Turkey, too many border crises: Erdogan raises a wall against migrants

The collapse of Afghanistan, with the Taliban having conquered a large part of the country’s borders, and tensions in Iran, where water protests have mobilized a large slice of the population, are a serious problem for Recep’s Turkey. Tayyip Erdogan.

Ankara fears that the union of these two crises, together with the problems that already exist on the Syrian side, could provoke a new wave of immigrants on the eastern border, fueling the discontent of a substantial part of the Turkish population who can hardly bear the presence in the country of over 4 million refugees, mostly Syrians.

So two days ago Emin Bilmez, governor of the eastern province of Van, which borders Iran, announced …