Quote from: pooya87 on Today at 11:56:29 AM

Is Turkey going to be kicked out of NATO?

Apparently US is the only country that can decide who remains in NATO and recently they have been talking about how Turkey has committed war crimes in Syria (as if they didn't know it already in the past couple of years lol). Meanwhile they are shifting to Greece to replace Turkey's geostrategic position which may even lead to a conflict (between two NATO members no less!).

Considering Turkey is a small lifeline for Europe considering energy this could put an extra pressure on the already weak European economy and worsen the energy crisis specially since Turkey will have no other choice but turn to Russia and play in their game.

AFAIK, the Nato has a principle called Consensus Decision. When a member wants to join the bloc, it must have the consent of all the countries in the bloc, and when a country is revoked its membership of Nato, it must also have the consent of the whole Nato bloc. Which means that Turkey can only leave NATO if and only if it votes for itself to leave the bloc, the US cannot unilaterally revoke Ankara's membership.

Turkey is the only country in the bloc with close ties to Russia, having been the mediator of many war talks between Russia and Ukraine, most recently a grain deal. If the US pushes Turkey towards Russia, just as they are making it difficult for themselves, the EU will fall further into crisis without Turkey.