Is Turkey Going To Ditch NATO To Join Russia and China in SCO?

The following by Daniel Pipes is reposted here with permission:

Is Turkey Leaving the West?

by Daniel Pipes
The Washington Times
February 6, 2013

http://www.danielpipes.org/12526/turkey-shanghai-five-sco

N.B.: Washington Times title: "Trading Europe for the Shanghai Five Turkey dissembles over joining the EU"

Recent steps taken by the Government of Turkey suggest it may be ready to ditch the NATO club of democracies for a Russian and Chinese gang of authoritarian states.

Here is the evidence:

Netherlands Wants NATO To Reconsider Turkey's Membership

Looks like the Netherlands wants Turkey to go Dutch treat--at the very least, the Netherlands does not think Turkey can be trusted to be a member of NATO

The Dutch Freedom Party, the Netherlands’s third largest political party, urged the Foreign Affairs and Defense Ministries last week to reconsider Turkey’s continued membership in NATO.