[DanZ]

Looking at Turkey through a historical perspective, Turkey aside from Kamal Attaturk, has been a WORLD power that was seriously marginalized in the late 1800's and has basically been a 3r world country since.

After WWII Turkey was used by the WEST as a bulwark against the U.S.S.R. With Erdogan seeing himself as the NEW Ottoman Emperor leading the NEW Islamic world things have changed.

Will the WEST address this new situation???

[kabar]

Any small chance that Turkey had to join the EU is gone. In the meantime, Erdogan has been extorting Europe for money in return for stopping the flow of migrants thru Turkey.

John Russell in 1853, in the run up to the Crimean War, quotes Nicholas I of Russia describing the Ottoman Empire as "a sick man—a very sick man", a "man" who "has fallen into a state of decrepitude", or a "sick man ... gravely ill"