Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | Should Turkeys NATO membership be suspended?
This week on Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball, Jamie Shea, Senior Fellow at Friends of Europe, assesses whether Turkey should be expelled from NATO. At a time when the West is under a lot of geopolitical strain, the cohesion of alliances such as NATO becomes ever more important. Turkey blocking Sweden\u2019s admission to the Alliance, quarrels with the United States about the arming of Kurdish Syrian groups fighting the Islamic State, as well as Erdogan\u2019s support for Hamas, have led many commentators to demand for Turkey\u2019s NATO membership to be suspended. However, Jamie advises against this for several important reasons.