Bloomberg reports Turkey is making preparations for a possible US-led strike on Iran, including contingency thinking about moving into Iranian territory if a “power vacuum” emerges, aimed at blocking a refugee surge toward Turkey.

Turkey shares a long frontier with Iran and is already politically scarred by past migration shocks, still hosting millions of Syrians. Separate reporting in recent weeks has described Turkish planning for an on-the-ground “buffer” on the Iranian side of the border in a worst-case collapse scenario.

Publicly, Turkey has also warned that foreign intervention in Iran would deepen the crisis, while urging Washington to pursue negotiations and de-escalation.

If the US escalates pressure on Tehran, border moves by a NATO member could redraw the map fast, and pull new actors into a conflict zone that Israel has been warning could widen beyond Iranian proxies.