Turkey should not be in NATO, but it is and will remain a member because U.S. policy analysts refuse to acknowledge that the situation in the world has drastically changed, and that post-World War II arrangements are no longer necessary or viable.
“Exclusive report | Turkish-held areas provide safe haven to jihadists and members of ISIS and al-Qaeda,” Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, October 26, 2021:
Since the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, in airstrikes by the International Coalition in northern Idlib near the Syria border with Iskenderun region on October 27, 2019, Coalition aircraft have killed 51 people in different areas under the control of jihadi organizations and Turkish-backed factions.
The fatalities were distributed as follows:
41 jihadists of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, including commanders. These jihadists and commanders served in the ranks of ISIS, Hurras al-Din organization, al-Qaeda and others.
Ten civilians, including two women and two children.
Those jihadists and civilians were killed in airstrikes on positions in areas controlled by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and Turkish-backed factions from Idlib to areas under the control of Turkish forces and their proxy factions in the northern and eastern Aleppo countryside and “Peace Spring” areas in al-Hasakah and al-Raqqah countryside….
Infidel says
Other reason that Turkey will remain in NATO is that NATO has no mechanism for expelling a member: the member would have to voluntarily leave. Unfortunately, Erdogan is too wily to do that: he believes in running w/ the hares and hunting w/ the hounds
Another way around it would be to disband NATO altogether, which has been as worthless as the UN ever since the end of the Cold War
born saturday says
turkey backed isis and alqainta in syria and iraq as much as it backs it anywhere else as the mother of all sunni jihad…. turkey provided arms, training, funds, healthcare and ofcourse info to isis and al qaida throughout the war in syria and iraq along with the impunity and often much more of the american goverment of obama… further more turkey was the travel hub for international jihadis that travelled back and forth through turkey to join isis and al qaida… turkey and even erdogans son was found to buy the crude from jihadis and reselling it around the world.,.. of course here we must mention that also usa and israel supported the barbaric jihadism in syria and iraq up to the point when trump was elected as the jihadis were fighting against the so wanted bassar al assad that both usa and israel wanted out of power….
isis, alqaIda and other terrorist organisations fighting from libya to africa to armenia to syria and iraq are and were nothing less than the mercenaries of turkey in a quest to expand the modern ottomaniac empire….
as trump got elected the usa stopped funding and arming the children of turkey in syria and iraq and joined the kurdish who were fightin against them…
meanwhile, endless of the 2 million christians of syria and iraq were brutally barbarically murdered with islamic type of executions and torture… others were sold in slavery….
the war in syria was allowed to take place with the impunity of usa and israel in order to oust assad with whom israel has a vendeta from the time of the syrian israeli war at the golan heights…
turkey has now received a role of the mother of all sunni jihadism around the world covering the saudis from that position and funnelling their money so that they do not directly have to intervene…
so since 2010 turkey is funding all western mosques legal and illegal from where all the terrorism and criminality of the sunnis starts everywhere in the west in africa in middle east….
turkey is a terrorist state that will not change its ways at all by ousting erdogan and replacing him with another leader….
turkey is running a world wide network of directed terrorism and criminality, where people are targeted specifically, imagine it like the cia for example… so peoples fate around the world is determined in turkey often by the turksh official intelligence that through jihadis and sunnis around the world is handling information on citizens of most countries there is sunnis at….
born saturday says
note that turkey has developed ground missiles with 300km range namely bora with which it threatens greece to an arms race to defend from those and also antiship missiles of equivalent range… these missiles have been produced and set up ready to be fired for two years now… apart from other developments such as armed drones turkey has made an agreement with pakistan to import nuclear weapons technology and develop nuclear warheads to arm these missiles by 2023 to 2025…. that is the mere reason greece has ordered airdefence friggates from france arriving the same years….
amongst endless other arms projects turkey is developing nuclear weapons….
the missile technology in turkey is developing day by day and it is a question of time when a new north korea will emerge in the middle east…
and ofcourse when they see the impunity for iran for the same reason they also are moving on to nuclear….