Will Turkey intervene in Iran?
Even as Iran lashes out with missile and drone strikes against its wealthy Arab rivals in the Gulf, three neighbours remain almost untouched – Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, and Turkey. With the exception of a single missile intercepted over Turkish airspace and likely bound for the US airbase at Incirlik, Teheran declines to mess with the Turks for three good reasons. The first, but least important, is that Turkey is a member of NATO and attacking it would trigger mutual defense measures under Article 5. Cyprus is in the alliance too, but that hasn’t stopped Iran firing missiles at the British RAF base on Akrotiri. And it is NATO’s leading member, the
