Frankly I think the authors missed the fact that the Turks had access to nukes. The whole situation in the Balkans isnt really handled that well in the timeline - for instance how did the CivGov forces get to Yugoslavia in the first place past not only MilGov but also the French patrols at Gibraltar, let alone the Italians and Greeks? And considering the areas they hold where did they even get ships and fuel for such an operation (all they have on the East Coast really is the enclave in the Carolinas - so how did they get a NY NG unit shipped out from there)?
You have the Turks getting nuked and the Bulgarians racing for Istanbul - and then the timeline goes silent. Whats funny is that you can tell the GDW writers themselves didnt know what to do with the Turks - because the NATO guides are full of "what the Turkish units did wasnt really known during the war" - i.e. they just sort of threw them in there and didnt know what to really do with them.
Sort of how Ploesti mysteriously doesnt get nuked out of existence when the US, who lost a lot of men bombing the place in WWII, would have made sure that the place was a huge molten crater for sure in real life. The Balkans are just sort of a big afterthought since their real focus was Poland in the initial releases and they probably never thought any player groups would head that way.
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