PKK was on Turkish soil for the last 40 years. A grassroots insurgency that gathers its power from our own citizens is not the same thing as Syria being a failed state that imploded. Local mistakes are reversible, foreign ones take tens of years to correct. We have enough soldiers, police and...
We needed to be in Idlib to safeguard the 3 million refugees there so they wouldn't be in Turkey. So yes, to manage shit you gotta do shit. We lost about 300 men in Syria between 2014 and 2024. Their deaths were not in vain as the best possible outcome have happened in Syria, in no small thanks...
Eh, hamama giren terler. Noone forced Italians to be there, they're happy to be there. That'd probably end up with Saudis bankrolling our next batch of Eurofighters like they did in the first gulf war. Good enough deal. Saudis and Kuwaitis financed more than 50% of Peace Onyx 2, at least 40 F-16s.
That's one thing our products are simply not on par with other offerings. No Turkish turret bigger than the 20mm sharpshooter have been exported so far.
Apart from EEZ matters, the reunification talks interest me. Turkey and UAE have become very adept at decompartmentalizing their relationship. Apparently as I understand, the reunification talks and even the EEZ talks are being pushed together by UAE and Turkey.
LNA and GNA was in Turkey to...
Big win for TAI on the horizon. Per sources, Nigeria will order 6 more T129s to bring their fleet to 12 aircraft and also order 12 Aksungur UCAVs. I think this should be no less than a 600-700 million deal if went ahead. With the acquisition of Aksungur, Nigeria would be operating Chinese CH-4...
We argued a lot over the years if Canada would cancel its F-35 order or not. They didn't, and received their first two CF-35s yesterday. To this day, no country aside from Turkey has "cancelled" their order. Fog over Turkish F-35s still is up high.
There will be no naval inclusion from non littoral states. I think government have been pretty solid on Montreux this past 5 years. No military ship from a non littoral nation have sailed past Beykoz since 2022, also no Ukrainian and no Russian vessel. Only 2 ex British minehunters that were...
Bulgaria and Romania are EU members. Others can join with air ops.
And NATO MCC was established back in March in Istanbul, staffed and led entirely by Turkish staff.
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/nation/turkiye-reveals-nato-maritime-component-command-planned-for-bosphorus-3217068...
I think this would be best place to put this.
Mostly flew under the radar. People likened it to CENTCOM; but I don't really see it. Former Cypriot Peace Force Commander Kılınç was appointed as its head; created at the corps level.
"INTERNATIONAL JOINT STRATEGIC COMMAND
The Turkish Armed...
