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If Turkey leaves NATO, they will further ally with Russia.

Considering Turkey's strategic location, it's better to have Turkey in NATO instead of as an adversary, even if its leadership doesn't align with the values of other NATO members.

Erdogan knows that he has a ton of leverage and chooses to maximize his advantage.

There are a lot of moving pieces here. He's overcalculated a bit and his nationalist policy has hurt the Turkish economy.

Likewise, many European countries rejecting Turkey's EU bids last decade on thinly-veiled Islamaphobic pretenses only strengthened his nationalist message at home.

The west knows it, but they also know that they would rather have Turkey nominally on their side than not.

It will probably take cooler heads and or a major economic downturn to shift that sentiment. Until then, Turkey maintains its seat in NATO.