Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan recently said that Turkey “may be forced” to acquire nuclear weapons to counterbalance Israel and Iran to prevent them from dominating the Middle East. In an interview with CNN Türk, he described having a nuclear weapons capability as a “high-level strategic issue” that must be considered “within the broader, bigger picture” of regional geopolitics.
Fidan’s comments echo those by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has said it is unfair for nuclear-armed states “like the United States, Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom”—the five permanent members of the UN Security Council—to prevent Turkey from obtaining nuclear weapons. “Some countries have missiles with nuclear warheads, not [only] one or two,” he said. “But they tell us we cannot have them. This, I cannot accept.”
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