A recent presidential decree and adopted in its enforcement decree of the government introduced a series of measures aimed at restricting trade, financial, transport and tourism ties between Russia and Turkey. The documents shows that these measures temporarily introduced, although no specific time or the circumstances of the cancellation are not named. Until now, Russia has been one of Turkey's most important economic partners. Foreign trade turnover between the two countries for the 1st half of 2015, according to the Federal Customs Service, was $ 18 billion. In June 2015, Russia took the third place on imports into Turkey ($ 1.7 billion) after China ($ 2.08 billion) and Germany ($ 1.98 billion). Economic contradictions in Russian-Turkish relations in recent years have only been observed on free trade with the countries of the Customs Union and the organization of road freight transport. Turkey, referring to the winning of its geopolitical position, lobbied for the complete abolition of Russian transport allowances. Now the dialogue on this subject with the interrupted work of the Mixed Russian-Turkish Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation. Equally undergo transformation and tourism market. Let me remind you that the agreement on visa-free border crossing for citizens of the two countries was signed by Dmitry Medvedev in May 2010 and quickly ratified by the parliaments of both countries a month later. Now the Russian side officially announced the reduction of the volume of charter flights and the suspension of visa-free border crossing for citizens of Russia and the Republic of Turkey. According to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey, citizens of Russia, Germany and the UK over the last five years accounted for the main flow of foreign tourists in Turkey. In 2014, the Russians took second place in the ranking, ahead of the United Kingdom nationals. For the first 10 months of 2015 Turkey was visited by 3.54 million. Russians. In the entire history of post-Soviet Russia, this is the second case of suspension or withdrawal of Russian unilateral visa-free border crossing after 2000 were introduced visas for Georgian citizens. It should be noted that, a ban on the right to engage in employment for the inhabitants of Turkey - holders of ordinary passports - the Russian side in a sense repeated discriminatory practices of Britain, France and the Russian Empire in relation to citizens of "enemy" of the country during World War I.. So, on the first day of the war the British House of Commons passed a law limiting the right to enter and leave the country without special permission for citizens of hostile powers and established the obligation of police registration of all persons of German origin, who were at that time in Britain. Later, on January 27, 1916, the British Parliament passed a circular on the Elimination of unions, associations and enterprises with a predominant share of "enemy" of the property, and as a consequence - the confiscation of the property in favor of the Kingdom. Toward the end of the war in March 1918, a special commission was established with a mandate to make decisions on liquidation and nationalization of the property of citizens of enemy states. About the same a hundred years ago and operated the Russian Empire. "The action of any benefits and advantages given to nationals of enemy states treaties or principles of reciprocity, to stop" - read the article 1st nominal imperial decree "On the rules, with which Russia will be guided during the 1914 war". Then, the position of Minister of the Interior established a ban for involvement with warring subjects of Russia participate in the activities of trade associations and non-governmental organizations on the territory of the empire. The ban was aimed at the German, Austrian, Hungarian and Turkish nationals. Discrimination does not apply to persons who were able to prove their Slavic, French, English roots or affiliation to the Christian faith - for the subjects of the Ottoman Empire. According to historians, of 611 joint-stock companies of tsarist Russia, where one degree or another was found part of German or Austrian capital, the decision to liquidate was made in respect of 96 companies. However, of these 62 community one way or another have escaped liquidation. As a result, 19 enterprises in full changed hands, and the total number of liquidated companies amounted to 23 industrial and trade 7. The logic, in which the Russian authorities to act in violation of the rights and freedoms of owners of ordinary (not official and diplomatic) passports of citizens of Russia and Turkey, is not a modern invention,.

It should be recognized that such practices are based on the principle of collective guilt, which, according to Hannah Arendt, is nothing but an illusion, or at best used in the political space of the metaphor, "which does not allow to see the real problems". Because in reality, "there is no such thing as fault or guilt for things that happened without your active participation".

Original article: The illusion of collective guilt: how to punish Russia Turkey.