This just shows how dumb westoids are and how idiotic particulary murricans are. They think that since Turkey is in NATO, turkey should align with the west, always and is part of the western club, even as a step-child.
Which is the level of geopolitical nous you can expect from a stroke victim.
This is Turkey( Anatolian peninsula) in a nutshell : for ~ 1500 years, ever since the areas of Ukronaziland and Russia got into farming and slavs emerged culturally, the area that is Rus and the area that is Anatolia, have been hated enemies.
Why ? Because the entire region of Moscow to Mariuopol, depends on the black sea for trade......which passes right under the nose of Turkey's most important city - initially town of Byzantion, which became the city of Constantinople, which became Istanbul. Coz if you go north, its 'we wuz VIKAAANGS' barbarians who raid and sink anything, plus the gulf of finland freezes in winter, so no shipping.
So people living there have ALWAYS taken a 'got you by the balls' attitude towards people living in Rus, the people living in Rus have always been ' they got us by the balls, those assholes' towards them.
Who were the biggest enemies of Kievan Rus ? Eastern Roman empire. Who were the biggest enemies of Ottoman Empire ? Russian Empire. Who beat the Ottoman Empire into a pulp, reducing it from Chad moozie cannon army to sick man of europe ? Russia.
So why did Turkey join NATO ? To use Murrican shield against...RUSSIA.
Reality is, Turkey is not a geopolitical fool of a nation and never has been- they know their long term survival depends on tackling Russia - which doesnt mean become its enemy, coz a) Turkey doesnt have nukes and b) Turkey is tiny. It means doing what we do with china - join enemy alliances ( like NATO for turkey, QUAD for us), but also join alliances its enemy joins, just to have a voice on the table.
So turkey will ALWAYS prioritize its relationship with Russia over everything and all its other relations will be subject to Turkish take on Russia as a knock-on effect.