“I [PIF] was referring to those ‘interests’ on the Turkish side.”
Now, you are discussing USA interests, which is exactly what I was talking about in the first place.
Concerning your Comment about Turkey always being a Police State....
I would agree that Turkey had an authoritarian government for most of the 20th Century.
However, the government and military were secular, they were anti-Communist and pro-Western, and they had good relations with Israel.
Under Erdogan, the military and government have been Islamized, they are pro-Iran, and they openly antagonize Israel and provoke the Palestinians to attack Israel.
I would agree that Turkey had an authoritarian government for most of the 20th Century.
If you call napalming and strafing protestors in the streets of Ankara authoritarian, then yes;
if you call setting aside an entire province for criminals and enemies of the state authoritarian, then yes;
If you call shelling a rebellious town with artillery authoritarian, then yes;
if you call disappearing citizens in the dead of night authoritarian, the yes;
if you call showing all existent medieval torture implements to its imprisoned citizens authoritarian, then yes - you are correct; it is just a run of the mill authoritarian state.
Try living there a year or two and get back to me.