Turkey 2026 – The Power Nobody Will Name
A missile intercepted over Turkish territory initially appeared to be just another episode in the widening Iran war. Yet the incident may signal something far more consequential. While global attention focuses on Tehran, a new geopolitical narrative is quietly taking shape: Turkey is increasingly framed as the West’s next strategic problem. This article examines who is constructing this narrative, whose interests it serves, and why Ankara has become one of the few states capable of operating simultaneously within NATO, alongside Russia, and in cooperation with China and the Global South. The real question is not whether Turkey poses a threat. It is what kind of regional order is intended to emerge after the Iran war - and who benefits if Turkey is pushed outside it.