Turkish Foreign Policy and Regional Geopolitics

[hyperman]

I suspect this will not stay only in the EU, but will expand to Turkey, makes me suspicious of incidents that have occurred recently with fires at Defense firms.

 

[hyperman]

This is interesting, I wonder how this affects their procurement ambitions. lol

 

[Foinikas]

This is interesting, I wonder how this affects their procurement ambitions. lol

Here,laughing boy:

Mitsotakis says early repayment of public debt a ‘national success’ | eKathimerini.com

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Tuesday that reducing public debt is a

www.ekathimerini.com

 

[Watandar]

I suspect this will not stay only in the EU, but will expand to Turkey, makes me suspicious of incidents that have occurred recently with fires at Defense firms.

Why would Russia sabotage stuff in Turkey ? Most likely it is Israel.

 

[GoatsMilk]

Why would Russia sabotage stuff in Turkey ? Most likely it is Israel.

Because Russia is an enemy of Turkiye.

Turkey plans to send cluster munitions to Ukraine, US congress records show

Ankara plans to send a military aid package containing 70 M39 ATACMS missiles to Ukraine as part of its efforts its legacy equipment.

bianet.org

Russia for decades supported PKK terrorism against Turkiye. They've generally always operated in ways to undermine Turkiye and supported all of Turkiye's enemies.

So while both sides will do business with each other including laying Russian oil and gas pipelines into Turkiye, in pretty much every operational theatre they are on opposite sides.

In the caucuses The Turks sided with Azerbaijan, while the Russians sided with Armenia.

In Libya the Turks supported the internationally recognised government while the Russians supported the warlord Haftar.

In Syria the Russians supported Assad while the Turks supported the people.

In Ukraine Turkiye was on the side of Ukraine for a long time arming them even before the Invasion took place.

To understand geopolitics you need to understand the nuance. Next to no media will educate you on the nuance, it just give you a basic black and white analysis which is nearly always wrong.

 

[hyperman]

This one is confusing, Why are the German nazis in Northern Cyprus? They usually hate Turks. lol