Turkey Updated Its Position To Sum Blackmail

I hope that the USA readers conduct keep enjoyed their Thanksgiving. Turkey seems similar a natural theme these days.



I am non a fan of Daniel Landa as well as it seems correct to form out his singing every bit out-of-tune (plus manifestly talk) but this well-known Czech vocal is titled "Thanksgiving" so it may larn the correct to await for fans exterior Czechia. Music: Petr Hapka. Lyrics: Michal Horáček, Prague Café's presidential candidate.

For about years, I conduct keep observed that Turkey was a problematic ally that Europe shouldn't rely upon, as well as I conduct keep criticized Turkey's relationships with ISIS vs the Kurds, alongside other things.




I've argued that agreements with Turkey can't actually endure trusted as well as if a human relationship develops at all, Turkey could abuse the ability it could acquire. Well, it's here. We're told that

Turkey threatens to terminate refugee bargain inwards row over European Union accession.

Erdogan previously showed his malicious intents much to a greater extent than visibly. He wants a membership inwards the European Union or at to the lowest degree a visa-free access to the European Union for the Turks, otherwise he volition dump iii i 1000 one thousand migrants to Europe's yard, whatever it precisely means.




Needless to say, the justification involving Turkey's "accession" was every bit predictable every bit it is nonsensical. In recent years, no influential pol at whatsoever marking was defending Turkey's entry to the European Union inwards whatsoever foreseeable future. The proposition that Erdogan feels "disappointed" is hence totally ludicrous. Every sane individual who has been watching what's going on has understood that Turkey's membership inwards the European Union is a thing of science-fiction. Turkey's political arrangement isn't actually a shape of the European secular commonwealth as well as Turkey was of late getting farther from it, non closer to it. The coup could conduct keep induced about sympathies for Erdogan but it contributed to the difference of the European Union as well as Turkey, too.

To a lesser extent, a visa-free government with Turkey would endure suicidal for Europe, too. If Turkey enjoyed this advantage, Erdogan wouldn't ask to threaten with the dumping of refugees. He could give them the Turkish passports as well as just tell them "go to Europe now".

There are all the same lots as well as lots of insane people inwards Europe who worship the cult of the Wilkommenskultur. But I tend to optimistically hollo back that inwards recent months, a bulk of the genuinely powerful ones every bit good every bit a bulk of the European populace has understood the betoken of the Visegrád Group as well as others that the European Union just has to protect its borders inwards the old-fashioned mode – inwards which every patch or empire had to protect its edge inwards the history – as well as if there's a põrnikas that prevents the European Union from fulfilling the same activeness (the same chore that the peel plays for whatsoever animal), so the põrnikas has to endure fixed.

As long every bit the of import political institutions of the European Union (and non just your humble correspondent) clearly tell that the European Union won't conduct keep the iii i 1000 one thousand migrants inwards Turkey, it pretty much agency that it won't conduct keep them. An overwhelming bulk of them won't fifty-fifty campaign to come upwards if they withdraw heed that they're non welcome. It is actually straightforward for one-half a billion people to defend its edge against iii i 1000 one thousand unarmed civilians. And fifty-fifty if nosotros hypothetically imagine that they would endure armed yesteryear Erdogan – if Erdogan decided to plough the iii i 1000 one thousand migrants into a huge subsidiary of ISIS – the confrontations would conduct keep to endure called a nation of war but they would all the same endure defeated.

All Europeans should supply to their mutual sense. The chore to defend their terra firma isn't a chore that may endure outsourced to a would-be ally such every bit Turkey. It's a duty that every patch or confederation must produce for itself. I am confident that my province won't permit the arrival of whatsoever large pose out of Turks or migrants from Turkey. I desire to believe that this volition endure guaranteed yesteryear policies that reverberate about prevailing consensus inwards all of Europe. But fifty-fifty if these policies won't conduct keep a prevailing back upwards inwards the EU, countries similar mine volition defend their territories.

Erdogan's blackmail is childish as well as no i should bring it seriously, just similar no i should conduct keep taken his friendly promises seriously.