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Originally Posted by Itse
Very true. The West made a huge mistake once again in backing another dictator.
The whole situation in Turkey also has "possibility of future civil war" written all over it. The country already has an armed resistance force (the kurds) that now have strong influence south of the border and connections to other opposition groups within Turkey.
Turkey is going from a stabilizing force to a risk area because once again when the chips are down the West went with the dictator instead of supporting democracy when it needed support.
And people still wonder why not everybody sees West is as the good guys.
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The EU watched in dismay, as Erdogan's son bought ISIS oil and pushed weapons back the other way, Erdogan's wife ran ISIS field hospitals and Erdogan himself slowing seizing power at home, hoping democracy would correct this mess. Now the French foreign minister is calling Turkey a risk and "no longer a viable ally in the fight against ISIS", as Erdogan has seized absolute power, they realize the situation is irrecoverable.
It's not necessarily the EU and the West were bad guys. Being democratic countries themselves its hard to criticize an ally's election outcomes, even if it is rigged, without a lot of proof. The EU either didn't have that or more likely they really needed an ally in the region as a counter towards Islamic and Russian influences in Europe. If anything the West is extremely naive in thinking that democratic process would be enough to solve the problem of Erdogan with Turkey eventually "self-correcting". This is clearly not going to be the case now.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7141501.html