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NATO sorry after Erdogan pulls troops over Norway 'insult'ISTANBUL: NATO apologized to Turkey on Friday after Ankara pulled its troops from a military exercise in Norway to protest incidents deemed insulting to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the country’s modern founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.The alliance’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, himself Norwegian, moved quickly to say sorry after an angry intervention by Erdogan on an episode that risked creating further strife between Turkey and its allies.The incidents took place during NATO’s “Trident Javelin” exercise in the southern Norwegian city of Stavanger aimed at increasing coordination between the allies at headquarters level, which wound up Friday.Erdogan said that Ankara had withdrawn its 40 troops from the exercise in protest, adding: “It’s not possible to have this kind of alliance.”Continued: http://www.arabnews.com/node/1194931/world
Erdogan said that Ankara had withdrawn its 40 troops from the exercise in protest, adding: “It’s not possible to have this kind of alliance.”
Why is Turkey still in NATO?