Turkey blackmails Europe with its own instability

This is the sort of thing that happens in Mel Brooks movies, but not–at least until now–in geopolitics:

Turkey’s claim upon the support of Western Europe comes from its own propensity to collapse.

If it does so, the Europeans fear, the refugee stream that inundated Europe during 2015 will acquire another zero.

That is why West Germany is willing to humiliate itself in order to prop up the regime of Turkey…

Source: Turkey blackmails Europe with its own instability – Asia Times