So, They Noticed.

Erdogan is a shrewd politician but is he a real statesman? It is clear that average Turks have a better geopolitical sense than official Ankara and I wrote about it for years. Like this: 

RUSSIA IS OUR STRATEGIC PARTNER” When asked “How would you define the relations between Russia and Turkey” in the survey, 58.2 percent of the respondents said “there is a strategic partnership”. Other answers to the same question were as follows; "10.5 percent are cooperative", 6.5 percent "close cooperation", 4.5 percent "neither cooperation or problems", 9 percent "problems", 11.4 percent "hostile." "WE DON'T TRUST THE USA" When asked about the relations between the USA and Turkey, which was asked as "Which of the following options best describes the USA in terms of its relations with Turkey", 35.5 percent of the Turkish people said "unreliable". While 32.8% of the citizens said to the same question as 'colonial country', the other answers of the participants were as 'strategic partner' (18.3%), 'enemy country' (12.4%), and 'friendly and allied country' by 1%. RUSSIA YES, USA NO. 

Here is graphics to get the scale.

Since then many things changed--Russia demonstrated to the world what real war means, plus Erdogan must contend with Turkish street opinion on genocide in Gaza. For him it was fine and dandy, until Russia AD has shown Turkish UAVs that they are for bombing defenseless, and then there is this thing: ECONOMY. Now RT reports:

For decades, Turkish nationalism marched under the NATO flag. But now, one of Türkiye’s most influential right-wing leaders is calling for a turn East – toward Russia and China. His proposal may mark the country’s clearest ideological break with Atlanticism since joining the Alliance. In September, Türkiye’s political landscape was shaken by a statement that many experts called sensational and potentially transformative. Devlet Bahceli, leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and a long-time ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan within the People’s Alliance, proposed the establishment of a strategic trilateral alliance involving Türkiye, Russia, and China to counter the “US-Israel evil coalition.” Bahceli emphasized that such an alliance is “the most suitable option, considering reason, diplomacy, the spirit of politics, geographical conditions, and the strategic environment of the new century.” The proposal extends far beyond the usual nationalist agenda, positioning Türkiye as a player capable of initiating new formats of international cooperation.

Well, yeah--NATO has been not just defeated, it was utterly humiliated and exposed for the paper tiger that it is. BRICS is flourishing, and Europe is getting poorer. Hello! There will be no "trilateral" alliance, because that place is now firmly occupied by Iran, but I spoke about this on a number of occasions--Turkiye's future is in Eurasia where it truly belongs, minus the idiotic idea of pan-Turkism which Russia will not allow to develop, not to mention the fact that Turkiye doesn't have economic wherewithal to actually support this funny ideology other than propaganda and some moderate size projects. Turkiye should simply continue to pursue her objective of becoming a full member of BRICS and of SCO. NATO is over, so is Europe. Somebody in political top in Ankara has finally noticed what average Turks knew for a long time.