President Erdogan is issuing warnings that Turkey will stop taking refugees back from the EU if it fails to waive visa restrictions for Turks. The two sides are on a collision course with emergency rule declared after the failed 15 July coup suspending a series of basic rights and freedoms in Turkey - making the planned visa waiver even more difficult and hastening the course toward confrontation . The row was aggravated by a psychological factor as Erdogan feels anger and mistrust toward EU leaders who, according to him, failed to extend him adequate support after the uprising. The Turkish press are calling his warnings a ‘showdown.’ Continue to pray for Turkish citizens living under the state of emergency, with legislative decrees exempt from constitutional checks, freedoms suppressed, and the European Convention on Human Rights put on hold.