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TURKEY is playing hard to get in response to European Union efforts to persuade Ankara to stem the flow of refugees across the Aegean to Greece.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in no hurry to expedite an agreement, calculating that EU leaders’ desperation will persuade them to increase their offer of €3 billion to Ankara to care for refugees on Turkish soil.
He is justified in deriding suggestions that German Chancellor Angela Merkel should be nominated for the Nobel peace prize for opening Germany to so many refugees this year.
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
