Faced with the policy of conciliation conducted by Chamberlain vis-à-vis Hitler, Winston Churchill observed that
"the policy of appeasement amounts to feeding a crocodile in the hope that it will eat you last"
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This same strategy is being pursued by NATO and by the European Union against Recep Erdogan.
If neo-Ottoman imperialism and Erdogan's Turkish Islamism differ profoundly from Nazi totalitarianism, the threat they pose to democracy and Europe is no less dangerous.
Erdogan's Turkey has taken advantage of Donald Trump's rapid and disorderly withdrawal from the United States as well as the Covid-19 epidemic ravaging and paralyzing the West to harden the authoritarian nature of the regime and to accelerate its expansion exterior.
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Cumulating all powers since the establishment of the new Constitution of
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