Turkey’s behavior and the F-16 sales

The Biden administration is moving ahead with its intention to supply Turkey with 40 new F-16 fighter jets and upgrade 80 of the country's older ones.

However, it would be wise if first it answered an important question: How can a NATO member ignore the alliance to which it belongs, directly threaten another member with war, approach politically and procure state-of-the-art weapon systems from a country that is clearly a geopolitical competitor - if not a rival or enemy of the alliance - but also hinder the expansion of NATO and therefore contribute to its weakening.

In fact, after the recent anti-Turkey protests in Sweden, which culminated in the unacceptable and reprehensible act of the burning of the Quran by far-right mobs, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan "froze" NATO expansion talks with the two candidate countries, Sweden and Finland.

Turkey's...