Ben Hubbard
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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You know, NATO is in a time right now where the allies are very concerned about the future.
There are concerns about Russia sort of attacking elsewhere outside of Ukraine.
And so it's led to a lot of sort of soul searching inside of NATO.
Turkey, you know, it has relations all across the West, all across the East.
It has diplomatic relations with Iran.
It talks to Hamas.
It has, you know, broad relations all the way across Africa.
And so even though a few years ago, everybody was complaining about Erdogan remaining friends with Putin, there's sort of been a new realization that this is actually quite valuable.
There's been a bit more of an acceptance of Turkey's diplomatic role.
Turkey also has the second largest military in the alliance after the United States.
So amid this concern that the U.S.
is going to pull back from NATO, Turkey looks very valuable and the size of its military is very valuable for any kind of reconfiguration of NATO.
The flip side of this is that domestically, Turkey is also becoming more authoritarian.
This used to be something that allies were very concerned about and would criticize publicly.
And that is not happening now.
Officials from NATO countries that I spoke with all basically said, yes, we know what's going on.
Yes, we see the direction that this government is going.
But at this moment, we're worried about Ukraine.
We're worried about the security of Europe.
We're worried about Turkey.
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