Finland and Sweden signed a deal with Turkey on Tuesday that will clear the path for the two Nordic nations to join NATO. Turkey was threatening to veto their membership aspirations on grounds the countries were supporting terrorists. Now, the memorandum says they will be fighting terrorism together. Host Marco Werman spoke with Soner Cagaptay, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the author of “A Sultan in Autumn: Erdogan Faces Turkey’s Uncontainable Forces.”
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