Appease and enable: The West’s disastrous Russia and Turkey policies

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Ο εξόριστος Τούρκος καθηγητής και φιλόσοφος Τσενγκίζ δηλώνει απερίφραστα για την υποκριτική συμπεριφορά του ΝΑΤΟ , ότι Πούτιν και Ερντογάν είναι αδίστακτοι και απάνθρωποι έναντι Ουκρανών και Κούρδων αντίστοιχα..

The similarities between both countries’ leaders draw an obvious and ominous parallel.

BY CENGIZ AKTAR

Cengiz Aktar is a professor of political science at the University of Athens and an essayist. His latest book “The Turkish Malaise” was published in London.

Despite how odd Turkey’s strategic choices as a NATO member may be, the West continues to do business as usual with Ankara.  

Western powers once again make excuses for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, understanding Turkey’s mysterious “legitimate security concerns,” which often equates to a license to kill. But by appeasing him for the sake of “keeping” the country within NATO, they miss the point that the Turkish leader is not so different from Russian President Vladimir Putin — and that once again, a policy of appeasement simply won’t work. 

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