Souda Holland to preside over NATO and the role of Türkiye

According to the international group Tasnim news agency , the visit of the Dutch Prime Minister to Turkey was a new event and development in bilateral relations. Turkey-Netherlands relations, after several years of tension, have now entered a new season, and apparently, issues related to NATO play an important role in this. In other words, it is not bilateral approaches, but the issue of NATO.

NATO leadership, a new connection point

Turkey’s 70-year membership in the NATO military alliance has brought limited concessions to this country. In a situation where Turkey has not yet gained many points by agreeing to Turkey’s membership in NATO, now it is looking for points from NATO and wants to add the increase of trade capacity to these points. This issue has also affected Turkey’s foreign policy, and an example of it was seen during the visit of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to Ankara.

Now that Norwegian NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg is about to leave, the Netherlands is determined to hand over the post to Mark Rutte. Prime Minister to be given. As a result, it is important to get the support of all NATO members, and in the meantime, Turkey, as the only Muslim member of NATO, can gain points by supporting Rutte.

Turkish media have officially announced that the Erdogan government’s announcement of support for General Secretary Rutte started a month ago, and Ibrahim Kalen, the head of the Met Intelligence Service, and Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, as well as one of Erdogan’s top advisers, have been negotiating with the Dutch for two months, and Rutte’s trip to Turkey represents the final seal of the deal.

100th anniversary of the new round of relations between Turkey and the Netherlands

Erdogan announced in the presence of reporters in the joint press conference he held with Rutte that the initial records of relations between the Netherlands and the Ottoman Empire go back four hundred years, and this year, Ankara and Amsterdam will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the new round of their diplomatic relations. have taken.

Erdogan, expressing his satisfaction at hosting the Prime Minister of the Netherlands and the accompanying delegation in Istanbul, said: We are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the friendship agreement between Turkey and The Netherlands and we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the labor posting agreement. This meeting took place in such a place. Such a thing has a special value and meaning for our bilateral relations.

Erdogan with a reminder The history of relations between the two countries is more than 400 years, he announced about the content of his conversation with Rutte: In these meetings, we reviewed the multilateral cooperation between the two countries and declared our determination to raise bilateral relations to higher levels. Our economic relations with the Netherlands continue to deepen and develop. This country is the largest foreign investor in Türkiye. The amount of Dutch investment in new partnerships in the defense industry, green and digital transformation and energy sectors is set to reach 20 billion dollars. Of course, it is very important to start the customs union agreement with the European Union as soon as possible, and we once again announced that this issue is important for Turkey.

The NATO summit is scheduled to be held in Washington in July, and Erdogan will also be a guest of this meeting. He openly declared that he supports Rutte’s candidacy and that the duty of the NATO Secretary General is to ensure solidarity within the alliance and coordination among NATO member states.

Erdogan, stressing that he expects the future Secretary General to prioritize maintaining NATO’s essential position in securing the Atlantic Europe.

The Prime Minister of the Netherlands also showed that he understands the subtleties required for diplomatic interaction with Erdogan and knows how important it is for Erdogan to highlight Turkey’s role. For this reason, he announced that Turkey’s geopolitical importance cannot be denied and that it played an important role during the war between Russia and Ukraine.

He said: Turkey is trying to resolve the differences, because it is a geopolitical actor and has a lot of influence in the region. has it. Turkey is a very important ally in NATO, and after America, Turkey is the second largest military power in NATO, and Turkey is located in a sensitive area. This whole region and transatlantic public relations, NATO’s southern wing, needs Turkey’s leadership role. New Europeans to Turkey

So far, several European officials, including Germany, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands, They have openly declared that they want to cooperate with Turkey in economic and sometimes security fields. But none of them are willing to talk about the negotiations to complete the process of Turkey’s membership in the European Union. Why? Because they all know that the criticisms raised against Turkey in the European Parliament report are not issues that can be resolved in the short term. As a result, they prefer to use Turkey’s capacities at least in the commercial field, and in the field of security and coordination with NATO, take advantage of Turkey’s geopolitical capacity.

Evidences show that Turkey also has no desire to solve human rights problems and only wants to use the possibility of a customs agreement for trade with Europe and attract European investors.

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