The NATO summit in Ankara must not validate Turkey’s transactional foreign policy; advanced weapons sales threaten Western strategic leverage.
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Turkey’s standoff over the F-35 remains unresolved, as US law and regional allies block any potential return to the program.
Strategic concessions at the Ankara NATO summit showcase how transactional diplomacy subverts Western democratic norms to legitimize illiberal governance.
Turkey’s new missile unveiling exposes Western overreaction, mistaking a strategic deterrent signal for an Iranian-style breakaway threat to NATO.
Turkey fuels terror in the West Bank by housing Hamas operatives who direct attacks, transfer weapons, and recruit from safe havens.
Turkey’s NATO summit hosting masks a dangerous agenda of strategic freelancing, maritime coercion, and democratic backsliding that the alliance must confront directly.
Turkey glorifies the Ottoman conquest but forgets the empire’s pluralist wisdom. A 1914 sultan’s ban shows a better path forward.
Turkey is quietly shifting back toward NATO after years of drifting closer to Russia—driven by economic collapse and missile threats.
Turkey’s youth have had enough of state religiosity, police brutality, and despair. 64% would flee if they could.
The Iran war is reshaping turkey by exposing NATO’s missile defense as functional while Ankara’s Russian S-400 stays dormant.