, Columnist
Here's How to Pull Turkey Back From the Brink
Erdogan gets more authoritarian, and closer to Russia and Iran, every day. But kicking him out of NATO would make things worse.
Helping hand?
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Since its founding nearly a century ago, Turkey's foreign policy goal has been summed up in a simple phrase: “No problems with our neighbors.” But the situation today is different: “all our neighbors have problems.” And the Turks have plenty of their own.
There is no understating how important it is that the U.S. and other NATO allies quickly mend fences with Turkey and help it through its regional crisis.