Turkey's Vote

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Turkey's Vote [Michael Rubin]

It is a blessing that Turkey is on the United Nations Security Council. For the first several years of Erdogan's premiership, Turkish diplomats tried to be all things to all people, and, as so often happens with American diplomacy, we were willing to accept insincere Turkish statements in closed doors rather than listen to what the Turkish leadership was saying publicly. Today, Turkey decided definitively to side with Iran.

I am reminded of 1990, when Yemen represented the Middle East on the Security Council and did not vote to condemn Saddam's invasion of Kuwait. It is a vote that Yemen watchers still remember, 20 years later. Turkey's vote today is similar.

A question for Obama and Secretary of Defense Gates: Given Turkey's slide toward Iran, are you really willing to sell the Joint Strike Fighter to Ankara? Do you really want to supply that technology to a country, albeit for now a NATO member, where the government might simply transfer the technology to adversaries that seek to kill Americans?

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