TUCKED INTO(藏身于，位于隐蔽处) a back street in Karakoy, the port district on Istanbul’s European shore, the NATO Lokanta restaurant is easy to miss. Its first owner proudly hung up a sign bearing its name in 1952, when Turkey joined NATO. But it was taken down the same year, after people less enthusiastic about the alliance pelted the storefront(店面，临街店铺) with stones. These days diners do not object to the name, says Mevlut Ozturk, the current manager. He has no problem with NATO either. “There’s strength in unity, as long as it’s between equals,”(“团结就是力量，只要是在平等者之间。”) he says, between servings of lamb shank topped with slices of aubergine. But he has not put up the old sign.
坐落于伊斯坦布尔欧洲岸卡拉科伊港口区的一条后街，北约洛坎塔餐厅很容易被错过。1952年土耳其加入北约时，它的第一任老板自豪地挂上了印有名字的招牌。但同年，由于对联盟不那么热情的人们向店面投掷石块，招牌被取了下来。如今，食客们并不反对这个名字，现任经理梅夫鲁特·奥兹图尔克说。他也不反对北约。“团结就是力量，只要在平等者之间，”他在端上覆盖着茄子片的羊小腿间隙说道。但他并没有把旧招牌挂回去。
NATO was never too popular among Turks, even during the cold war, when the country was a firm member of the Western alliance against the Soviet Union. A recent nadir(最低点，谷底) came in 2016, when Turkey complained that NATO governments were slow to condemn a coup attempt against Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president. Mr Erdogan accused the West of(指责西方...) “supporting terror and standing by the coup plotters”. His interior minister claimed America was behind the conspiracy.
北约在土耳其人中间从来就没有太受欢迎过，即便在冷战期间，当时该国是西方对抗苏联联盟的坚定成员。最近的谷底出现在2016年，当时土耳其抱怨北约各国政府迟迟没有谴责针对总统雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安的未遂政变。埃尔多安指责西方“支持恐怖主义并站在政变策划者一边”。他的内政部长声称美国是这场阴谋的幕后黑手。
Yet with Turkey due to host(预定主办) a NATO summit on July 7th, a week before the coup’s tenth anniversary, the country is more invested in the alliance than at any point over the past decade. Mr Erdogan and his ministers regularly speak of NATO as a cornerstone(基石，基础) of Turkey’s security. Public support for the alliance has risen since the 2010s, though it remains lower than in most member states. According to a survey by Metropoll(①背景信息：Metropoll是土耳其一...), a pollster, in March, 61% of Turks see NATO as important to national security.
然而，由于土耳其将于7月7日主办北约峰会——那是在政变十周年前一周——该国对联盟的投入比过去十年中的任何时候都多。埃尔多安及其部长们经常将北约称为土耳其安全的基石。自2010年代以来，公众对联盟的支持有所上升，尽管仍低于大多数成员国。根据民调机构Metropoll在3月份的一项调查，61%的土耳其人认为北约对国家安全很重要。