Well you agree with me than about Erdogan's open border policy, that's what it was about here.
As for securing the border no one said it's easy but don't you think it should be made a higher priority ? Look at the result from the open border. Not the entire Syrian-Turkish border is ISIS controlled either.
As for ISIS fearing Turkey, they attack the superpower USA they really don't care about that, with the open border policy of Erdogan they have a good reason not to attack, why would they force Turkey to block the border and cut their supply line of jihadists.
No one said that, you yourself said what I mean
well, tbh it wasn't erdogan's policy. it was west's policy to let sunni militants fight nusayri assad regime (euros/us using proxy to kick russia/iran's bitch), erdogan was just a middleman. he was very praised back then (between 2011-2013) by the same west which criticizes him now (your standard european hypocricy). and why should turkey risk its soldiers' lives? to appease west? or middle easterners, who'll find another shit to grunt about turks? if west is so concerned, they can send their own soldiers to patrol and be target of attacks.
where did you get "ISIS attacks USA"? for at least 6 months muricans bombing the shit out of daesh (which by the way was the most instrumental in isis's defeat at ayn al-arab) and i didn't see isis staging full-blown attack on US soil. did i miss something? and you're forgetting that turkish army is not iraqi or syrian army. isis foot soldiers/cannon fodder might be fanatical, but the top echelon isn't that crazy to openly attack turkey.
and btw you skipped my remarks that it's not only turkey jihadis use to go to syria. iirc i read sometime in 2013 that almost all tunisian and lybian jihadis used lebanon as their route.
all in all, turkey is in the spotlight because 1: kurdish propaganda (turk kill us, isis kill us, turk help isis, biji obama, help us pleaaaase :crycry
2. europeans' hate for turks 3. europeans' denial that they weren't able to control their own citizens and thus fingerpointing at turkey as a skapegoat. they don't even share intel, for ****'s sake. lastly, if say europeans didn't have muslim population or there wasn't american "war on terror" and they weren't in the need of some "enemy of the state" excuse to push for total control over their citizens, no one in western world would give a shit about some middle eastern tribesmen killing each other.
IMO, akp's current policy is still that "enemy of my enemy is my friend" thing. it'll continue that way until erdo is gone or russia and united states reach some kind of agreement.
to your last sentence, you said "i don't think that's smuggling" so i asked you, then, you think turkey entertains some jihadi transfer enterprise.