Tayyip Erdogan: Ally in Name Only
For decades Turkey has been one of our most crucial allies. First, we had a common enemy in the Soviet Union. Secondly, Turkey is also strategically located, first as a crossroads between Europe and the Middle East from which the US operates out of Incirlik Air Base. Turkey also possesses one of Europe’s most strategically significant choke points, the Turkish Straits, which is the only waterway that allows ships, most notably, but certainly not limited to the Soviet and later Russian Black Sea Fleet, to enter the Mediterranean via the Black Sea or vice versa. During the Cold War it...
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