Donald Trump.
The treatment of the Kurds by the Turks.
I hear you. Depending on Turkey it's interesting how will the situation turn out in future. As someone pointed out since the start of EU in mid 90's they've tried to join the union but got continuously banned because of human rights issue. Turkish army fought the Kurdish PK-party activists at the mountains and tried to find their old leader Öcalan. Kurds were blamed about federalist plans to create a country of their own. Well, they found Öcalan who got a death sentence but the sentence was changed later on to something else.
In my point of view Turkey reacted like hitting a little fly with a maze to disable leftwing political dreams that the Kurds had. A friend of mine belonging to Amnesty went to a Kurdish town in Turkey mountains and replied he saw some heavily armed state soldiers at the streets. Must have been a way scary to live everyday life there.
But now with a refugee crisis and totally different times the EU had even offered a role to Turkey as if they could act as a buffer country in between the EU and neighbouring countries which are mainly Syria and Iraq. Well, on the other hand, didn't Greece call out for Russia in a help for their economical crisis... I think they made a contract about bringing gas in 2019 from Russia to Europe via the old channels, tubes, that go underground in Turkey. And now Turkey's relations with Russia turned worse for the Russian planes that Turkey shot down. That's an interesting situation, I'd say.
I also feel a way disappointed about the fate of Kurds. They've been fighting bravely against the IS and what kind of reward will they get from Turkish government, if any? In general, Kurds are not viewed as a religious ethnical group and the reason for this lies in that their background and history are in leftwing politics.
However, there's a interesting minority among the Kurds too that share ancient religious traditions and they are the Yasidi. Yasidis have claimed they've been attacked for 72 times throughout the history. Most of these are due to Muslims in the past. The recent conquer of a main roadway in Syria was done by 6000 Yasidi soldiers strengthened by US air forces.
So, how will the things turn out in the future? Turkey already had a chance ten years ago to allow a moderate Muslim party a way to parliament and politics but it didn't happen for a reason or another. What would had happened if they had joined there?
