To be honest, Erdo’s behaviour makes a lot of sense as well. He cannot cope with the number of the Syrian refugees living in Turkey and any possible SAA/Russian offensive makes more Syrians flee to Turkey. That’s why he created the buffer zone in northern Syria. Its main purpose is dumping Syrian refugees living in Turkey somewhere.
Erdo may be a nasty, authoritarian guy, but it doesn’t mean he is Kim Jong Un. He still needs people’s support, while he started losing his voters after they got fed up with the refugee crisis and turning their neighbourhoods into little Syrias.
Originally, he thought that bringing a large number of Sunni Arabs to Turkey would counterbalance the Turkish Kurds’ demographics, as Turkish Kurds have over twice as many babies as ethnic Turks. His plan backfired, when he discovered that his voters don’t like so many Syrians living in Turkey and a few corruption scandals made him lose a couple of local elections in a couple of the biggest Turkish cities.
He got the lesson, so he tries different tricks in order to get rid of Syrians living in Turkey. He sends them back to Syria and opened the floodgates, attempting to send them to the EU.
The final conclusion is, by supporting the rebels in north western Syria a few years ago, the sultan shot his knee.
The things didn’t go the way he planned, al-Asshat has not been ousted, but Erdo ended up having an electoral crisis in his own country.
