Only a day after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan demonstrated an undisputed show of strength in his country’s internal political scene, by essentially deposing his longtime party ally, Mehmet Davutoglu from Prime Minister, he is taking a harsher stance against the European Union by saying he would not adopt anti-terrorist reforms in Turkish law proposed by the EU. Speaking on Turkish TV, Erdogan chastised Europe urging it to change its laws, as it had allowed terrorist to operate next to the European Parliament, referring to the Brussels bombings. ‘We will follow our path and the EU can follow its own’, said Erdogan. Turkey has to fulfill 5 more requirements of the 72 emanating from the recent deal with the EU on the refugee crisis, one of which is the reform in its anti-terrorist law, in order to gain free visas access for its citizens into the EU. The Turkish PM is determined to play ‘hard ball’ in the knowledge that he can use the refugee flows as a means to place pressure on the Europeans to gain as much he demands. A high ranking Turkish official believes Erdogan’s main goal is to ensure a total accession into the EU with special terms, similar to those the UK has. Currently Turkey is hosting a large number of refugees and migrants from Syria and Iraq.