TR Foreign Policy & Geopolitics

[Glass🚬]

Im wondering about the naval base that TSK is building I cant find any info mamy say it got cancelled others say its on hold or unknown.

The ruler who signed that deal got couped by the saudis so i´d say its on hold for now.

 

[Stuka]

Egypt is on a spree.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1388106966187319297

This comes amid another ease of relations attempt by Turkey

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1388157797695623171

 

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[Bogeyman]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1389664249333620740

 

[what]

Meanwhile, exports to Saudi Arabia have reached almost zero in April 2021. So the informal embargo is effectively in place now.

 

[GoatsMilk]

Supporting the brotherhood pretty much turned into a massive failure for Turkey. Destroyed many relations for no profit only for Turkey to go back running with a tail between her legs.

 

[Nilgiri]

Meanwhile, exports to Saudi Arabia have reached almost zero in April 2021. So the informal embargo is effectively in place now.

Is there source for this export data?

 

[what]

Is there source for this export data?

Turkey’s exports to Saudi Arabia sink to almost zero in April

Turkey’s exports to Saudi Arabia all but dried up in April, according to official data, remaining at a historic low amid monthslong informal blockade by...

www.dailysabah.com

Sales to Saudi Arabia plunged by 94.4% year on year to only $11.25 million, according to the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM) data. Exports have dropped from around $201 million (TL 1.67 billion) a year ago.

 

[Stuka]

Military Cooperation Implementation Plan with Kazakhstan was signed.

The document includes 17 events that include regional security, military training and joint exercise areas. According to the plan, there is also the issue of the use of UAVs and the training plan of military personnel for the academic year 2022-2023.

> I assume Kazakhstan might acquire some Turkish Drones.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1390033719155699712

Relating News prior -

Kazakhstan Keen to Buy Dozens of Bayraktar TB2 Drones From Turkey: Russian Media

Kazakhstan is reportedly considering buying Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles from Turkey after seeing the drones' performance in the Karabakh war.

www.thedefensepost.com

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1331887499799633920

 

[Saithan]

Turkey-Egypt reconciliation will not be at the expense of the Egyptian opposition

Turkey and Egypt started two days of 'political consultations' on Wednesday with the aim of restoring their relationship. Each delegation was led at deputy foreign minister level, with Sedat Önal...

www.middleeastmonitor.com

 

[Bogeyman]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1391738047784538112

 

[Costin84]

Erdogan plays the ummah card again and goes for another cheap attack against its main economic partner,Europe.

'Virus' of Islamophobia making Europe a prison for Muslims: Turkish president

Recep Tayyip Erdogan voices concern over 'serious security threat' facing Muslims living in Europe - Anadolu Agency

www.aa.com.tr

Result? Lira goes from 8.23 to 8. 43
Btw, you can hear crickets from his Palace when it comes to Uighurs in China....but, according to him "Europe has become an open prison for Muslims "

@Deliorman and others....how do you find your new lives in the concentration camps?

 

[Deliorman]

Well, Bulgaria and the Balkans for sure aren’t included in the (Western) Europe Erdo talks about so I am doing okay... can’t comment on Germany, France, Britain etc.

But why do you even care about the nonsense he says- it’s all for internal political consumption and nothing else. A barking dog that doesn’t bite.
His problem is that even many of his own voters don’t believe the shit he says anymore and many start to see his bullshit more clearly every single day. When the pockets are empty and the refrigerator has no food in it most don’t care about what he tells about Europe, Israel, Palestine etc. So let him talk...

 

[Barry]

all these things matter to you when you have a racist victim mentality backed by inherited prejudice. Like an ex girlfriend seeing other men, man can't ever let it go.

 

[Bogeyman]

After a controversial first text, some of whose signatories are threatened with sanctions, a new military forum against the “disintegration” of the country was published on the site of Valeurs Actuelles, requested to publish it. “This is a new forum, this time from active soldiers, who thought of us to publish it because we had published” the previous forum, told Geoffroy Lejeune, editorial director of the weekly.

While some signatories of the forum published on April 21 are under sanctions, the soldiers gathered behind this new text insisted on remaining anonymous. It is, according to Le Parisien, which, a few days before its publication, evoked the fears of the Élysée as for a new platform, of “2000 active soldiers”. It is moreover to the Head of State, the government, parliamentarians and general officers that the platform is addressed.

“Our elders are fighters who deserve to be respected”​

In this new forum, the signatories present themselves as “recently entered in the career”, what the newspapers have called “the generation of fire”, men and women, active soldiers, of all armies and of all ranks, from all sensibilities ”and, with Marseillaise in support, defend their elders. “Our elders are fighters who deserve to be respected. These are, for example, the old soldiers whose honor you have trampled on in recent weeks ”, we can read, referring to the criticism provoked by the forum led by retired generals whom Agnès Pannier-Runacher had qualified, diverting from Gaulle, of “quarteron of generals in Charente”.

In line with the previous forum which denounced the “disintegration of France”, the signatories of this second text declare to see “violence in our towns and villages”. “Yes, our elders are right on the substance of their text, in its totality. We see communitarianism taking hold in public space, in public debate, they write. We see hatred for France and its history becoming the norm. ”

“If a civil war breaks out, the army will maintain order”​

If the first text had triggered a lively controversy in the political class, some denouncing a quasi-call to the insurrection, the signatories of the platform of May 9 are in disagreement. “These people who fought against all the enemies of France, you have treated them as factious when their only fault is to love their country and to mourn its visible downfall. We have seen this decline in many countries in crisis. It precedes the collapse. It announces chaos and violence, and contrary to what you are asserting here and there, this chaos and this violence will not come from a “military pronunciamento” but from a civil insurrection. “

And to continue: “Yes, if a civil war breaks out, the army will maintain order on its own soil, because we will ask it. It is even the definition of civil war. No one can want such a terrible situation, our elders no more than us, but yes, again, civil war is brewing in France and you know it perfectly well. “” Take action, Ladies and Gentlemen, finally urge the signatories of the platform. This time, it is not about custom emotion, ready-made formulas or media coverage. It is not about extending your terms or conquering new ones. It is about the survival of our country, of your country. “

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#Tribunedesmilitaires is trending in France.

Well, Bulgaria and the Balkans for sure aren’t included in the (Western) Europe Erdo talks about so I am doing okay... can’t comment on Germany, France, Britain etc.

But why do you even care about the nonsense he says- it’s all for internal political consumption and nothing else. A barking dog that doesn’t bite.
His problem is that even many of his own voters don’t believe the shit he says anymore and many start to see his bullshit more clearly every single day. When the pockets are empty and the refrigerator has no food in it most don’t care about what he tells about Europe, Israel, Palestine etc. So let him talk...

The French army is about to stage a coup in the country because of its hostility to Muslims. I don't know what cave you live in. But you don't have to live in France to follow what's going on.

 

[Ryder]

To my Muslim brothers and sisters who say you got to cancel all trade with Israel.

I say this when Saladin and the crusaders had wars we still traded with them.

When the Mongols invaded the Islamic World we still traded with them.

Many examples of wars and trade being treated separately in other words cutting off trade and relations with israel wont achieve crap.

I posted this because people use Turkey and Israel having relations along with trading as a punching bag against us Turks. Its childish and ridiculous.

 

[bsruzm]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1391738047784538112

No point in talking to Zoodi Arabia but why not? Let's give it a try.

 

[GoatsMilk]

To my Muslim brothers and sisters who say you got to cancel all trade with Israel.

I say this when Saladin and the crusaders had wars we still traded with them.

When the Mongols invaded the Islamic World we still traded with them.

Many examples of wars and trade being treated separately in other words cutting off trade and relations with israel wont achieve crap.

I posted this because people use Turkey and Israel having relations along with trading as a punching bag against us Turks. Its childish and ridiculous.

There is the Ottoman sultan who once wrote a letter his enemy that war shouldnt get in the way of business. And despite the Ottomans fighting someone, the traders were still free to trade with each other.

 

[Nilgiri]

He makes a rather compelling argument and its not like you guys don't have a history of being the white mans lackey. Don't you hindus even have a caste system where the lighter the skin the higher up the individual?

And lets be honest, modi is absolute moron.

I wonder the credibility coming from NATO-member (with long history to read about w.r.t NATO)....and the complexes out there in the open and aired out even more in this forum regarding it daily?

Or all that is supposed to be explained away as "pragmatic" suddenly instead of "lackey"?

What about the religion, ideology picked/inherited by your society for mainstream....it is Turkish-origin? The liturgy is in Turkish? Or is all that another pragmatism/inheritance instead of lackeying? It is credible for one outside it to tell you more than you on it?...from that singular perspective? You see where that all goes?

Then you continue to use "you Hindu" (as though we are some monolith even in that sub-identity/religion) instead of Indian to begin with. With no context and understanding at all that is waste of time (not to mention off topic) to even flesh out.

Should I address you and your lot as "Muslim" instead of Turk? How would that go over when we bring up foreign policy/geopolitics? The theological ideology of the religion (or any religion) was practiced in moral absolute form too? Or was there pragmatism and lackeying there too?

You really want to delve into this in such black-white way you have specifically oriented and already made up your mind on?

Tell me what struck out to you about the Pakistani Major General's account on Turkey first. You know, someone that actually knows and saw things firsthand in the battlefield (regarding literal make or break w.r.t his country)....rather than anecdotes or whatever history myths and narratives.

Maybe start there, since its actual war with lives and final reality on the line....rather than whatever cherry-picked agenda of insinuation and extrapolation.

Or did the British and Americans plan, steer/orient and propagate the activities of Operation Searchlight? You tell me.

But once it clearly started, they indulged its continuation.

So if India was so pistol-whipped and sychophant to their geopolitical desires and orders, surely East Pakistan would still exist today? ....in fact it wouldnt have even needed the two big white guy powers to sail their carrier battle groups in to issue threat and coercion past that surely?

We would have simply said yes sir, right away sir, we will take in 10's of more millions of refugees (no matter their horrid accounts) months before that I would imagine.

 

[GoatsMilk]

We can bring up this stuff against muslims too,since you guys have more weirder practices.
But not like you,a troll which shouldn't be engaged

The video on erdogan was a troll post, just a propaganda hit against Turkey. Don't pretend it wasn't, now your upset about it. And i mention hindus because its not the muslim Indians or the Sikh Indians constantly chatting shit about Turks online, its predominantly the hindus.

Does erdogan chat shit about you, yes he does. Does his media networks chat shit about you, yep. But do common Turks nope not at all.

So its best you guys pipe down if you can't handle it. Better visit Nikol again. The same guy who said after losing the war the military equipment you sold him turned out to be shite.