If you look at the road ahead in Turkey, and if you were an educated Turk with some value in a job....then I’d probably put my resume out in Europe and leave Turkey. None of this business since the coup of last year gives you any incentive to stick around. A brain-drain will occur, and probably 25-percent of the more valuable engineers or doctors will probably leave over the next couple of years. If I were some young Turk in college....I wouldn’t waste any time looking for work in Turkey...I’d be planning on another career elsewhere.
Great piece by Mark Steyn on the changing demographics in Turkey.
Every word Steyn writes should be read.
You can have a functioning democracy in a relatively homogeneous society in which parties compete over tax policy and health care. But, when a nation is divided into two groups with fundamentally opposing views of what that society is or should be, then democracy becomes tribal, and the size of the tribe determines the outcome.
Where the Democrats were taking us.
Ultimately, in Turkey as elsewhere, demography trumps democracy.
Key sentence.
Today Turkey, tomorrow Europe.
Talk about jumping back into the dark ages.
Trump needs to tell Erdogan (in polite, diplomatic language of course) to GTF out of Syria & northern Iraq. He’s helping nothing there (other than potentially advancing his ambition to gain new territory for Islamist Turkey) and is complicating possibilities for settlement of the conflicts.
Now that Turkey has become a defacto dictatorship can it remain a member of NATO?