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Yep, It is where “East meets West” and the the West would prefer they lean West.
I mean imagine if Russia,Turkey, and Iran teamed up. Absolute geopolitical nightmare for literally everyone else.
That's funny because Turkey isn't even halfway to democracy >

Why do we keep Turkey in NATO? We really need to lower our tolerance for dictators. >

Mostly for geographic significance probably. >

This is precisely why.