NATO SEC. GENERAL MARK RUTTE SPEAKS IN TURKEY
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Turkey controls the only sea passage between the Black Sea & Mediterranean!
Under the 1936 Montreux Convention, Turkey can close the Bosphorus Strait to warships. In 2022, it invoked this right, blocking Russian naval vessels after the Ukraine invasion — a rare use of the 86-year-old treaty.
Turkey hosts ~50 U.S. nuclear warheads at Incirlik Air Base
Incirlik, in southern Turkey, stores B61 gravity bombs under NATO's nuclear-sharing agreement. Turkey joined NATO in 1952 — making it one of the alliance's longest-serving non-founding members.
Turkey is the only NATO member spanning two continents!
Straddling Europe and Asia, Turkey joined NATO in 1952 and hosts Incirlik Air Base, a key alliance installation. Its unique geography makes it one of NATO's most strategically vital members. Learn more at Wikipedia
This storyHow many times has NATO's Article 5 collective defense been invoked?
- Never
- Once
- 3 times
- 7 times
Guess, then reveal the answer
Once
Turkey was expelled from the F-35 program over Russian weapons!
Turkey bought Russia's S-400 air defense system in 2019, leading the U.S. to remove it from the F-35 program — making it the only NATO ally sanctioned under U.S. arms law CAATSA.
Turkey's NATO value dates to its control of the Bosphorus Strait!
The 1936 Montreux Convention gave Turkey authority over warship passage through the strait. The U.S. backed Turkey's 1952 NATO entry partly to block Soviet naval access to the Mediterranean.
