Turkey — The Trojan Horse
A policy analysis arguing that Turkey, especially under President Erdoğan, exploits its NATO membership to pursue national agendas, wield procedural vetoes, and align with the West’s adversaries — acting as a Trojan horse that structurally weakens the alliance.
Turkey — The Troubled Member
A case study arguing that Turkey functions less as a NATO bulwark than as a disruptive insider, citing its S-400 purchase, obstruction of allied defense plans and Nordic enlargement, and facilitation of Russian sanctions evasion.
Turkey — Member in Name Only
A policy argument that NATO can marginalize Turkey within the alliance—excluding it from exercises, committees, and intelligence, and relocating key assets—reducing it to a member in name only and paving the way for its eventual exit.
Turkey — Suspension and Expulsion from NATO
An analysis of whether NATO can suspend or expel Turkey despite the North Atlantic Treaty lacking any formal expulsion mechanism, drawing on the Vienna Convention’s material-breach provisions and the alliance’s founding principles.
Turkey — Sanctions
An overview of how Turkey, as the only NATO member declining to align with UN sanctions, has served as a strategic loophole enabling Russia, Iran, and others to circumvent restrictions across trade, energy, finance, and defense.
Turkey — Terrorism
An assessment of Turkey’s direct and permissive ties to ISIS, Hamas, HTS and other armed actors from Syria to Libya and the Sahel — including proxy deployments, documented war crimes, and terrorist-financing case studies that undercut core U.S. counterterrorism priorities.
Turkey — Human Rights
An overview of human rights concerns in Turkey, covering prison overcrowding and detention conditions, restrictions on civil society, academia and lawyers, religious minority rights, and Turkey’s record before the European Court of Human Rights.
Turkey — Political Freedom
A review of Turkey’s political freedom over the past decade, covering post-2016 coup purges, pressure on the opposition and media, political detentions, and extraterritorial operations against dissidents.
NATO Is Essential for Turkey, Not Vice Versa
A policy assessment arguing that Turkey’s military, technical, and strategic dependence on NATO makes the alliance irreplaceable to Ankara, while Turkey itself behaves as a pragmatic, interventionist partner that undervalues collective defense.