Despite Turkey’s drift from the West, Nato is still Ankara’s best security guarantor

Simon Waldman, The National (UAE)
From purchasing Russian S-400s to Turkey’s role in a scheme to circumvent sanctions on Iran, Turkey has drifted away from the West in recent years. However, this does not mean that Ankara considers itself part of the Russian orbit or the Iranian axis. From the perceptive of Ankara, Turkey is a great power in its own right with the potential to be even stronger. The only orbit that policy-makers in Ankara believe Turkey belongs to is its own.