[rrrazdan]

Not at all. If Murmansk's importance causes Finland to be strategic then what about Crimea? Turkey blocks Russia's warm water sea access. Much more important for Turkey to be in NATO than Finland purely on the basis of geography.

[stjohnswarts]

What is the point of having a NATO member who illogically rails against new members just because Russia tells them not to?

[whimsicalism]

> What is the point of having a NATO member who illogically rails against new members just because Russia tells them not to?

You, I think, know very little about Turkey's politics to make a claim like that.

PKK & YPG has long been a perceived thorn in Turkey's side and they have largely felt like the rest of NATO has ignored this problem if not actively antagonized them on it.

To them, it's akin to as if the rest of NATO was funding cartels in Mexico.