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Yeeeah, no offense man but you have no clue what you are talking about. The Jewish/Irish/Italian divide disappeared years ago. You are talking like we are still living in the early 20th century. Assimilation worked so well on them that they don't even see themselves as separate anymore, the...

Islam literally does not acknowledge any other gods aside from THE GOD, the eternal master of all existence. I am not an expert on Judaism but I'm pretty sure that they do acknowledge other gods. Even Christianity sorta bends to it with the "you shall have no other gods before me". Even the...

I actually agree with Friedman that the US will survive. I've experienced America long enough that I can tell you not to be misled by what is happening on the big political stage, America has had way worse in its history. I do expect a civil conflict at some point or a political crisis but...

Guiseppe is a legend in volleyball and it helps that the Turkish women's team is very ambitious and hard-working. Their weakness is that they sometimes get too overconfident after a streak of victories, like the recent European volleyball championship where they were crushing teams left and...

George Friedman made some good guesses on the progress of the world back in the early 2000s but it's hilarious to see him make such a 180 on China. I prefer Peter Zeihan. He's also kind of an idiot but at least he isn't shackled to Cold War mentality in the way that Friedman is.

Yeah, CHP is disappointing me with these moves. I'd still vote for Mansur Yavaş if he ran but because of his qualities as an individual politician, not because of the party. At this point, I expect many new parties to start popping up. I'm sure people already know how much trouble the American...

My concern is more about loose cannons. The less you permit soldiers to take down enemy forces in an orderly manner, the more of a chance that they will do so in a disorderly one. It's better to kill a Russian bomber pilot with a planned strike and a planned diplomatic response than to have a...

Just shoot one of them out of the sky and then say "oopsie". Works for Russians, it will work for you.

Gagash, they're getting freebies from Russia as we speak. They recently got $2.6 billion from the EU for basically crying about getting their asses kicked by us and did their best to lobby against the US recently giving Azerbaijan mine-clearing equipment because they still won't give up the mine...

It's good that these exercises are being carried out. As said above, Russia is preparing Armenia for Round 3, so we need to be ready. They could've simply let bygones be bygones after the Soviet Union fell, like the Baltic countries did (for example, Estonia has territorial claims on Latvia...

Turkish Navy going all-in on the unmanned stuff. Can't wait for the battle droids.

Huh. OK, how the hell did I miss that, I scrolled through like a dozen times. My attention span really needs work. My apologies for taking up space, I'm happy to delete the post and move it to the other forum.

It's not impossible, it just requires some finesse and a willingness to play hardball with international, two-faced criticism which will follow. Legally, Turkey has every right to deport them according to the laws in effect with the Syrians.

Finland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and like half a dozen other nations not named Italy or Japan fought alongside Nazis. Sweden literally sold oil and natural gas to Nazis during the war. The Soviet Union invited Nazi officials to participate in their first ever victory parade in...

I am aware that there are minorities that make Turkish crime rates in Europe look worse than they really are (and even then, in countries with the "worst behaved" Turkish minorities like Germany, the Turkish community still has a much better track record even when you account for non-Turks being...

I know that this isn't technically Turkish-related but since there is no Azerbaijani forum and I thought you guys should know... I suspect Iran is deliberately trying to instigate this BS, might even be foreign interference. I know they've been deliberately moving Kurds into...

That was not a friendly tap. You can literally see the kid squinting in pain and his head shaking slightly from the "friendly" taps. The fact that Erdogan had a generally pleasant exchange with the boy before that does not change this. It's possible that this was unintentional on Erdogan's...

Secular defender who is against woman getting a chance in the army. vs. Bosnian Muslim who is all for women getting a chance in the army. Dammit, where's my camera?

Turkey's government institutions need some serious house cleaning. Too many parasites have been let inside...