Democracy is a tramway – you climb on to get where you want to go, then you climb off.» Recep Tayyip Erdo?an (1996)

The European Council of the 17th and 18th March 2016 adopted a plan which aimed to solve the problems posed by the massive influx of migrants from Turkey [1]. 28 heads of state and government submitted to the demands of Ankara.

We have already analysed the way in which the United States wanted to use the events in the Near East in order to weaken the European Union [2]. At the beginning of the current «refugee crisis», we were the first to observe that this event had been deliberately provoked and the insoluble problems that it was going to cause [3]. Unfortunately, all our analyses have been verified, and most of our positions have now been widely adopted by our erstwhile detractors.

Going further, we would like to study the way in which Turkey has seized control of the game, and the blindness of the European Union, which persistently remains one step behind.

Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's game

President Erdo?an is unlike other politicians. and it seems that the Europeans, neither the people nor their leaders, have realised this.

• First of all, he came from the Millî Görü?, a pan-Turkish Islamic movement with connections to the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt, and favourable to the restoration of the Caliphate [4]. According to him – and also to his allies of the Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi (MHP) – the Turkish people are the descendants of Attila's Huns, who were themselves the children of the Steppenwolf of Central Asia, with whom they share endurance and cold-heartedness. They form a superior race who are destined to rule the world. Their soul is Islam.

President Erdo?an is the only head of state in the world who proclaims an ethnic supremacist ideology, perfectly comparable to Nazi Aryanism. He is also the only head of state in the world who denies the crimes of history, notably the massacres of non-Muslims by Sultan Abdülhamid II (the Hamidian massacres of 1894-95 – at least 80,000 Christians murdered and 100,000 Christians incorporated by force into the harems), then by the Young Turks (the genocide of the Armenians, the Assyrians, the Chaldeans, the Syriacs, the Pontic Greeks and the Yezidis, from 1915 to 1923 – at least 1,200,000 dead) – a genocide which was executed with the help of Germa n officers, including Rudolf Höß, the future director of the camp at Auschwitz [5].

While celebrating the 70th anniversary of freedom from the nightmare of Nazism, President Vladimir Putin emphasised that «ideas of racial supremacy and exclusivism provoked the bloodiest war in History» [6]. Then, during a march – and without naming Turkey – he called on the Russian people to be ready, if necessary, to renew the sacrifice made by their grand-parents in order to save the very principle of equality between all humanity.

• Secondly, President Erdo?an, who is supported by only one-third of the population, governs his country alone and by force. It is impossible to know precisely what the Turkish people are thinking, because the publication of any information questioning President Erdo?an's legitimacy is now considered as an attack on state security, and leads immediately to prison. However, if we refer to the latest studies published, in October 2015, less than one-third of the electorate supports him. This is much less than the Nazis in 1933, who could count on 43% of the votes. This is why President Erdo?an was only able to win the general elections by means of outrageous trickery. Amongst others –

 The opposition media were gagged – the major dailies,Hürriyet and Sabah, as well as ATV television, were attacked by thugs from the party in power, and investigations targeted journalists and Press organs accused of supporting «terrorism» or having published slanderous criticisms of President Erdo?an. Web sites were blocked, Internet service providers cancelled the offers of opposition TV channels, and three out of five national TV channels, including the public channel, broadcast programmes which were clearly in favour of the party in power. The other national TV stations, Bugün TV and Kanaltürk, were closed by the police.

 A foreign state, Saudi Arabia, poured 7 billion pounds of «gifts» into Turkey to help «convince» the electorate to support President Erdo?an (about 2 billion Euros).

 128 political headquarters of the left-wing party (HDP) were attacked by thugs from President Erdo?an's party. Many candidates and their teams were beaten up. More than 300 Kurdish businesses were destroyed. Several dozen HDP candidates were arrested and placed in provisional detention during the campaign.

 More than 2,000 opposition figures were killed during the election campaign, either by direct attacks or else by governmental repression against the PKK. Several villages in the South-East of the country were partially destroyed by army tanks.

Since Erdo?an's «election», an iron veil has fallen over the country. It has become impossible to find information concerning the condition of Turkey in the national Press. The main opposition daily, Zaman, has been placed under supervision and now restricts itself to the praise of the greatness of «Sultan» Erdo?an. The civil war, which is already raging in the East of the country, is spreading, by means of terrorist attacks, to Ankara and as far as Istanbul, to the total indifference of the Europeans [7].

Mr Erdo?an governs almost alone, accompanied by a small group which includes Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu. During the electoral campaign, he declared publicly that he was no longer applying the Constitution, and that all powers were now in his hands.