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um.. what? Do you mean full cooperation of NATO instead of a USA based system?

That's the way every defense company advertise its product, isn't it?

Btw, the guy who wrote the article that Jigs posted, must have watched too much Fox News in his life. I mean, its very similar how Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly treats Muslims, just for this case the guy who wrote it is a Turkish-American, and its about politics, not religion.

Dependence on just West, and ignoring your economic interests for the sake of so called "Western World" just doesn't work today thanks to developing markets of China and Russia. As the economic hub of European Union began to shed, Turkey had to consider new options for stable growth rates. Hence...

True. Without getting into specifics of Hezbollah organization, it's very vague today to call a group as terrorist organisation thanks to some countries. We must also acknowledge though, an organisation may commit terrorist acts even if it's not one in core. It sounds confusing but that's the...

I kinda wonder why Arabs fear and hate Iran, but only hate Israel.. Israel is like a mother bird who does everything in its power to protect its children without moral borders. But ideology of current Iran regime is not only provocative but also has a ability to create internal conflicts. At the...

I won't be so sure about that. Iran has long-range missiles in its inventory and in a rush to create more and better ones. And that has a potential to create instability in the region. Non-existence of stability equals to no oil, and that is the heart of economy. If the weather is cloudy, I...

China's ruling Communist Party is meeting in Beijing to draw up its next five-year plan for the economy. The agenda is secret but analysts say that instead of seeking a high rate of economic growth, China's leaders want to close the gap between rich and poor and between coastal and inland...

Can any of the Chinese guys can respond to this? Is it true that with every generation of new Premiers, some kind of political reforms are done for the sake of smoothing the transition of implementing a plural party system?

I think there is a plan to establish a rail silk road through china->turkey->europe. Check out the latest visit of Chinese PM to Turkey.

I object your first argument but agree with the second. F-4 planes were used in the drills so observing a plane that's gonna phase out in coming years is not that of a big issue.

Apart from all the discussions on Cyprus, this act of thinking, even if it's good for people as some claim, is wrong on so many levels. It's sick even to think about it. I'm not saying nobody does or think to use this kind of propaganda apart from this very general, I'm sure all the world does...

It's give and take ... It's not like USA established this close relationship just to help another country. She has interests over this relationship and so does Turkey.

I think it's more of a balance issue with China rather than Pakistan. US has interests in Pakistan via stability of Afghanistan and a foothold in the region.

Do you have any source regarding that? If not, stop trolling here.

I wonder sometimes how people can use "nuclear strike" in a sentence and don't make a total stupid of themselves. And you have no idea what would be the consequences if Turkey intervened on the side of Azerbaijan. Do you think Russians will just sit and watch if such a thing happened? And...

True. But F-35 is not offered to everyone atm.

It is PPP, but that still counts :)

My point was not sticking to old equipment but burden of costs that will come if it was chosen to join a program after all those years. I'm sure TuAF and MoD analysed this to a great extend. Maybe they think current capabilities of F-16 fleet, with upgrades to CCIP level, can serve well with...