Recent content by Anastasius

Flak guns making a comeback as a counter for drones. Funny how life works sometimes.

A year is still pretty quick though.

Smart play by the opposition since it exposes Erdo’s hypocrisy.

Yeah and you know why they proposed a 50/50 plan? Because otherwise the Turkish Cypriot voices would be basically nonexistent and the Greek Cypriots would absolutely squeeze them out of everything they could (a reminder that as recently as a few years ago Greek Cypriot military members were...

Ignorance is right. We are too passive. A good leader will work wonders with the Turkic people but we lack initiative.

The terms of the Annan plan had the security of the state guaranteed by both Turkey and Greece and had provisions for equality of Turkish and Greek Cypriots under law. And this was done because Turkey learned on the basis of painful experience that the moment Greek Cypriots are given a free hand...

"He destroyed the Caliphate!" Have these morons ever opened a history book and realized that the reason that the Caliphate was abolished was because nobody wanted to f**king lead it? By the time Ataturk established the Republic, it was a purely ceremonial position with even less power than a...

I don't think it even works on pious people anymore. Also Ali Erbaş looks like that one neighborhood pedophile that everyone knows about but pretends not to.

Good parts of Islam: Giving to the poor and unfortunate. Encouraging pursuit of knowledge (even jihadis tend to have skilled engineers and scientists in their ranks at times). Encouraging cleanliness. Every man gets many wom...ehm, I mean, one woman for every man. Yep. Never said otherwise...

Reminds me of what the Hungarian ambassador once said about their meetings with Turkish officials always featuring at least one instance of someone bringing up support for Palestine only for the Hungarian side to politely turn it down and saying that they kind of accepted it as something that...

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...