Sweden and Finland this week submitted their applications to be part of the Western defence alliance, NATO, marking a major shift in European geopolitics. Once-neutral Finland and Sweden are abandoning years of military non-alignment, driven to join NATO's mutual defense pact in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The enlargement of Nato was cited by Russian President Vladamir Putin as one of the key threats to Russian security that prompted the invasion of Ukraine. However in recent weeks fellow NATO member Turkey has been hardening it's public stand against the expansion effort accusing Sweden and Finland of being too receptive to Turkish Kurdish groups that president Recep Erdogan calls terrorists. To discuss this we are joined on the line by Denys Reva, security expert from the Institute for Security Studies .........
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