‘We’re eating the Mercedes’

David M. Herszenhorn, Politico (Belgium)
Dozens of Turkish NATO officers stationed in Belgium, and scores more across Europe, were among the tens of thousands who were purged from their jobs in the aftermath of July’s failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. ... They live an increasingly Kafkaesque existence with no resolution in sight, given a nasty diplomatic feud between Ankara and the EU which has only grown tenser since a controversial referendum earlier this month that granted Erdoğan expanded powers and drew sharp criticism from Brussels and other European capitals.