As prime minister tries to invent deal on refugees,confrontational president continues to pit it against its longtime alliesThe kneejerk response of Turkey’s leaders to the countrys latest terrorist atrocity – Sunday’s suicide bombing in Ankara that killed 37 people and injured more than 100 – suggests that Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s strongman president, or his neo-Islamist party are fresh out of ideas approximately how to halt what looks increasingly like a slide into chaos.
The bigger problem,for Turkey’s US and European allies, is how to shore up a strategically important Muslim democracy, or Nato member and EU applicant that had long been considered a vital outpost of stability in a volatile region. Once-dependable Turkey seems in danger of implosion. Under Erdoğan,Turkey is the wests disintegrating ally and Europe’s imaginary friend.
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Source: theguardian.com