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I've literally spoken to Algerians who dislike the Ottomans because they didn't stay and defend Algeria against the French. France is by far more hated among Algerians than the Ottomans ever were.

US dependency won't end with TF-X because Turkey has no experience in that area. I don't know why so many on this forum think that Turkey just needs to hold out long enough to start developing its own native systems. By the time the TF-X comes out, it will still be heavily outdated and Turkey...

Might not be true but I have heard before that Turkey's purchase of S-400 was basically blackmail by Russia to avoid certain details coming out about the government and to avoid Turkey having to enter a full-on war against Russia in Syria. It honestly makes more sense to me now than whatever...

Does anyone legitimately believe that Biden actually has enough control of his mental faculties to write anything? He's a puppet, the problem is figuring out who is the puppet master. All that's clear is that they are hostile to Turkey.

I think what Turkey needs most of all is a strict fitness regime across the board for all citizens and schoolchildren. Your obesity rates are kind of worrying, TBH. Not excusing Nazi Germany in any way but they had a great idea in investing in recreational activities to increase the average...

How's the renewable energy market in India looking? Or is it not really worth it to invest in stuff like wind turbines, geothermal and solar?

Weren't you guys selling some to Argentina too? I think China just got too comfortable with their role as the trade lynchpin of the world, so they forgot that there are other markets.

Kind of hilarious when you consider that Volkswagen was prevented from opening a factory in Turkey to slash labor costs only around a year prior. Now all the EU companies are rushing to outsource to Turkey with the global supply chain screwed by COVID-19.

I'd gladly trade our spot as F1 hosts to Turkey as well if it meant we wouldn't have to spend upwards of a week with all of Baku's traffic becoming even more of an unmanageable hell than it usually is. Istanbul doesn't seem to have the issues with cramped space that Baku does.

Iran will never be stupid enough to try and attack Azerbaijan directly. They'd get wrecked and probably lose a good portion of their land as well. They are good at proxy warfare but they have attempted in the past to use proxies to wield influence in Azerbaijan and it has failed miserably. I...

This will change nothing, youth unemployment has majorly to do with the fact that a lot of Turkish youth is overqualified yet is offered bad jobs for bad pay. You can't fix that by training people to be toilet cleaners or whatever. You fix that by fixing the economy and making people believe...

I find that difficult to believe, firstly because there's no way the US Army would ever let any government official reveal the number of nukes in our possession and secondly because I strictly remember hearing on last count that we had more than Russia, which has around 4000.

Feel sorry for those young sailors. Imagine becoming the symbol of national embarrassment on an international stage because your senior officers screwed you over in training.

"I have a dream that PKK carves out a bloody chunk of Turkey in the future." - A hypothetical Assad supporter. Let's not stoop down to that level, shall we? Don't contribute to the stereotype of Turks as having short fuses and long tongues.

Reddit is, pardon my French, a s***hole. Literally nothing there should be taken as an indicator of the overall feeling of the average American or European or Asian or whatever. Hell, even the Azerbaijani and Turkish subreddits there are a mess from what I've seen. It's just a festering cesspool...

I like to believe that the US government isn't that colossally stup...oh, who am I kidding, we're totally this stupid. Good news is that more than half of the US population now hates their government, so if Turkey were any good at international propaganda, you could do some major damage to...

And to my complete lack of surprise, of course Ilham Aliyev was in that list. $400 million...I swear, if you were to take all of the money being traded on the Azerbaijani "black market" and the amount that our ministers steal on an annual basis, our official GDP would be at least 4 times bigger...

Not that I think F-35 is an irredeemable piece of trash but you aren't really familiar with the US military-industrial complex if you think the army ordering lots of F-35s is an indicator of anything other than a money laundering scheme. It's not a completely garbage plane and I don't think a...

What's the award for? I'm guessing it's something to do with architecture? But what did the PKK build that merits this?

The freaking nerve of these people to compare themselves to the citizens of Afghanistan. Also, conveniently omitting that these same "allies" went running to Assad the moment TAF started bombing their asses to oblivion. What does "respond" mean? Launch artillery strikes at empty desert plains?