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I always wondered what the whole story was. I've heard Greek Cypriots claiming that while EOKA B were violent extremists, that EOKA wasn't too bad and only wanted freedom from the British occupation and in fact only targeted Turkish Cypriot law enforcement that were collaborating with the...

Anne Applebaum is a mainstream media hack, so I wouldn't take her too seriously. BTW, who is the guy on the far left? I don't really recognise him.

Reminds me of how Iceland imprisoned pretty much of all their bankers after the Great Recession and forced them to pay back all the money they stole from the public. Based Icelanders.

Is Mansur Yavaş officially running for president yet? I think he's just about the only potential candidate that I like now. İmamoğlu seems like too much of a showman and Kılıçdaroğlu, well, his actions and words speak for themselves. Meral Akşener seems like a pretty good choice too. Turkey...

Lake Sevan. Fun fact, most of the area around Lake Sevan used to belong to Azerbaijan during the Soviet Union because the area had a majority population of Azerbaijanis. It was agreed that it would be transferred to Soviet Armenia because they lacked an appropriate water source. During the late...

Armenian news reporting 10 servicemen killed, 6 captured and 2 strategic positions lost. They also claim to have destroyed several armored vehicles of the Azerbaijani army. I used Google translate, from my (very) limited knowledge of Armenian, they translate more or less accurately...

Documentary was still fairly lopsided. They may point out one aspect of Turkish Cypriot suffering but then drown it in five times as much hand-wringing about Greek Cypriots. I am not even gonna mention the comments, which barely have any sympathy for TCs.

Possibly but it's a hell of a lot more difficult to sell that propaganda when you're not actively taking actions to prove them right. I always try to make this point here but unfortunately, I don't think many members quite get it yet.

No, you misunderstand me. I am saying that the Turkish government doubles down on actions that mess up the whole country's reputation worldwide and does not seem to know the value of not giving your enemies ammunition to hammer you in a PR war. I don't want Azerbaijan to go down that path...

If Erdogan didn't screw the economy so hard, there wouldn't be any need for cash injections from the UAE. Same goes for Qatar. Political w***e.

Aw, c**p. Erdogan is slave to Qatar, let's hope he's out of power soon or Qatar's influence is diminished.

Regardless, it's stupid to give them more ammunition and us less ways to defend ourselves. What you are proposing is the exact same reason that Turkey is in such deep s**t geopolitically today.

Uh, I'm pretty sure at one point Erdo wanted to sell TB2 to KSA. The modernization process also started before him.

Of course they won't. NATO, at most, will supply weapons to Ukraine and slap some more sanctions on Russia (or more specifically, on certain individuals in Russia, because the sanctions don't target Russia's economy as a whole) which most Russians will barely notice anyway and then watch as...

That's...not what happened. You've got cause and effect somewhat backwards. The US didn't really care about Turkey rising, what the US cared about was Turkey rising while aligning itself in a possibly hostile manner to the US. It's kind of difficult to argue that the US' increasing support...

He will take votes from Haftar, so that's good. He might not be as hostile to Turkish interests. The EU might support him because he might bring stability and is Western-educated and is not a wannabe dictator like Haftar. As for whether he's a good or bad choice for the people of Libya, I will...

Yeah, I've seen videos of Turkish police units. The Turkish army is generally well-disciplined and professional from what I see but the police seem like they gathered a bunch of village dopes, gave them 1 month of training, handed them some guns and told them to go nuts. The amount of tactical...

Eh, I'm not too keen on us pushing into Zangezur. I don't want us to stoop to the Armenian level of claiming territory. I mean, my family comes from Zangezur so it'd be cathartic, I suppose, on a personal level but on a national level, it is disastrous and frankly I want us, as a people, to be...

He is. Mentioned it before but this is good news for Turkey, since Trump is a hell of a lot less hostile than Biden's cabinet. It's also good news for the US since the country has gone to massive s**t since the Democrats won and I am genuinely not sure if Biden will hold out until 2024. We...

Wrong thread, champ. Although it's kind of funny to me how Tigrayans ended up being the rebellious class when the entire reason they were pushed out of the Ethiopian political scene is because for pretty much most of Ethiopia's existence as a state, Tigrayans were the upper-class running the...