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lunedì 13 marzo 2017
Heighten the contrasts between Turkey and Europe
The
current diplomatic crisis between Turkey and several EU countries,
aggravated the relationship that Ankara holds with Europe and Western
countries. The
fundamental issue is the claim of the turkish government to be able to
hold rallies in front of the Turkish community, regarding those eligible
to vote, citizens with dual nationality, present abroad, to plead the
cause of the shift from a presidential parliamentary republic. In
the West, the current perception of Erdogan's policy is not positive:
Turkey has entered a stage in its history where secularism seems to be
reduced in favor of more conducive to a religious aspect invasion norms
of social and political life, also after failure
of the coup, has been exacerbated the reduction in civil rights,
especially those relating to freedom of the press, with imprisonment of
many journalists opposed to government policy. A
change in Presidential sense is seen in a negative way because Europe
would increase the powers of Erdogan, who is not identified as a
strictly libertarian tendencies. Turkey
has suffered very Western and European criticism, pouring, in turn,
heavy on Europe and considerations often accusing her of Islamophobia. At
the base there is also resentment at the refusal by Ankara access to
the European Union, but with the evolution of Erdogan to power the
situation has become increasingly tense. But
it is also true that the European Union has sought to use Turkey to
stop migrants, with substantial contribution of three billion Euros,
thus trying to prevent the conflicts at the refusal of some States to
accept quotas of refugees on its soil . Basically
you are asked Ankara to carry out the dirty work in REPLACING Europe,
however, even this has provoked strong contrasts because Europe has
often objected to the treatment of refugees to Turkey, while the turkish
government has failed to obtain the free movement of its citizens within the Union, a point to which the turkish government was very keen. In
this climate, certainly not easy, the turkish government has purported
to want to carry out the campaign in favor of presidentialism and then
Erdogan, outside its borders, especially in countries where this
activity could create hardships and difficulties for the concomitant
presence of elections, such as the Netherlands, or large groups opposed to this kind of invasion of the field. If
the situation is more tense with the Netherlands, even the opposition
of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Sweden, to which must be added
Denmark, notes that the behavior of the Turkish government is not
welcome. In
essence, if the Turkish propaganda had been allowed, it could create
tensions within the social components in the different countries, both
right and left politically motivated; the
first would not like the intrusion of an external issue to their own
country, while the latter were opposed to the action of a government
considered illiberal. This could cause problems of management, even of public policy, the rallies demanded by the turkish government; in
any case send ministers or official representatives of a foreign
government on the territory of another state appears an unusual practice
and which could lead, as in these cases, even strong contrasts. This
has not only increased the distrust Erdogan, which has aggravated the
situation with statements out of place and totally irrelevant,
accompanied by unjustified threats, which have turned out counter
productive, especially when you consider the situation of the turkish
tourism sector. It's also not hard to imagine how in a situation with roles reversed, what would be the behavior of the turkish government. The
feeling is that both in the short and medium term, it will be difficult
that the relations between Turkey and the Union, especially with some
countries, they can be recovered: we are facing a diplomatic crisis that
could have an impact on the issue of migrants and
on the structure of alliances as the Atlantic Alliance, already
considerable difficulties in managing previous crises and totally taken
aback by the current conflicts between some of its member states. The
result is that Turkey is moving further away from Europe, both
physically and politically, that the application of the rights plan: a
gap difficult to fill, now.
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