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That's the real issue for this pipeline. Turkey doesn't recognize South Cyprus. Cyprus and Israel doesn't recognize Northern Cyprus. You either pass through Cypriot or Syrian EEZ. As Syria is a non starter, how does this work? Do we push for North Cypriot recognition, recognize South Cyprus in...

Turkey shutting itself off to India, world's new most populous country doesn't make much sense and I doubt Pakistanis care this much re these tankers. They are mostly to be used with big fleet formations against China anyhow.

One possible reason is that we are really not interested in butting heads with Iran in any great scale. That'd be just clash of elephants, coğrafyayı kan götürür...

Turkish police literally raided the embassy. Police can't raid foreign soil with a Turkish prosecutor in tow. Thinking about that Indian Navy tanker deal for 5 ships though. First ship was to be delivered in 2025 but we've seen no updates either in Turkey or in India. I believe they were to be...

Hard agree. Even thinking about building a carrier with help from UK at at least 40k tonnes when our frigates are speedily getting outdated is absurd.

My gut says Iran. Barzanis are very unhappy with the newfound PUK/Iranian love.

False. That's not how embassies work. It is still very much Turkish soil. I think he's referring to building production lines in other countries, transferring know how and training personnel. Yes, Original Arma is Arma I. We do not know if that number is even correct or if it's final, or what...

Disagree on this. So far, we only sell to UN recognized central governments, noone else. It was MBS who ordered the murder of a Saudi national on Turkish soil and Erdogan who promised that justice would be had. Those are the ones who set it up.

Germans didn't export any arms to Saudis since 2018. I'm fine with backtracking statements and of course you can only make peace with your past enemies. These are constants of politics. I just feel bad about all the talk about Saudis bombing Yemeni children. All for naught.

Looks like 2022's record will be quickly broken this year. Someone give a glass of cold water to Kaşıkçı's wife, and hope the ceasefire in Yemen holds.

MKE manager says their export figures which was at 30 million$ last year rose to 400million$ in the first half of this year and all of it was made possible by "stocks that were ready"? MKE is also building manufacturing lines for 3 countries and is in talks with 8 more.

What i'm getting at is that Caber Castle is not Turkish land. The second location is.

Small South Korean economy is 2 times that of Turkish one and they spend 2.5 times more on their military. We also do not have a North Korea we need to circle, a China we need to stop and a Japan we need to keep at bay.

Caber Castle is not Turkish land AFAIK. After Tabqa Dam was built and the castle became an island on the Lake Assad in 70s, our exclave and the tomb was moved north. This was the tomb and the Turkish exclave inside Syria, 80kms from Turkey, east of Manbij. After 2015, tomb was brought 200m...

I suggest we run them off business and then absorb what's left. So many bribes going on, it'd just muddy the waters to cooperate. Paramount, easy to say that is very dirty and lots of shady dealings have been going on. Their customers being African states and ex Soviet countries and almost noone...

Would easily become the biggest Turkish arms sale, no? Not so sure about the news tho. Apart from the language, when Paramount Group is involved, I don't think they are too above of using op-ed hit pieces. This might just be fluff to change public opinion.

Don't see how we can call that attempt "KRG", tbh. If you were to say PUK, maybe. US support to ENKS/KNC is minimal. And now US is trying to directly make up relations between PUK and PKK in Syria and looks to have abandoned ENKS. -- It's the second drone loss near Kandil in a month. Might be...

Is there an actual in depth, preferably non Turkish review of the production model that I can watch? Youtube search didn't help.

Wonder which Turkish UAV users use which FLIR(Wescam, Hensoldt, Aselsan) on their drones. Could be a great little OSINT project for future reference. I miss having free time.

YN-ZMA program does supposedly consist of both tracked and wheeled components. Still waiting for a slimmer of official info tho. What I read few years ago* hinted at wheeled vehicles being the priority and from ACV IFVs being modernized, we can surmise that has not yet changed. Found it. Per...