Sultan Baybars
Registered Member
Neither the Russian land bridge, nor China or even Iranian routes are viable for them to trade with Europe. They will have to use the middle corridor b/c Europe does not trust Russia.
Turkey and Azerbaijan can squeeze them together to bring them in line as retaliation, but idk if thats the right play to make.
This really should be handled more with Carrots than sticks.
Its incredibly unfortunate that they made this move, but I suspect its less them and more to do with the EU via Greece, Cyprus, France making relations with the EU conditional on the matter, and they seem to have chosen money over solidarity.
There is no real repercussion internally for them b/c they are all post soviet dictatorship and the people are largely apathetic.
I think the real failure here is lack of engagement with Turkey. And not enough engagement being pushed by the Turkish side, or perhaps they are adverse to Turkish influence in Central Asia, but thats probably not the case.
I noticed things were off when they sent a low level delegation to the Antalya Diplomacy forum, even Russia sent Lavrov, I'd understand maybe if they didn't send a head of state since they are usually busy, but not even sending a foreign minister was strange.
I think there is just not enough engagement on the part of Turkey here. No stronger defense engagement nor economic. They are more integrated with China and Russia than they are with Turkey, and those are bigger markets so i understand but the defense independence angle should have been pushed harder, and moving relations to strategic partnership. b/c as of right now, they don't give Turkey any significance, to the point where they think twice about doing things to the detriment of Turkey or care to deepen relations. They seem to be more shrewd and value economics rather than any cultural and brotherly attachment.
Thought on the bright side, this doesn't really change anything tangibly for Turkey on Cyprus, its not like even if they didn't take a stance, they would assist Turkey is Cyprus anyways, so this is more a symbolic loss than anything tangible etc.
You are taking it to lightly. I really dont like this move. This is a step back for us in the diplomatic sector.
South-Cyprus will see this as a opportunity to attrack businessmen and investments from Turkmenistan, Kazachstan, Uzbekistan and Kirgizia. And North-Cyprus is isolated again.
Traitor-nations. We should kick them out from the Organisation of Turkic States.
When the US and Israel recognized Western Sahara as a part of Morocco, the nations of Pakistan, Algeria, Mauritania, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan should have recognized North Cyprus.
We are not lobbying good.




