In media speeches in February this year, abroad Minister Hakan Fidan suggested that global conditions could prompt Turkey to get atomic weapons. Ankara's unrest gives birth to a possible atomic arms race in the mediate East and the possible disintegration of the non-proliferation government due to the concerns of European and Asian allies of the United States about the actuality of American safety guarantees. Fidan's words sparked a debate in Turkey, where they were perceived as an effort to play a strategical ambiguity.