by repulsewarrior » Fri Nov 15, 2019 1:41 am
...thanks.
indeed would have fooled me because i have seen this map before.
...what is clear is that he aspires for a Turkey that moves beyond the borders set in the Treaty of Lausanne. "Blue Turkey" is only a part of that, total supremacy in the Aegean and in the Eastern Med. is a part of that, Libya and Sudan as client states, "Safe Zones" in Syria (and Iraq), a self sustaining military-industrial complex which demonstrates these capacities, his ambition to "be" the protector of Islam, with Istanbul the center of such a Caliphate, are all a part of that.
...Cyprus is very much the canary in a coal mine; small and seemingly insignificant, mind if it dies.