Turkish political party calls for country to leave NATO

Doğu Perinçek, leader of the Turkish Vatan (Fatherland) party, plans to come up with an initiative to create a platform for Turkey’s withdrawal from NATO.

,,We will appeal to all political forces to support Ankara’s exit from the North Atlantic Alliance and the creation of an alternative strategic partnership’’, he announced. ,,We are already facing the need to leave the military bloc and, in the end, we will succeed”.

According to Perinçek, the United States and Israel are imposing their own perceptions of threats and military strategies on their NATO allies, while considering Iran, Russia and China as adversaries. He added that Europe’s interests differ too much from the objectives of Washington and Tel Aviv, and Turkey is becoming the target of pressure from the two states, especially in the Eastern Mediterranean and Aegean regions.

Leader Vatan is not the first to come up with such a plan or to speak openly about the diametrically opposed interests of Ankara and the Alliance.

In September 2024, political analyst Serhat Latifoğlu also spoke about the country's possible exit from NATO, stating that the Turks have fundamental foreign and economic policy principles with those of the BRICS.

A month later, from October 22 to 24, Turkey participated in the annual BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, where although it officially requested to join this international organization in order to diversify its geopolitical relations beyond the West, it was only received as a partner state, not as a full member.