Reuters exclusively reports diplomats say Turkey pushed NATO allies into softening outrage over Belarus plane

Reuters exclusively reported that Turkey pushed NATO allies into watering down an official reaction to the forced landing by Belarus of a passenger plane and the detention of a dissident journalist. NATO’s 30 allies released a two-paragraph statement on condemning the forcing down of a Ryanair flight to arrest journalist Roman Protasevich but did not include any punitive steps that Baltic allies and Poland had pressed for.