[MtnClimber]

A reason Turkey should never have been admitted to NATO.

[Eagles6]

Yes.

[fieldmarshaldj]

NATO should’ve been abolished in 1991.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Second Armenian Genocide is Underway-Perpetrated by Turkey and Azerbaijan."

You observe correctly. Turkey is a NATO member.

Since the various heated voices within Free Republic cheer NATO so easily, one need remember they act as our "ally."

Turkey Military Bases | 2 US Military Bases

Home page of Incirlik Air Base

Turkey joined NATO in 1952.

NATO Article 6

Christians -- and a small subset of Armenian Jews -- are most certainly affected. Islam -- Turkey and Azerbaijan -- is a substantive part of the whole hot mess.

[katana]

It was a strategic, albeit uncomfortable, necessity at the time. Especially uncomfortable for the Greeks. Turkey covered the southern flank of the USSR, controlled the Dardanelles and access to the Mediterranean from the Black Sea, and had, man for man, a very serious military. Also, at the time Turkey was still working hard to be a secular state and hadn’t yet succumbed to the draw of theocratic government. Now they amount to a Muslim fifth column.

[Eleutheria5]

Besides refusing to land NATO aircraft during Second Gulf War? You might not have liked the war, but joining NATO entails responsibilities.