Turkey is no longer a reliable ally

Which is the real coup? The one made by amateur and vanquished mode in a short time or what the turkish president is implementing, eliminating any possible opposition, not only political, present and future? The numbers we are talking about are of a huge magnitude: the arrested, in fact, would be more than ten thousand, while officials and civil servants ousted from their posts would come to fifty thousand, which are included, in addition to the judges, who have undergone first wave of repression, teachers, and university professors not aligned to the positions of Erdogan. But action against dissent was addressed also to the private sector and religious, where journalists opposed to the ideas of the president turkish suffered dismissal, as well as imams not aligned with religious positions, and Erdogan's policies. It is a repression that puts Turkey on the same level of the most authoritarian states, but which surprises for its proximity to the European institutions and those of the Atlantic Alliance. A similar course of action can not be tolerated by Western nations, which, however, still remain too ambiguous attitude with Ankara, away from the strongest condemnation: a behavior that also denotes how Western governments were totally unprepared for this show of force, too fast for not being thoroughly prepared before. But if we analyze the behaviors that Erdogan has held until now the surprise may not be such. The facts of these days seem the natural continuation of the action of an unscrupulous politician, who appreciates democracy in the full sense of the term, but uses it as a tool for its purposes. Even as an ally Erdogan proved unreliable, maintaining an ambiguous conducted on the case of the Islamic state, which should have been sanctioned from the very beginning. The West, struggling with their own problems too left the field open to President turkish, maintaining an attitude of condescension too similar to the one held with the Arab Spring and its consequences. The western lack of action has generated political monsters, such as the current Egyptian government, the confused situation in Libya, the permanence in power of Assad, the Middle East instability, game by bad management of Iraq and now an authoritarian Islamic regime on the border of 'Europe. It seems that the situation of the Arab countries and Turkey, influenced by an Islamic presence can not find a balance, and this has also been due to underestimation of the religious element present in these countries. If Egypt has reacted to the dictatorship of the Muslim Brotherhood, legitimately elected, but with the firm intention to apply the Sharia law as the fundamental law of the country, with an even more violent military dictatorship, Turkey has undergone a protracted regression in time by secular country a country where the religious element has taken over, thanks to a constant work of civil rights erosion wrought by Erdogan. The action of the turkish president has been so pervasive that even the armed forces have retained their power, as it is happened in Egypt and the fact that the purge aimed at erasing any possbile other form of dissent shows a plan where the control of the power tends to be exercised virtually absolute form. So now the Western countries must carefully consider how to deal with a nation as an ally or almost becomes a potential enemy to the power structure that has developed within it and that, in any case, no longer offers any guarantee, if not those of expediency, and are not a few, to keep a relationship. This is because Turkey is materially much more on Europe's borders that the states that are on the south shore of the Mediterranean, and also, especially not secondary is within the Atlantic Alliance. However it seems to be the time to no longer be the champions of the rights only in words, it becomes necessary to allow an effort to distance themselves from those who do not respect civil liberties even if it means paying a price. Also because, unlike the price to pay would be higher and would negate the principles on which Western states are founded. This reflection, however, more likely to remain theoretical, because the immediate problems and quotas, the reason of state and also the many upcoming elections that will be conducted in the US and Europe can only help Erdogan, surely be able to take advantage of these moments of weakness of our systems, which in its starting to become clear by making Turkey a fake democracy.