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Turkey* used to behave a bit bloc-free despite being in NATO. There was the famous S-400 arms purchase from Russia, for example. They were locked out of EU because some EU governments absolutely do not want Turkey in the EU (including Germany and Greece). Their behaviour in regard to migration around 2015 was a bit extortionate and adversarial towards the EU.
The geostrategic position of Turkey makes it an important country for the Europeans, so its alignment is important.
The aggressions of Netanyahu and Putin appear to have served a solution on a silver plate in my opinion. All it takes now to solve this matter in European interests is European politicians not being completely useless and idiocracy-level in foreign policy strategy for once.
First, Russia showed the world that its military is crap, tis arms are largely crap, its economy is weak and vulnerable and it is an utterly unreliable ally. It didn't help Armenia when it was obliged to do so. Moreover, its long list of violations of promises given, treaties and agreements agreed to on top of making up obligations of others towards Russia reveals Russia to be an utterly worthless partner.
Second, the U.S. revealed itself as stupid and unreliable.
Third, Israel is on a rampage thinking itself unassailable and wants any country in its six degrees of Kevin Bacon neighbourhood that might oppose it destroyed (if not annexed). There are increasingly signals that it's eyeing to destroy Turkey as a regional power. The lying moron is Netanyahu's lap dog and signals indicate that the U.S. is trying to remove any alliance protection (via NATO) from Turkey to enable Israeli strikes on Turkey.
What Europe cannot do now is solve the Kurds issue or the North Cyprus problem, but it might solve the Stupid Little Cold War in the Aegean and align Turkey via a new alliance (NATO 2.0, without Slovakia and the U.S.), preventing the worst case (Turkey aligning with China). The problem pressure originating from Israel might be just what it takes.
On another note, European politicians are utterly useless and idiocracy-level in foreign policy strategy. On top of that, the British prime minister and the German chancellor can be trusted to suck Netanyahu's Polish dick out of their own initiative.
related:
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/2012/10/turkey-and-geostrategy-again.html
/2014/08/if-western-great-power-gaming-wasnt-so.html
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*: I don't bother with learning the new spelling.
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