German parliamentarians to visit german soldiers and so we had to change that and pull our troops out so theres a lot of things where one is unreliable and now he needs our help and that is a moment where we should have very Firm Conditions under which we will give him financial it own posner president had wanted to play. Oh yeah definitely i mean. He started out as an economic reform. Important point and the west especially europe welcomed that and the idea was that turkey with this is a mild brand of islam is and could go Beyond Kemalist Nationalism and the. Kurds and turks and other minorities can find Common Ground in in being turkish and islamic and at the same time having this economic reform but. For whatever reason he abandoned that course he has abandoned the course of reconciliation of the kurds
hes also abandoned economic reform in favor of easy money looks good can build a huge president ial palace in a symbol can build a bridge across the bosphorus all financed with easy m
course this economic course and how he deals with allies he is an unreal. able ally and you can be a free rider in nato just using nato when it needs when you need it and not paying attention to the interests of you are closest allies like united states and germany when you think you have other interests and russia or china is not a serious a turn a turf for. for the long range a policy where they want to find their place in the world. the question is before we talk about the conditionality in the terms they would have to be struck for germany helping turkey the let s just address the question of what s would happen if turkey and germany and europe to turn a blind eye to this time of crisis if they look the other way and say we can t support a country that s no longer committed to democracy what would happen here s a take on that question. the e.u. is turkey s largest trading partner by far the biggest investor as well so