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Erdogan used EU to get rid of the military check on Islamist trying to dismantle democracy. Eu is stupid. Every modern Turk warned them and no one listened. No

• aanm1988 9y ago
  > Erdogan used EU to get rid of the military check How did the EU do that?
  • sampo 9y ago
    > How did the EU do that? “Since 1999, civilian control of the military has been strengthened. The constitutional and legal framework has been amended to clarify the position of the armed forces versus the civilian authorities,” the European Union said in its 2004 Progress Report on Turkey, which cited various developments with regard to civil-military ties. “A number of changes have been introduced over the last year to strengthen civilian control of the military with a view to aligning it with practice in EU member states.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil%E2%80%93military_relations_during_the_Recep_Tayyip_Erdo%C4%9Fan_government https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil%E2%80%93military_relatio... It is kind of funny that EU being so afraid of the military occasionally taking control of the civil government, EU paved way for the much more sinister threat of a transition to dictatorship. Very shortsighted. Europeans like to blame America for meddling with foreign countries without any understanding of the consequences, but here EU did exactly the same.
• Lev1a 9y ago
  Turkey is only part of the EU in Erdogans wet dreams.