John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

From Syria to Libya, Armenia, Azerbaijan and now Greece and Cyprus, Turkey is a major protagonist in that region, it has to be said. The one thing that Erdogan has over the EU is the fact that Turkey has 5 million refugees. The EU fears Erdogan and the Turks instead of facing them down. It really is an admission of the failure of the EU to put in place a humane refugee policy. Until this is done Turkey will get away with what it wants in the region. The EU needs to stand up and take on the Turks and the geopolitics they are playing throughout the entire region, which are causing massive destabilisation. The key to this is addressing the refugee issue and putting in place a policy to deal with it so Turkey does not hold that trump card over the EU.

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