Hersh learned about Biden’s promise to provide an IMF loan to Turkey for Sweden’s admission to NATO

US President Joe Biden has promised Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) if Turkey agrees to Sweden’s admission to NATO. About this with reference to sources declared American journalist Seymour Hersh.

According to Hersh, it was about a credit line from the IMF in the amount of $ 11-13 billion. Such an offer may be associated with a costly recovery after the earthquake that struck southeast Turkey in February, he said.

“Biden got what he needed ahead of this week’s NATO summit by somehow turning Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan inside out,” the journalist noted in his story.

On July 12, Erdogan, commenting on the results of the NATO summit in Vilnius, expressed hope that the issue of Sweden’s application to NATO will become “one of the priorities of the international agenda” of the autumn session of the Turkish parliament. The agreement reached on July 10 was announced by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. This was announced following a trilateral meeting in Vilnius, which was also attended by Erdogan and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. However, the exact date of ratification of the country’s accession to the alliance was not named.

At the same time, the Turkish president set the condition that the EU must clear the way for Turkey’s entry into the European Union before Ankara approves Sweden’s application for NATO membership. The next day, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that “no one wants to see Turkey in Europe.”