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Turkey, at the #patsim2025 simulation, has confirmed that its proposed role to provide troops within a UN Peacekeepers force watching over a de-militarized zone (DMZ) has been rejected.

The UN Peacekeeping force will reach out to other UN member countries that are not NATO members (a group that stands opposed to Vladimir Putin’s war crimes under the UN Human Rights Agreement and NATO resolutions.)

Which UN member nations could that be? Well, for one — The Irish. The Republic of Ireland — the independent democracy located on the same island as the six counties that make up UK-held Northern Ireland, is not a member of NATO. Switzerland is not a member of NATO. The UN Peacekeeping leadership will ultimately make the decision of which mix of non-NATO countries’ troops make up the DMZ patrol.

Turkey, in an in-person interview in its sector at the 6-party simulated talks it is hosting in Ankara over these two days in April 2025, said it will instead increase its humanitarian aid and diplomatic support, including new commitments of help for Ukraine.

“We’ve always been in support of Ukraine joining NATO,” the Turkish delegation said. “While other NATO countries have concerns, we acknowledge that it has be be a unanimous decision.”

Asked whether the EU’s conflict with the US in these simulated ceasefire negotiations will have an impact on the US significant military and air force presence in Turkey’s “gateway” geography, the Turkish delegation said it saw no impact and hoped to maintain the positive relationship it held with U.S. President Donald Trump, during his first term of office from 2016-2020.

The background of Turkey’s perennial key role in Euro-Sino-Russo relations is that the country is “ethnically a bridge to Europe and Asia,” with a “diaspora made of many borders and many peoples.”

As a host country, Turkey opened the weekend of meetings with an invitation for everyone to take the task seriously and collaboratively. The team’s leader, who issued that invitation said that all parties visiting Ankara had been good citizens of the talks and that collaborative environment has come to fruition.