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Quid pro quo: Erdogan threatens not to ratify Paris climate accord
[IsraelTimes] At G20, Ottoman Turkish president indicates Ankara may follow in Washington’s footsteps, pull out of agreement

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
’s President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
threatened Saturday that his country would not ratify the Gay Paree climate accord, speaking at the end of the G20 summit in Germany.

"After that step taken by America, the position that we adopt is in the direction of not passing it in parliament," Erdogan said at a presser in Hamburg.

The summit of the world’s biggest industrialized and developing economies agreed that 19 of its members would stick with the 2015 plan to fight global warming and "took note" of US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s pullout from the initiative.

But shortly after the mega-summit ended, Erdogan, who met Trump at the event, told a news conference that Turkey was no longer a certain candidate and suggested other members of the "G19" also had doubts.

He said he had clearly told French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom...
: "No offense, but we will not pass it in our parliament as long as the promises made to us are not delivered."
The buried lede is the quid pro quo: No EU membership, no CO2 reduction. How fortunate global warming isn't actually a problem, whereas unlimited access to Europe for the Turks would have been.
He said former French president Francois Hollande
...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist...
had promised him that Turkey would be classed as a developing and not an industrialized economy -- meaning Ankara would receive money from a global climate fund rather than have to pay into it.

He also suggested some other, unidentified, countries had a "problem" with the agreement and said "they are not renewing their full support."
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