Why do Turkey never takes sides? #geopolitics #shorts
Turkey isn’t being indecisive — it’s being strategic.
Its location places it at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and it controls the Bosphorus Strait, the only gateway between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. That alone gives Ankara enormous leverage in both peace and war.
As a NATO member, Turkey gains military protection, intelligence, and advanced weapons from the West. At the same time, it relies heavily on Russia for energy, trade, tourism, and regional stability. Cutting off either side would damage Turkey’s own interests first.
So Turkey balances. It supports Ukraine militarily while keeping economic and diplomatic channels open with Moscow. This position allows Turkey to act as a gatekeeper, mediator, and power broker. In geopolitics, the strongest position isn’t choosing sides — it’s being too important for either side to lose.
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28 Comments
Bullshit Turkey is as currupt as fuck
They should have gave Greece the entire Thrace region to the Bosporus 💀
Greenland is under NATO protection too. Right?????
🗣Europe, Asia and Middle East collide.
: Wait, isn't Middle East in Asia?😅
Turkey belongs to NATO so Russia can not eat it fir dinner
Nato give no weapons for Türkiye.
Turkey always been playing dirty since ottoman
European Nepal😅😅😅😅
Because if turkey took one side, the other side is gonna call it out on its huge number of Genosides that it was never bunch for like Hitler was
Turkey stole those lands
America should stop helping turkey
ITS CALLED SURVIVAL.
Turkey needs to cut down in size, it is sitting on occupied territories. Free North Cypress
You didn’t mention anything about the Middle East >_> it doesn’t do anything for Arabs just lip service >_> while giving oil n gas to ISR demon state 😤😤😤 couldn’t even influence Azerbaijan to stop sending gas n oil to demon state
Hindi ako turkey.
Turkey is the one country NATO keeps around, but doesn't say anything, for Turkey has skeletons in its closet.
Cremea is Ukraine. Your map is wrong.
İsn't it same for all countries? Europe supports ukraine while buying russian natural gas. China is the biggest trade partner of Usa
What can someone say about a country that typically remained "neutral" in WW2, while it quadrupled it's national gold surplus by selling chromium and nikelium to the Nazis and finally shamelessly declared war on Germany in late February 1945 , aiming "to get a piece of the Victor's pie"….
Dont trust turks, they play a double game. 😅
Very interesting content but a defective video
Israel will finish turkey soon
Wow so smart. So that means Turkish economy should be booming. Right?
Turkey closed the Bosporus Strait for all military ships
Türkey is NATO
If you close the Aegean sea, the Bosporus strait is useless my dear friend.
The only country benefiting from nato is turkey 😂, see Denmark and rest nato countries, can't even say anything, and then Greenland sad.😊
Turkey once pursued a foreign policy aimed at regional stability and economic cooperation with its neighbors. Erdoğan’s corruption makes him vulnerable to external leverage—whether from Russia or the NATO sphere—because he puts personal interests ahead of Turkey’s strategic priorities.