Opinion | Erdogan’s Turkey Doesn’t Belong within the EU

The European Fee on Nov. 8 issued its annual report on states wanting to hitch the European Union. The report criticizes the regime of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for disregarding human rights, rising ties with Vladimir Putin’s Russia and limiting freedom of expression. The fee takes specific intention at Turkey’s stance on Israel: “Its rhetoric” in assist of Hamas “is in full disagreement with the EU method.”

The EU, just like the U.S., has lengthy held delusions about Mr. Erdogan’s views and intentions. But for anybody paying consideration, his newest inflammatory feedback—that “Hamas just isn’t a terrorist group however a liberation group”—are not any shock. All through his 20-year tenure as chief of Turkey, he has unfold radical Islam, crushed political opposition and helped Russia, Iran and Qatar destabilize the Center East. By now we must always know that Mr. Erdogan is a wolf in wolf’s clothes.