Turkey: what is going on?

[OUTLAW 09]

What planet does Erdogan actually reside on and or in?????


In an interview with German broadcaster ARD, #Erdogan urged the EU to lift visa requirements for Turkish citizens !!
http://www.independent.ie/world-news...-34912791.html …

Initially Erdogan literally blackmailed the EU actually Germany into supporting his refugee proposals....ie 3B Euros AFTER already receiving 2B Euros for humanitarian aid to those Syrian refugees inside Turkey AND lifting of visa requirements.

Turkey largely reneged on that agreement by basically not accepting any refugee returnees from Greece and allowing virtually no refugees to travel to the EU.

THEN along came his AKP dictatorial counter coup and his spoken threat of reinstating the death penalty for 13,000 AND the EU then stated you have left the terms of entry to the EU that you wanted and until you return to those terms ALL visa lifting is now formally stopped as well as any talks about joining the EU have been stopped.

Erdogan urgently needs money and investment flows as his economy is actually tanking under massive corruption and while he eyes Russia... Russian aid is not forthcoming either as they cannot even support financially Crimea......they offer tourist trade, a pipeline and or maybe lifting of export sanctions imposed after the shot down of their SU24 but money forget about it they have none.

AND his own AKP supporters really did want the visa lifting to occur and now they are ticked off and blame the EU not Erdogan....

OLD Turkish saying....what goes around comes around with a vengeance....or what the military calls second and third order of effects.

You can tell the altered state of reality he reside in with this comment....
Mr Erdogan told ARD that Turkish voters wanted the death measure, stating that "if we are in a democratic state of law, then the people decide".

BUT he is now not exactly in what one in the West would call a "democratic state" with his counter coup underway....and his unlimited powers via the declared State of Emergency ending all democratic legal rights for as log as he wants it....he is now in a dictatorial world of a one party rule in some ways he is following Putin's led with the opposition basically all in jail .