As President Trump cools on the alliance, its members see Turkey’s large military and vibrant defense sector as assets.

Turkey, which hosts this week’s NATO summit, has the alliance’s second-largest army. Its strategic role in a US-dominated world order has long outweighed any concerns about its lack of democratic standards.

Turkey has been pushing hard for an end to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran since the campaign began late last month. In the weeks leading up to February 28, Turkey joined Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states in lobbying the Trump administration to settle ...

Five years ago, the West risked a full-blown diplomatic crisis with NATO ally Turkey ⁠when ⁠10 ambassadors called for the release of a man they ⁠saw as a political prisoner, prompting an angry President Tayyip Erdogan to order their expulsion.