Why do Turks believe they are an allie of Russia and enemy of USA?

Before the Ukrainian war Recep Tayyip Erdogan provocated in a lot of speeches about NATO, USA and Russia. They did made arm deals and othere deals with Russia and gave bad signals to USA and NATO.

Because of this, a lot of Turks thaught they would stop NATO and become an allie of Russia.

The reason why Recep Tayyip Erdogan did made such speeches and changes every time the faith of his country is unclear. The only thing we know is that Recep Tayyip Erodgan and his Turkish elite did earn temporary more money with doing that. It was a better way then stealing money from the government, because oppositions could take action against them.