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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...

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.