TR Foreign Policy & Geopolitics

[_Mu_]

Iran Gives Green Light To Turkey-Iraq Plans To Eradicate PKK In Iraq

Pro-Iran Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) of Iraq has given the green light to Baghdad and Ankara to eliminate the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Iraq.

www.iranintl.com

The news reflects Turkey's increasing involvement in Iraq, seeking to forge broader relations to quell longstanding tensions along its southern border, with the recent meeting held between the Turkish and Iraqi foreign ministers in Baghdad on March 13. Security officials, including PMF leader Faleh al-Fayyad and National Security Adviser Qasim al-Araji, were present.

Iraqi sources told the publication that with the presence of the PMF at the meetings, it signals Tehran's support for the Turks to act in Iraq.

 

[Kartal1]

Iran Gives Green Light To Turkey-Iraq Plans To Eradicate PKK In Iraq

Pro-Iran Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) of Iraq has given the green light to Baghdad and Ankara to eliminate the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Iraq.

www.iranintl.com

This means that all YBS members within the Iranian supported PMF/PMU must be arrested and handed over to the Iraqi Government which pays their salaries in order to be sued for participation in prohibited organization... And we know that this is not happening anytime soon.

 

[Huelague]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1772160277045211332

Somebody wants to be part of the EU club!

Who?

 

[Iskander]

Armenian Varsen Aghabekyan was appointed Minister of State of Palestine.

Yerevan media reported this.


Remember this? 1000 angry young Turks decided to protest against Azerbaijan in support of Palestine

Where are they today? Let them go to the Palestinian consulate and protest against the Armenian minister of Palestine

 

[Scott Summers]

Germany is thinking about a “nuclear club”

The German government began to think about acquiring
nuclear weapons. This possibility began to be considered in connection with the increased chances of Donald Trump returning to the White House.

At the moment, two scenarios are in the lead - signing security guarantees with Great Britain and France or purchasing about a thousand nuclear warheads from the United States in order to become a nuclear power. Experts consider the first option to be more realistic.

German politicians and opinion leaders insist that Germany needs to ensure national security without being tied to the United States.

The Russian Kommersant writes about this.
(I should note that I do not trust Russian sources. But...)

In my opinion (this is not just my opinion), it is time for Turkey not only to think in this sense, but also to act, despite the possible negative reaction of some countries. Completely different times are coming in the world.

Germany was the first country who did research to nuclear bombs.

Very stupid that they never continued this after the war.

Greatest proof that all German cabinets after 1945 were not real German.

 

[Agha Sher]

Germany was the first country who did research to nuclear bombs.

Very stupid that they never continued this after the war.

Greatest proof that all German cabinets after 1945 were not real German.

You are telling a distorted version of history. Yes, Germany was in late 1930's ahead in nuclear research. However, the Nazis considered this field to be a "Jewish science", hence they never dedicated real resources to nuclear research in the 1940s. Additionally, many of their leading scientists were Jews and they left the country due to persecutions. It was later revealed after WWII that the Germans never worked on a nuclear bomb. Their entire nuclear endeavor was for civilian purposes.

The US was in a race with itself to develop the first nuclear bomb.

 

[Sanchez]

Very stupid that they never continued this after the war.

Might be related to them being under occupation of 2 superpowers at the same time.

A great part of the population of Izmir are etnic Armenians, yet they act as if they are Turks.

No significant Armenian or Greek minority remains in Izmir. Per 1881 census, Armenian population of Aydın Vilayet(modern day İzmir, Manisa, Aydın, Denizli and Muğla) was about ten thousand, or 1 percent of the population. You are literally parroting Armenian, Greek and Enosis dreamer claims to make a non true claim about people of İzmir. Think about that.

 

[Yasar_TR]

Please refrain from making extraordinary claims if you are not going to be able to support that with concrete evidence and relevant valid sources.
Hearsay and rumours have no place here on matters that is important to the core of the REPUBLIC .
Either support your claims or delete your such posts.
Take this as a warning!

 

[Iskander]

Türkiye President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at the invitation of the White House, will visit the United States on May 9, where he will meet with his American counterpart Joe Biden. Reuters reports this.

Apparently, Biden no longer has any hope of being elected a second time. So he asks Erdogan to come to Washington to help him.
Indeed, Erdogan is the most experienced politician in the world. He knows the secret formula of power - how to make sure that he is always elected, and not some other candidate like the vegetarian Gandhi. True, the agency does not write about this, but we ourselves can guess without Reuters

 

[Fuzuli NL]

Please refrain from making extraordinary claims if you are not going to be able to support that with concrete evidence and relevant valid sources.
Hearsay and rumours have no place here on matters that is important to the core of the REPUBLIC .
Either support your claims or delete your such posts.
Take this as a warning!

Could you please clarify whom you're addressing? Because I think everybody thinks you're talking to someone else!

 

[_Mu_]

US, Turkey Hold Security Talks in Push to Repair Strained Ties - Bloomberg​

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Defense Minister Yasar Guler met the visiting US delegation, which included chairman of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee Mike Rogers, committee member Adam Smith and Ambassador Jeff Flake.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is widely expected to visit his US counterpart Joe Biden in Washington in May, and the US is also in talks to ramp up purchases of Turkish explosives to support Ukraine against Russia.

In energy, Erdogan has sought to increase liquefied natural gas purchases from the US and re-export some to neighbors as part of an ambition to become a regional energy hub.

 

[Yasar_TR]

Could you please clarify whom you're addressing? Because I think everybody thinks you're talking to someone else!

Bro, everyone knows that this specific post was meant for @Scott Summers as it was his posts that were deleted. I think you too know, whom it was meant for.
But I intentionally left it open ended so that anyone that tries to make sensitive and outrageous claims as such, will have to know they either have to support their claim with valid facts or face the consequences.

When it comes to racial hatred, inciting separatism and terrorism and comments that are conducive to racial separatism, there is no excuse. I am sure you too will agree that these do not have a place in our forum.

 

[Fuzuli NL]

Bro, everyone knows that this specific post was meant for @Scott Summers as it was his posts that were deleted. I think you too know, whom it was meant for.
But I intentionally left it open ended so that anyone that tries to make sensitive and outrageous claims as such, will have to know they either have to support their claim with valid facts or face the consequences.

When it comes to racial hatred, inciting separatism and terrorism and comments that are conducive to racial separatism, there is no excuse. I am sure you too will agree that these do not have a place in our forum.

I knew, brother, hence the tongue in cheek comment. I just wanted to lighten up the thread a bit.

 

[Ryder]

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Kurdish diaspora are all big time supporters of PKK.

 

[Yasar_TR]

Citizenship is defined in Article 66 of the Turkish constitution: Everyone bound to the Turkish state through the bond of citizenship is a Turk

So any Turkish citizen claiming the opposite is committing constitutional offence. It is nothing less than inciting separatism.

Today in Anatolia and Thrace we have 85 million citizens with rich cultures that goes beyond several millennia.
Genetically we have Ural-Altaic genome mixed with European, Roman, Ancient Greek, Arabic, etc etc.
From Etruscans (As per Herodotus’ records people that fled from Anatolia’s Aegean coast due to famine) that supposedly founded the Roman Empire, to Sumerians, Hittites, Lydians, Trojans ; Many civilisations have flourished in this land of ours. Today we are all descendants of those civilisations, living under one flag and one identity. Namely Turkish.

If anyone feels inclined to contest the Turkish Nation’s identity, I suggest them to read the article 66 of our constitution.

 

[Rooxbar]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1775126510652764198

If it was Turkey, the Economist and Washington Post and all the rest would be stirring up a tempest in a teapot. But if it is UAE, Armenia or someone else, mum's the word.

 

[BalkanTurk90]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1775126510652764198

If it was Turkey, the Economist and Washington Post and all the rest would be stirring up a tempest in a teapot. But if it is UAE, Armenia or someone else, mum's the word.

I was thinking ,Turkiye should use war in ukraine to get rich from re-export of russian goods and gas just like many other countries do like india, Uae, qatar, etc etc
But erdogan is licking the west again it seems while Turkish economy suffern

 

[Sanchez]

I was thinking ,Turkiye should use war in ukraine to get rich from re-export of russian goods and gas just like many other countries do like india, Uae, qatar, etc etc
But erdogan is licking the west again it seems while Turkish economy suffern

Multiple shell companies, banks, tourism agencies have been doing that since the war started. Gas in the planned "gas hub" is by and large Russian gas.

we've been lowering it lately because US is threatening with economic sanctions and offering carrot and a stick. It's the same with Armenia, Azerbaijan, UAE and Kazakhstan.

 

[Lool]

Thoughts?
is there other implications or indications for such a move?

Translation:
Turkey announced its withdrawal from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE).

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1776151774207828402

 

[RMZN]

Thoughts?
is there other implications or indications for such a move?

Translation:
Turkey announced its withdrawal from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE).

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1776151774207828402

Poland did the same last week