Time to Kick Turkey Out of NATO?
The case for evicting Turkey from NATO got stronger this week.
First, the United States announced the backing of a border security force drawn mainly from the People's Protection Units (YPG) in Rojava, the quasi-independent Kurdish region in northeastern Syria along the Turkish border. Then Turkeys President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he will strangle that American-backed force before its even born. Russia, Iran and Syrias Assad regime are standing with Erdogan.
The YPG, along with the multiethnic Syrian Democratic Forces which the YPG dominates, are the only armed groups indigenous to Syria that are willing and able to take on ISIS and win, and theyre the only significant armed faction in Syrias dizzying civil war that isnt ideologically hostile to the West. In October of last year, they finally liberated Raqqa, the capital of the ISIS caliphate, while the Russian and Syrian militaries were busy pounding rebels instead in the west.
The Turks would rather have the Assad regimeand by extension Russia, Iran and Hezbollahrule over the Syrian Kurds whom they consider terrorists. The United States is building an army of terror along the southern border, Erdogan says. Either you take off your flags on those terrorist organisations, or we will have to hand those flags over to you, Dont force us to bury in the ground those who are with terrorists
Our operations will continue until not a single terrorist remains along our borders, let alone 30,000 of them.
This is not how a NATO ally behaves. Its how an enemy state behaves. There is truly no getting around this. We can argue all we wantand I havethat keeping Turkey in NATO is better than kicking Turkey out of NATO because its better to deal with a troublesome country inside an ostensibly friendly framework than outside one.
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/time-kick-turkey-out-nato?