TR Foreign Policy & Geopolitics

[Ryder]

How can you compare these festival attacking, women, elederly & children kidnapping Islamists with our Independence movement? This is beyond stupid.

Has Erdogan said anything bad?

During the 1920s Sultan Vahdettin and the Allied forces called the Turkish army as bandits and terrorists.

One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter.

 

[Fuzuli NL]

Thoughts?

While President Erdoğan's visit to Iraq continues, German President Steinmeier arrived in Istanbul. He will meet with Ekrem İmamoğlu today. He will meet with Erdoğan on Wednesday. German media DW published a news article describing Steinmeier's first meeting with İmamoğlu as a message to Erdoğan.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1782358129474167126

Germany has long lost its respectable place in international arena.
Even Germans here know this and see the government as clowns.
They can send as many messages as they want. Nobody respects them any more.

 

[Fuzuli NL]

Also Germany would never do anything that benefits Türkiye. Hence meeting with the crooked liar Imamoglu.

 

[Bogeyman]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1782413404663165161

 

[Bogeyman]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1782403638477922660

Türkiye and Iraq sign an agreement on the Development Road Project. The project, which will connect the Persian Gulf to Europe via Türkiye, will be completed in 2028. It is expected to cost 17 billion dollars. Qatar and the UAE also signed memorandum of understanding on cooperation for the Development Road Project.

 

[Ryder]

Do we really expect the Iraqis to do anything about it?

They are incompetent

 

[dBSPL]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1782403638477922660

Türkiye and Iraq sign an agreement on the Development Road Project. The project, which will connect the Persian Gulf to Europe via Türkiye, will be completed in 2028. It is expected to cost 17 billion dollars. Qatar and the UAE also signed memorandum of understanding on cooperation for the Development Road Project.

All of gulf countries like Kuwait, Qatar and KSA will also be stakeholders in this logistics system very soon. For the friendly states to the south of us, a secure and stable connection with Europe depends on the TAF guarantee. Everyone will realize this sooner or later.

 

[Bozan]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1782403638477922660

Türkiye and Iraq sign an agreement on the Development Road Project. The project, which will connect the Persian Gulf to Europe via Türkiye, will be completed in 2028. It is expected to cost 17 billion dollars. Qatar and the UAE also signed memorandum of understanding on cooperation for the Development Road Project.

I don't think it's a realistic time frame. I think the main agreement is about water according to the Iraqi prime minister:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1782425975717757248

Memorandums of understanding and agreements signed in Baghdad, today, April 22, 2024, between Iraq and Turkey:

1-The strategic framework agreement between the government of the Republic of Iraq and the Republic of Turkey.

2- A memorandum of framework agreement for cooperation in the field of water between the government of the Republic of Iraq and the Republic of Turkey.

3- Memorandum of Understanding for the Development Road Project, between the Ministry of Transport and the Turkish Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure.

4- A memorandum of understanding to form a joint economic trade committee (JETCO) between the Iraqi and Turkish ministries of commerce.

5- An agreement to encourage, protect and exchange investments between the National Investment Authority and the Turkish Ministry of Industry and Technology.

6- A memorandum of understanding between the Federation of Iraqi Chambers of Commerce and the Turkish Foreign Economic Relations Council.

7- A memorandum of understanding for technical, scientific and economic cooperation in the field of small and medium enterprises, between the Ministry of Industry and the Turkish Ministry of Industry and Technology.

8- A memorandum of understanding in the field of military training, between the Iraqi and Turkish Ministries of Defense.

9- A memorandum of understanding on training and cooperation in the field of military health, between the Iraqi and Turkish Ministries of Defense.

10- A memorandum of understanding for strategic cooperation between the Military Industrialization Authority and the Turkish Defense Industries Secretariat.

11- A memorandum of understanding for security cooperation between the Iraqi and Turkish Ministries of Interior.

12- A memorandum of understanding between the Foreign Service Institute and the Turkish Strategic Studies Institute, and between the Iraqi and Turkish Ministries of Foreign Affairs.

13- A memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the field of youth and sports, between the Iraqi and Turkish Ministries of Youth and Sports.

14- A memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the field of health and medical sciences, between the Iraqi and Turkish Ministries of Health.

15- The Agricultural Working Group Plan for the period 2024-2025, between the Iraqi and Turkish Ministries of Agriculture.

16- Memorandum of understanding on scientific and technological research, between the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and the Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council.

17- A memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the educational field, between the Iraqi and Turkish Ministries of Education.

18- A memorandum of understanding in the field of tourism cooperation, between the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities and the Turkish Ministry of Tourism.

19- A memorandum of understanding in the field of employment and social security, between the Iraqi and Turkish Ministries of Labor and Social Affairs.

20- A memorandum of understanding in the field of social and family affairs, between the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and the Turkish Ministry of Family and Services.

21- Memorandum of understanding regarding government documents and archives, between the Ministry of Culture and the Turkish Government Archives.

22- A memorandum of understanding in the field of product security and technical barriers to trade, between the Ministry of Planning and the Turkish Ministry of Trade.

23- A memorandum of understanding in religious affairs between the Sunni Endowment Office and the Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs.

24- A memorandum of understanding on cooperation in the field of judicial training for students, judges, assistants and prosecutors, between the Iraqi Judicial Institute and the Turkish Justice Academy.

25- Memorandum of understanding in the field of electricity, between the Ministry of Electricity and the Turkish Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources.

26- A memorandum of understanding in the field of media and communications between the Media and Communications Authority and the Turkish Communications Presidency.

Also no mention of PKK. Erdogan's foreign policy power in Iraq has considerably weakened since the previous decade. The main rival to Baghdad and Erdogan's ally, KDP is weaker than ever. Baghdad is dominated by Iran and PKK-friendly factions. Iranian groups are present in all Turkmen areas and have split the Turkmen groups. Baghdad is no longer weak and unstable, it is instead the KRG to the north that is weak and unstable.

 

[Bogeyman]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1782690694609412441

 

[Bogeyman]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1781733528121585683

This would be extremely stupid...if true

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1782696129676575090

 

[Afif]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1782696129676575090

Yep, President Erdogan got fed up with @Bozan 's persistent insinuation. So he had come out himself and clear the air.

 

[Iskander]

Erdogan called on the Armenian authorities to focus on existing realities to develop a roadmap for normalizing relations with Turkey.
present time. Now Pashinyan understands this too. Now is the time to create new roadmaps on a realistic basis. I hope that Armenia will get rid of the darkness into which the diaspora has dragged it and choose the path of new beginnings towards a bright future,” the president said, News reports.
According to Erdogan, “the window of opportunity will not always be open and it is necessary to effectively use the moment.”

Эрдоган призвал Армению работать над дорожной картой отношений с Турцией, исходя из реалий

В регионе сейчас устанавливается новый порядок…

news.am

Let's see what Pashinyan will say tomorrow in his address to the people

 

[Bogeyman]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1782690694609412441

The antique dealer on the right who took a stand by making the German President listen to the Palestinian anthem

 

[Lool]

Loooool
The Germans got trolled
Nice move from Erdogan IMO. Since the Germans insulted the nation they are visiting, it is only natural for them to get insulted as well

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1783152186001678618

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1783176214506578253

 

[Ryder]

After decades of disrespecting and calling people inferior its actually now good to see them getting a taste of their medicine.

 

[Huelague]

Döner! Not BionTech as a good example of Turks integration in Germany.
Turks in Turkiye dont understand the sublimely insult. But we in Germany do.

 

[Afif]

After decades of disrespecting and calling people inferior its actually now good to see them getting a taste of their medicine.

Buddy, you guys also think you are better than anybody else in the ME. Every nation thinks highly of themselves. And Germans for good reasons. But i haven't come across anything that suggest they really think others are inferior to them. In fact so far what I know is, Germans are grateful to Turks because of sending workers to help rebuild their country after WW2. That also signify historically special relation between Türkiye and Germany compared to other European nations.

 

[Huelague]

Buddy, you guys also think you are better than anybody else in the ME. Every nation thinks highly of themselves. And Germans for good reasons. But i haven't come across anything that suggest they really think others are inferior to them. In fact so far what I know is, Germans are grateful to Turks because of sending workers to help rebuild their country after WW2. That also signify historically special relation between Türkiye and Germany compared to other European nations.

Do you have a source of that claim?
You don’t, because it’s absolutely bullshit! We know Persian and Arabian history and their successes.

An example of German inferior complex, a proverb. “Am deutschen Wesen, soll die Welt genesen.“
Another example. “Deutsche Leitkultur.”

 

[Afif]

Do you have a source of that claim?
You don’t, because it’s absolutely bullshit! We know Persian and Arabian history and their successes.

What is bullshit? This is a fact that every country thinks they are better than others. That is by definition how cultures operates. (Except few post modernist nobody really believe all cultures are equals.) Doesn't mean countries see others as racially inferior or something.

 

[Huelague]

What is bullshit? This is a fact that every country thinks they are better than others. That is by definition how cultures operates. (Except few post modernist nobody really believe all cultures are equals.) Doesn't mean they see others as racially inferior or something.

Do you have a source that every country/people thinks, they are better then the others? What means better, in which kind?
I heard people talking, we are different, but rare, they are better. Germans are an exception.