Talking about NATO exercise, Topçu said, “With the image of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the chief commander of our Independence War and the founder of our Republic, and the name of the Turkish Republic’s President Recep Tayyip Edogan, under the name of Nato practice, this geeky, disgraceful and lowly geopolitical and geostrategic position the country which is under pressure and attacks because of the reasons that will not come to mind now, and 52% elected President of Turkey is brutally hostile. This brutal and dishonorable behavior has set our sights on NATO’s attitude towards our country, and our presence in this institution has become questionable in the great Turkish nation. Source Haberturk
OPEC+ headed for a clash with the U.S. as more members rejected President Joe Biden’s call for the group to raise oil production faster and help reduce gasoline prices. On Monday, Kuwait said the cartel should stick with its plan to increase output gradually because oil markets were well-balanced. That followed similar statements from other key members in recent days, including Iraq, Algeria, Angola and Nigeria. Source Al Jazeera
“If a state buys (weaponry) from us, it’s no longer a Turkish product. It might be manufactured in Turkey, but it belongs to Ukraine,” Cavusoglu told reporters after meeting his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, on the margins of the G20 summit in Rome. “Turkey cannot be blamed for this,” he said. Source The Defence Post
Bulgaria has sent 350 additional military personnel to its border with Turkey amid rising migration levels. Defense Minister Georgi Panayotov told Bulgarian media that the troops were arriving to “support the border police”. Source EuroNews
