If i knew someone who was going on that mavi maramara, i would have told him not to. I would have said the isrealis could shoot you and their is nothing Turkey can do about it. Meanwhile your deaths will be exploited for personal benefits concerning AK party. It will also create a geographic...
If Isreal didnt exist, i'm telling you now that all of the surrounding Arab nations would be exceptionally hostile towards Turkey. Since our creation the arabs have done next to nothing for us, to the contrary they have in most cases always supported our rivals. Just look at the syrian refugees...
Whats important is the decisions the Turkish state makes, under AK party they have been terrible. Everyone is playing a geopolitical game in the middle east, from nations native to it and nations outside of it.
As Turks we should be concerned with the performance of our own decision making...
Its not about them its about the position Turkey placed herself in where all of these people who hate each other and oppose each can find common purpose together in opposing Turkey.
Just like when the USA and Russia together moved against Turkey in west Syria to close us into al bab region, or...
There was point in time where i used to think that all this failure was being done on purpose, i honestly couldn't believe that anyone could be this stupid and this naïve. But it was when he put his incompetent son in law in charge of the central bank i realised we are dealing with an...
Iran for the past 30 to 40 years has killed more Muslims then Israel has. Its actions across the region have only destabilised it and divided the Muslim world. I actually think the regime in Iran is the best thing that could have happened to Isreal. It allows Isreal to constantly play the victim...
No it wasn't, because it forced the Israeli jews and their international supporters to double down against Turkey. It would have been better to keep things friendly to limit the extent in which they actively engage against Turkey.
So you created an "open" enemy out of them and what benefit did...
Only the USA matters in this equation. Russia is no position to start a serious conflict with Turkey. Turkey has to calculate whether the USA would directly attack Turkish assets like they threatened to do last time. I don't personally think they will, too much to lose and far to soon in their...
Isreal has to keep her regional rivals divided and as long as Turkey was not hostile to Israel she had to limit and hide her actions against Turkey. The moment AK party went full mavi marmara we created a situation where isreal has nothing to gain by hiding her true intentions against Turkey. It...
I remember when they used to make jokes and laugh about Turkish drone programs. We got footage of our drones striking targets in libya, syria, iraq, azerbaijan and now ukraine, maybe tomorrow it will be greece.
When you spend years barking and doing very little, it becomes easy for the enemy to play games with Turkey,
Erdogan is incompetent, he's not even 2% of the man Ataturk was.
We are expecting things from a man whose constantly shown himself to be subpar.
The crazy thing is it was Turkey who refused the USA to invade Iraq from the north.
I get the impression that being kind to nations in the middle east is the wrong way to behave. Being kind invites trouble, its almost like these people only respect force.
For me its about planning for the worst and hoping for the best. Mehmed the Conqueror ended up dragging an entire fleet over land in order to take Istanbul. Its that level of planning that we require where even the unimaginable is prepared for.
I say the best way to win, to succeed is weigh up every possibility and to act accordingly to what brings the most benefit to the Turkish nation. A leader who goes round constantly saying "I was deceived" is not fit for purpose.
Sometimes what appears as minor mistakes made today in the long...
The geopolitical question has to be fully explored and taken into account. Otherwise we risk another s400/F35 fiasco.
The government should take into account where she thinks she may need to militarily act in the next 20 to 30 years and whether any of these places will be a prime excuse for our...
yeah I couldnt agree more. I would expect that people who are dealing with the international media have at least some kind of training to at least know what they are dealing with and how to navigate it.
Ecevit knew how to navigate the media.
If you pay attention to the BBC interviewer every...