FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron took aim at Turkey today, saying Nato needed to enforce “cohesion” at its summit next month.

Mr Macron said the US-led military bloc would not function if countries focused on “national interests that are contradictory to the security of other allies, as has been the case in recent years in Syria, the eastern Mediterranean, Libya and the Caucasus.”

He did not name Turkey, a Nato member — but its invasion of northern Syria to crush Kurdish forces took place despite their fighting alongside the US against Isis in the area; it has engaged in tense naval standoffs with fellow Nato member Greece in the Mediterranean; and it intervened heavily in the Libyan war, deploying jihadist fighters from Syria to assist the UN-recognised government against a military revolt backed by France.