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Why not just send them back home? Why are Europe and Israel obliged to take them any more than Turkey is?

I'm guessing the intention is that it will function basically like hyper-accurate, self-propelled artillery. If you intend to use it as a regular tank, I can't think of any real advantage over standard ammunition. It also means you save money on building actual self-propelled artillery since...

I don't think so, it doesn't match up with the similarities. I mean hell, even the way orcs are created (elves tortured into becoming orcs) is a not so subtle reference to Janissaries...because taking conquered foreigners and assimilating them is totally something ONLY Turks did. Not like the...

This began to occur after the Mongols started having a resurgence as "the cool throat singing warriors" in pop-culture. Before that, acknowledging that Turkic people were pretty deeply intertwined with Mongolian history was commonly accepted but it was OK because this was the period of time when...

You seem oddly obsessed with the notion than any non-AKP government will immediately start kissing up to the PKK...even though being anti-PKK is like one of the few things that pretty much all political parties in Turkey, with the exception of HDP, agree on. And I somehow don't see HDP ever...

You keep talking about how it doesn't matter how Turkey conducts itself in foreign policy, it can fight its way out of any quagmire. My point was that any time Turkey or any nation really, tried this, it resulted in massive loss of life to rectify a problem that shouldn't have existed to begin...

So you think millions of Turks dying to save the country from the brink of destruction AGAIN is some noble endeavor? Being able to take the pain does not mean one has to actively seek out the pain. Enough with this veneration of suffering as some unique Turkish trait. Short-sighted means...

How the hell did that much oil even spill outta there? How much stuff are they digging out of the ground over there?

Dude, as someone who actually lives in the US and interacts with Americans on a regular basis - it's not even close. America has had way worse crises in its history. Saying the country is doomed is like looking at Turkey during the second-half of the 20th century and saying that the Ataturk...

Which is basically impossible and that was my point. Especially for Turkey, which is not yet near the point of being able to just throw away the US for Russia. You can try and maximize your independence but pretending like Turkey won't suffer heavily for it is short-sighted at best.

That would be nice but that's not how the world works. Ever heard the phrase "no man is an island"? It applies to nations too. You may not like either America or Russia much but one is clearly a much worse choice in the long run.

Greek and Armenian lobbies I can understand but why keep bundling Jews with them? Jews are probably one of the least hostile lobbies to Turkey in the US, if we analyze closely. And that's considering that Erdogan says on virtually a daily basis that Palestinians will be victorious, glory to God...

America may not be the titan it once was but trading it for Russia, a country that likely won't survive the middle of this century, is insanity. America will get knocked down, reform and get back up again as it enters its Roman Empire period. Russia already passed that period and is dying...

I find monuments to people to be cringe, personally. One aspect of Turkic culture I don't really like is that we venerate ordinary people too much, some of which, quite frankly don't deserve it whatsoever. Even the Ataturk cult of personality was something Mustafa Kemal quite disliked and...

Clearly someone hasn't been paying attention.

What don't you like about them, too much Hollywood-ization? BTW I agree at least about the Netflix TV series, they bastardized it. Henry Cavill is a decent actor but a terrible choice for Geralt.

Poland owes Andrzej Sapkowski a lifetime weekly payout for single-handedly making the entire country relevant in pop-culture. People literally only know the place for 3 things: 1) Winged Hussars. 2) Getting double-teamed by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in WW2. 3) The Witcher series.

I am not an expert but isn't there like 2 or 3 different groups that call themselves Alevis in Turkey with differing beliefs? And that's where the confusion comes from?

Don't be so sure, it's kind of a semi-well-known fact that intelligence agencies worldwide use fake profiles and sometimes even pay people to spy or shill for them online. It's not their secret weapon or anything but it is something that they have in their arsenal. Not that I am accusing anyone...

OK, I've been out of the loop for awhile, what the hell is happening in Afghanistan? What is this ISIS-K s**t? I only heard that 13 American soldiers died because it was all over the news but other than that...