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dutch777

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46. I don't. It's more an inkling that Turkey, really Erdogan, could go its own way. There have been disagreements....

Tue Jan 20, 2026, 06:13 PM

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between the EU and Erdogan's Turkey on substantive matters economic, political and military over the last decade that opens the strength of relationship to some question in my mind. At the end of the day, Turkey has much more economic interdependency with the EU than Russia and that may be an insurance policy to Turkey's support to NATO. My worry with Turkey, Hungary and even Spain is that for various different reasons at different times they row in their own direction and at their own pace. In matters of political discussion, that is inconvenient but fine. In a military confrontation, arriving late to the matter can be terribly consequential.

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