Iran today – is Türkiye next?
JVL Introduction
A military attack on Turkey may sound far fetched but the language now being used about Turkey has been used before, most especially but not only about Iran. Just one of many examples in this article is from the New York Post where, “Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies accused Ankara of “cultivating terrorist proxies in the Middle East for years.” This deploys the same language long used to justify sanctions and war against Iran.”
Will Türkiye’s membership of Trump’s so called Board of Peace and its membership of NATO help alleviate the implied threats outlined here or is there a real risk of permanent war egged on by the right wing in the USA and by Israel?
This article was originally published by The New Arab on Wed 11 Mar 2026. Read the original here.
Turkey is being cast as ‘the next Iran’. We have seen this script before
Turkey as Israel’s next target is no longer mere provocation. Israeli politicians & US media increasingly frame Ankara as a power to ‘contain’,
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Big snag. Turkey is a NATO member, housing one of the biggest US airbase in Western Asia
That wouldn’t necessarily deter Netanyahu IF he could do a deal with Trump (“let’s go for regime change and we’ll start s-l-o-w-l-y by nibbling away at the Turkish land closest to us”…). Trump’s already threatened to attack NATO member Denmark because he wanted to take over Greenland.
Since when has being a member of the pre “Cold War” ex-colonial states with American bases, provided “protection” to either its members or those in Europe? The tectonic shifts in geopolitics in the Middle East and West Asia have completely reset “established” allegiances, particularly in terms of “defence”. NATO doesn’t have the power or political and military clout it once thought it had. The United States is losing its grip internationally and has virtually disengaged from NATO and its financial and military support for its proxy war in Ukraine. Iran has the upper hand across West Asia now. If Israel continues to exist in any form, those governments, Emirate’s and countries in and around The Persian Gulf, maybe more sympathetic to protecting Turkey and treating it as a partner against the terrorist Zionist state?