[hinckley buzzard]

If your want to know why Turkey was included in NATO, just take a look at the map as it was during the Cold War. Geopolitics is not that hard if you know your geography.

And Islamism was held in check by Kemalism during most of the postwar era.

[himno hero]

Thank you .
From, what I see there is a whack of reasons why they were allowed. Why it even looked good to some, and even better to others to get technologies and wealth. Things have changed greatly since then as has the Soviet threat.