Re:WikiLeaks: “Hillary Emails: Google Tried to Boost Assad D...
by dingaling on Monday March 21, 2016 @12:43PM
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> Turkey is a NATO member
Turkey's membership of NATO was only achieved through explicit naming in an addendum to the Articles, the only country so included, and was never a popular addition. They remain the only country for which expulsion has a clear process, though unlikely.
> has decent relations with most of its neighbours
Except with Greece, both of whom have shot down more of each others aircraft than non-NATO aircraft, and Armenia with whom they have a lingering border skirmish and Syria and Kurdistan-Iraq...
Please substantiate. Turkey is a NATO member which, other than the recent kerfuffle with downing a Russia fighter jet, has decent relations with most of its neighbours, and no real Great Enemies. Turkey has always had a press-repressive (!!) orientation because they've wanted to keep internal Islamist forces at bay. Amusing, Erdogan has flipped the script and now it's his Islamist government which is cracking down on other voices, although the take-over of the Zaman news organization is really about internal fighting with an influential cleric. But either way, in the end, Turkey has always had authoritarian governments succeeded by military coups and more authoritarian rule.