So you are trying to suggest that Turkey can station it's AC fleet till eternity while relying on Pakistan, Qatar and others??
They need logistics and other support from mainland Turkey period.....
And don't compare Turkey with western nuclear powers who can open up suez or any canal if they decide.....
Egypt will behave as per their terms just a phone call is enough for Sisi types..... but the same Egypt is not obligated to listen to nonsense Turkish demands...... simply coz turkey isn't a world power..... This all your fantasy of Turkey stationing in IOR totally depends on Egyptian mood and it's that time relationship with Turkey....
Thats not what I said.
#1 The UK, France, Italy, Spain and any other power that wishes to operate in the middle east has the same restriction of going through the Suez. And no they cannot simply Bully Egypt to do whatever they want, they have to rely on good relations. The confrontation during the Suez crisis proved as much. These countries don't have this power.
#2 Turkey does not currently have beef with Egypt.(Turkey normalized relations and is currently selling drones to Egypt) And even when there were some disagreements, Ships were never restricted, as we saw Turkish Frigates even no operate in the region and pay port calls in Qatar and elsewhere, so again, Idk what your point is.
#3 My point with regards to the other ports in Pakistan, Qatar and Somalia, was that even in a unlikely hypothetical scenario where the suez is restricted(its not going to be restricted outside of a war with egypt, so its a moot point regardless), replenishment can still be made. For example, some US ships don't return back to the US for incredibly long amounts, and they are replenished via ports in the middle east, and even have seamen switch via flights to port cities and bases. Even in the worst case scenarios, the times where you actually need to return to home port(damage to ship that can't be repaired at a friendly port, etc etc), the rare trip around the horn is only a few weeks longer at sea.
this idea that you don't operate a carrier b/c of an unrealistic hypothetical war with Egypt is nonsense. By this logic, don't build anything and don't have any operations outside of a little pond in the eastern Mediterranean. The Turkey of the 60s, 70, 80s, is gone, Turkey has far more expansive interests and relations around the world and pursues them, its not restricted to the eastern Mediterranean.
) We lost the old pdf due to what’s happening in Pakistan, so take it in stride. Think like a guerrilla (it feels like half our mods are Indian, so there is that as well), the terrain is not the pages of the thread but the minds of the participants.
