The Geopolitical Pressures on Turkey and Its Emerging Shift Away from NATO

When a country is pushed too far, it will inevitably become your adversary and sever ties with any past alliances. As I’ve always maintained, Turkey will eventually leave NATO when it suits its interests and will certainly join BRICS and the SCO. Turkey is fully aware that, aside from Hungary, it has no real allies within NATO. The United States, along with Israel, stands as Turkey’s primary adversary, working tirelessly to undermine it from multiple fronts, even preparing for a potential military conflict starting in Cyprus. Both Israel and the U.S. are financing the PKK and YPG to destabilize Turkey along its southern Syrian border. In many ways, the conflict between the U.S. and Turkey has already begun. Israel, meanwhile, is invoking Theodor Herzl's Promised Land narrative to assert dominance over the region. In truth, Turkey could just as easily claim ownership of the region based on its Ottoman past—it would be just as absurd as Israel’s claims to the Promised Land.