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Turkey would have been snapped up by USSR if we had not put those weapons there. We were defending them. With the Soviet threat gone they stuck us in the back last year in an attempt to curry favor with Germany and France, part of their EU attempt.
Turkey sent one brigade to Korea in their effort to buy their way into NATO, the same way they flipped in 1945 to get on the good side with the Allies and the fledgling UN. All during WW2 Turkey was Hitler's number trading partner, in spite of the please to sesist from Washington and London. The raw materiel they provided the Nazis cost untold thousands of Allied deaths. It was announced that only countries that had declared war on the Axis would be considered for entry to the UN as charter members. Turkey waited until the war was nearly over, January 1945, then they declared war on Germany.
This is the modern history of turkey.
And the reason they didn't snap up Iran was...? Southern expansion was a tertiary priority at best. Simple truth of the matter, beyond speculation, is that the Turks were willing to be a MAD missile target at a time when we were not.
Turkey waited until the war was nearly over, January 1945, then they declared war on Germany.
You've just contradicted yourself. The reason for Turkey's odd positioning in WWII is similar to that of Finland -- they were stuck between Nazi Germany and the USSR, so they cut a pact with the lesser of two evils. When they had something better than Hobson's choice, they took it.