Recent content by Anastasius

It might've been 15-20% but it's probably less now given how much they have suffered at the hands of ISIS, PKK and Assadists (meanwhile certain apparently oppressed minorities have grown in number. How odd). I wish Azerbaijan had done more, especially for the Iraqi Turkmen given that they are...

There is no such thing as “Western” democracy. It’s simply democracy, a system of letting people have a vote in the governance of their country.

See the following from my comment: Assuming you are speaking in good faith my Nigerian friend, you are making the mistake of associating a good political system with something you hate (in this case, Western governments) and thus throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

We may pass as white but you can sense a pretty clear attitude change when you mention your ethnicity. It’s like your skin suddenly becomes several shades darker in their eyes even if in reality you are paler than an Irish person. I’d argue that’s more common for people on the other side of...

People who decry democracy because "muh Western hypocrisy", never cared about democracy or a functioning government in the first place, they just want to shut down all criticism of their preferred form of governance. Yes, democracy has flaws. And yet it is still better than basically every...

Erdogan is trying to speedrun the Louis XVI ending at this point. Don’t see it ending any other way for him, he’s going deeper into the grave.

Nobody was destroying public property or threatening national security (quite the opposite with the latter). And yes, police are in fact supposed to be trained to take harassment from angry civilians without responding with violence unless they are being threatened with death. It’s literally...

I'm sorry, do you think democracy equals giving police the right to brutalize protestors?

I think people really overestimate just how effective US sanctions can be. Just look at countries that have been hit with REALLY bad US sanctions. If Turkiye wasn't governed by a certain man of questionable intellectual aptitude, it would have found quite a few ways to cope with those issues...

At least we're still in the top 10 of chess.

And Lool right on time to run interference for AKP’s stupidity…

Don't think you need Turkish TV series to make Russian women lose interest in Russian men.

I'm really wondering when the patience of the average Turkish citizen will run out. Your neighbors had civil wars over much less.

https://caliber.az/en/post/media-us-plans-to-redeploy-military-equipment-from-germany-to-armenia Normally I wouldn't bother with stuff reported from RT but this would make sense with Armenia suddenly getting bolder in terms of military maneuvers. Additionally Mike Waltz called Hikmet Hajiyev...

I'm going to dissent a bit from the consensus and argue that a hypothetical Chinese invasion of Taiwan would actually be easier than, say, Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Taiwan's status as a relatively small island that's very close to the Chinese coast makes them an incredibly vulnerable target...