Turkey's NATO membership to be reconsidered?

It is time to reconsider the issue of Turkey's membership in NATO, Erdogan's chief adviser, Yalcın Topcu, has stated, according to local media. Turkey has the second largest army in the alliance after the United States.

"The presence of the great Turkish nation in this institution [NATO] has become questionable," Topcu said, branding the alliance's behavior towards Ankara as "brutal and dishonorable," Haberturk daily reported.

Tensions between the military bloc and Turkey escalated last week when Turkey's founding leader, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and current president Recep Tayyip Erdogan were depicted as "enemies" during NATO drills in Norway. Erdogan said the incident was an attack targeting "Turkey and the Turkish nation."

"What [NATO] did is a scandal," the Turkish leader told a ruling Justice and Development Party ...