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Iran for the past 30 to 40 years has killed more Muslims then Israel has. Its actions across the region have only destabilised it and divided the Muslim world. I actually think the regime in Iran is the best thing that could have happened to Isreal. It allows Isreal to constantly play the victim...

No it wasn't, because it forced the Israeli jews and their international supporters to double down against Turkey. It would have been better to keep things friendly to limit the extent in which they actively engage against Turkey. So you created an "open" enemy out of them and what benefit did...

Only the USA matters in this equation. Russia is no position to start a serious conflict with Turkey. Turkey has to calculate whether the USA would directly attack Turkish assets like they threatened to do last time. I don't personally think they will, too much to lose and far to soon in their...

Isreal has to keep her regional rivals divided and as long as Turkey was not hostile to Israel she had to limit and hide her actions against Turkey. The moment AK party went full mavi marmara we created a situation where isreal has nothing to gain by hiding her true intentions against Turkey. It...

I remember when they used to make jokes and laugh about Turkish drone programs. We got footage of our drones striking targets in libya, syria, iraq, azerbaijan and now ukraine, maybe tomorrow it will be greece.

When you spend years barking and doing very little, it becomes easy for the enemy to play games with Turkey, Erdogan is incompetent, he's not even 2% of the man Ataturk was. We are expecting things from a man whose constantly shown himself to be subpar.

The crazy thing is it was Turkey who refused the USA to invade Iraq from the north. I get the impression that being kind to nations in the middle east is the wrong way to behave. Being kind invites trouble, its almost like these people only respect force.

For me its about planning for the worst and hoping for the best. Mehmed the Conqueror ended up dragging an entire fleet over land in order to take Istanbul. Its that level of planning that we require where even the unimaginable is prepared for.

I say the best way to win, to succeed is weigh up every possibility and to act accordingly to what brings the most benefit to the Turkish nation. A leader who goes round constantly saying "I was deceived" is not fit for purpose. Sometimes what appears as minor mistakes made today in the long...

The geopolitical question has to be fully explored and taken into account. Otherwise we risk another s400/F35 fiasco. The government should take into account where she thinks she may need to militarily act in the next 20 to 30 years and whether any of these places will be a prime excuse for our...

yeah I couldnt agree more. I would expect that people who are dealing with the international media have at least some kind of training to at least know what they are dealing with and how to navigate it. Ecevit knew how to navigate the media. If you pay attention to the BBC interviewer every...

Which ak party minister isnt a moron? Gul knew how to navigate media interviews. He was the only one i saw in english media that knew how to deal with it. Davidson was a fool. Erdogans son in law a clown. Egeman Bagis an embarrassment. we could go on and on but that wasnt my point to begin...

Only guy during ak party years who knew how to conduct interviews with foreign media. Everyone else gets exposed and embarrassed. I'm not saying hes a good guy, bad guy etc, simply that he knew how to conduct himself when under media interrogation.

The only diplomat who knew how to talk to the west I've seen under the AK party years was Abdullah Gul. The rest have been shockingly naïve and incompetent. They go in blind and end up getting their pants pulled down by the same international media that ran stories that Turkey supports isis or...

Cornering Turkey geopolitically is not good for Turkey. The host asking the retarded question of will you sell drones to Russia was a clear trap. If he said yes, it paints Turkey as the enemy of the west, if he says no it makes the russians hate Turkey even more. And when Turkey has no options...

Complete lack of geopolitical nuance or diplomacy. She's cornering him to say we won't sell weapons to Russia, which indirectly harms the Turkish Russian relationship, which benefits America and the EU. Turkey doesnt exist to benefit America or Russia, she exists to benefit her own people and...

What are you seeing that makes it large scale? From what i understand its quite common for rotations?

One thing you find in nations that have dictatorships, the populations behave like zombies. I've noticed this zombie like behaviour is quite common among erdogan supporters. So in the iranian case we see a plane that is no more then a joke, but the iranians believed it to be better then the...

I remember when Iranians used to push this joke as a 5th gen fighter. If iranian drones were any good we would have seen it in syria this past 10 years. What Turkey did in idlib over the space of a few days in syria, the irainians have not shown anywhere in syria this past 10 years.

I remember before the s400 they actually wanted the Chinese deal, it was the cheapest and the Chinese offered full tech transfer. The Americans threatened Turkey that they would blacklist any Turkish company that cooperates with the chinese company. Then all of the sudden AK party said there...