Question
This country has attempted to secure the extradition of Bülent Keneş, whose Today’s Zaman newspaper was linked to Fethullah Gülen. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this country that, along with Hungary, begrudgingly ratified Finland’s NATO membership bid, but has yet to admit Sweden over public Qurʾān burnings.
ANSWER: Turkey [or Republic of Türkiye; or Türkiye Cumhuriyeti]
[10m] Because of Erdoğan’s stubbornness towards Sweden, US senators threatened to cancel the shipment of 40 of these jets to Turkey. This most produced fixed-wing military jet had the first digital fly-by-wire system and is made by Lockheed Martin.
ANSWER: F-16 [or General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon; accept Fighting Falcon; prompt on Falcon]
[10h] A trilateral memorandum between Turkey, Sweden, and Finland required the Nordic countries to stop supporting People’s Protection Units and this leftist Kurdish party that currently controls Rojava in Syria.
ANSWER: PYD [or Partiya Yekîtiya Demokrat; or Democratic Union Party; or Ḥizb al-Ittiḥad al-Dimuqraṭiy]
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Summary
2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |