{"id":854,"date":"2026-07-09T10:36:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityrelocationnews.com\/?p=854"},"modified":"2026-07-09T10:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:36:47","slug":"trump-and-nato-court-erdogan-turkeys-strongman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityrelocationnews.com\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"Trump and NATO Court Erdo\u011fan, Turkey\u2019s Strongman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You\u2019re reading Global Notes<\/strong>, Ishaan Tharoor\u2019s weekly column on international politics.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Just days before the leaders of more than thirty NATO<\/em> nations arrived in Turkey, authorities there arrested a comedian for making jokes. Deniz G\u00f6kta\u015f was detained last week at an Istanbul airport after returning from a trip abroad, and was later formally charged by a prosecutor for \u201cinsulting the President\u201d and \u201cinciting hatred and hostility\u201d in a standup-comedy special released in June. During that performance, which has been watched on YouTube more than twelve million times, G\u00f6kta\u015f, who is thirty-two, mused about the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, seeking therapy and going from being a \u201cshy dictator\u201d to a \u201cmore-at-peace-with-himself dictator.\u201d He also made a joke about the Quran. In court last Friday, G\u00f6kta\u015f said that his characterization of Erdo\u011fan was a matter of established political debate, and that he \u201chad no intention of insulting or denigrating anyone\u201d with his satire. If convicted, he could face a sentence of up to four years in prison.<\/p>\n

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G\u00f6kta\u015f was just one among hundreds of people swept up ahead of this week\u2019s NATO<\/em> summit in Ankara, the Turkish capital. In separate moves, Turkish authorities detained more than a hundred people participating in an anti-NATO<\/em> demonstration organized by the country\u2019s Communist Party, about a dozen environmental activists, two journalists, and a prominent L.G.B.T.Q.-rights activist. In some of these cases, officials invoked antiterror laws and security concerns. The crackdown is illustrative of an intensifying authoritarian consolidation under Erdo\u011fan, who has been in power for more than two decades. Istanbul\u2019s mayor, Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu, a popular politician viewed as Erdo\u011fan\u2019s chief potential challenger, has spent nearly five hundred days in pretrial detention, facing charges on a number of cases ranging from corruption to espionage to the forging of a university diploma, all of which he denies, and which his supporters say are politically motivated.<\/p>\n

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\u0130mamo\u011flu\u2019s party, the Republican People\u2019s Party, or C.H.P., has seen dozens of its elected officials and members detained. In May, a Turkish court declared the C.H.P.\u2019s internal election from three years ago null and void, ordering the removal of the Party\u2019s leader, \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel, and of other top figures from their posts. Political scientists tend to classify Turkey\u2019s system as an archetypal \u201celectoral autocracy,\u201d in which the opposition can engage in competitive races but pro-government media conglomerates and a pliant judiciary work against it. In recent years, though, Erdo\u011fan has appeared bent on eliminating even the possibility of competition. The Turkish President \u201cis seeking to create his own loyal opposition\u2014one that may contest elections but can never threaten his power,\u201d \u00d6zel wrote in a Financial Times<\/em> op-ed this month. \u201cHe wants a political order in which voting survives while genuine competition disappears. Russia and Belarus stand as a warning of where this leads.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Little of this was in discussion as the NATO<\/em> leaders convened in Ankara. In 2020, Jens Stoltenberg, the alliance\u2019s then secretary-general, who is Norway\u2019s current finance minister and its former Prime Minister, argued that NATO<\/em>\u2019s defining values were \u201cfreedom, democracy, and the rule of law\u201d\u2014all of which seem to be imperilled in Erdo\u011fan\u2019s Turkey. Yet, at a press conference on Monday, the current secretary-general, Mark Rutte, a former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, could only muster platitudes about the importance of democratic norms, and avoided directly criticizing Erdo\u011fan\u2019s governance. More pressing for the NATO<\/em> chief was the collective goal of boosting European defense spending, rallying support for Ukraine, and appeasing President Donald Trump, whom he has spent many months wooing, at times in puzzling fashion, amid fears that the Administration would abandon NATO<\/em> altogether. In an interview with Politico<\/em>, Rutte praised Trump for cajoling European partners to do more when it came to their own defense; last year, most of the NATO<\/em> allies agreed to Trump\u2019s demand to increase military spending to five per cent of G.D.P. for each member nation by 2035. \u201cI think what he is doing for NATO<\/em> is great news,\u201d Rutte said.<\/p>\n

Trump was less gracious on his arrival in the Turkish capital. He reiterated his desire for possession of Greenland, complaining about what he described as Denmark\u2019s inadequate stewardship of the Arctic territory, and seeming to suggest that continued U.S. military deployments on the European mainland could be contingent on U.S. ownership of the island. He also bemoaned the lack of support from some European countries during the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran, with nations such as Spain stopping the United States from using bases on their soil for offensive operations. \u201cSpain is a wasted cause,\u201d Trump said on Wednesday, threatening to \u201ccut off all trade\u201d to the E.U. member state. Hovering in the air, too, was an awkward rift with the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, whom Trump fell out with over Italy\u2019s opposition to the war. After renewed attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, Trump said he believed that the tenuous ceasefire with Iran was \u201cover\u201d and branded the regime\u2019s leaders as \u201cscum.\u201d The NATO<\/em> leaders, many of whom disagree with Trump\u2019s military campaign, could only look on.<\/p>\n

The one leader Trump seemed to have time for was Erdo\u011fan. The men have long shared a conspicuous rapport. On Tuesday, Trump said that, if the NATO<\/em> summit had not been \u201cheld in Turkey, where my friend happens to be a very strong leader, a very strong person, it\u2019s possible that I wouldn\u2019t have attended.\u201d He added that he would drop sanctions on the nation which have been in place since 2020, after Ankara bought air-defense systems from Russia, and that he would consider selling F-35 fighter jets to Turkey\u2014a move that other allies, including Israel, oppose. \u201cWe have a better relationship with Turkey, and Turkey has been in many ways much more loyal than other countries that we think would be loyal,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n

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Turkey joined NATO<\/em> in 1952, and it\u2019s fair to say that the country\u2019s democracy has been troubled for most of three-quarters of a century since; it has experienced multiple military coups and interruptions of democratic rule. But Turkey was a frontline state in the Cold War, on multiple borders of the Soviet Union, and Western interests at that time prioritized its strategic membership within NATO<\/em>. Erdo\u011fan, who first took office in 2003, has spent the better part of a generation reconfiguring Turkey\u2019s politics to suit his interests. If he appeared to be a liberal reformer in his first years in power, that image melted away after his rule was challenged by a wave of protests in 2013. Purges of the state bureaucracy and judiciary followed, while Erdogan whittled away at the Turkish republic\u2019s secular foundations with his brand of religious nationalism.<\/p>\n

A failed coup attempt in 2016 accelerated Erdogan\u2019s remaking of the nation. Following a controversial 2017 referendum, the parliamentary system was converted into a highly centralized Presidency, granting the office overwhelming control over economic and foreign policy, as well as most of the organs of state, including the judiciary, the intelligence services, and the military. The Presidential palace complex in Ankara, built under Erdo\u011fan\u2019s watch, is known as the Ak Saray, or White Palace; it\u2019s more than thirty times the size of the White House and reflects the scale of Erdo\u011fan\u2019s authority. \u201cThey\u2019re running the country in kind of the way that Trump seems to wish that he could run his country,\u201d Selim Koru, an analyst at the Economic Policy Research Foundation, an Ankara-based think tank, told me. He added that, whatever visions of domination may motivate illiberal politicians in the West, they are all fully \u201cblossoming\u201d in Ankara.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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James Jeffrey, a former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and the U.S. envoy to Syria during Trump\u2019s first term, said that Trump \u201clikes powerful guys who have a powerful army, which Erdo\u011fan does have,\u201d and pointed to the significant role that Turkey has played regarding Ukraine, closing the Black Sea to Russian naval reinforcements, while still maintaining relations with Moscow\u2014a balancing role likely welcomed by Trump and those in his camp who are impatient with Kyiv. There\u2019s no other NATO<\/em> power that is, like the United States, \u201ca major player in both Ukrainian and European security as well as Middle East security,\u201d Jeffrey told me. Before the summit, the Trump Administration already seemed eager for Turkey to assume a position of geopolitical leadership. In an interview with Fox News, Tom Barrack, the current U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, noted \u201chow strong, centralized leadership under President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan has delivered stability, economic dynamism, and assertive regional influence.\u201d This week, Turkish officials championed a constellation of Turkish arms companies, including firms that have made the nation a powerhouse manufacturer of drones, as key to the revival of NATO<\/em>\u2019s defense-industrial base. \u201cUndoubtedly, our country\u2019s greatest success lies in the breakthrough we have achieved in the defense industry,\u201d Erdo\u011fan said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The value of this hard power has obscured the plight of silenced comedians and sidelined politicians. Asl\u0131 Ayd\u0131nta\u015fba\u015f, an expert on Turkey and a fellow at the Brookings Institution, told me, \u201cIn this moment of polycrisis around the world, democracy and human rights are no longer the core argument for the West. Geopolitical emergency is, rearmament is.\u201d But, while Trump\u2019s affinity for a strongman may no longer surprise anyone, the perceived acquiescence to Erdo\u011fan on the part of Western liberal democrats has been more concerning. \u201cThe next time a member of Congress, a Canadian official, or a European leader wags a finger about human rights violations, let\u2019s not take them too seriously. They don\u2019t mean it,\u201d Steven Cook, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote in a piece for Foreign Policy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cGeography is everything,\u201d Jeffrey, the former Ambassador, told me. \u201cErdo\u011fan is playing fast and loose with the rules of democracy and freedom of opinion and a liberal balance of power,\u201d he acknowledged. \u201cBut that\u2019s been a game that I\u2019ve seen many Turkish leaders play. Erdo\u011fan has only been playing it harder and more problematically.\u201d None of that is a problem for Trump. \u201cYou never know why a relationship is special,\u201d the President told reporters as he sat across from Erdo\u011fan in Ankara. \u201cSometimes you get along with the toughest people, like him, and sometimes you don\u2019t get along with the weakest, most pathetic people.\u201d\u00a0\u2666<\/p>\n

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