They dug the hole . . .

Was it the job of the West to prevent “the Islamic world’s most prosperous, democratic and pluralistic” country from racing into despotism with a Putin-style president-for-life? Of course, it wasn’t. If the Turks were willing to stand for being put under President Erdogan’s thumb by a rigged referendum, that’s their problem and it’s up to them to solve it, and definitely not the West.