In early July 2026, the leaders of the Atlantic alliance gathered in Ankara for a NATO summit — the first hosted on Turkish soil in over two decades. For President Erdoğan, the optics could hardly have been better: the West's most powerful heads of state assembled in his capital, implicitly acknowledging what Ankara has argued for years — that European security cannot be organized without Turkey. Yet the summit unfolded against a domestic backdrop that tells a very different

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