Whereas Turkey has been a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member since 1952 and as such Turkey is obligated to adhere to the principles and mission of the North Atlantic Treaty; Whereas under the nearly two-decade long authoritarian rule of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey has eroded that relationship by— (1) implementing domestic policies that violate the founding principles of NATO to live in peace with all peoples and governments, and safeguard the freedom, common heritage, and civilization of their peoples, founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty, and the rule of law; and (2) taking deliberate hostile actions against NATO allies as well as aggressive actions that threaten regional stability, undermine United States security interests, and risk drawing NATO into a larger conflict of Turkey’s own creation; Whereas Turkey’s use of the S–400 air defense system on United States-made F–16 fighter jets returning from the Eunomia exercise conducted by France, Italy, Greece, and Cyprus in August of 2020 was an act of unwarranted aggression on a NATO ally; Whereas, in June 2020, the Turkish Navy was found to be escorting a vessel suspected of shipping arms to Libya in violation of an arms embargo and that the Turkish Navy acted to prevent a French naval vessel from investigating the suspected vessel, prompting a NATO investigation; Whereas Turkey has threatened other allies in NATO and disregarded international law by sending a research vessel and naval ships into Greek waters around the island of Kastellorizo on an oil exploration mission in waters that the United Nations, the European Union, and international law maintain are within the Greek Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ); Whereas the buildup of Turkish tanks in the Province of Erdine on the border between Greece and Turkey, and Turkey’s threatening rhetoric against Greece on state-run media, has further increased tensions between the European Union and Turkey