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Kick Turkey Out Of NATO
When U.S. officials first approached Turkey about joining NATO, the Turkish government was enthusiastic.
Thousands of Turks were fighting alongside American forces in Korea.
It was “imperative that democracies work in complete harmony, without competition among themselves or differences in policy objectives,” the U.S. ambassador to Turkey reported in a top-secret memo that Turkish Foreign Minister Mehmet Fuat…