My daughter married a guy from Turkey...caveat is that he is a Christian - a very western guy whose thriving business in Turkey was ruined by the terrorists because the tourists stopped coming. I really like him. If all Turks were like him no problem...but of course that isn’t the case.
I lived in Turkey as a teen for a couple of years back in the 70’s; long before things got weird for Americans. Besides some odd cultural differences like it was perfectly normal for some guy to cop a pinch on a girl’s bum; they were very westernized in the cities. The country was completely different. Like going back in time different. I used to go camping in old castles and other ruins out in the country and the local villagers looked at us like we were spacemen or something equally odd.
This Ahole, Erdogen, has been taking the country backwards toward the more radical side of Islam which is bad for everyone. The people in Turkey and those who visit; not that many do anymore due to the terrorist killing tourists. Maybe that’s changing; I don’t know for sure.
If Turkey had stayed on that track I would have no problem with them having unfettered access to Europe because they would be fully European; at least in the cities. Country folk tend to like things to stay they way they are for generation after generation. Much like the cave dweller in Afghanistan. They have been living like that for well over a millennium.
Since Erdogen rolled back time though; there’s no way I could endorse this move allow them easy access. We know they already cross the borders illegally if they like. The opium will flow freer into the EU and so will the hashish.