Thursday, July 18, 2019

Europe Misses a Chance by Freezing Out Turkey

Europe Misses a Chance by Freezing Out Turkey

Leonid Bershidsky
Bloomberg July 18, 2019

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Relations between the European Union and Turkey – officially still a EU accession candidate – have grown so chilly that the word “sanctions” has been applied to the EU’s latest punitive moves against its Mediterranean neighbor. But in this particular case, Europe would do well to apply some transactional wisdom rather than more confrontation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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