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[IC3M@N FX]

CDU-Chef plant Türkei-Reise: Merz besucht Erdoğan

Oppositionsführer als Außenpolitiker: Friedrich Merz will nach SPIEGEL-Informationen noch in diesem Monat in die Türkei reisen. Auf dem Programm steht auch ein Treffen mit dem türkischen Präsidenten.

www.spiegel.de

Opposition leader as foreign politician: According to SPIEGEL, Friedrich Merz plans to travel to Turkey this month. A meeting with the Turkish president is also on the agenda.

The ChatGPT System really understands connections

From ChatGPT4o (paid Version)

My Question:
Is there a connection because of the BRICS application from Turkey? Germany could send someone without being official

Answer:
It is quite a logical conclusion that Friedrich Merz's trip to Turkey could be related to Turkey's recent BRICS application. This hypothesis can be supported by the following points:

1. **Timing and context**: The fact that the trip was announced relatively unexpectedly and coincides with Turkey's BRICS application could indicate that Germany is monitoring geopolitical developments in Turkey. Turkey's possible accession to BRICS would have profound implications for Turkey's relations with Western alliances such as NATO and the EU, which could worry Germany and other European countries.

2 **Unofficial influence**: As Friedrich Merz is not an official member of the government, he could act as an unofficial envoy of Germany. This would allow the German government to put out diplomatic feelers without being formally involved in foreign policy discussions. Merz could thus gather information and gain a better understanding of Turkey's position, particularly with regard to BRICS accession.

3 **Strategic interests**: Turkey's possible accession to BRICS could strengthen its geopolitical orientation towards Russia and China, which is of great strategic importance for Germany and the EU. Merz's trip could be part of an attempt to influence or slow down this process by tying Turkey closer to Western institutions.

Overall, it makes sense to see this trip as a reaction to Turkey's BRICS bid, as Germany is likely to have a vested interest in securing its diplomatic and economic ties with Turkey as the geopolitical landscape shifts.

 

[Huelague]

CDU-Chef plant Türkei-Reise: Merz besucht Erdoğan

Oppositionsführer als Außenpolitiker: Friedrich Merz will nach SPIEGEL-Informationen noch in diesem Monat in die Türkei reisen. Auf dem Programm steht auch ein Treffen mit dem türkischen Präsidenten.

www.spiegel.de

Opposition leader as foreign politician: According to SPIEGEL, Friedrich Merz plans to travel to Turkey this month. A meeting with the Turkish president is also on the agenda.

The ChatGPT System really understands connections

From ChatGPT4o (paid Version)

My Question:
Is there a connection because of the BRICS application from Turkey? Germany could send someone without being official

Answer:
It is quite a logical conclusion that Friedrich Merz's trip to Turkey could be related to Turkey's recent BRICS application. This hypothesis can be supported by the following points:

1. **Timing and context**: The fact that the trip was announced relatively unexpectedly and coincides with Turkey's BRICS application could indicate that Germany is monitoring geopolitical developments in Turkey. Turkey's possible accession to BRICS would have profound implications for Turkey's relations with Western alliances such as NATO and the EU, which could worry Germany and other European countries.

2 **Unofficial influence**: As Friedrich Merz is not an official member of the government, he could act as an unofficial envoy of Germany. This would allow the German government to put out diplomatic feelers without being formally involved in foreign policy discussions. Merz could thus gather information and gain a better understanding of Turkey's position, particularly with regard to BRICS accession.

3 **Strategic interests**: Turkey's possible accession to BRICS could strengthen its geopolitical orientation towards Russia and China, which is of great strategic importance for Germany and the EU. Merz's trip could be part of an attempt to influence or slow down this process by tying Turkey closer to Western institutions.

Overall, it makes sense to see this trip as a reaction to Turkey's BRICS bid, as Germany is likely to have a vested interest in securing its diplomatic and economic ties with Turkey as the geopolitical landscape shifts.

It is expected that F. Merz could be the next chancellor. The person is wise choosen.

 

[somegoodusername]

If my understanding of the kurdish issue is right, then you are partially wrong

The PKK, in 1991, was officially founded as a political entity that envisioned the formation of Kurdistan on Turkish and other lands by force/military intervention. Such an entity couldnt have been formed without arming, training, finance, and logistics which has all been supplied by the USA; thus, making the USA its maker

From my understanding, it seems that you are talking about the pre-1991 period when those who announced the creation of the PKK like Ocalan was involved in political turmoil with the Turkish state in different forms albeit non-violent in nature.

When I say the US made the PKK; I meant that it was the US who convinced them, radicalised them, and encouraged them to hold a gun and shoot at other soldiers/citizens within the Turkish state which began the period of real havoc and actual blood being spilled as explained in the video shared before

According to Wikipedia, in pre 1991, core PKK members like Ocalan mainly established multiple student organisations that aimed in instilling the false belief that Turks were oppressing kurds. While it was certainly radicalising the minorities in Turkey, it was peaceful in nature with every time the govt closes such institutions, ppl like Ocalan just creates a new one

PKK started in late 70's. Was closely alligned with Soviet Union. Allied with other leftist militant groups in the Middle East such as ASALA and Palestine Liberation Organization. So much so, when Israel entered Lebanon in 80's, they also engaged PKK training camps in Bekaa Valley. In 90's their main state sponsor could be Syria and Greece to some extent. PKK and US relationship started to get warmer in 90's. They probably got closer in 2003 invasion of Iraq. And with the green light from Erdoğan government during the Çözüm Süreci (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013–2015_PKK–Turkey_peace_process) they officially get allied.

 

[somegoodusername]

Overall, it makes sense to see this trip as a reaction to Turkey's BRICS bid, as Germany is likely to have a vested interest in securing its diplomatic and economic ties with Turkey as the geopolitical landscape shifts.

"Tavşan dağa küsmüş, dağın haberi yok." what more can Germany can get from Turkey? We are holding back millions of immigrant who wants to go to the EU at first chance. Pulled out all of our natural gas search or drill ships out of the East Med. Kicking out our most educated kids to EU as brain drain. Sending best of our domestic products to Germany while feeding our people the thing not worthy of European consumers. We are begging Germany for Eurofighters. I don't think Erdoğan governments BRICS application concerns any EU politician. We are just getting an other credit card to pay our other credit card debts with.

 

[godel44]

"Tavşan dağa küsmüş, dağın haberi yok." what more can Germany can get from Turkey? We are holding back millions of immigrant who wants to go to the EU at first chance. Pulled out all of our natural gas search or drill ships out of the East Med. Kicking out our most educated kids to EU as brain drain. Sending best of our domestic products to Germany while feeding our people the thing not worthy of European consumers. We are begging Germany for Eurofighters. I don't think Erdoğa governments BRICS application concerns any EU politician. We are just getting an other credit card to pay our other credit card debts with.

I am sure Germans wish they could feel as comfortable as you imagine they do.

 

[Scott Summers]

The "PKK was actually created by armenians" is nothing more than an islamist conspiracy theory, trying to paint a picture of "muslim brotherhood" against "christians that try to divide us". Same logic as labeling everyone they don't like as "secret zionists".

Both armenian and kurdish nationalists quite literally claim the same parts of Turkey as theirs, they would be at each others throats if it weren't for them having Turks as a unified enemy. Even then, they don't see eye-to-eye.

There were various terrorist corpses searched by village guards after shootouts in the 90's and they werent circumsized like a muslim body should have been.

And many Kurdish and Turkish civillians who were stopped at the road in trolleybusses by the PKK, witnessed strange foreign languages between some of them, no Kurdish or Zaza.

There was a Turkish historian but i dont know his name. He said that the Armenians never forgot that the Kurdish Hamidiye-Corps of Sultan Abdulhamid II killed thousands of Armenian insurgents in the East, so they created PKK to kill both Kurds and Turks.

They let the Kurds think that they are fighting for a free Kurdistan, like the Arabs were thinking that they fought for a free Arab state when Lawrence approached them. After Kurdistan is created, it will be a part of Great-Armenia.

I dont know the name of this historian.

 

[Baryshx]

"Tavşan dağa küsmüş, dağın haberi yok." what more can Germany can get from Turkey? We are holding back millions of immigrant who wants to go to the EU at first chance. Pulled out all of our natural gas search or drill ships out of the East Med. Kicking out our most educated kids to EU as brain drain. Sending best of our domestic products to Germany while feeding our people the thing not worthy of European consumers. We are begging Germany for Eurofighters. I don't think Erdoğan governments BRICS application concerns any EU politician. We are just getting an other credit card to pay our other credit card debts with.

Most probably he will go to the east and meet with the PKK/hdp/Dem. It's a comedy...

 

[IC3M@N FX]

"Tavşan dağa küsmüş, dağın haberi yok." what more can Germany can get from Turkey? We are holding back millions of immigrant who wants to go to the EU at first chance. Pulled out all of our natural gas search or drill ships out of the East Med. Kicking out our most educated kids to EU as brain drain. Sending best of our domestic products to Germany while feeding our people the thing not worthy of European consumers. We are begging Germany for Eurofighters. I don't think Erdoğan governments BRICS application concerns any EU politician. We are just getting an other credit card to pay our other credit card debts with.

You are too pessimistic, has the current government done a lot of things wrong?
Then I would also say yes, but the desire for economic stability as a country is not only related to parties like APK & Co. If economic sanctions are imposed because country XY, in this case Turkey, is tied to the US dollar and the euro as a trading currency, then rating agencies, lenders and investors from abroad can also manipulate Turkey's economy, but then it is not the government's fault, but a geopolitical conflict of interest.
This also has consequences such as unemployment and a lack of prospects, because it is an ecosystem that is being attacked.
As a country, you then have the choice of being under someone else's thumb or being sovereign.

You can accuse the current government of many things, but if the USA and Europe see you as a threat to their interests, there is not much you can do, regardless of whether the ruling party is called AKP, CHP or whatever.
That is why the economy and dependencies have been reduced for several years, especially in the military industry, with the AKP/MHP showing a lot of courage and determination. This step should have been taken decades ago, but all previous parties and governments did not have the courage and political will to do so.

The next step is to cap the trading currency with gold and then borrow and lend with BRICS countries and investors to increase import/export volumes.
This would decouple Turkey's economy from the US dollar, at least a large part of the economy, which is the goal of the current government to neutralize the weapons of economic sanctions.

In the short term, the current government has done some things wrong, but in the long term it has done everything right.
It has to go down this path, the other parties simply do not have the courage to do so, see the past.

 

[Sanchez]

USA and Europe see you as a threat to their interests, there is not much you can do

Problem to be managed and threat are not the same things.

especially in the military industry

All our main projects in land, sea and air are dependent on American and European subcomponents.

In the short term, the current government has done some things wrong, but in the long term it has done everything right.

Current government has cost us a full decade in foreign policy in all the theaters we are active, maybe save for Somalia. That's a decade we will never get back and that loss had an irretrievable damage to our long term.

 

[RMZN]

There were various terrorist corpses searched by village guards after shootouts in the 90's and they werent circumsized like a muslim body should have been.

And many Kurdish and Turkish civillians who were stopped at the road in trolleybusses by the PKK, witnessed strange foreign languages between some of them, no Kurdish or Zaza.

There was a Turkish historian but i dont know his name. He said that the Armenians never forgot that the Kurdish Hamidiye-Corps of Sultan Abdulhamid II killed thousands of Armenian insurgents in the East, so they created PKK to kill both Kurds and Turks.

They let the Kurds think that they are fighting for a free Kurdistan, like the Arabs were thinking that they fought for a free Arab state when Lawrence approached them. After Kurdistan is created, it will be a part of Great-Armenia.

I dont know the name of this historian.

Their ideological support base are ethnic kurds, meaning their recruit base are also ethnic kurds. Armenians aleady killed tens of thousands of kurds whilst trying to establish their own ethno-state during WW1, they didn't need to create some artificial organization for that.

The pkk is an ideological, almost cult-like organization. Their supposed "marxist/socialist" Ideology is just another form of nationalism, just like the Soviet Union was just another iteration of Russian Imperialism. Their goals aver very clear-cut. If anything the pkk does more harm than good for armenians. They didn't change the outcome during the Karabakh war and having any kinds of connections with the pkk is practically asking for Turkish military pressure/intervention. Something Armenia cannot afford.

The arabs still think that they fought for a free state, because despite ending up as british and french colonies they were indeed no longer under Ottoman rule.

 

[IC3M@N FX]

Problem to be managed and threat are not the same things.

All our main projects in land, sea and air are dependent on American and European subcomponents.


Current government has cost us a full decade in foreign policy in all the theaters we are active, maybe save for Somalia. That's a decade we will never get back and that loss had an irretrievable damage to our long term.

Then show me what the previous governments in Turkey have achieved. I would like a list of these.
Show me one government in the history of Turkey that was successful and brought technology, industry and infrastructure. I am very curious

 

[Huelague]

what more can Germany can get from Turkey?

It’s not what can germany gets more from us. It’s about, what can they loose.

 

[Barry]

Remember the Altay tank?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

 

[Kartal1]

This is something I think we should note.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1834008041844605325

 

[Lool]

Germany is slowly beginning to threaten nations that perform arms trade with Turkey. They are probably furious that their previous sanctions are proving worthless and soon their monopoly in market shares such as engines, tanks and submarines will be swallowed by the Turkey in the near future

The germans were, are, and will always be enemies at this rate


Translation:
Chilean sources reported that Germany refused to sell new Leopard 2 main battle tanks to Chile in case of a modernization agreement with ASELSAN. Germany's offer to Chile for new Leopard 2 models included the condition that no modernization agreement would be signed with ASELSAN.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1834464818771739083

 

[somegoodusername]

Germany is slowly beginning to threaten nations that perform arms trade with Turkey. They are probably furious that their previous sanctions are proving worthless and soon their monopoly in market shares such as engines, tanks and submarines will be swallowed by the Turkey in the near future

The germans were, are, and will always be enemies at this rate


Translation:
Chilean sources reported that Germany refused to sell new Leopard 2 main battle tanks to Chile in case of a modernization agreement with ASELSAN. Germany's offer to Chile for new Leopard 2 models included the condition that no modernization agreement would be signed with ASELSAN.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1834464818771739083

Don't extract so much from a single small event. If a third party offers upgrades to exported Altay's, will Turkey continue to offer support for the countries that buys that third-party upgrades?

 

[Ryder]

Germany is slowly beginning to threaten nations that perform arms trade with Turkey. They are probably furious that their previous sanctions are proving worthless and soon their monopoly in market shares such as engines, tanks and submarines will be swallowed by the Turkey in the near future

The germans were, are, and will always be enemies at this rate


Translation:
Chilean sources reported that Germany refused to sell new Leopard 2 main battle tanks to Chile in case of a modernization agreement with ASELSAN. Germany's offer to Chile for new Leopard 2 models included the condition that no modernization agreement would be signed with ASELSAN.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1834464818771739083

Turkiye in the future will become an alternative to the Overrated Germans just like their cars.

There are other alternatives and they dont like it when there is competition to beat their arrogant asses.

 

[Iskander]

Turkey's Ballistic Missiles Off the Horn of Africa: Ankara Plans to Build Test Site in Somalia,​

- Russian military publication Topvar sadly reports.
The publication further writes: - «Türkiye is planning to create a testing ground in Somalia from which ballistic missiles will be launched for testing purposes. This is reported by the GDH publication, citing sources that this site will be ideal from a security point of view, since the rockets will fly towards the Indian Ocean. A spaceport may also be built here, near the equator...»
«A 2015 defense industrial cooperation agreement between the countries endorses “joint research, development and production projects in the field of military equipment in the territories of the parties.” In 2017, a Turkish military base, the largest abroad, began operations in Mogadishu. There are currently plans to begin oil and natural gas exploration off the coast of Somalia, - Russian publication complains
For our part, we note that the deployment of Turkish ballistic missiles near the Horn of Africa could significantly increase Ankara’s geopolitical influence, since one of the world’s main trade routes passes through here»...

«Currently, Turkey's longest-range missile is the Tayfun. Its range is 561 km, but it is planned to increase it to more than 1000 km. The accuracy of the strike is said to be about 4-5 meters. However, it may soon be replaced by the Cenk ballistic missile, which is being developed by Roketsan. Its range is expected to significantly exceed 1000 km», - writes the Russian publication, continuing to cry...

https://en.topwar.ru/249908-ballisticheskie-rakety-turcii-u-afrikanskogo-roga-ankara-sobiraetsja-sozdat-poligon-dlja-ispytanij-v-somali.html

 

[Sanchez]

Phone call between Abiy and Erdoğan re Somalia. We'll either see a deal neither side like but can live with or open hostilities.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1822349924710625431

"3rd round of mediation between Ethiopia and Somalia due tomorrow (Tuesday) in Turkiye has been postponed. No new date yet announced and no official reason yet for the delay. There has been more friction btw the 2 sides in recent weeks since the last round - after Egypt send military aid to Somalia But also this offer by Djibouti to Ethiopia to use one of its ports for access to the sea.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1835708822486159585

 

[Huelague]

Norway decides to lift defense industry restrictions imposed on Türkiye in 2019​

Norway decides to lift defense industry restrictions imposed on Türkiye in 2019

This comes during phone call between Turkish, Norwegian foreign ministers, says Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman - Anadolu Ajansı

www.aa.com.tr

What do we import from Norway?