Off course, the "West" does see Turkey as a competitor
There's no infinite growth.
When Turkey expands influence and power it does so at the expense of other powers.
In Caucasus the French, USA wielded influence for 30 years through Minsk-Group without producing any results.
Now Azerbaijan...
Please link Kotil's statement that KAAN's software is Dassault.
What Dassault may have provided Turkey is some fancy graphical frontend where you first of all click and then "try, simulate, get error, retry". Basically where the software tells you that sequence of clicks is possible, but your...
I doubt KAAN or any Turkish flying platform is using Dassault-Windows/Whatever as its operating system.
Dassault has their software because they had a use-case with their planes.
Their coding history started without today's AI / supercomputer / development environment, which I can imagine was...
You don't need Chat GPT answering you questions about Hitler or Mars.
Huelague is right: AI will or probably is already writing code.
AI needs to be fed with coding best-practices (books, Professor, Coders), the ability to interpret what you are asking of it and its own simulation environment...
Trump only has 4 years, then it is over with his active career.
I expect him to rule ruthlessly, and in a quick style not tolerating any kind of behavior within his own ranks against his wishes be it on Türkiye or other areas.
Pompeo was anti-Turkish to the core.
The other guys mentioned for a potential role in Trump government are still politicians.
Once they are part of the government they get full / better access to intelligence, more time with Trump personally.
Then they might change their tune.
No official in...
In next months depending on how Imamoglu sponsored PKK behaves in Istanbul we may see Kayums in Istanbul.
It's a double-edged sword for Imamoglu, he's hostage to HDP/DEM/PKK.
If PKK burns down Istanbul with their new-found breathing-space in Istanbul paralel to upcoming Iraq/Syria operations of...
Today I listened to a Twitter space.
There some said the Karadeniz faction within AKP wonders about post -Erdogan AKP and they've no problem with Imamoglu as long as a Karadenizli is running the show. That limited the party efforts to make Kurum win at all costs and an AKP Istanbul candidate...
Serious pollsters like Hakan Bayrakci say voters punished Erdogan because they were waiting for an economical election gift.
When it didn't come they also didn't show up at the ballot box.
Imamoglu received over 310.000 votes less than in previous election although all PKK and IYI votes went to him.
Voter turnout was significantly lower than in previous election, that's why you have to look at absolute numbers.
Yavas increased his votes by 335.000.
Depending on how Presidential...
Turkey's trade-deficit with USA peaked in 2011 with a staggering deficit of 9.4 billion $.
2021 (first 9 months) Turkey is recording trade-surplus of 3.7 billion $.
It's probably the best data ever in US-Turkish trade relationship.
https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4890.html
Germany (€), Japan (Yen), Switzerland (CHF) etc. invest huge sums into R&D, there's innovation around every corner be it in top-class universities or world-leading companies.
These are fully industrialized countries not for 2-3 years but for decades ! Just imagine how much money is in their...
In Germany there are jobs where you earn ridiculous amount of salary.
But, there's not much of these jobs and competition is vast.
In my big company there are people earning 10.000 to 30.000 € every month, but they're the minority distorting per person GDP statistics.
Most of people living in...
Sustainability is key, but there's no sustainability with strong TL.
In 2011 the TL / $ exchange rate was around 1.80, but Turkey ran over 60 Billion $ trade-deficit.
By 2019 with successive weakening of TL Turkey had 21 billion $ trade surplus.
Surplus went into deficit again in 2020 but only...
Petkim had its highest profit ever in Q2 / 2021
http://socar.com.tr/kurumsal-iletisim/haberler/2021-haberler//2021/08/17/petkim-2021-ceyrekaciklama
Sabanci achieved double-digit growth in all of its subsidaries in first half 2021...
Kuvayi Milliye Kemal and current CHP + HDP voted against extending authorization for troop deployment in Iraq and Syria.
Why nobody is talking about this?
Pitty for Afghan people, but Taliban are at the gates of the airport, not much Turkey can do because Taliban can always storm the airport or fire simple mortars at the airport
What will happen with 40 Maarif schools in Afghanistan ?
