Turkey’s Case Against the Kurds: On the Veto against Finland & Sweden

A History of Ethnic Superiority & Religious Zeal

Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has been particularly ruthless to the Kurdish minority in Turkey and has called the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a terrorist organization.

It is Finland’s and Sweden’s alleged support for the PKK that Erdogan cited as reason enough to veto their inclusion into NATO — a position that has now changed as NATO members meet in Madrid this week to discuss Ukraine…