Cyprus-Forum.com

[repulsewarrior]

...a very long article demonstrating the results of bombings in Iraq by Turkey.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/sp ... irstrikes/

...tedious in details about the suffering of the past, let's remember it has been a long time now this warring.

It is the statistics i found most revealing.

[repulsewarrior]

...interesting,

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Baghdad on Monday for his first state visit to Iraq since 2011. During his meetings with top Iraqi officials, Erdogan discussed water, oil, regional security, and Iraq's Road of Development.

Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani greeted Erdogan with a 21-gun salute at Baghdad's international airport, and state television showed a marching band playing the Iraqi and Turkish national anthems.

"Iraq and Turkey have signed a strategic security pact, as well as another agreement on water sharing between Iraq and Turkey," PM Sudani said in a joint press conference with Erdogan in Baghdad. "We will not let anyone launch attacks on the neighbouring countries from our territories, and we will not let anyone breach our sovereignty."

Erdogan stressed that they had signed a strategy security pact against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Gulen Movement with Iraq, emphasising that Iraq had formally recognised the PKK as a "terrorist" organisation.

https://www.newarab.com/news/turkeys-er ... gainst-pkk

...meanwhile it has been reported that Turkey (for the first time) has deployed their S-400 systems; on the Iraqi border.

[repulsewarrior]

Analyst Michael Rubin has issued a stark warning about Turkey’s military actions in Iraqi Kurdistan, arguing that they pose a severe threat to Iraqi sovereignty. On Friday, Rubin highlighted the extensive damage inflicted by Turkish forces, noting that “Turkish jets and drones have carried out more than 380 bombardments and burned more than 250 miles of farmland.” He emphasised that these attacks have particularly devastated the Christian-Assyrian community in the region.

Rubin explained that Turkey’s military presence in Iraq, which began in the early 1990s, was established without agreement from Baghdad or Erbil (Hewlêr). He remarked, “The irony of Turkey’s declination to participate in the 2003 war to oust Saddam Hussein was that it had already occupied Iraqi territory for more than a decade.” He stressed that Turkey’s incursions are not a new phenomenon but part of a long-standing pattern of territorial expansion. “There is no indication that Turkey will leave Iraqi territory seized under the pretence of fighting the PKK,” Rubin warned.

Drawing parallels with historical instances, Rubin cautioned that Turkey’s actions resemble its past occupations. He stated, “Sudani should understand the lesson of Cyprus. Turkey invaded the island twice, first in July 1974 and then a month later. It was a naked land grab, plain and simple.” He further asserted that Turkey’s actions in Syria follow a similar pattern, with efforts to alter local demographics and integrate occupied territories into Turkey. Rubin warned, “If Sudani does not stop appeasing Erdogan, Iraq’s future will be akin to that of Cyprus or Syria: partition and decades-long occupation.”
https://medyanews.net/turkeys-iraq-oper ... ael-rubin/

...just another update.

[Maximus]

Turkey is going to be in big trouble if inflation remains where it is, and they wont be able to maintain these illegal occupations and military adventures.

imagine living in a country where the cost of living doubles every year or so but your wages remain stagnant?

Even the tourists are complaining as food and occupancy prices have skyrocketed, making it an unattractive tourist destination.

If history is anything to go by, Turkey will never get her inflation problem under control.

She is sitting on a ticking time bomb.

[Lordo]

Analyst Michael Rubin has issued a stark warning about Turkey’s military actions in Iraqi Kurdistan, arguing that they pose a severe threat to Iraqi sovereignty. On Friday, Rubin highlighted the extensive damage inflicted by Turkish forces, noting that “Turkish jets and drones have carried out more than 380 bombardments and burned more than 250 miles of farmland.” He emphasised that these attacks have particularly devastated the Christian-Assyrian community in the region.

Rubin explained that Turkey’s military presence in Iraq, which began in the early 1990s, was established without agreement from Baghdad or Erbil (Hewlêr). He remarked, “The irony of Turkey’s declination to participate in the 2003 war to oust Saddam Hussein was that it had already occupied Iraqi territory for more than a decade.” He stressed that Turkey’s incursions are not a new phenomenon but part of a long-standing pattern of territorial expansion. “There is no indication that Turkey will leave Iraqi territory seized under the pretence of fighting the PKK,” Rubin warned.

Drawing parallels with historical instances, Rubin cautioned that Turkey’s actions resemble its past occupations. He stated, “Sudani should understand the lesson of Cyprus. Turkey invaded the island twice, first in July 1974 and then a month later. It was a naked land grab, plain and simple.” He further asserted that Turkey’s actions in Syria follow a similar pattern, with efforts to alter local demographics and integrate occupied territories into Turkey. Rubin warned, “If Sudani does not stop appeasing Erdogan, Iraq’s future will be akin to that of Cyprus or Syria: partition and decades-long occupation.”
https://medyanews.net/turkeys-iraq-oper ... ael-rubin/

...just another update.

Absolute nonsense. Turkish intervention was to protect the Turkish Cypriots from the fascist who overthrew the President and put in his place a known murderer who was about to slaughter all the TCs. How do we know that, first of all it was planned and secondly he admitted that if Greece came to help him in 1974 he would have accomplished his plan. Now the fact that Turkey still has soldiers n the island is down to GCs refusing every single peace deal offered by the UN.

Lets not mince our words and lets call a spade a spade.

Going forward, of course Turkey is now well and truly entrenched in Cyprus and nothing will extract her out of it unless there is a peace deal. We nearly had one in 2017 when the Turks agreed to withdraw in phases and Anastasiades said no you must withdraw from day one and then walked out of the talks. Before UN can announce the talks were over, it is a known fact that Anastasiades had his suitcase packed and ready.

You cannot escape hard facts.

To more urgent matters. A toilet is blocked and the boy and his brush are missing. Where is he hiding? Anybody see him tell him his services are required.