The black cat ran. Paris and Berlin against the NATO summit in Turkey

Continue to gain momentum contradictions in the camp of the North atlantic military bloc. We are talking primarily about the relationship between European NATO member Turkey, also a member of the alliance. The scandal erupted around the next NATO summit, which was held in Turkey (2018). The german magazine die welt, citing sources in NATO circles, writes that already at least two countries strongly oppose the summit in 2018 in Turkey.

These countries are Germany and France. From the statement of one of the diplomats, who spoke out about this:we are not going to take steps to maintain the prestige of the turkish leadership at the international level. It should be noted that Erdogan, in his time, appealed to the leadership of NATO with a proposal to hold the next summit in Turkey. Opponents of the summit in one of the turkish cities following allegations of french and german steel and other NATO members. These include Canada, Denmark and the netherlands. Between Ankara on the one hand, as well as Berlin, paris and amsterdam on the other, disagreements emerged as to the question of the Reception (containment) middle east refugees, and against the background of the referendum in Turkey. The dutch authorities are known to have prohibited the plane with the turkish prime minister on board, to land in the country, which caused a diplomatic scandal. The prime minister was going to campaign for a referendum among members of the turkish diaspora.

Shortly thereafter, Erdogan made an attack on NATO, saying that it may "Request" to release a turkish airbase from the presence of planes of the individual countries of the alliance.