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This is a thread specifically for the war, not a general megathread (use the pinned /c/genzedong thread for that).
Please keep related news in this thread rather than making separate posts. Remember to include sources and avoid spreading rumours.
Interesting, ok. I know very little about the situation with Türkiye, but I’m curious to know more. You figure Erdogan wants to restore control of territory that Türkiye had when it was the Ottoman empire, is it along those lines?
Turkey is actively building an empire. Somalia, Azerbaijan-Armenia, Iran, Cyprus, the Stans, Libya, Iraqi Kurdistan. Erdogan could expand into every neighboring country if he liked, there are a lot of reasons to justify expansion.
Its not always direct territorial control but economical and strategical control. Especially Syria and Iraq are important because they used to be refuge for Kurdish Separatists, and now with there being a lot of discontent with the large arab refugee population inside the home country, Erdogan plans to resettle them along the border zones.
Don’t forget Libya and Pakistan, the former holds many Turkish backed militants in its midst while the latter is currently in talks with Saudi Arabia to form a Turkish-Saudi-Pakistani military bloc their nicknaming “Islamic NATO”.
Türkiye has its fingers in a lot of pies and should be carefully observed as multipolarity develops.