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It’s laughable that people blame the EU for Turkey’s regression. 2nd the 3rd generation Turks in the EU are amongst Erdogan’s most radical supporters, Erdogan got a far greater share of the overseas ballots from EU member states than he did back in Turkey, in fact the only two countries where the opposition had a lead were the UK and US.

Turkey always had a demographic problem, just like Iran does, it’s not in the EU because it could not resolve its own demographic problem not that it’s demographic problem was somehow due to the EU closing the door on Turkey’s membership.



It was about EU meddling in Turkey affairs. If the army had dealt with Erdogan in the early 00s the secular faction of Turkish society would still be on top.

Of course the EU votes would go to Erdogan - the people that moved to Germany were from his power base demographic.




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