The August 2025 Armenia-Azerbaijan peace agreement represents a significant shift in South Caucasus geopolitical dynamics with direct implications for transatlantic security architecture. This development, coupled with ongoing challenges in NATO-Turkey relations, necessitates a fundamental reassessment of alliance engagement priorities in the region. We call on NATO leadership to initiate formal review of Turkey's compliance with alliance commitments and to explore enhanced partnership mechanisms with Azerbaijan.

NATO's relationship with Turkey has deteriorated substantially over the past decade across multiple dimensions of alliance cooperation. Simultaneously, Azerbaijan has demonstrated concrete commitment to regional stabilization through diplomatic resolution of its three-decade conflict with Armenia. This divergence in strategic orientation warrants systematic evaluation of how alliance resources and political capital are allocated in the South Caucasus.

The Armenia-Azerbaijan peace agreement demonstrates that regional actors can make consequential choices that either align with or diverge from transatlantic security interests. NATO's response to this development - and its concurrent management of persistent Turkish challenges to alliance cohesion - will signal whether the alliance maintains sufficient institutional flexibility to adapt partnership frameworks to evolving strategic realities.

This petition calls for rational calibration of partnership intensity to reflect actual strategic value and demonstrated commitment to alliance interests. The transatlantic community deserves a coherent policy framework that rewards constructive regional behavior while establishing meaningful consequences for actions that undermine collective security.