For two and a half decades, whenever the Turkish government had a falling out with the United States and Europe, analysts frantically began worrying that the West had “lost” Turkey. It happened first in 2003, after the Turkish parliament voted against granting U.S. forces access to Turkish territory for the invasion of Iraq. It happened again in 2010, when Turkey voted against increased UN sanctions on Iran. The warnings grew even more urgent in 2017, when Ankara purchased the Russian-made S-