Where debating everything under the sun is only the beginning

With so many important and urgent things Mr Biden should be concerned with it makes no sense to worry with what a NATO's member,Turkey, did more than one hundred years ago. There must be business going on.

Edit: By the way, The Young Turks (a tangentially ethnic Democrat-leaning media outlet in USA) have a complex but overall positive take on it.

All in all, Turkey is an outlier in NATO in a similar way as UK was an outlier in EU. We got rid of UK for less reasons...

Life after 95 or so doesn't seem very appealing though, but we'll see in due time.

I see no reason to keep it in NATO

I see no reason to keep it in NATO.

They always performed very well at all the exercises they were involved, so let's keep them this way.

Turkey belongs to NATO since 1952.

A little more complicated...

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Every now and again a story comes along that shows how much goodness there truly is in the world.

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