{"id":775079,"date":"2023-02-17T22:35:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T19:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=775079"},"modified":"2023-04-02T12:43:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T09:43:22","slug":"why-is-turkey-still-in-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2023\/02\/17\/why-is-turkey-still-in-nato\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Turkey still in NATO?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is obvious that the Erdogan&#8217;s Republic of T\u00fcrkiye has always played a double game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/image009-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-773324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/image009-5.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/image009-5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">epa01389608 French soldiers of NATO\\&#8217;s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) patrol Arghandab district, Afghanistan after NATO and Afghan military forces have driven out hundreds of Taliban militants from around restive Kandahar, Afghanistan, 20 June 2008. At least 57 Taliban insurgents were killed and dozens more were wounded as NATO and Afghan forces drove out militants who had recently infiltrated several villages in the southern province of Kandahar, officials said 19 June 2008.  EPA\/HUMAYOUN SHIAB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A NATO presence but also special relations with Putin&#8217;s Russia. It seems that between dictators, we like to stick together &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On September 12, 2017, the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye signed a contract with Russia for the purchase of S-400 systems for an amount of 2.5 billion dollars with delivery initially scheduled for 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On this occasion, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared, &#8220;We alone make decisions that fall under our independence.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, NATO, and more particularly the United States, did not see it that way and believed that this decision greatly threatened the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s ties with its Western partners as well as the security of NATO materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">America then sanctioned the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye and denied it access to the purchase of American military equipment. The Turks were thus unable to renew their aging F16s with F35s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, it is not possible to exclude Erdogan&#8217;s Republic of T\u00fcrkiye because the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye occupies a strategic position between Europe and Asia. To deprive oneself of Turkey would greatly weaken NATO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everyone knows this, and that is why despite all of Erdogan&#8217;s eccentricities and the fact that he plays a double game, Turkey will remain in NATO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Sylvain Saurel&#8217;s Newsletter<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is obvious that the Erdogan&#8217;s Republic of T\u00fcrkiye has always played a double game. A NATO presence but also special relations with Putin&#8217;s Russia. It seems that between dictators, we like to stick together &#8230; On September 12, 2017, the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye signed a contract with Russia for the purchase of S-400 systems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":653493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,34],"tags":[2262],"class_list":["post-775079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-usa","tag-nato-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}