The many reasons Erdogan rushed to block NATO

LONDON- If Western leaders were surprised to see Turkey throw a diplomatic spanner into plans to admit Finland and Sweden into NATO, they should not have been. Throughout the last decade, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been relentlessly consistent in attempting to take almost any international crisis or dynamic and make it more about Turkey than any of the other players wanted or expected. It is an approach that has drawn Turkey into conflicts in Libya and Syria and become a resurgent player