Quite frankly, Erdogan blew it big time. The Turkish military is notoriously cranky with Islamists. He's not only on 'probation', he's on suicide watch.
He and his bunch get insulted over some frigging political cartoon and some percieved diplomatic slights and it winds up costing Turkey 24B right off the top plus greatly reduced influence as a US strategic partner. The US / Iraq deal could have gone a long way towards helping Turkey climb out of the economic hole they are in. Now they got nada....and the EU membership is most likely never going to materialize.
>> Quite frankly, Erdogan blew it big time.
Three votes.. And it cracked his party.. We haven't had a one party government in Turkey for over a decade. I don't want to see early elections nor some sort of non-confidence vote..
>> winds up costing Turkey 24B right off the top
We don't need more loans. We hae to make it without borrowing money. 80% of the tax income already goes to servicing debt.. Plus it was just a promise, and we have a history of unkept US promises. "Sorry, ddin't pass congress.." Also, US congress blocking weapons sales to Turkey during her war on terror which cost us 36000 citizens lives..
Read this piece of history regarding our strategic partner and our war on terror..