Turkey’s People Are Resisting Autocracy. They Deserve More Than Silence

 


In a dangerous world, democracies cannot afford to alienate every nondemocracy. But any alliance with an autocratic regime requires at least a careful weighing of trade-offs. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has personified this dilemma for much of his 22 years in power. Turkey, at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and the Middle East, is an important American partner, with the second-largest military in NATO. 

The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said only that the arrest was “deeply concerning.” 

If elections were held today, Mr. Imamoglu would probably win, according to polls and political analysts. A self-described social democrat, Mr. Imamoglu, 54, is a member of the Republican People’s Party, which Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded in 1919 

Turkey’s drift toward Islamist extremism suggests that it could become another country that supports terrorism and threatens Israel. The most obvious potential for instability is in Syria, Turkey’s southern neighbor

New York Times 27 April 2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/opinion/turkey-istanbul-protests.html


Donald Trump claims Ankara has launched an ‘unfriendly takeover’ of Syria

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2024/12/donald-trump-claims-ankara-has-launched.html


Turkiet, Tyskland och EU

For many years now, Germany has been Turkey's most important trading partner and the largest foreign investor. 

More than three million people with Turkish roots live in Germany.

The EU has now paid Turkey almost €10 billion to care for refugees in Turkey, 3.6 million of whom are Syrian.

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2024/10/turkiet-tyskland-och-eu.html


Släpp in Balkan och Turkiet Byt kronan mot euron 

DN-ledare 2009-09-19

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2016/07/slapp-in-balkan-och-turkiet-byt-kronan.html


Turkiet

https://curiositystream.com/video/9179


 

Är Turkiet i EU bra för Sverige?

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2009/06/ar-turkiet-i-eu-bra-for-sverige.html


The pattern dates back to the 2015 deal between the EU and Turkey, when Brussels granted billions of dollars in aid to Ankara in exchange for stemming the flow of Syrian and other refugees, 

said Gönül Tol, director of the Turkey program at the Middle East Institute in Washington. 

“The EU is turning a blind eye to whatever Erdoğan is doing, for geopolitical reasons,” she said. 

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/04/europe-turns-blind-eye-to-erdogans.html


Tillbaka till Rolfs länktips 27 april 2025

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/04/rolfs-lanktips-27-april-2025.html






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