Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned NATO’s insufficient military presence in the Black Sea and has urged the Alliance to enhance cooperation in the area. He said he was going to ask the alliance to address the issue during an upcoming summit in Warsaw as there was a need to counter the Russian military presence there. RT reports: “I told him [NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg]: ‘You are absent from the Black Sea. The Black Sea has almost become a Russian lake,’” Erdogan said at a meeting of heads of general staff of Balkan nations in Istanbul on Wednesday. “If we don’t take action, history will not forgive us.” He added that Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia should join the alliance soon to make it stronger. A NATO summit will be held in the Polish capital in July. The meeting is expected to strengthen the alliance’s stance on countering what its new top military commander, US General Curtis Scaparrotti, called a resurgent Russia in his inauguration ceremony last week. Moscow sees NATO’s military buildup near its border as offensive and threatening. “We should enhance our coordination and cooperation in the Black Sea. We hope for concrete results from the NATO [...]