There’s no doubt that the United States has bent over backward to be seen as keeping Turkey on its side given the issues raised by the Ukraine conflict. But it’s high time policymakers realized that so long as Turkey continues to enable adversaries like Iran to evade American sanctions, it will be an ally in name only.

Sinan Ciddi is a non-resident senior fellow covering Turkish domestic and foreign policy at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) in Washington, DC, where Behnam Ben Taleblu is a senior fellow covering Iranian security and political issues. They both contribute to FDD’s Center on Economic and Financial Power (CEFP).

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