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Did you?Guys, have any of you received a visitor invitation for IDEF'23? As you know, the fair is very close.
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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Wrong place?What is going on people ?
the Forum is almost dead for almost 4 months . why ?
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 )
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.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 )
Someone explained that before.![]()
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).