Turkey's NATO Radar, Strategic Westernness and Political Westernness

U.S.-Turkey relations are at their strongest in recent years, and the most significant reason for that is Turkey's decision last year to host a new NATO radar connected to the alliance's air defense system against the missile threat from Iran. That is according to two experts who spoke this week at the Brookings Institution. One of the experts, Brookings's Ömer Taşpınar, said that after Turkey's