As NATO Capitulates Before Turkey, Western Hypocrisy on Human Rights Enters New Low

Concessions made to Turkey’s Erdogan to get him to support Sweden and Finland’s bids to join NATO have been a “major diplomatic and strategic victory” for him, and “(show) how Sweden and turkey folded with the blessings of the United States and other NATO members”, wrote Shubhangi Sharma in ‘News 18’ outlet on Saturday. Turkey may demand further concessions still, she said. “Seen as a rogue outlier in NATO, Turkey found and acted upon the opportunity to get the West to support its military operation in northern Syria,” Sharma said. The West has chosen to overlook Turkey’s “excesses”, she continued,…