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The idea that lower interest rates = more investment only really works if your country has solid regulations and rule of law so investors can be sure that if they invest A, they'll get B or at worst, C. Not invest A and get B, C, X, Z, W, F or G. Italy, Portugal and Spain are the 3 biggest...

It was mostly a joke but there is a considerable amount of evidence out there on the CIA funneling weapons to ISIS and its affiliates. Hell, one of the reasons why the Syrian opposition got so infested with jihadists is because the US and NATO imported them into their ranks. CIA working with...

ISIS never went away, it's just one of our American toys to f**k with people we don't like. Also to c**kblock China from digging their claws into Afghanistan. What, you thought ISIS-K popping up almost immediately as US withdrawal commenced was just a coincidence? Fear the might of the CIA, b***h!

Frankly I don't know why Turkey keeps holding on to the S-400s, they are not even activated yet (4 years after purchase) and the F-35 would be, despite my issues with how bloated the program is, a vastly better investment. The S-400 wouldn't be able to protect Turkish mainland from any...

This would be so much easier if Turkey and Greece did not have a tense relationship. Just notify authorities of both countries of where you want to finish, get almost immediate approval and done.

Credit should go to the operator too.

Try archive.today then post the resulting links to the saved page. Reminds me of Abdulhamid II who took out massive loans which he wasted on extravagant building projects and left Turkey in massive debt which the country had to keep paying off until, like, 1954 IIRC. Kind of ironically fitting...

Really? Link? You can provide an archive link if you don't want to give AJ clicks. Wouldn't be surprised, I long figured Qatar will drop Turkey the moment Erdogan or (hopefully) his successors decide to stop selling out Turkish interests for them.

So it's basically a copy of the Milkor MGL? Not that it's a bad thing or anything but I'm a bit surprised since MKEK apparently produces MGLs domestically anyway.

Some of them were probably looted from caches left behind by NATO forces. Others...might have been given.

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.