Turkey, NATO & and Nuclear Sharing: Prospects after NATO’s Lisbon Summit

Nuclear Policy Paper (ACA-BASIC-IFSH) No. 5, April 2011, 11 p.

Mustafa Kibaroglu *

Mustafa Kibaroglu presents Turkey’s political, military and diplomatic views to the prolonged deployment of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons on their soil. Turkey’s policy of non-proliferation contrasts with their hosting – albeit burden sharing – of NATO tactical nuclear weapons. He concludes that Turkey, preferably together with other NATO members, should take the initiative in asking the United States to draw them down and remove them entirely, in the interests of Turkish security and alliance cohesion.

This article is Nuclear Policy Paper No. 5 in a series put together by the Arms Control Association, BASIC, and the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH).

* The author teaches courses on arms control and disarmament at the department of international relations at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey.

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