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Crisis with turkey supply is threat to country? (8,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

security risk

'threat to country?' is the definition.
(eg a national security risk)

'crisis with turkey supply' is the wordplay.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'supply' indicates an anagram (in a supple way).
'crisis' after 'turkey' is 'turkeycrisis'.
'turkeycrisis' with letters rearranged gives 'SECURITY RISK'.

'is' is the link.

(Another definition for security risk that I've seen is " One likely to divulge state secrets".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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