Western nations shouldn’t pander to Turkey’s president
TURKEY FACES an extraordinary array of troubles, including war with the Islamic State and a proxy conflict with the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad; more than 2 million refugees, many of whom are embarking on dangerous journeys toward Europe; incursions in its airspace by Russian warplanes; renewed fighting with Kurdish insurgents in southeastern Turkey and Iraq; and the prospect that a Nov. 1 election will, for the second time in five months, fail to produce a decisive result.
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