Turkiye, The Wild Card Member of NATO
In Turkic nations there is a popular saying, If the wolf separates from the pack it does so not because it needs to fill its hungry stomach, but it wants to tear its enemies apart and destroy them. Now that saying goes well for Turkiye. Since 1976 Turkiye has not cooperated with everything having to do with NATO. Why? It is because in 1976, when NATO held its meeting in Istanbul, it secretly decided to divide Yugoslavia, a former Soviet Union ally. At the time of meeting Turkiye did not realize that NATO wanted to destroy Yugoslavia located in the middle of Europe. During this time, the Cold War with the Soviet Union was at its height. In 1973 Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit warned NATO to stop its Gladiator program in Turkiye. Gladiator was a secret organization to destroy Turkiye from within. Bulent Ecevit threatened to close down the U.S. bases if the program did not stop its activities in Turkiye. Then came the PKK. Formed in ...