Hardly. He's got a tight grip on the media, imprisoned or silenced most of the opposition, purged the military and the police after the failed coup and has the

Hardly. He's got a tight grip on the media, imprisoned or silenced most of the opposition, purged the military and the police after the failed coup and has the support of the conservative Turks, which basically granted him a mandate for many years to come. He'll probably end up being president for the rest of his life, just like Franco. Now his ambitions lie beyond the Turkush border into Southern Caucasus and Europe. Europeans should at the very least push back, support their Greek and Cypriot fellow EU members, grant asylum to kemalists, kurds and his other opponents, refuse further blackmail with refugees pouring in.