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Has Turkey Betrayed the West?


(The Tower) James Kirchick - On Jan. 25, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan announced that his government was interested in joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which includes Russia, China, and the four post-Soviet Central Asian republics. But SCO members cannot simultaneously be members of NATO. As Turkey's campaign to join the EU remains stalled, Erdogan's gaze has turned eastward. In January, he said that if Russian President Putin chooses to "include us" in the SCO, "we will forget about the EU."
2013-04-26 00:00:00
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