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difficult. >> they're difficult. turkey is a difficult ally, because as you pointed out, it's so important. nato has so many countries, but turkey is the second biggest military. and there, it's on the ground. it's easily deployable. but over the years, turkey has, particularly under erdogan, starting about 20 years ago, when he actually opened up and demo democratized turkey, then with the attempted coup against him, he cracked down and started to become a lot more authoritarian and that's what's made him incredibly unpredictable when it comes to being a rock-solid western ally. and of course, before, turkey used to be kind of the de facto bridge between east and west. but under erdogan, they have dropped their attempts to get into the eu, because there are a lot of conditions that they are