Turkey's Manipulation of Europe, Then and Now - MIDDLE EAST FORUM

A Turkish regime exploiting an international crisis to
manipulate Europeans. Sound familiar?

by Efraim Karsh, July 17, 2016

Originally published on June 24 under the title "Holding the Balance of Power: Turkey's Complicating Relationship with Europe during the First World War and Since."

It is a historical irony that, for the second time in a century, Turkey is exploiting a major international crisis to manipulate the most powerful European nation into a hugely misconceived and self-defeating policy.

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 Erdoğan 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.

Don't sign Europe's death warrant in Cyprus

Doctrine-driven migration. That's what Dr. Bill Warner calls it wondering whether the refugee (Migration)
crisis is the beginning of making Europe look just like Turkey which went from 100% being Christian to practically 100% Muslim in a mere few centuries. The western world is waking up because the problem is now inside their homes. In a sense we should be grateful. They will see our problem differently if we present it in the right light.

Our Muslims want zones. Guarantees for land/population majorities. On ethnically cleansed, majority Christian-owned land. In other words, segregation. That's what they did in the 60s, planned self-segregation. Just as the Quran commands, between Muslims and infidels (that's us). If we were to give them such legal precedent they'd take it & demand the same in Bermingham, Manchester, Marseille, Vienna, Blackburn, Oslo, and the list is endless.

Don't be stupid. Don't sign Europe's death warrant in Cyprus.