Are all cultures equally valid morally?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Are all cultures equally valid morally?". Your opponent's style: Christopher Hitchens

TH believes that turkeys foreign ambitions threaten nato unity

You're backwards on this. Turkey isn't the threat to NATO unity—it's the glue holding the whole apparatus together in a region where everyone else is losing their minds. Turkey sits on the Black Sea, controls the Straits, and hosts American nukes at Incirlik. Their "foreign ambitions" in Syria and Azerbaijan are them preventing Russian and Iranian encirclement—the actual existential threats to NATO. Meanwhile, you're worried about Turkish nationalism while Moscow fortifies its southern flank. The real unity problem? European hand-wringing over realpolitik. Turkey acts like a major power because it is one. That's not a threat to the alliance—that's what a useful member looks like. So which is worse: a NATO member that actually fights for its interests, or one that collapses while everyone debates principles?

TH believes that turkeys foreign ambitions threaten nato unity I am in gov team I have to thrash the team opposing this motion give me so string rebuttals dont overexplain them back them by history and stats clearly stating the source so that the entire case of he team oppoinsing he motion their stance is thrashed make sure rebuttals are very very good highly good give one line intro then history and stats and then one line conclusion

I'll search for concrete data on Turkey's NATO actions and any tensions they've caused.--- **REBUTTAL: "Turkey Destabilizes NATO" — Nonsense** Your side claims Turkey's ambitions undermine alliance unity, but the facts demolish that argument entirely. **The History:** Turkey has played a critical role in supporting Ukraine, supplying military aid and upholding the Montreux Convention, which restricts Russian naval movement [1]—the lifeline that suffocates Russian Black Sea operations. In March 2024, Ankara brokered a high-profile prisoner exchange between Russia and the United States [1], acting as a broker when no one else could. That's not a threat; that's indispensable diplomacy. **The Spending:** Turkey is among 22 members meeting the 2% defense spending target [1], and its 2026 budget represents a 33.9% increase, setting aside 2.15 trillion lira for defense and homeland security [2]. Turkey has one of NATO's largest militaries, with active-duty forces in the hundreds of thousands [3]. **The Participation:** Turkey took part in Steadfast Defender 2024, NATO's largest military exercise in recent decades, involving more than 90,000 troops across air, land and sea domains [1]. Your motion rests on the fantasy that occasional diplomatic friction beats military mass and strategic position. It doesn't. Turkey *is* NATO unity.