Wickerman
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Sir,Turks have a rich history of being an warrior race,there is absolute no doubt.But why do you tend to underestimate the achievement of others is beyond my knowledge.
The Germans and the Israelis have proved themselves as a tremendous fighting machines of twentieth century.Be it the german snipers,the brutal richthofen division in the world war or the brilliant israeli military tactics we have seen in the past.The world war veterans still remember their enemies with respect,why cant you? No offence intended.Peace.
Its excessive and needless nationalism and chest thumping. The end of world war I saw the peak of the Turkish Ottoman Empire come to an end. The Ottoman Empire, and present day Turkey was occupied by Greece, France and UK if I am right. Then after a 3 year independence war, they won and they gained freedom. This could only be achieved by imbuing extreme nationalistic concepts in the population by drawing inspiration from their glorious days in the past. That probably still exists in Turkish society even today. I have seen numerous posts by Turks who keep throwing around maps from 100 years ago. On the one hand such nationalism is good, it holds a nation together. But on the other hand, it is bad, because you lose sense of realities and still think you are just as powerful as you used to be. The 20th century "warrior nations", so to speak, in reality, in my opinion, would probably be United States, Russia, Israel, China, India and Pakistan. I think these are the countries that have fought full scale wars by themselves either against others or between each other, more than once. And made the biggest sacrifices and shown the most bravado in the most pressing situations, more than once. Turkey today, has lost its original charm. Just my thoughts.