Unrealized Potential: Reflections on Turkey and the Future of Defense

Or, with friends like these, who needs enemies?

In 2016, I moved to Turkey, arriving just 24 hours after the devastating complex terror attack at Ataturk Airport that killed 42 and injured nearly 300. Two weeks later, the country was shaken by an attempted coup, allegedly staged by Gülenists—though I remain not entirely convinced it wasn’t a false flag operation by Erdogan to solidify his grip on power.

A very young me on final approach to Izmir, Turkey