Turkey’s Manipulation of Europe, Then and Now
18th July 2016
Having exacerbated the Syrian civil war by allowing jihadists of all hues to cross Turkish territory to fight his friend-turned-nemesis Bashar al-Assad, then spurred a massive humanitarian crisis by allowing hundreds of thousands of Syrian refuges (and assorted Middle Eastern migrants camped in Turkey) to infiltrate Europe illegally, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an capitalized on Chancellor Merkel’s recoil from her “open door” migration policy to extract substantial financial and political concessions from the European Union that, if fully implemented, will irreversibly change the EU’s demographic and cultural identity.