UK ambassador to Turkey calls NATO drill scandal ‘disgraceful’

ANKARA

U.K. Ambassador to Turkey Richard Moore on Nov. 21 described a recent incident during a NATO drill targeting Turkey’s founder and current president as “disgraceful.”

Turkey withdrew its troops from NATO’s Trident Javelin exercise in Norway on Nov. 17 after a civilian Norwegian official depicted President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as an “enemy collaborator.”

A portrait of Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was also shown in the “hostile leader list” during a computer-assisted exercise of the drill.