Since CBS, I, and the world, I'm John Batcher.

Turkey, Turkey at election time, the very powerful President Erdogan, after 21 years

in power, looking to extend his authority.

However, in the meantime, it is good to measure where Turkey is in geopolitical affairs

during the war in Ukraine.

As a member of NATO, hesitating about the crisis in Syria and Iraq and the rest of the

Middle East, left over from the early disasters of the 21st century, and then following

the earthquake that affected a zone of Turkey up to 50 million people, leaving poverty and

ruin and alienation across the nation.

The man to do this is my colleague Sinan Chidi of the foundation for the defensive democracies.

We begin with the geopolitics before we go home to the election and the earthquake.

Sinan, a very good evening to you.

Turkey as a member of NATO, always a mention as well what does Turkey think?

And recently, been in the news about Sweden and Finland, but I want to look generally at

Erdogan's time in power, not just Turkey's place in NATO.

Is he considered now at NATO to be agreeable to the war in Ukraine or is that decision in

a bayonet?

Good evening to you.

Good evening.

I mean, certainly Erdogan does position himself as a sort of interlocutor, a sort of

in the middle of the road, hedging character in the ongoing war against Ukraine.

On the one hand, Turkey is responsible for supplying Ukraine with lethal drone capabilities

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