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Additional weapons will be installed if and when the need arises! This is ridiculous. The need is now. We dont need 10 patrol boats. We need a strong Navy which can fight against Greece, Egypt, France together. How come we believe those pseudo economic arguments not to arm these vessels? For...

Although I am convinced that they like their country and have good intentions (like a youth that has better morals), most of these things are either not the task of the government or beyond our reach. The main mistakes in my opinion: One minute incidence which led us loosing F35 and support of...

It all begun in 1980s. They wanted a more religious youth, instead of left and right clashes. I remember suddenly there were so many dormitories and private schools (dersane). Combined with the unnecessary restrictions for women carrying headscarf, the basis for AKP was established. We Turks...

And of course I hope the best for my country and defense industry, that's why we are monitoring day and night all the small developments and get happy about them. But currently we are in such a situation, we cannot tolerate any mistakes of the past (well knowing quite a deal has been achieved so...

I personally trust and respect a lot our engineers, technicians etc. This I cannot say fully for project management, including securing backups and financing/political aspects.

I know, but I can't wait any longer! Since TF2000, if at all, will be there after 2030, we should build in parallel another set of four frigates from the I class.

In the last 30 years we have only built 4 corvettes. Not a single frigate is yet in operation. TF2000 is a dream that will stay like that. Due to economic problems and other reasons it wont be realized.

Unfortunately we have put ourselves in such a bad situation I am afraid we wont be able to get out of it without big concessions. I am sure the new government will neglect defense industry, and make those concessions. Still, we cannot continue with the current one. On all fronts we are in such a...

One more thing: the reason why we are asking permission from Russia is due to a fallacy of balance policy. We dont want to alienate Russia because then America will have it easier. But this is suffocating us and we cant act. We should team up with America and kick out Russia from there. Same can...

And for God's sake. We should never ask for permission from Russia (I dont even count Iran). We should tell them they can only stay in Syria so close to our border only with our permission.

My personal opinion without knowing all details on the training, equipment, and motivation of our troops: America will not go into war with us directly. All of the rest we can fight. We shouldnt allow at our border all these terrorists. It is getting ridiculous. A great cleaning action is...

Normally I would think the show down with Greece would not tie up too many land forces. 50000 would more than suffice to liberate several islands. It will otherwise be an air and sea war. I guess however we dont have that many Hisar batteries yet to protect both the west front and our forces in...

Question: if these preventative and punishing artillery strikes are so effective to kill 25 insects at once, why are we doing them only after we have martyrs? I mean why not do it everyday?

I think Erdogan has contributed a lot to our defense industry, this is undeniable and I appreciate that. And it is easy for us to say from our comfortable chair all enemies should simply be crashed. Still, talking too much about military operations in advance somehow leaves a bad taste and...

It can be that we are waiting for Russians to finish the critical stages of the nuclear plant. Or we are still trying to produce enough batteries of Hisar to protect our land troops properly. Frankly, I dont know why we are waiting. What I know is that if we cannot strike soon, we should not...

It is very sad for Turkey. Imagine a party that receives more than 6 mio. votes. And this party hates Turkey and Turks the same as Greece and probably more than Armenia! They vote against everything to the benefit of Turkey. Amazing and so sad for our country. It is also said that the main...

Also if Turkey becomes strong in the region and also connected to both Europe and Turkic states why this should be bad for USA? We can exert pressure to both Russia and prevent China s expansion into West. We can replace them by being a production hub for Europe and US. We need to talk these...

Israel does not have the men power to police the region and also not enough population to settle in east of Turkey. Even if Iran is gone, why should Turkey be a threat to Israel? This is ridiculous. They have such a small land there, not interesting for us. And to be fair, that plot of land...

I am just wondering if we follow a harder course against Iran, how would Israel and America react? Will they then abandon their PKK support and the idea of establishing a terrorist state in Syria? Will they say to Greece it should negotiate with Turkey? Or would they rather want to stab us at...

Your point certainly makes sense. It is a trade off between having the most developed version in inventory vs having sufficient quantity of it. I assume and hope this is being optimized by specialists in our army. In case of Sungur we might wait as we have enough of its base version, in other...