Turkey (NATO ally) Makes Bid to Join BRICS

I’m not surprised. Given the fact the US has been destabilizing, bullying and allying with the enemies of Turkey, for a very long time. I came to realize the destabilization of Syria by the US had another goal. Targeting Turkey. With an eye to an eventual balkanization of that nation. As well as Syria.

So, Turkey wanting to join BRICS is not a surprise. It’s just survival.

Turkey Bids to Join BRICS to build alliances beyond the West or Yahoo

Bloomberg) — Turkey has formally asked to join the BRICS group of emerging-market nations as it seeks to bolster its global influence and forge new ties beyond its traditional Western allies, according to people familiar with the matter.

The country’s new diplomatic push reflects its aspirations to cultivate ties with all sides in a multipolar world, while still fulfilling its obligations as a key member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, they said.

Straddling Europe and Asia, Turkey submitted an application to join BRICS some months ago amid frustration over a lack of progress in its decades-old bid to join the European Union, the people added. The bid is also partly a result of rifts with fellow NATO members ( as NATO repeatedly back stabbed the Turkish nation) after Turkey maintained close links with Russia following its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the people added. Turkey’s foreign ministry and presidency declined to comment.

“Turkey can become a strong, prosperous, prestigious and effective country if it improves its relations with the East and the West simultaneously,” Erdogan said in Istanbul over the weekend. “Any method other than this will not benefit Turkey, but will harm it.”

The BRICS grouping, named after Brazil, Russia, India and China and South Africa, includes some of the biggest emerging economies. It got four new members at the start of this year when Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia and Egypt joined its ranks

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The group’s further enlargement could be discussed during a summit in Kazan, Russia, from Oct. 22-24, said the people. Malaysia, Thailand and Turkey’s close ally Azerbaijan are among other countries looking to join.

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“One driver of this is an aspiration for enhanced strategic autonomy,” Ülgen told Newsweek. “The second driver is these accumulated frustrations with the West and the European Union,” one of which included stalled negotiations for modernizing an EU customs union deal.

"The bilateral relationship with the U.S. has also been problematic," Ülgen said. "These type of frustrations have motivated the Turkish government to move in this direction," he added. There is a belief in Ankara that it can do this “without a political cost that would be attached to this realignment.”

Problematic is a nice way of describing the relationship. One could say it’s a very diplomatic description many things considered.