The US president’s actions are “a wake-up call for us to unite and design our own centre of gravity”.

Axar.az reports that Fidan told this in an interview with the Financial Times, adding that Turkiye would want to be part of any new European security architecture if Nato unravels.

“The genie is out of the bottle and there is no way to put it back,” he said of European security.

“Even if President Trump decides not to withdraw from Europe at this time, it is possible that in the future someone with similar views and political ideas might consider reducing America’s contributions to European security.”

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