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This article argues that NATO’s emerging geoeconomic security architecture calls for a reinterpretation of Türkiye’s role within the alliance and that this shift is best understood as a strategic repositioning through a hub-state logic. As resilience, critical infrastructure protection, supply-chain security, energy continuity, civil preparedness, cyber defense, and defense-industrial capacity move closer to the operational core of deterrence and defense, economic security becomes increasingly tied to the conditions of military-strategic effectiveness. In this setting, Türkiye’s value lies less in possession alone than in the extent to which its assets can be converted, through positionality, into alliance-relevant leverage. To explain this reorientation, the article proceeds from the distinction between power as possession and power as positionality and develops power pricing and power valuation as analytical tools for rethinking strategic value under conditions of deepening interdependence. Through this framework, it examines four dimensions of Türkiye’s hub-state role (routing, switching, buffering, and synchronizing) to show how the country contributes to alliance continuity, crisis management, regional coordination, and diplomatic intermediation across a wider geoeconomic periphery.