Even before the coup an investigation was launched to judge if they still live up to the shared values of the Conservative Party’s international alliance.
If you thought he was a paranoid tyrant before, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
It was not entirely clear at the time that it had created a new political structure that would last for generations – with the Conservatives as the leading party of the state.
Voices from Bromley and St Austell, as the campaign nears its end.
Aside from the obvious immigration angle, this Turkey story reinforces one of the Leave campaign’s most important lines: that ‘the devil you know’ isn’t on the ballot paper.
A new ad highlights the Prime Minister’s shifting position on Turkish membership of the EU.
There is no prospect for reform unless Britain votes to leave and forces a new agenda on Europe’s elites.
Both sides in this campaign are pandering to our least rational, most visceral emotions.
The final post in this series on how the Prime Minister’s aim of a reformed Europe, claimed by him as the basis for a Remain vote, was not achieved by his renegotiation.
By appeasing blackmailing autocrats such as the Turkish President, the EU is undermining the democratic and liberal values which it’s supposed to support.
Though the Prime Minister did once say that it made him angry that the country’s application was being held up.
“We are not going to able to have a say…I do not think that the EU is going to keep Turkey out.”
The core question for many British voters is a simple one: do they really trust the EU to play its part in controlling migration across the continent effectively?
The campaign’s latest film quotes the Prime Minister saying “I want us to pave the road from Ankara to Brussels.”
Crucially, voting to stay does not mean voting to keep the status quo.