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Singha wrote:Khan did nothing while pak got it nukes
Khan will do nothing in turkeys case
Infact sections of khan will be happy to have another nuclear cats paw to block russia into black sea and other regional saber rattling...they will dare iran to go nuclear and hit them militarily and sanctions
I think that it was obama's considered plan to enable turkey to do this.

In trying to checkmate russia with a cuba type promimity nuke threat, obama has shafted the euro crazies. The flood of jehadi refugees into EU has eased the situation for the US and other countries like britain and australia.

obama's heroic antics with the ISIS has helped turkey by allowing it to take a front and center position on the ingress of refugees and the subsequent blackmail that erdogan is indulging in to get money out of the european states.

His now swollen head is making him think that he can interfere in the cashmere issue to help out his paki plans and keep them happy when he makes his nuke purchase bid.

He has the chinese option as well. The hans will gladly sell their mothers to make some money and giving a boost to their rapidly tanking economy.
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What about Israeli security?
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http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey ... sCatID=352
Turkey has an agreement in place to support a base in Qatar with 500 troops.
A Turkish military base to be deployed in Qatar will be headquartered in Doha and lead by Qatari-Turkish generals, top official has said after sessions at parliament’s Foreign Affairs Commission.
“Within the framework of the agreement, it is envisaged that a joint Turkish-Qatar divisional tactical headquarters should be established, that its place should be in Doha, that the commander of the unit is to be a major general and a Qatari, and that the commander assistant is to be a brigadier and Turkish,” said Defense Ministry Deputy Undersecretary Major Ihsan Bülbül.
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rsingh wrote:What about Israeli security?
Turkey and israel have close ties
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turke ... SKBN1861YK
Turkey and Pakistan have signed a memorandum of understanding for the sale of four Turkish made corvette warships and 52 Pakistan-made training planes for Ankara's armed forces, Turkey's defense industry undersecretariat said on Wednesday.
Karachi Shipyard (KS&EW) will buy four corvettes made under Turkey's MILGEM warship program, aimed at designing and building locally a fleet of multipurpose corvettes and frigates that will replace older ships.
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We need to understand Turkey better.

Its going to be a new lynch pin in the coming decades.
In the near geographical region it will be important in Syria.
In Europe as a NATO member.
Its changing alliances with Russia due to Syrian situation.

Above all its beacon to ummah in the Islamist world.
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Putin has managed to wean off Turkey from the West.
Turkey is largest ground troops contributor to NATO.
And a pivot to Middle East.
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Bhurishravas wrote:http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turke ... SKBN1861YK
Turkey and Pakistan have signed a memorandum of understanding for the sale of four Turkish made corvette warships and 52 Pakistan-made training planes for Ankara's armed forces, Turkey's defense industry undersecretariat said on Wednesday.
Karachi Shipyard (KS&EW) will buy four corvettes made under Turkey's MILGEM warship program, aimed at designing and building locally a fleet of multipurpose corvettes and frigates that will replace older ships.
Turkey has lots of tech to share with Pakistan. At some point, they will share the JSF tech with Pakistan to help balance India's 4G a/c. Note the conversation Erdogan has with Suu Kyi. They want to play a role in our backyard.

They are not friends.
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Singha wrote:
rsingh wrote:What about Israeli security?
Turkey and israel have close ties
On the ropes. With Namo's visit, the Turkish option has cooled given the Islamist bent of Erdogan.
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Turkey's semi official paper wants 5 million `Army of Islam' to use against Israel.

http://mobile.wnd.com/2018/03/army-of-i ... -military/

I had opined earlier that this was what would happen, i.e., that when the dust settled down in West Asia, the winner of the regional conflicts would lead the `Army of Islam' (in whatever form) against Israel. The existence of the infidel occupying the holy land will never be tolerated.

For those who appreciate history, this is precisely what happened during the Crusades. The Crusaders would keep allying with the weaker Muslim states until the weaker Muslim states fell under the stronger Muslim state. And then the entire `Army of Islam' turned on the Crusaders. Of course, it is too early to predict the outcome this time, but the Israelis will come under serious attack sooner rather than later.
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#All I am actually curious about this. The Ottoman Sultan's avowed intention is to restore the Ottoman empire. Once he has got the Kurds under control in Iraq, Syria, etc, can he expand in the other direction, i.e., Europe into Bulgaria or maybe even Ukraine?

Wiki chacha tells me that two provinces in south Bulgaria (Karadzhali and Smolyan) are Muslim majority. There is a third Muslim majority province in N Bulgaria (Razgrad), but it is smack in the middle of Bulgarian provinces (though they can probably make a pitch for S Dobrogea too).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Bulgaria

Can the Ottoman Sultan expand his rule into the Balkans so that he can connect with Muslim heavy Macedonia (35% Muslim) & Bosnia-Herzegovina & Albania? Can we have a new Ottoman sultanate from Mosul in the south-east to Sarajevo in the north-west? A return of the Turks to the plains of Mohacs in the next 100 years, maybe?
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https://www.meforum.org/articles/2018/e ... hadow-army
Turkey is the latest country to enter this crucial, if shadowy, field. The SADAT Defense Consultancy, founded on February 28, 2012 by former Brigadier General Adnan Tanriverdi, is Ankara’s instrument in this area. Its activities are testimony both to the changing nature of the Turkish state, and to the process by which power and influence are currently built and held in the Middle East.
So, to SADAT: According to its website, the company’s mission is to ‘establish a Defensive Collaboration and Defensive Industrial Cooperation among Islamic Countries to help Islamic World take the place where it merits among Super Powers by providing Consultancy and Training Services.’

The Turkish version of the website sounds a little less like a run of the mill private military contracting firm. Western states are described as ‘imperialist’, ‘crusader’ countries.

SADAT’s founder Adnan Tanriverdi is an artillery officer who later specialized in asymmetric warfare. A former head of the Home Front Command in Northern Cyprus, he was expelled from the army because of his Islamist convictions in 1997. Tanriverdi’s ties to President Recep Tayepp Erdogan and the circles of the ruling AKP are of long standing.

A recent analysis by longtime Turkey-watcher Michael Rubin for American Enterprise Institute noted eyewitness reports of armed SADAT personnel involved in the suppression of the coup attempt of July 2016. The failed coup heralded the beginning of a comprehensive attempt by the Turkish president to re-make the Turkish armed forces along lines more amenable to himself.

As part of this process, hundreds of officers dismissed for Islamist leanings are being reinstated.
And as part of this process, Adnan Tanriverdi was himself appointed Chief Military Advisor to the President in late 2016.

SADAT has been heavily involved in Turkey’s training of Syrian Sunni Arab rebels for the fight against Assad. The company established a number of facilities in the Marmara region for this purpose at the beginning of The Syrian rebellion in northern Syria is today only able to survive because of the support of Turkey. SADAT has played a key role in the development and facilitation of this relationship.

the Syrian war. According to a 2012 report in the oppositionist Aydinlik newspaper,at least one of these training facilities was located at a Turkish military base in the Golcuk district of Kocaeli, formerly maintained as a training center by the Turkish Navy.
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A bit dated article
https://www.meforum.org/articles/2018/e ... -arab-love
Erdogan's Islamist militarism, in a nation that lost an empire a century ago, still finds millions of followers. At another party congress on March 11, thousands of fans in blue commando berets greeted Erdogan. The president lamented the loss of the Ottoman Empire: "Our (Turkey's) land is 780,000 square kilometres. We came down to this from 18 million square kilometres". "Take us to Afrin," the crowd said to Erdogan, referring to the Kurdish enclave in northern Syria, now the target of a vicious Turkish military campaign.
All the same, the Middle East is more complicated than Erdogan thinks it is. Erdogan's powerful Islamist ideology has prompted him to reverse the prevailing anti-Arab stereotypes in the Turkish society. While the Arabs are proud of their revolt against the Ottoman Empire in alliance with Western powers at the beginning of the 20th century, Erdogan claimed that "Arabs stabbed us in the back was a lie". The reality is much different than what Erdogan wishes to believe.
In the meantime, Erdogan's "Arab friends" are showing signs of hostility, one after the other. Amid growing tensions between Turkey and Egypt, Egyptian authorities are revising street names in Cairo in view of calls to change historical Ottoman-era street names. The move came after an Egyptian academic branded the Ottoman rulers "colonizers" and a street named after Ottoman Sultan Selim I was changed. Cairo's deputy governor, Mohamed Ayman, said: "It is totally illogical that our streets be called after Ottoman figures when our country has people who deserve this honor much more". In recent weeks, public and social media initiatives in Egypt began calling on consumers to stop buying Turkish products.

At the beginning of March, the Dubai-based, Saudi-owned MBC, the largest private media network in the Middle East, decided to ban popular Arabic-dubbed Turkish television series' from all channels.

The Arab blow to Turkish drama had an explanation. Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, created a new "axis of evil" identifying his country's top three enemies: Iran, Turkey and Islamic militant groups including Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, both of which Erdogan embraces. Salman is now the Kingdom's top diplomat, defense minister and heir to the crown.

All that echoed in the Gulf, as well. A senior United Arab Emirates (UAE) official said that Turkey's policy toward neighboring Arab states was not reasonable and advised Ankara to respect their sovereignty. UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash tweeted:

"It is no secret that Arab-Turkish relations aren't in their best state. In order to return to balance, Ankara has to respect Arab sovereignty and deal with its neighbors with wisdom and rationality".

There is more than enough evidence that Erdogan should take into consideration if he intends to enjoy his fake love affairs with his Arab neighbors. But his ambitions to make Turkey leader of the ummah seem to have blinded him. Unfortunately, there is little evidence he will adopt reason instead of regional bullying.

Comparing Erdogan to Zia ul-Haq, Pakistan's military dictator between 1978 and 1988, Husain Haqqani, the former Pakistani ambassador to Washington, said:"Erdogan has taken the Pakistani formula of mixing hard-line nationalism with religiosity. Zia imposed Islamic laws by decree, amended the constitution, marginalized secular scholars and leaders, and created institutions for Islamization that have outlasted him. Erdoğan is trying to do the same in Turkey."
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X Posted from the Terroristan thread.

Reality that the LHTEC engines have the involvement of a US company, namely Honeywell, dawns regards the T129 ATAK deal 8) .

The Mohammadden Terrorism Fomenting Islamic Republic of Pakistan is financing the deal by taking on debt from Brotherly Turkey who themselves are racing against Pakistan to see who will be the first to borrow from the IMF :roll: . IMF should keep a close watch to ensure IMF Funds are not used to finance this deal by either Turkey or Pakistan.

Is it any wonder that that a Turkish contestant on the Turkeys version of KBC thought the Great Wall of China was maybe in India ( Where is The Great Wall of China? Woman on Turkish Version of KBC Used 2 Lifelines for This : Is it... India? ) when “Turkish defense official” thinks Pakistan is “a country that has friendly relations with America “ :rotfl: :
Diplomatic row jeopardizes $1.5B helicopter deal between Turkey and Pakistan

By: Burak Ege Bekdil   11 hours ago

ANKARA, Turkey — An escalating diplomatic crisis between NATO allies Turkey and the United States may risk suspending a $1.5 billion deal between Turkey and Pakistan for the sale of 30 Turkish-made T129 ATAK helicopter gunships.

The T129 is being produced by Turkish Aerospace Industries under license from the Italian-British company AgustaWestland.

“The problem is related with the U.S.-made parts for which TAI will need U.S. export licenses in order to materialize the deal,” a Turkish aerospace official said.

The T129, based on its predecessor A129 Mangusta, is a twin-engine multirole attack helicopter. The T129 is powered by two LHTEC T800-4A turboshaft engines. Each engine can produce 1,014 kilowatts of output power. The T800-4A is an export version of the CTS800 engine. LHTEC is a joint venture between the American firm Honeywell and the British company Rolls-Royce.

“Apparently we shall need U.S. export licenses to go ahead with the T129 deal,” a senior procurement official said. “This is not a technological or financial matter but is purely political at the moment.” ………………………..

“This is a commercial deal (with Pakistan) with a country that has friendly relations with America :lol: . For Washington what matters should be the recipient of the systems, not who produces it and if relations are bumpy with the producer country,” a Turkish defense official said. “Why should the Americans punish Pakistan for their disagreements with Turkey?” :((

A TAI official said a U.S. embargo on the chopper deal was unlikely because it would also hurt a U.S. company as well as two British companies and one Italian. “These are not enemy producers,” he said. “They are on the ally side. And we (TAI) are not being sanctioned by the U.S. or any other ally country.”

A U.S. diplomat in Ankara refused to comment. …………………….


To finance one of the country’s largest defense and aerospace export contracts, Turkey offered Pakistan a $1.5 billion credit line in 2017, but the deal’s payment terms are unknown. ………….
From Defense News:

Diplomatic row jeopardizes $1.5B helicopter deal between Turkey and Pakistan
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The Turkish " delight" gone sour must reminx all that we too will bd v.vulnerable if we continue to buy US milware.
The day the erratic US declares India a rogud state, kaput goes our US made milware, LCA too.Its why I've for over a decade advised other western aero- engine options for LCA prototypes in case defence relationz with the US head south in the future.

Turkey is deliberately being shafted becos of its growing relations with Russia.India is dangerously close to joining it if the cretins in the US decide to punish us.Pak is fortunately far ahead of us in the Q!
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Turkey, was the only secular Muslim majority country but that has changed under Erdogans disastrous rule. Turkey has completed the u turn to become a full fledged terrorist loving Islamic republic. It is now being treated like what it has chosen to become. All rogue states have great patronage from Russia and China so Turkey obviously has no where to go but into Putin's lap.

As far as US sanctions go, they have started to bite from the reverse direction too. You buy Russian arms and you get sanctions. Massa is the defacto big dog of the world and we need to buy some more time to grow our teeth before we start to show them around. Couple more decades and we'll be strong enough to hurt anyone going against Indian interests.
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Happen to see some Turkish kit (attack heli, trainer, A2G weapon etc) in one of the air show and I have to say they were quite TFTA.

Having access to European & American tech, has enabled them to create quite a advanced MIC. Not good for us, as Paks having access to such tech would enable them to constantly undercut any overwhelming tech advantage we may create.

So this mess is in our favor.
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Philip wrote:The Turkish " delight" gone sour must remind all that we too will be v.vulnerable if we continue to buy US milware.
The day the erratic US declares India a rogue state, kaput goes our US made milware, LCA too.Its why I've for over a decade advised other western aero- engine options for LCA prototypes in case defence relationz with the US head south in the future.


Turkey is deliberately being shafted becos of its growing relations with Russia.India is dangerously close to joining it if the cretins in the US decide to punish us.Pak is fortunately far ahead of us in the Q!
Struck out all India related refs in teh post.
For once can we not bring in India into the mix?

Turkey souring with US which is its main benefactor since WWII, is good for India.
Turkey has been backdoor for Pakistan with all sorts of NATO level training and spares.
Mushy thinks he is half Turkish. Maybe towel.
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For those who don't know what the final straw was,

http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... soner-swap

Trump asked Israel to release alleged Hamas smuggler in prisoner swap with Turkey: report

Turks=Europeanised pukis. They broke their part of the bargain but did not bargain that the American may have a bite. Could not wish such misery on a better nation-except the pukis!
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If Err-do-gand wanted to do a deal of exchanging each other's trash, why would he trade the pastor for a low-level Turkish national held in Esrael on dubious charges, instead of Fart-hullah Goolen? Considering Fart-hullah Goolen's profile comes up as "stateless".
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... nal-crisis

Andrew Brunson: the US pastor at the heart of an international crisis
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Problem is, one increasingly isolated leader (Trump) has trapped another one (Erdogan).
If Erdogan feels trapped, he will choose to fight. If he chooses to fight, we may see another front opened in the middle east.
If his grip on Turkey wasn't this strong, it wouldn't be a matter of worry.
If Trump's grip on his own power wasn't slipping, it again wouldn't be a matter of worry.
Erdogan has already been playing victim against EU.

Insecure leaders with great power at their disposal, are like cornered cats. Extremely dangerous.

However, it is quite interesting how his relations with Russia took a U turn so soon after shooting the Russian fighters down during latter's Syria campaign.
Who knows, he might quickly come around to the west as well. But on what grounds?

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All mongrels to justify their power in India called themselves mughals and related themselves to turkey.

All of turkic court practices were followed to tee in India, but the court language itself ended up being styled on persian!

Glad that turkey is going turkey. There is no such thing as "secular and equatable democratic islamic nation".
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Virendra wrote:Problem is, one increasingly isolated leader (Trump) has trapped another one (Erdogan).
If Erdogan feels trapped, he will choose to fight. If he chooses to fight, we may see another front opened in the middle east.
If his grip on Turkey wasn't this strong, it wouldn't be a matter of worry.
If Trump's grip on his own power wasn't slipping, it again wouldn't be a matter of worry.
Erdogan has already been playing victim against EU.

Insecure leaders with great power at their disposal, are like cornered cats. Extremely dangerous.

However, it is quite interesting how his relations with Russia took a U turn so soon after shooting the Russian fighters down during latter's Syria campaign.
Who knows, he might quickly come around to the west as well. But on what grounds?

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Erdogan is bringing a pen knife to a howitzer fight.

Turkey problems are its high leveraged debt economy. The debt is due to corporate and not sovereign debt. So funds are exiting.

So as Lira goes down vis a vis $ (due to interest rate hikes in US) and the tariff wars on Turkey to influence their decision to hold the pastor whom Trump needs to be released to show his base he cares, Turkey problems are compounding.

To be honest I don't care if they tank for they are an antediluvian society masquerading in a veneer of modernity to get economic benefits of European rebuilding after WWII.
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Turkey is unlikely to throw in the proverbial "towel".The would be Ottoman Sultan is a megalomaniac , same mould as Trump.The EU under no circumstances will admit the Turks into their family and further destroy their fragile union beseiged by Islamic refugees.Putin must be laughing in the Kremlin at Turkey's plight.

Hubris fof the upstart "Sultan", well deserved.The declining eco fortunes of Turkey and Pak is cause for satisfaction, as both terrorist sponsors need their come-uppance.The Sultan and Captain can now sail in the same leaky boat together .

Both cases remind one not to embrace Uncle Sam too tightly.He uses smaller nations and their non- white leaders like a condom.To be discarded after serving its purpose.It's going to be fun to see how both Islamic "birthers" wriggle out of their difficulties.
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Agreed, but that doesn't mean Turkey's problems won't cause ripples in middle east.
Erdogan will try his best to hurt US/EU one way or the other, just to show his size to his people.
People and Powers alike, cause more damage and ruckus on their way down; than up.
This holds true for leaders of US, Turkey and holds true for the countries as well.

That said, Turkey's problems do help to keep the "peacefuls" bloc stay in disarray and divisions.
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Turkey external debt situation in one picture:
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US threatens new Turkey sanctions unless jailed pastor released

https://www.rt.com/usa/436142-mnuchin-n ... sanctions/

"Trump also complained about Ankara’s ingratitude in light of the fact that he had secured the release of an imprisoned Turkish national from a country he did not name."
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Lisa wrote:US threatens new Turkey sanctions unless jailed pastor released

https://www.rt.com/usa/436142-mnuchin-n ... sanctions/

"Trump also complained about Ankara’s ingratitude in light of the fact that he had secured the release of an imprisoned Turkish national from a country he did not name."
Too lazy to search for the link. But apparently, a Turkish person was held in Israel, and US worked with Israel to have that person returned to Turkey, which Turkey had mentioned would help in releasing the US pastor too. But Turkey proved they are masters at pakiness....
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LOL. Erdogan actually thought he could paki Trump and not get his whole damn economy punched in the head.
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Merkel is going to help Erdogan for obvious reason: Avoid more refugees.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/10 ... r-exchange
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... les-riyadh
Crown Prince’s wings clipped as Khashoggi death rattles Riyadh
Martin Chulov Middle East correspondent, Mon 12 Nov 2018.
Six weeks after Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi agents, the decision-making process in Riyadh is slowly starting to change. Fallout from the assassination in Istanbul has wounded Mohammed bin Salman, the heir to the throne, and given a second wind to an old guard of elders, whose views are once more being heard.
Publicly, the Kingdom’s leaders appear chastened and contrite in the wake of Khashoggi’s gruesome killing inside the Saudi consulate. In private though, senior members of the House of Saud, including the crown prince, are partly blaming Turkey for the global revulsion, which they say could have been contained if Ankara had played by “regional rules”.
Central to the resentment, according to sources close to the royal court in Riyadh, is a view that the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan betrayed the Kingdom by disclosing details of the investigation and refusing all overtures from Saudi envoys, including an offer to pay “significant” compensation.
“They say they were betrayed by the Turks,” a regional source said. “That’s where they are in their most private thoughts.”
The extraordinary ramifications of Khashoggi’s death continue to reverberate through the halls of power in Riyadh, where some decisions are now being made away from the ubiquitous crown prince, who Turkey alleges directly ordered the assassination, and has since tried to deflect blame to fall guys, including his most prominent domestic aide. Ankara has been aiming to isolate Prince Mohammed through weeks of pointed rhetoric that has appealed to the Saudi King to rein in his son, and restore more conventional ways of doing business.
The return to Riyadh earlier this month of Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, the sole surviving full brother of monarch, King Salman, has been widely interpreted as a first step in the restoration of an old order, in which decision making was made after extensive consultation among elders. Another senior figure, Khalid al-Faisal, led the Saudi delegation to meet Erdoğan in October, and the King himself - who has taken more of a chairman role since appointing Prince Mohammed as his heir - has been more visible and vocal in meetings, a second senior source says.
“MbS [the common acronym for the crown prince] has had his wings clipped,” the source said. “There’s no doubt about it. He doesn’t have the same swagger, and he’s just as scared of a mis-step as the next guy. That’s a big change.”
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Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan’s Twitter account allegedly hacked by Turkish group
Last night, a group of Turkish hackers took over Bollywood actor and Indian cultural icon Amitabh Bachchan‘s Twitter account, and posted tweets about the purportedly harsh treatment Turkish soccer players have faced at the hands of Iceland recently. Bachchan’s account has more than 37 million followers, more than Hilary Clinton’s Twitter followers. The group – which calls itself Ayyildiz Tim Turkish Cyber Armny (sic) – changed Bachchan‘s profile picture to a photo of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. It even changed the actor’s bio to “Love Pakistan” with an emoji of a Turkish flag.
The group even posted a tweet condemning the Indian government for its approach towards Muslims. The tweet seemingly doesn’t refer to a specific incident.

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the same group targeted Adnan Sani as well...it is Turkey based Pakees...
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Turkey's rising anti-Arab hate
There are two very different focuses of anti-Arab hostility in the country. The first is directed against tourists from the Gulf, characterized as rich and condescending, flocking to the city to live large, go shopping and get hair transplants. A headscarved resident of a conservative Istanbul neighborhood told me they're commonly termed "Bedouin with Mercedes."

The louche behavior of some male tourists freed from the Gulf’s restrictions is widely remarked on, if not ridiculed, for its blatant hypocrisy.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s strongman president and head of its ruling Islamist party, the AKP, often references the Islamically "pious generation" he seeks to cultivate in Turkey, and likes to slap down Saudis like Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who, he says, despite being the custodian of Islam’s two holiest sites, doesn’t own Islam. There’s an rich trail of videos on social media comparing Erdogan’s far more fluent recitation of the Koran in comparison to that of the Saudi king, Salman.
The second target of anti-Arab racism is a far larger, far poorer and far more politically combustible group: refugees from the Syrian civil war.

According to UN figures, Turkey hosts the largest refugee population in the world - including more than 3.6 million Syrians. Officially, about half a million registered Syrian refugees live in Istanbul, constituting 3.4 percent of the city’s population. That makes Istanbul the third largest "Syrian" city in the world.


This enormous and unprecedented influx, partly the result of Turkey’s shared border with Syria and partly the 2016 deal it signed with the European Union to take in refugees stranded on Greek islands in return for substantial payments, has inevitably affected Istanbul, straining its services and increasing competition for jobs - all while a major economic crisis plays out in Turkey.
Popular racism against Arabs is hardly a new phenomenon in Turkey. As even a pro-Erdogan veteran of decades of local politics told me, it starts in school, where textbooks teach Turkish children that the Arabs betrayed them during World War I.

And more generally, a constant nationalist narrowing of what constitutes a "truly" Turkish citizen has long pervaded the political system. Strident nationalists like to refer to "pure Turks" - a term traditionally used to exclude the Kurds and all non-Muslim minorities, such as Armenians and Jews, but which now is also pointedly used to exclude (Muslim) Arabs.
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On S-400 Purchase and CAATSA

Trump Aides Pick Sanctions to Punish Turkey for Russian Missiles
President Donald Trump’s team has settled on a sanctions package to punish Turkey for receiving parts of a Russian missile defense system and plans to announce it in the coming days, said people familiar with the matter.
One of the people said the intention is to announce the sanctions late next week. The administration wants to wait until after Monday’s anniversary of a 2016 coup attempt against Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to avoid fueling further speculation that the U.S. was responsible for the uprising, as Erdogan’s loyalists have claimed.
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http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkis ... ove-146015
Turkish NGOs protest India's Kashmir move
(August 23rd news)
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IMO, if Turkey does anything more than make token noises, India should start talking about Kurdistan.
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A_Gupta wrote:IMO, if Turkey does anything more than make token noises, India should start talking about Kurdistan.
What more can they do. They support Pakistan at FATF, block India at the NSG, give random statements on Kashmir and Indian minority.
However, India shouldn't start talking about Kurdistan rightaway though. Turkey has enemies everywhere. Get them in the loop. Why do it for free?
"India needs to coordinate its efforts with the Gulf monarchies who have even less reasons to like Erdogan. Also, if New Delhi seeks to dive into the zero-sum equations of West Asia, it could seek equal response from the Gulf monarchies to its own sensitivities. The UAE and Saudi Arabia have been supporting Pakistan through various diplomatic and economic means. This emboldens Pakistan to continue its hostility towards India. If Saudi Arabia and the UAE were to stop supporting Pakistan, it will make it easier for New Delhi to convince Pakistan of the futility of its hostile policies. New Delhi could test the waters in the region for such a quid pro quo between the two sides. If Delhi plays its cards well, it could gain a lot."
https://www.vifindia.org/2019/august/22 ... -west-asia
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