We can only be surprised that some are still surprised by Recep Tayyip Erdogan's provocations.
Let's agree that the last one was theatrical.
Receiving Charles Michel, the President of the European Council, and Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission in his presidential palace, they were subjected to a vexing staging, the first being invited to sit like a good student with Erdogan, the second being condemned to take a seat at a good distance on the sofa, as if she were only a nuisance in the landscape.
The scene was unsightly, explicitly aimed at demeaning the guests, turned into rugs, and represented a genuine manifestation of misogyny.
Whether the European dignitaries have taken part in this game will be surprising - or not.
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Henri Guaino: "If this image of Erdogan and Von der Leyen was a painting, the title that would suit it would be 'Submission'"
It was hard not to see a consent to humiliation, testifying to a psychology of the vanquished, the weak bowing before the strong, and passing his genuflection as a mark of pragmatism, and why
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