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Turkey was never a Third World country, by its original definition or when it comes to the automotive industry. Going to have to stop your populism right there. Having a Turkish brand is good, but most of the local car brands are from joint ventures, so at least half domestic with r&d done here...

We have money disappearing too here, but the HSR projects have been doing allright. Of course, the projects always go to Erdogans people.

This is not PPP, this is a loan for a train line thats going to be build. We dont have private trains or train tracks in Turkey. I can see the construction of this line from my mothers house in her village, it had been a very slow construction so far and I hope it will speed up now with the...

TOGG and Ford Otosan do not even compete afaik. Ford Otosan is mostly producing commercial vehicles. Ford Otosan is very much export focused. Every cent spend on an employee earning money, building the factory, R&D and at least 40% of the profits that are distributed (if at all) remain in...

Just my 2cents: Refugees and the money spend on them dont just disappear. They are spend on food, rent and groceries and most of it end ups in the economy anyway. I, for one, like to see the exodus of Russian and Ukrainians IT professionals to Turkey. Can't compare them to refugees from Syria...

Ford Otosan is 40% Koc, 40% Ford and 20% free float. Ford Otosan has also bough Ford Romania and its plant. It is one of the biggest players in its market.

Are you still in the region or did you make it out?

EV have a long way to go when it comes to cold temperatures. Once AC is running and the battery is cold the maximum range of my car for example drops to 50-60%.

They should be angry at themselves too, where was the air defence of Croatia? This is describing pretty much why NATO is effectively 5-6 countries contributing, and the rest are free loathers. This was the only thing that I ever agreed with coming out of Trumps mouth.

In short term there will be less business with both countries, so definitely not good for the economy. Turkey can still do business with Russia in ruble, if they can afford it of course. There will be lots of new export opportunities. But will the Russians be able to buy it? If so when will...

Germany will spend an additional one time 100 bln on top of raising the yearly investments to, I believe, 100 bln €. How good that money will be spent remains to be seen, because Germany is bureaucratic and slow. Then there's the issue of big money being spent on Consulting companies. And...

Because the order was rather small in value and thus did not require approval from the congress or something. Pakistans order was big and currently has no chance of being approved.

Nothing to do with Israel, the Ukraine war is giving us the opportunity for a reset in foreign policy and I hope we use it wisely.

Analysts put the probability of Russia going bankrupt at around 80%. Either Russia wins by then and then still has to face stiff resistance in Ukraine or they default and will face uprisings, have to deal with unpaid soldiers and leadership. Military situation aside, Russia will be damaged for...

Our electricity, too, is partly generated by Iranian and Russian gas/oil. But good to see the grids connected, probably just a drop in the bucket total consumption wise but might lead to a couple less days with power cuts in the summer months.

The Turkish language part is probably what some of them are after. But such a change would require a referendum. Do you see any chance that this referendum would pass? I dont think so, so let them talk as much as they want. Its a talking point to gather Kurdish votes and that wont happen to...

I know its in bad taste, but nows the time to hire Ukrainian, maybe even Russian engineers.

Seems like your issue starts with free speech. People are free to say what they want and its another entire different thing for it to get approved and get set into law. Just my 2 cents since you seem to be scared by democracy.

Hello Publius, this forums language is English, except for the occasional off-topic post in the respective subforums. Feel free to report or remind posts that do not provide translations. To answer your question, no there's no translation button but DeepL and Google Translate work just fine...

Dagestan, Tartastan etc should declare themselves independent if things go sour. Russia is using the natural ressources and literally human ressources to fight its dirty wars.