Alexander Crowther

1 month ago | cepa.org | Timothy Garton Ash |Fabian Hoffmann |Ben R. Hodges |Alexander Crowther

Facing a possibly existential security challenge, Europe needs to ask swift questions and find immediate solutions. It may not be to everyone’s taste given a history of troubled relations, but the continent has an obvious solution staring it in the face — Turkey. Turkey has European NATO’s largest land force, with close to 400,000 ground troops, and double that when reserves are included.