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The Grand Turk
Erdogan has set his sights on Greece as his new target
2022-12-26
Turkey: either at your feet or at your throat, and now taking advantage of the fact that Joe Biden is the weakest American president since Jimmy Carter.
[Jpost] Turkey regards Greece as a peninsular state and points out that some of these islands are on the Turkish mainland’s continental shelf.
"They breathe Turkish Air. Stolen oxygen. We shall take it back!"
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has taken a leaf out of his ally Vladimir Putin’s book and threatened Greece with a missile strike.

In a recent speech in Samsun, the president spoke of the progress made by Turkey’s defense industry, which is now 80% domestic. As examples, he gave the Bayraktar TB2 UAVs, which have revolutionized the face of modern warfare, and the development of the Akinci UCAV (unmanned combat aerial vehicle).
Posted by:Skidmark

#8  I would send him an envoy to point out that Somalia was once part of the Ottoman Empire

Somalia is grateful to President Erdogan for so generously training Somali police and army special forces, and funding schools, Super Hose. Quite possibly the schools were previously built and run by Gulenists, but our wannabe neo-Ottoman sultan gets credit now.

I would dearly love to see the Greeks beat the pants of the Gulenist-free Turkish army, deflating the legend as is happening to the Russian army, but I suspect Turkey won’t get beyond big talk.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-12-26 13:00  

#7  ^ Bingo!
Posted by: Frank G   2022-12-26 12:33  

#6  Guess he's eyeing that gas field off Cypress.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-12-26 11:59  

#5  They would just as soon give the Kurds the Armenian treatment, but if they can’t genocide the Kurds it looks they would be satisfied with whacking some Greeks. Erdogan is going Waffle House on somebody. I would send him an envoy to point out that Somalia was once part of the Ottoman Empire. If it wasn’t, just photoshop an old map. It is just to complicated to get him to invade Afghanistan.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-12-26 11:54  

#4  Restore Constantinople!!
Posted by: Elminens Chusorong3648   2022-12-26 09:20  

#3  /\ Yes, history is indeed your friend.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-12-26 08:35  

#2  Things haven't changed much in 2500 years.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-12-26 08:33  

#1  NATO "ally". I thought their economy was in the shitter?
Posted by: Frank G   2022-12-26 06:30  

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