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Is Turkey’s Erdogan Nato’s greatest asset? | The Global Story

World leaders are gathering in Ankara, Turkey for a Nato summit, despite tensions between Donald Trump and Nato allies over financial contributions and the Iran war.

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Can you ask him 1 question about the Genocide in Gaza , so we can all see how free he is to talk ?
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Look how BBC calling "Turkey's Erdogan" for every Turkiye state politics. It seems a country hurt feelings of tel aviv.
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Turkish political lore is so rich this guy doing amazing job translating that into western audiences
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@arinc9 From YouTube ↗ 10 Jul 2026 6
Never in a million years would I think this question asked in a serious manner.
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@tkendirli From YouTube ↗ 10 Jul 2026 57
BBC Reporter talking about free speech accusing Türkiye for that seems to me is biggest trolling ever. What about Palestine action and BBC's coverage about Israel. This is clearly comedy at its best. Talking about democracy come on guys be serious nobody cares about your comments anymore.
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May god save and protect Türkiye, love and support from the beautiful Christian village of Maalulla of Syria 🇸🇾❤️🔥🇹🇷
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Britain banned numerous people from entering the uk. What about that?
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:face-green-smiling::face-purple-crying::face-purple-crying:FREE SPEECH DOESN'T EXIST IN THE UK EITHER
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Israel murdered organiser of world cup screening in Gaza, along with 2 children.
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Israel has openly threatened Turkey, a NATO member, so the alliance needs to bring Israel to heel decisively.
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Wise old Turkish saying: “Show me your friends and I’ll tell you who you are”
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Mark Lowen's perspective which puts President Erdoğan in the same "camp" with Kim Jong-Un and Vladimir Putin is completely false. It's not surprising after his deportation from Türkiye for his activities but it also shows his ignorance about Türkiye's political situation despite his time in here. The BBC's remarkably silent stance on Israel's crimes against humanity, coupled with its strong criticism of Türkiye immediately following the NATO summit in Ankara, once again exposes its double standards. I can't wait to see them make similar comparisons for Netanyahu too.
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The Irony is that the BBC is talking about "free speech" and "freedom of the press" given then active role in silencing opposing view points and omitting/ obfuscating and whitewashing the crimes of others in the establishment and it's wider interests.
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Everybody keeps talking about S400s from Russia but never asks why that happened. There was a war going on in Syria border that US initiated and Turkey wanted to purchase DEFENSIVE Patriot missiles but was not permitted to have them under a severe national security issue. We were so called "allies"...
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why no one mention S300 as greece have why!!!!!!!!!!
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engines are not for F-35s but for the first block of Kaan jets
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@OCGOKTAS From YouTube ↗ 9 Jul 2026 103
No words about who was behind the coup attempt, says it all..
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The commentator comfortably forgot to remind that the reason Türkiye bought Russian S400 Air" defense"} systems because USA refused to sell Patriot air defense systems leaving Türkiye without air defense!
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Oh the irony of Brits talking about human rights and democracy
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We shouldn't forget pro - Palestine Protestors are being arrested in the UK with some activist groups being banned...