Recent content by AlperTunga

If Saudis are strongly committed at a broad and more strategic level (not only seeking some help for Yemen etc.) this can be a powerful alliance. Pakistan has nuclear bombs, a large military, and some technology (intelligent engineers there). Saudis have enormous finances but they also want to...

Just for me to understand: why are the above messages off-topic? they don't seem far off to me. This thread is about geopolitics, and this is inevitably linked to history. Many topics here are interlinked. If we do molecular level decomposition of topics, we cannot exchange any views here...

For them being a Shia is much more important than being a Turk. This is my impression. That's why they are siding with the Persians. If they didn't, I don't understand why the "turkish" part of Iran Tebriz etc. which is also geographically neighboring to us, does not belong to Turkiye. On the...

Agree fully. Iran getting secular does not mean it will turn into a democratic country but it'll just be a puppet state serving the interests of US and Israel. Similar to UAE. Even that one fits in the definition of "secular" for US & Israel. Such an Iran regime will be our nightmare. They will...

I come across to similar videos both in Israel and in US media. Such a hunger and thirst to portray Türkiye as their enemy. I never expected such a deep-seated hatred against Turks in Israelis and their proxies. Really amazing! I keep saying this. The biggest strategic mistake of Israel will be...

I agree to most of the above. But we should‘nt need top tier military equipment to beat some tribal insurgents. Otherwise we risk ending up like America. Top modern weapons and equipment but no real land force because they are unwilling to fight. We should be ready to die not only to defend our...

Some prolongation in SDF integration is not necessarily bad for us. There will be more deliveries of Steel Dome components in the next year and Tayfun missiles stockpiles is increasing gradually. Also by mid 2026 we will have 12 EFs operational with Meteors. Each year our deterrence will...

I am following the Israeli media. They are not at all happy about our foothold in Somalia. That explains why they took this strategic decision. They want to encircle and suffocate Turkey. I am angry that we have not been able to resolve that Somaliland issue so far. Somaliland is much more...

And do you think it is a good idea to invest money on hundreds of TB2? Is this really the best use of that money?

Well stated. One of the reasons I live abroad is thousands of street dogs in Turkey. The other one you already mentioned….

I wasnt really in the mood to post any message today but can you tell me what kind of message we are giving with TB2??

I dont think Russia will be completely defeated. Russia has vast resources, some technological knowhow, nuclear power, China as kind of an ally, and possibility to maintain war economy long time. So Europe will need us sometime. Merz is indeed right that we are in a new geopolitical phase. We...

Which infrastructure? Hangars? Or some gadgets to repair and upkeep the planes? Or oil filter etc?? Fed up with this logistics bs. Lets agree they caught us in a weak moment and exploited it. And then move on.

The pain is still there :)

A meteor missile costs 2m $. Even if we buy 300 it makes 0.6 bn. We dont need any other munition. For that money we should have obtained the right to integrate our own munition. Even if we buy a whole plain in spare parts 40 * 120m € makes about 5bn €. So we have been screwed big time! As Öztürk...