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Humanitarian aid entails monetary support and that is still continuing apparently.

It's literally impossible for Turkey to demand that. NATO membership is binding, once you're in, you're in. In order for Turkey to be able to revoke Finland and Sweden's membership, you'd have to essentially change the legal structure of NATO itself, which would also massively backfire on Turkey...

I can understand Saudi Arabia but Israel actually did apologize and pay compensation for the flotilla incident, which was more than a decade ago.

Who is the governor of Hatay and what are their political connections?

Perverts in government? Say it isn't so! As for pride parades, I wouldn't really mind them if they were like in Japan where people walk around dressed normally and smiling while waving happy flags. Instead we've got weirdos in drag outfits simulating sexual acts in front of and handing out...

Long overdue too, Roe v. Wade was blatantly unconstitutional and based off the testimony of a woman who lied about being raped. Not sure why lefties are crying though, all this means is that abortion will be up to states to decide and more than 2/3rds of US states already legalized abortion on...

If you think a handful of F-15s could provide air superiority for Greece against Turkey, you need a reality check pal. Turkey was not surprised in the slightest over Cyprus. It was a problem that was talked about all the way back in the early 1950s and the only reason Turkey didn't intervene...

Not nearly as funny as you are. I am well aware of how much money Saudi Arabia makes from oil sales. And my point was that they still don't hoard it away in corruption as much as, for example, Turkey does. The Saudi royal family is extremely open about the fact that they are taking up to 1/3 of...

One thing I appreciate about Gulf Arabs is that they don't really hoard their wealth. They've got f**k you levels of money and they spread it around enough that even the average citizens can live a fairly comfortable upper middle-class life. Turkey does not have that, neither does Azerbaijan or...

Greece is an irrelevant distraction as has been pointed out before. And Saudis don't control shit when Israel has the final say on who does and doesn't get the latest US tech. Also worth noting that the Saudi "embargo" was mostly on-paper only. Many Saudi businesses continued trade with Turkey...

No, that's stupid.

Civilians as a general rule should not drive military affairs. The only input a civilian administration should have into the military is the question: "Can we defeat [insert antagonist here]?" There's a thing called separation of church and state. Well, an equally important but rarely known...

Turkey's already trying to be non-aligned and it's not really working too well. You either pick a side or you make a side. As the joke goes "the problem with playing the middle-man is that you get it from both sides". Greeks are a distraction who are in even deeper shit economically than...

"openly courts" And obviously no mention that Turkey "courts" Russia as in, does diplomacy with them, on behalf of the EU.

Huh. So theoretically, if the issue of delivery systems is worked out, Turkey could have functioning nukes in 2-3 years?

I've heard that COVID-19 regulations may be a cover for something else like preparations for a future conflict but who the hell knows at this point.

After all that I've observed about AKP and Turkish politics, this seems like political suicide. AKP supporters or at least anti-CHP proponents on here keep pointing out that AKP is the only one that will combat PKK, they are just going to throw this away?

What's the procedure for clearing out these tunnels? Seal them up and let the trapped PKK starve to death?

Russia usually includes Turkey in all of these things as an attempt to pry them away from the Western camp and also cast shadow on Turkey's relations with the West. Even if Turkey didn't ask or want to be included, people will still get suspicious.

Personally, I'm rooting for some real science-fiction-style wunderwaffes. Or, y'know, something that nobody else has even thought of yet.