DOMINANT ANGLE
Ankara is dissociating Donald Trump's triumphalism from the still unsigned text, a caution that recalls the months of tension provoked within NATO by American threats against an ally.
Dominant angle identified — does not reflect unanimity of this country’s media
KEY POINTS
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Bianet notes that no text of the agreement has been made public and no source confirms Trump's claims of "permanent control" at no cost to Washington.
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Mette Frederiksen's office confirms a planned signing next week at the UN General Assembly, followed by parliamentary ratification in Denmark and Greenland.
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According to Daily Sabah, a January 2025 Danish poll showed that 85% of Greenlanders opposed joining the United States, and Trump's threats have caused months of tension within NATO.
ANALYSIS
Ankara, September 19, 2026. The Turkish press is receiving the announcement by Donald Trump with marked caution, highlighting the gap between the triumphalism of the American president and the reality of a text that has yet to be signed. On Truth Social, Friday, September 18, Donald Trump claimed to have obtained, along with the Kingdom of Denmark and Greenland, a security agreement giving him "permanent control" over the Arctic island, "at no cost" to Washington, which he described as an "infinite lifetime agreement". But Bianet, a Turkish investigative media outlet, notes that no text of the agreement has been made public: the office of Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen specified that the agreement had not yet been signed and that its signature by the three governments was expected "next week", during the United Nations General Assembly in New York, before its entry into force after parliamentary ratification in Denmark and Greenland.
BBC News Türkçe quotes Mette Frederiksen as stating that the text will strengthen common security in the Arctic and North Atlantic, while recognizing the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Kingdom as well as the right of the Greenlandic people to self-determination — a formulation that the Prime Minister has emphasized without explicitly confirming the account of "permanent" control advanced by Trump.
Daily Sabah puts the episode into context: the repeated threats by Donald Trump, who has never excluded the use of force to seize the territory, have provoked, according to the newspaper, months of tension between the United States, Greenland, and Denmark, and more broadly within the NATO alliance. The newspaper recalls that a Danish poll in January 2025 showed that 85% of Greenlanders rejected a merger with the United States, and that Beijing and Moscow had rejected Trump's arguments citing a Chinese or Russian threat. According to the terms cited by Trump, no "adversary" of the United States will now be able to install a base, maintain a military presence, or make sensitive investments in Greenland without written authorization from Washington. Bianet specifies that Trump has also announced the immediate launch of work to install an expanded military presence in the "appropriate" areas of Greenland, without waiting for the formal signing of the announced text.
