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People want to make Turkey policy complicated, but it's not actually that complicated to state that peace is preferable to war, that democracy is preferable to autocracy, and that pluralism is preferable to fundamentalism and ultranationalism, and to then set policy accordingly.
Every problem policymakers have with TR comes from the fact that the current AKP-MHP gov't is autocratic, hyper-militarized & based on hardline ethnic and religious chauvinism—and that it is continuously rewarded militarily, economically and diplomatically for these tendencies.
Viewing the most egregious manifestations of autocracy, militarism and nationalist/Islamist fundamentalism as areas to be overlooked in the name of "compromise" on other issues, as the US and Europe have, is thus not nuanced or strategic, but counterproductive.
For example, racist ultra-nationalists in state structures are the ones who support arms deals w/ Russia and expansion into Syria & the Mediterranean.
The pro-peace, pro-Kurdish politicians whose oppression is ignored internationally are the only ones opposing these policies.
The pro-peace, pro-Kurdish politicians whose oppression is ignored internationally are the only ones opposing these policies.
If you allow a state to satisfy its wildest expansionist and authoritarian ambitions and help disempower local political forces opposed to those ambitions, that state will not magically become cooperative on other areas.
It will be incentivized to do the exact opposite.
It will be incentivized to do the exact opposite.
