The foreign minister of Belarus has thanked Turkey for its help in watering down reactions from NATO allies on the forced landing of a passenger plane and the detention of a dissident journalist by Belarus.NATO’s 30 allies released on Wednesday a short statement condemning the forcing down of a Ryanair flight to arrest journalist Roman Protasevich, but stopped short of announcing any punitive steps called for by Baltic allies and Poland.It was Turkey that played a role in softening alliance members’ outrage.A more severe response was expected from the alliance after NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg had called the incident a “state hijacking” and “outrageous”.To read the full story, check out the article on Ahval.
https://ahvalnews.com/belarus/belarus-thanks-turkey-help-nato-over-forced-plane-landing
