if our public perception was our top foreign policy priority, this would be the map of our nation:
The only way for example anyone listens to armenian and greek lies is if the world sees you as a demon. Public perception is never going to be easy since the western media is not owned by Turkiye, but under this current government we walked onto every landmine and made it easy. A good example is the Agia Sophia, turns it into a mosque when the entire world has been brainwashed to hate Islam and Turkiye is already seen in an extremely negative light. So you made it easy for them to tarnish the image. Turkiye has been demonised intentionally, how else could they convince the world that supporting an extremist left wing Marxist terrorist organisation against Turkey is a good idea? Public image is important.
The Russians political state is generally as degenerate as they come, yet they buy out media figures and public influencers, they pump money into places to propagate their lies, they create farms to spread propaganda, even on things like this forum. How else can you explain some of the Russian posters who never, not once criticised anything Russia did? That's Russian state money being used to push propaganda.
The great irony of course is that culturally Turkish people are probably better then most europeans. I'm yet to meet any europeans that are as friendly, warm and genuine as Turks. The other great irony is our nations hosts the worlds largest refugee population and we are one of the worlds largest foreign aid donors. Then to make matters worse every single western nation is far more racist then Turkey is and Turks are better at integrating in all societies then most peoples on earth. Yet, here we are demonised internationally.
Anyone who visits Turkiye is shocked to find a people they could have never imagined according to their media.
That 12 cents per kWh is absurd. Solar already cost less than 5 cents per kWh and is forecasted to cost 2 cents per kWh by 2030 but we will be leeched by the Russians for
fifteen years and pay a premium 12cents/kWh. That is
SIX times more than what the alternative will cost by the end of this decade. They have a contract for scr*wing us for fifteen years and we go ask for more. And in case you don't know under which legal frame and ownership structure this power plant is being built, google the term "YAP İŞLET, SAHİP OL". It's a scheme our "shrewd" politicians came up with. I'm sure Russian's are very proud of it but I am definitely not.
I don't how can people be so oblivious to the political climate they're living in. Europe, at the expense of their economical collapse, went overboard and sanctioned Russia to oblivion and didn't bow down to Russia's demands even though it will bite Europe in the ass. And in this circumstances, you, Turkey, whose majority of exports depends on EU, goes and poses with and makes deals with the "devil". How can you be so confident that these actions won't have consequences? Will they be more lenient with you than they're with themselves? Are these deals worth the risk? Do you know about this map?
It's called "European Customs Union". Can you image what will happen to Turkey's economy if it's removed from it?
The Customs Union first benefits the EU, which nations do you think benefit the most from a cheap labour market? Also nearly everything europe lets us into they calculate the cost of not letting us in.
Its why on the one hand we are in NATO, while at the same time facing countless military embargoes and sanctions from NATO members. They can't afford for us to look away from europe while at the same time they can't afford for Turkey to be accepted into europe as an important member. In essence they wanted us to stagnant and regress, its the number one reason whey they are so vocal everytime we do something to improve our position. Europeans had nothing to say about Russia entering Libya, but the moment Turkey moved in the EU mechanism tried to shut Turkey down. And we could go on and on, cyprus, syria, iraq, azerbaijan, ukraine its the same story.
However with everything said, the most important entity on earth concerning the Turkic people and arguably all those who side with us is Turkiye. If the Turkic people are to improve their global position they need to Turkiye to succeed. So whether we like erdogan or not, we need Turkiye to succeed. So Cypriot Turks who feel aggrieved or disenfranchised from Turkiye's behaviour or vice versa, we cannot allow this division to set in. Collectively we have to improve our situation and we must not tolerate politicians who thrive on polarising our people.
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