Those numbers sound big until you realise the overwhelming majority of that personnel are conscripts who will be very inexperienced and in all likelihood don't actually want to be there - from the wikipedia page you were on:

> in 2010 the Turkish Armed Forces had an active strength of around 402,000 active personnel, consisting of 77,000 professionals and 325,000 conscripts

Don't get me wrong, I'd be delighted if the roles were reversed and it was instead Turkey who had the 5th biggest military expenditures in the world and the UK were around 20th - there's far more productive things we could be spending our money on.

> Those numbers sound big until you realise the overwhelming majority of that personnel are conscripts who will be very inexperienced and in all likelihood don't actually want to be there - from the wikipedia page you were on:

Conscript training is still better than no training at all.

In case of a serious military conflict, no NATO country other than USA will be able to avoid some degree of popular mobilisation.

Alright man, if you really wanna believe that the strongest military ally of the USA is Turkey then I'm not gonna stop you. But you're wrong, and really you shouldn't want to be right - it's not a good thing. I am a little embarrassed about the UK/US relationship

Nukes, or their lack thereof, is the elephant in the room here.

Did you read that on Wikipedia, lol?