As Turkey’s relationship with the United States, NATO and the EU continues to deteriorate, the question on the back burner for the past several years is now front and center. Is Turkey under Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s leadership a reliable Western ally? Do his political values reflect those of NATO members, the Western alliance and responsible members of the international community? The answer to these questions is an unequivocal no. As a result, it is time for the United States and the West to break definitively with Erdogan’s increasingly authoritarian, unstable and untrustworthy regime.