Posted on 11/29/2015 9:41:47 AM PST by amorphous
In the aftermath of last week's dramatic events which have seen Turkey make a unilateral breach of NATO's unwritten rules of engagement by taking down a Russian jet, coupled with an assault on civil right and expression of speech when two journalists were arrested for exposing Turkish arms smuggling to Syria, culminating with the assassination of a prominent enemy of the state on live TV, one would expect that the "democratic, humanistic" western countries would at least issue a harsh condemnation of Erdogan's behavior.
That won't happen: instead, the European Union will pay Turkey $3.2 billion to help it stop the flow of refugees to Europe from the conflict in Syria, 2.2 million of whom are currently in Turkey and to prevent Europe's worst refugee crisis from getting even worse.
In addition, the banana republic that is Turkey will be one step closer to joining the European Union as EU accession talks are restarted. As AFP reminds us, Turkey is the main gateway for migrants and refugees to reach Europe and Brussels has been wooing Ankara for months to secure its cooperation, but relations remain difficult and the devil will be in the details of the deal they will reach on Sunday.
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Nice little continent you got there. Be a shame if something were to happen to it. - Ergodan
I don’t think it matters how much money they offer, Turkey?Erdogan won’t stop the invasion because it is part of his plan for the Caliphate. What Europe needs is a Jeffersonian movement!
Europe pays the jizya.
A waste of money. The Turks will take the money and leave you with a few million towel heads.
Isn’t that racist ?
Turkey is going to get 3 billion euros and Europe is going to get squat.
Bingo! And proof that Turkey has been behind the "refugee" crisis all along.
The Turks are batshit crazy, the country that was asked to join NATO is not the same country it is today.
See the pictures at this link:
They are busy supporting ISIS and assassinating Kurdish leaders.
The Turks, there really isn’t a good reason to keep them around anymore.
You know that Jesse and Al are blaming each other for not having thought of this.
“Pay or Die”.
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