Erdogan, an aggressive sultan who challenges the European Union

The European dreams of a liberal Turkey, heir to Ataturk and his secular convictions, now belong to the garden of illusions. Recep Tayyip Erdogan's neo-Ottoman project, the nationalist, Islamist and authoritarian path he has taken for several years, the affirmation of his neo-imperial ambitions around the Mediterranean and his fight against Western culture have distanced him of its traditional allies. The great troublemaker in the Middle East is, along with Vladimir Putin's Russia and Xi Jinping's China, one of the main international troublemakers.

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Erdogan has become the main problem of the European Union. His blackmail against migrants, his fight against the Kurdish forces in Syria allied with the international anti-Daesh coalition, the illegal drilling in the eastern Mediterranean, in the economic zone of Cyprus, his autocratic style and the human rights violations that occur. have multiplied since the coup attempt in 2016: most

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