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Guys, have any of you received a visitor invitation for IDEF'23? As you know, the fair is very close.
 

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Mine arrive today
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Two days ago we passed 20. anniversy of Hood Event which presented new dilemma for Turkiye's national security as U.S. stopped pretending be our ally and started openly acting as PKK's main sponsor.While United States taking control of PKK and being its main sponsor started all way at early 90s with fall of Soviet Union.Only difference is they have denying this reality and their support to PKK was rather low as they still actted like our ally but 2001 Iraq Invasion coming they stopped hiding their intentions and started doing their thing openly.Finally failed coup attemp of Gulenist(resident American assets) and their purge by Erdogan this support became even more forceful caused U.S.-TR relationship status to fall to nearly zero as of today.

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Two days ago we passed 20. anniversy of Hood Event which presented new dilemma for Turkiye's national security as U.S. stopped pretending be our ally and started openly acting as PKK's main sponsor.While United States taking control of PKK and being its main sponsor started all way at early 90s with fall of Soviet Union.Only difference is they have denying this reality and their support to PKK was rather low as they still actted like our ally but 2001 Iraq Invasion coming they stopped hiding their intentions and started doing their thing openly.Finally failed coup attemp of Gulenist(resident American assets) and their purge by Erdogan this support became even more forceful caused U.S.-TR relationship status to fall to nearly zero as of today.

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The Turks have to do what the Somalis did.

Drag American soldiers in the streets of Istanbul.

If not the hood event will never be avenged.
 

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Wrong place?


No I am actually serious

The forum used to be more active before 4 months . just look at IDEF 2023 , almost just two mentions about them .

in this week I have seen the threads not active for almost 2 days ( talking about the Turkish forum )
 

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Because there is not so much to talk about.
Wait for the IDEF2023.
 

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No I am actually serious

The forum used to be more active before 4 months . just look at IDEF 2023 , almost just two mentions about them .

in this week I have seen the threads not active for almost 2 days ( talking about the Turkish forum )


All the developments and announcements were obviously scrammed in time for the elections.
Going to take a while for new announcements.
 
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No I am actually serious

The forum used to be more active before 4 months . just look at IDEF 2023 , almost just two mentions about them .

in this week I have seen the threads not active for almost 2 days ( talking about the Turkish forum )
People are on holliday(even a couple of staff members) and there is much geopolitics going on,you'll hear/see in the coming days.
 
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What is the reasoning behind such a small share of GDP allocated for defence ? Is this a joke ? Turkiye has the most active armed forces on this list and is constantly in conflict and has the highest risk of war yet is allocating a lower share of gdp then norway and canada . It is also one of the 3 countries to decrease their defence budget ( in terms of % of GDP) despite increasing global tension. An armed force that already had insufficient funds to procure/upgrade vehicles/ equipment has only just gone and further decreased the budget ...
this has really trigerred me to be honest , any reasoning behind this ? or something that I missed like jandarmas budget being seperate from this ( still not a good enough reason as the armed forces are responsible for the defence of the nation and thus needs a much higer share of GDP, jandarma , as much as they are effective at anti-guerilla operations, are not capable/expected to engage an armed force such as iran or syria).
 

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What is the reasoning behind such a small share of GDP allocated for defence ? Is this a joke ? Turkiye has the most active armed forces on this list and is constantly in conflict and has the highest risk of war yet is allocating a lower share of gdp then norway and canada . It is also one of the 3 countries to decrease their defence budget ( in terms of % of GDP) despite increasing global tension. An armed force that already had insufficient funds to procure/upgrade vehicles/ equipment has only just gone and further decreased the budget ...
this has really trigerred me to be honest , any reasoning behind this ? or something that I missed like jandarmas budget being seperate from this ( still not a good enough reason as the armed forces are responsible for the defence of the nation and thus needs a much higer share of GDP, jandarma , as much as they are effective at anti-guerilla operations, are not capable/expected to engage an armed force such as iran or syria).
Someone explained that before.

Turkiye had special fund from any way.Etc the SSM and Armed force foundation with didnt count in defence spending
 
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