When Turkey entered the NATO defense alliance in 1952, it was a major coup for Europe and for America. Turkey had control of the strategically important Bosphorus Strait and the Dardanelles. The NATO alliance could therefore exercise a preemptively tight grip on the Soviet Union’s only direct access to Western warm-water ports. Furthermore, Turkey was a secular doorway into the resource-rich Middle East. But it’s now 2015. The Soviet Union has been dead and gone for a quarter of a century…
Source: http://theweek.com/articles/591808/turkey-now-huge-liability-nato–america
