French President Emmanuel Macron's bold words irked many allies at the NATO summit exposing cracks within the alliance
Jump up and down as much as you like ... you will respect Turkey’s right to fighting against terrorism sooner or later. There is no other way.”
U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan pose for a family photo during the annual NATO heads of government summit at the Grove Hotel in Watford, Britain December 4, 2019. going back to the 1980s and 1990s when the late Danielle Mitterrand, the wife of former French president Francois Mitterrand, publicly voiced her support for Abdullah Ocalan, the terrorist group’s founding leader, who has been in prison Turkey since 1999.
“You know how to show off but you cannot even properly pay for NATO. You are a novice,” the Turkish president said of Macron’s NATO commitments, touching on the issue of defence spending among the NATO allies. The latest numbers show that Ankara spends 1.89 percent expenditure toward its GDP while France allocated 1.84 percent of its GDP to the NATO budget.
Trump has previously accused NATO partners of not accepting their share of the NATO financing burden, which the US has demanded should be at least two percent of their GDP. Source: TRT World
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