Turkey out of NATO - Project 2028

Turkey out of NATO - Project 2028
Reassessing Turkey's NATO Membership. A Strategic Policy Review Toward 2028

[Shay Gal שי גל @ShayGal84]

NATO Is Paying Turkey Not to Become What It Already Is

👇 A Line of State statecraft note at @tovimacom.

Turkey is strategically external and institutionally internal: it builds security beyond NATO while retaining access, intelligence and blocking power within it.

It threatens one Ally with war and maintains military control over part of an EU member state; Russian systems now sit inside its defence and critical energy infrastructure, Turkish channels have served Iranian power, Ankara carries a second collective-defence obligation with Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan, and full membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is openly contemplated.

Together, those choices reach the Washington Treaty itself. Article 1 restrains threats and force, Article 3 requires collective capacity and resilience, and Article 8 bars incompatible external commitments. Material breach opens a route to suspension or termination; the defaulting state has no veto over the consequences of its own breach, and the Treaty’s silence on expulsion is not immunity.

Nor does Turkey need to leave NATO. Leaving would be a demotion: no other arrangement gives Ankara comparable power over Western decisions.

Article 5 no longer anchors Turkish security. It functions as credit behind a policy the Alliance neither designs nor controls.

The Straits are geography, not a contribution. Ankara has turned access into rent and consensus into an institutional tollbooth.

Turkey is now a net strategic liability to the Alliance.

The answer to Turkish indispensability is redundancy. The Constantinople Protocol begins with one rule: no Turkish gate remains singular. NATO must be able to move, supply, decide and, if necessary, fight without Turkish permission.

The question is no longer how to keep Turkey in NATO. It is whether NATO should keep Turkey at all.

@Turkeyout2028

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[Harris Samaras @HarrisSamaras]

Naive to believe that @POTUS wants to lift the sanctions on Turkey for any geopolitical reason, whether that is China, Russia, Iran or any other.

Naive also to believe that Donald Trump admires @RTErdogan or any other dictator.

Lastly, naive to believe that Donald Trump gives a damn if Turkey is a sponsor and supporter of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood or if it committed and/or commits ethnic cleansing in Cyprus, Syria and Iraq. He didn't and doesn't care about the jihadist interim President of Syria @AH_AlSharaa nor about the thousands he murdered and murdering still.

The "love affair" with Erdogan is clearly for personal and only reasons.

| @marklevinshow #USA #Turkey #Trump #Erdogan