“The Turkey Erdoğan will leave as a legacy will bear little relation to the Kemalist, ‘secular’, EU candidate country he inherited,” said modern history professor Pierre Vermeeren.
On the occasion of Erdoğan’s agreement on Sweden’s accession to NATO and the discussion on the resumption of Turkey’s accession negotiations to the European Union, Professor of Modern History at the Sorbonne University, Pierre Vermeeren, considers that Ankara’s attitude does not allow any case promoting the EU’s relationship with Turkey, arguing that Europeans “must urgently abandon their naivety” in this regard.
At the same time, the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee stresses that unless there is a drastic change of course by the Turkish government, Turkey’s EU accession process, which has been deadlocked since 2018, cannot be restarted under the present conditions.
The French professor criticizes the non-reaction of the Western world “to the medieval siege of the Azeris, from August 2022, on the 120,000 Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, with the support of the Turkish president” noting that, apart from Armenia, the few voices of support come from French politicians.
“Armenians, who have paid such a heavy human price for more than a century, are once again in the eye of the storm. Russians, Israelis and Americans have other priorities, the Europeans are weak and the Armenians can only count on Iran’s mistrust of the Turks. Until when?”, he wonders.
Pierre Vermeeren also refers to the events of 1923, the persecution of Armenians and Greeks, the anti-Greek pogrom in Istanbul in 1955 and the persecution of Jews, emphasizing that the Turkish president “not only does not accept this national past, but denies it, even though Ataturk called the Armenian genocide a “shameful act”.
“The Turkey that Erdogan will leave as a legacy will have little to do with the Kemalist, “secular” country and candidate for the European Union that he inherited,” emphasizes Pierre Vermeeren, underlining the subservience of the “secular” army to the presidency, the transformation of Turkish secularism into state Islamism, which promotes, as he notes, internally and internationally — thanks to its controlled dispersion — the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood
Source :Skai
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