukrainian or Russian, but Turkish.) At the same time, Turkey played a key role in ensuring Ukraine’s ability to export grain via the Black Sea, and Erdoğan wants to play moderator in the case of a negotiated settlement between Moscow and Kyiv.
There’s also the status of Cyprus — which Turkey invaded and partly occupied in the 1970s — that Erdoğan has shown little willingness to resolve. He has become increasingly combative with Greece, a fellow NATO member, hinting he might invade if Athens continues a military buildup on islands close to Turkey’s coastline. While that remains an unlikely prospect, tensions in the eastern Mediterranean are heating up as the EU explores alternative gas supplies and the disputed gas-rich waters around Cyprus beckon.
On 19 October last year, the following article from The Moscow Times was reproduced in the blog, indicating that Sweden would be highly complicated to enter the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) after hearing this news. Moreover, make clear the Kremlin's skill in its well-known high-flying lobbying expertise. Another skillful move by President Vladimir Putin
Erdoğan Announces Deal Whit Moscow to Create Gas Hub in Turkey
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday that he had agreed with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to create a "gas hub" in Turkey, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported.
During an address to the Turkish parliament, Erdogan cited Putin as saying Europe could obtain its gas supply from the hub in Turkey while Russia's supplies to Europe were disrupted by Ukraine-related sanctions and leaks at key pipelines.
Last week, the two leaders discussed the creation of the gas hub at a face-to-face meeting in the Kazakh capital Astana.
"Turkey has turned out to be the most reliable route for deliveries today, even to Europe,” Putin said last week.
Gas prices have skyrocketed since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began, and the EU has struggled to find alternative energy supplies after Russia decided to curtail its deliveries to Europe in response to Western sanctions.
On 19 October last year, the following article from The Moscow Times was reproduced in the blog, indicating that Sweden would be highly complicated to enter the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) after hearing this news. Moreover, make clear the Kremlin's skill in its well-known high-flying lobbying expertise. Another skillful move by President Vladimir
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday that he had agreed with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to create a "gas hub" in Turkey, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported.
During an address to the Turkish parliament, Erdogan cited Putin as saying Europe could obtain its gas supply from the hub in Turkey while Russia's supplies to Europe were disrupted by Ukraine-related sanctions and leaks at key pipelines.
Last week, the two leaders discussed the creation of the gas hub at a face-to-face meeting in the Kazakh capital Astana.
"Turkey has turned out to be the most reliable route for deliveries today, even to Europe,” Putin said last week.
Gas prices have skyrocketed since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began, and the EU has struggled to find alternative energy supplies after Russia decided to curtail its deliveries to Europe in response to Western sanctions.
AFP CONTRIBUTED REPORTING.
Recap
It is because of the importance of common sense in the analysis, those two words rooted in everyday language that we used to use every day to judge a situation that seemed anomalous, irrational, deceitful because it was opposed to good finding and good sense, that is because it defied common sense. They seem to have been withdrawing from the collective imagination. Because common sense, to be such, must be precise, and the idea has been incubating that nothing can be qualified as true, that everything is open to opinion. That error does not exist as a category of analysis.
Any political decision that involves the gift of a Natural Gas Hub has significant weight.
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