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My maternal grandmother's family was Rumelian Turk of Yoruk stock. My paternal grandmother was Rumelian too but not sure if Yoruk or not. Very kind and friendly people. Beautiful people.

Erdogan doesn't help by spreading conspiracies which deflects from the real problems of the economy. There is no foreign secret cabal that is trying to manipulate Turkey. Foreign investment is done by bankers, investors and businessmen. They aren't controlled by their governments, if anything...

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Haftar was against Turkey. He was backed by the Saudi/Egypt/UAE axis and his rhetoric matched. The Tobruk government banned all Turkish contracts for the past few years until late last year as even they started to realise they needed Turkish investments. But Turkey has been more supportive...

I don't support erdogan.

The negative image of Saudi Arabia isn't because of recent social media activity of extremists, al Jazeera hasn't got the reach in the West to influence people's views of Saudi Arabia and the right wing is just as virulently hostile to muslims and Saudis if not more so than the left wing. Saudi...

Defeating Assad is part of defeating the PKK. Assad nurtured the pkk in Syria. It was Assad who handed Kurdish areas to the YPG thus allowing them to build a base to attack Turkey from. There is an historic strategic cooperation between the pkk network and the baathists.

It's happening. Still no s400 response yet Strange choice to attack Tiyas ab. It'd not involved in Ghouta. If it's the Iranians being attacked it could mean an Israeli attack unrelated to the events in Douma.

The conflict in Syria is factionalised. Whether Arab or not doesn't matter. What you mean is Syria needs pro Assad Arab intervention?

You could say it's not about winning. Assad will take control of Ghouta, that's certain. But Assad has little actual popularity, even amongst his own supporters. He will never win the people over so he has to make them fear him and never do anything like rebel against him again. This is the...

If Europe wants to stop refugees from coming through Turkey, then they need to help stop them coming into Turkey in the first place. Turkey should be saying to them, "look we've tried to hold them back from entering Greece and Bulgaria, but the number of refugees continues to increase. This...

Don't think any time soon. The link only mentions Turkey, are other Turkic countries and regions going to introduce similar courses?

It's Turkey that needs to adopt more letters. Particularly the letter x, ň and ä. These are sounds used throughout the Turkic world even in Anatolia that the Turkish alphabet doesn't represent.

They kept telling us there were no pkk in Sinjar then they said there were only a few. A bit of Turkish pressure and we can now see the real extent of the Pkk presence. A good rule of thumb for Turkey is when it comes to the pkk trust no one.

Beautiful Qashqai Turk song Lyrics from one of the comments Biz Türkək, biz Qəşqaiyək Bizim ağır el varımız Ağzımızın içində şirin Şəkər təkin (gibi) dil varımız Bizim eldə, gümüş üzlər Qələm qaşlar, ala gözlər Yaxşı mətəl (öymə), şirin sözlər Duyğulu nağıl varımız İki nərgiz, iki sünbül Şeyda...

I don't speak French what does this say? Meanwhile in Manbij

The French are already backtracking. From would to could and now to we never said we would in the first place. The French contingent in Syria isn't big enough to make an impact and if they increase their forces big enough then they need to accept losses. Which adds a different dynamic, how...

Ironically "kurd" was an historic term to refer to iranic speaking nomads mostly along the zagros mountain range. Balochs, Bakhtiari and others were called Kurds in the past. Yet some want to engineer the political boundaries of the region to apply the term over Mesopotamia. An historically...