NATO Pushes Turkey To Walk The Line With Its Allies

Turkey has been forced to tow the line with its NATO partners for the sake of other's sovereignty for a change

All hope is not lost as strong leadership among NATO alliances work to keep Turkey's volatility into check.
(French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel along with American President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recap Tayyip Erdogan)

Turkey’s self serving negotiations with NATO allies has backfired as the latter asked Istanbul for explanations over purchase of S-400 missile systems from Russia.

Reiterating the mission with which the NATO alliance for formulated, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg was in his right when he said that Turkey's S-400 system was incompatible with NATO.

In (probably) favouring Russia over the US, Ankara has strained its relations with Washington and other NATO members. It is known to have tested the recently purchased S-400 system on US-made jets.

Turkey has been recently seen as behaving autocratic, refusing to work in tandem with neither EU nations nor the NATO alliance.  Its recent offensive at Northern Syria and pressure that NATO partners designate the Kurdish forces as terrorists has not been seen in good light.

Turkey is coming across as a nation which is only interested in its own survival at the expense of rest of the world.  But its pressure tactics are not bending the ways of its NATO allies.It might have to work harder to get the power position it is yearning for; something Russia is already firmly holding up.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had wanted NATO to recognize the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) as terrorists, saying he would block an update to defense plans for the Baltic states and Poland if the alliance did not back him

Both France and the US along with other NATO partners have refused to do so.  After repeated discussions, it seems Turkey has backed off and agreed to adhere to a defense plan to support the Baltic states and Poland.

Meanwhile, the German chancellor Angela Merkel is concentrating on a more concrete and positive outcome going forward. She is trying to rope in the United Nations to establish a UN led Security Zone in northern Syria that could allow refugees to return to Syria from Turkey.

Merkel was successful in discussing the possibilities with Macron, Erdogan and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.  It seems Turkey is already in discussion with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). However, this is not something Erdogan would like to materialize after all.

Also, as long as there is Syrian forces manning the area, rehabilitation of Syrian refugees remain a huge challenge.