Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria, along with the criticism and threats of sanctions brandished by fellow NATO members at Ankara over the offensive, is close to sparking a crisis at the world’s biggest military alliance.But despite the high political-military tensions, Turkey is very unlikely to be ejected from the 29-member alliance, for NATO has seen tense times and survived them before.From the Suez Canal crisis in 1956 to France leaving its military command structure in 1967, which forced the alliance to move its headquarters to Brussels in Belgium, to the deep split among allies over the Iraq war in 2003, …read more
Source:: Voice of America
