Erdogan: Turkey can part ways with European Union – DW – 09/16/2023
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President Tayyip Erdogan hinted that Turkey could abandon its bid for EU membership and said the European Union was trying to break away from his country.
    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits are too strategic for US, Turkey will always have huge baraining chip with them so it would be very impratical for them to leave NATO and lose that leverage.

      • conquer4@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It would be, if we could trust Turkey to actually honor it’s alliance commitment, but it is equally likely at this time they’d just say ‘nope, we’re not participating in this war’ and bugger off.

        • PsychedSyEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          We don’t need them to do anything. We just need their land as a forward base.

  • Astroturfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I wish everyone would just pull the rug on Turkey already. They’ve been getting sweetheart treatment due to their geographical importance while pissing on everything they touch for decades. They’re a full clown makeup country at this point. No one should take them seriously.

  • megalodon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    He can part ways with the European Union. He’s rich regardless. It’s the people, as always, that will suffer.