03-22-2016 (Photo: ‪Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) is welcomed by European Council President Donald Tusk in Brussels, on October 5, 2015‬) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Erdogan of Turkey Bullies the EU for Protection Money. Gregory Copley Defense & Foreign Affairs. “…Now, more than seven decades later, we see the world bow before the naked blackmail of Turkey’s dictator — for he has exceeded his electoral mandate, as did Hitler, and has become his own creature, and not the Turkish people’s — who pours chaos into Europe and the Middle East, and demands concessions in order to reverse his aggression. Out of blind, short-term reactionism, the world’s political and journalistic classes fail to see how he first caused the chaos for which he now seeks reward to control.

“No war existed in Syria before Turkey’s new dictator, Reçep Tayyip Erdoğan, dipped his hands into its troubled but stable waters. The counter-coup against Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi in Libya was well within the grasp of Libyans in 2011 until Erdoğan inserted his forces, bent not just on overthrowing the Libyan dictator but building a Turkish surrogate again on the Mediterranean shores. No floods of refugees flowed into Europe and elsewhere until Erdoğan took the chaos of Syria and Libya and channeled it into Western Europe and the Balkans. DI’ISH, the Islamic State or Islamic Caliphate, did not exist before Erdoğan made it happen and fed it, and still feeds it.

“All of his misdeeds against his neighbors and his own people have come back to haunt the Turkish State. There has been a profound flight of capital from Turkey; there has been a cessation of inward foreign direct investment, except where politically-motivated subsidies are fed into it by its few allies. The open and covert wars which Turkey has inspired against the Kurds, the Syrians, the Egyptians, the Cypriots the Israelis, and others are coming back to haunt Turkey, which now faces a civil war within its own borders. “ “And yet despite the reality of his weakness, Erdoğan courts war with Russia so that he can demand that NATO steps in to provide him with military protection. He demands that the European Union subsidize him so that he can stop the flow of refugees which he caused to be visited upon Europe. He has suspended all liberties in his own country so that the truth of his misrule does not emerge….”

“Under the European Union deal with Turkey, all migrants and refugees, including Syrians, who cross to Greece illegally by sea from March 20 will be sent back to Turkey once they are registered and their asylum claims have been processed. “That is expected to take effect from April 4, by which time Greece must have in place a fast-track process for assessing asylum claims. The EU has pledged to help Greece set up a task force of some 4,000 staff, including judges, interpreters, border guards and others to manage each case individually. "The agreement comes into effect from today. Greek authorities have done whatever is necessary and will continue to do what it promised," George Kyritsis, a government spokesman for the refugee crisis, told Reuters. "Other parties (to the agreement) should also do their part," he said, referring to Greece's EU partners and Turkey. In return, the EU will take in thousands of Syrian refugees directly from Turkey and reward it with more money, early visa-free travel and progress in its EU membership negotiations….” http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-greece-idUSKCN0WM0AC