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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he delivers a speech during a City Planning Council meeting at Bestepe People's Congress and Culture Center in Ankara on January 27, 2017. (Photo by AFP)

Turkey has decided to reconsider its controversial refugee deal with the European Union after the Greek Supreme Court refused to return the eight suspects allegedly linked to the countrys failed Julycoup.

A political commentator believes Turkeys response is quite threateningin terms of maintaining peace within the EU," adding that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has played this migrant card very well over the past year.

I think that Erdogan is flexing his muscles obviously and quite brazenly and pointing out that if you do not like the way I am running Turkey, just remember the position that I hold with this card, Daniel Patrick Welch told Press TV in an interview on Friday.

He also described Erdogan's use of the migrant card as a very cynical move,arguing that it is playing to the outright racistfears in Europe about the refugeescoming from countries that are being bombed by European states.

The commentator went on to say that it is ridiculous that the Europeans are trying to keep people out when they have created the refugee crisisin the first place, noting that Erdogan is keeping the key to the door and using it as a diplomatic weapon."

Elsewhere in his remarks, Welch stated that the Greek governments concern about the fate of the eight suspects is legitimate given Erdogans fanatical response to the coup with all the purging and the mass arrests, which were very scary and undemocratic for a lot of observers.

However, he said, the European polity is so obsessed with the migrant issue that they might try to force Greece to back down, because they're desperate to address this problem because the far-right has made it such an impossible political issue that they have to solve it on some level."

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Erdogan playing migrant card very well: Commentator - Press TV