Even in India today
Persians have no real significance in the Muslim vs Christian fight. The Arabs faded away quickly after their rise, they were even crushed trying to take Constantinople. Only really Spain and the battle of tours holds some significance in this Muslim vs Christian narrative...
no doubts it goes on to a certain degree, but i have no doubts that many exploit it also. Its kind of like how many PKK who get arrested claim their occupation is as a journalist. They use that as a smokescreen to defend their affiliation to the PKK while also using it tarnish the image of...
The other problem you get with the PKK is every time they are captured they all claim the same thing, they were forced to join. It reminds me of the early days when the Russians captured were claiming they didnt even know they were fighting a war, its clearly nonsense in most cases.
basically...
i got that dude on ignore, he's insanely ignorant.
Even the two terrorist attacks from anders brevik and the christchurch guy their primary motivation was hatred of Turks. No european fears pakistan or indian subcontinent Muslims taking them over. Islam in that region has no basis for europeans...
It used to be this way in the whole of europe. To them a Turk was a Muslim and a Muslim was a Turk. Even today their fear and animosity towards Muslims stems from Turkish Muslim history.
The rest of the muslim world they feel in their hearts they are superior too, however the Turk continues to...
I've been to a few areas filled with syrians in Turkey and it didnt look like they were assimilating at all, they don't even want to learn the language. Go to fatih district as an example. I remember walking around that place walking in and speaking Turkish to the shop owners and bar one out of...
Another 10 years of this failure in Syria and it may be too late for Turkey, you are going to face a problem where a state will be set up against you that entirely hates you. Another Greece or Armenia and while these nations try to harm you internationally, the state on your border will be set...
From we will come suddenly one night to we will never forget. I'm sure the USA is trembling at erdogan constantly talking but doing nothing. I'm sure Putin and the USA are concerned whether you will forget or not, you were the same guy who tried to hide from the Turkish nation that Russians...
Every chance Russia had to screw Turkey they took it without fail, they never missed an opportunity to harm Turkey and her regional interests. These Russians are getting screwed in Ukraine and basically got exposed to the world that they are not a serious military let alone a super power. Still...
No idea why AK party cronies have been helping iran bust sanctions while filling their own pockets. Is that what you guys voted them in to do? To utilise that privlede position to make money for themselves and risk the interests of the state?
Just imagine if the Turks did the same to their Christian subjects, all of them made Muslim and made to speak Turkish. No armenian problem, no greek problem and half of europe today would identify as Turkish.
Maybe over 40 empires and next to no one was made Turkish. Europeans enter a land and...
The Russian state treats its citizens as nothing more then slave peasants to be used for the oligarchs personal interests, yet these peasants absolutely worship their overlords. Only other nation i can think of where its people behave in a similar way is China.
Always fascinating to see these long range forecasts/predictions. It reminds me of the Ukrainian adviser to Zelensky who 2 years before the war started predicted when it would start, what would happen and in the end Russia will be defeated.