Erdogan "Prince Of Europe" Rejects EU Demands To Reform Terrorist Law
By Tyler Durden
Submitted by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,
Pretending Period is Over
The refugee crisis in Europe got more interesting this week.
Within hours of Brussels giving the green light on Merkel’s ill-advised deal with Turkey, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan sacked sacked Ahmet Davutoglu, the prime minister who negotiated the deal with German chancellor Angela Merkel.
For details see EU Approves Deal With Turkey (Then All Hell Breaks Loose).
On Friday, Erdogan announced he would not fully implement the deal Davutoglu negotiated with Merkel.
The EU can no longer pretend that Erdogan has any intention of reforming Turkey.
Does the EU have a choice? The Financial Times says no. I say yes.
Erdogan Rejects EU Demands
Please consider Recep Tayyip Erdogan Rejects EU Demands to Reform Terror Law.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president, has rejected Brussels’ demands for an overhaul of an anti-terror law, suggesting he is prepared to abandon a deal EU leaders credit with curbing the flow of migrants.
Brussels has requested that Ankara make the change before the EU delivers visa-free travel for 80m Turks, one of the biggest concessions of the migration deal.
But Mr Erdogan insisted on Friday the legislation was necessary at a time when his country is being targeted by Islamist and Kurdish militants and said he was not prepared to change it.
Merkel Bows to Erdogan “Prince of Europe”
The anti-terror law in question gives Erdogan the ability to label anyone a terrorist for the flimsiest of reasons.
Erdogan has arrested journalists and academics, essentially anyone who publicly disagrees with him.
But Merkel does not care. She is even willing to kiss Erdogan’s feet in his newly commissioned golden throne.
The Spectator explains How Recep Erdogan Became the Most Powerful Man in Europe.
Erdogan is a patient Islamist. He used his power to tighten his grip and consolidate power behind one party — and one man. He even commissioned a new golden throne to sit on. The putative caliph set about taking Turkey in an all too predictable direction — consolidating power around himself by taking it away from the military and judiciary and stifling domestic dissent whenever he could.
The extent to which Erdogan has been able to take Turkey backwards is a modern tragedy. When corruption allegations emerged around his immediate circle just over two years ago, he swiftly banned YouTube and Twitter, stuffed the ensuing investigatory-commission with members of his own party and dismissed the investigations as a ‘coup attempt’ by people serving ‘foreign powers’.
Didn’t Erdogan worry that his authoritarianism would disqualify him outright [from EU membership]?
He gambled that the EU, for all of its pious words, could be bought off later. In a single night in January 2014, he removed and replaced some 350 police officers. His party gave itself new powers permitting domestic espionage on banks and companies on matters relating to ‘foreign intelligence’.
By the end of 2013, Erdogan said he’d take no more lectures from Brussels and that he ‘sincerely expected the EU, which sharply criticises its member countries, should criticise itself …read more
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