WASHINGTON ― After news spread Friday of a coup attempt in Turkey, outside observers rushed to speculate about what the events meant for NATO: Were the Turks jeopardizing their status in the mutual defense alliance, and were fellow NATO members ready to respond to the overthrow of Turkey’s elected government?The answer was clear. Turkey has remained a NATO member for 64 years, despite multiple previous military coups. (So have other NATO members: France, Greece, Portugal and Italy.) The fuss looked hyperbolic, designed to illustrate Turkey’s importance to people in the West rather than to consider any true threat of NATO …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
