Turkey’s relationship with NATO is alternately described as “thorny,” “a headache” and sometimes even “a marriage of convenience.” The World’s Durrie Bouscaren takes a deeper look at how early enthusiasm for Turkey’s membership when it joined in 1952 gave way to turmoil, leaving Turkish officials with the sense that the US does not always act in Turkey’s best interest — and vice versa.
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