If president senile declares it was a genocide, IMO it will be a massive stain on our identity and tooled against us and future generations. Being this helpless and vulnerable to US actions is a further insult to our ancestors.
Has a tacky feel to it imho. Looks like something from Madam Tussaud’s. And the mounted welcoming procession is a bit try-hard. No one does that stuff as good as the Poms.
From what I’ve been able to gather, the demilitarized requirement for the 12 Islands was included in the Paris treaty due to Turkey’s insistence and taking into consideration an earlier agreement from 1932 between Italy and Turkey. Turkey had rights to be party to the treaty but chose not to...
IMO, The language from the Turkish side was more “never say never” rather than “we’re ready to do whatever it takes”. What Turkey has done here is shown the Egyptian public and Arabs in general that by doing it Turkey’s way, Egypt gains significantly more than from their agreement with the...
A combined 18000 Sq km of Greek Aegean islands would give over 70% of 215000 Sq Km of sea to Greece based on her fallback on UNCLOS. Why would Turkey ratify this? 18000 Sq Km is about 135km by 135km - you get 150000sq km of sea because your islands combined barely make up the peninsula from...
My understanding of that ruling is that China’s maximalist claim was rejected. The bunch of atols and islets that make up Spratly are hundreds of km away from mainland China and closer to the Philippines and even Brunei for that matter. Not only that, the South China Sea has serious territorial...
If the geography is unusual then it is not unreasonable to expect the solution to also be unusual. Hence why UNCLOS shouldn't be treated as the be all and end all due to the convenient argument of customary law.