{"id":46701,"date":"2025-04-24T13:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T13:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/46701\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T13:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T13:28:08","slug":"europes-reluctant-reset-with-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/46701\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s reluctant reset with Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">AMERICA is withdrawing. The threat from Russia is mounting. Ukraine is on the defensive. Despite pledges of new spending, arms production remains too low for comfort. Fear not, Europeans. Recep Tayyip Erdogan has your back. \u201cIt has become clear once again\u201d, Turkey\u2019s president and Europe\u2019s prospective saviour said on April 11th, \u201cthat European security is unthinkable without Turkey.\u201d Mr Erdogan is often given to bombast, and to casting Turkey as a dynamic regional power, with Europe as an anaemic has-been, so you could be forgiven for not buying his line wholesale. Besides, Turkey\u2019s economy is in a deep funk, and for a country widely seen as a military behemoth, the $24bn (or 2.1% of GDP) Turkey shelled out on defence last year was only a quarter of Germany\u2019s spending.\u00a0Even so, Turkey\u2019s strongman is not too far off the mark. On security co-operation, rearmament and Ukraine, Europe needs Turkey\u2019s help more than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMERICA is withdrawing. The threat from Russia is mounting. Ukraine is on the defensive. Despite pledges of new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[5192,2000,299,5187,461,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-46701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-charlemagne","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-turkey","13":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114393180279829819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}