Will Erdogan resort to regional nuclear blackmail?

... to have them recovered. The quid pro quo would likely be Erdogan’s geopolitical ultimatums to burnish his image in the Islamic world even while his military retrieves those missing nukes in a deliberate, piecemeal manner. In the interim, Western ... ... least, Erdogan has always eyed a Turkic silk road controlled by Ankara; one where Turkey would be the undisputed lynchpin of Greater Eurasia. It is therefore imperative to demand the removal of US nuclear weapons from Incirlik to relative safety – even temporarily – until Turkey returns to normality. As a permanent member of the UN ...