Erdogan: Europeans won't walk the streets safely until they respect Turkey

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Turkey is not who we thought they were.

I feel vindicated for suspecting Erdogan will be a problem since he came to power.

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Erdogan is a dangerous lunatic and the EU should impose sanctions upon for his threatening behavior.

Turkey is not a real ally of the West and we should consider revoking their NATO membership. We should continue to increase arms shipments and other military aid to the YPG and covertly do whatever we can to sabotage Turkey's relations with Russia.

This has just utterly gotten out of hand.

"Let's f*k with our enemy by giving weapons and aid to the rebel group they're fighting" gave us Al Qaida.

I've been always highly sceptical about ideas like this (putting this mildly), but I don't see a parallel between Al Qaeda and the YPG.

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“If Europe continues this way, no European in any part of the world can walk safely on the streets. We, as Turkey, call on Europe to respect human rights and democracy,” Erdogan said at event for local journalists in Ankara.

The irony of these two sentences...

Such a shame the coup wasn't successful.

So much changed since the days a bunch of junior officers could stage a coup and then hang the outset PM.

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Soon.

"Retaking"

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http://thehill.com/homenews/325798-turkey-looking-to-use-referendum-to-pursue-eu-membership

Lol

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Well, historically Turkish military juntas were more or less temporary.