Back in the day, a Turkey partnership was needed. The Soviet Union was just across the Black Sea, and Turkey was important in a strategic sense. With the technology today, that is no longer the case. They should have been removed as soon as The current Turkish president was elected and went full-on fascist.
Let’s just correct that, because somebody should.
Turkey was needed until the range of our weapons and aircraft was long enough that it wasn’t needed.
Then it was kept for inadequate and inappropriate reasons long after it wasn’t needed.
I was at Incirlik in 1982. I never thought the Turks were our allies.