Military briefing: How Turkey became vital to European security

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Yet not to the extent that it reopens accession, EU officials insist.
52% : Hakan Fidan, Turkey's foreign minister and former spy chief, is now regularly invited to EU defence gatherings.
50% : Turkey's military weight, which Erdoğan sees as a way to reopen EU membership talks, is inarguable.
50% : While European countries strives to supply Ukraine and replenish their depleted defence stocks, Turkish armoured vehicles, warships, drones and munitions are rolling off factory production lines, built mostly with Turkish-made parts. State-owned defence contractors STM and ASFAT are making corvette warships for Ukraine.
48% : Turkey and Europe have long talked at cross-purposes, with accession talks with the EU frozen for six years.
45% : "Europe's relations with Turkey in the past were partly about EU accession and infused with issues such as the rule of law.

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