Recent content by Kiryu

Can't really compare the Kurds nationalism with the situation of Iranian Turks. The Turkic-Persian or Turk-Tajik synthesis goes back well over a thousand years. Iranian Turks are just as connected to the history of Iran and the Iranian state as Persians. The history of their clans, heritage...

This is contradictory, Turkey is hitting targets on the Idlib front where they and their outposts have been attacked. If Iranian and Hizbollah fighters are dying, it's because those forces are on the front, attacking Turkish troops.

This isn't 400 hundred years ago, "official" language was a lot looser in definition. Now state language means the language of all state institutions and education. Bilingualism within the state was common in the past, now only Persian can be used. There were no state schools in the past...

You don't even believe your language should have official status in Iran, you're happy to see Turks assimilated. That's quite destructive views for someone who claims to be "more Turk" than others. I have too much pride in my heritage to allow it to be destroyed like that. Anyway, your joy...

Turkmen Mountains region?

He's not even a Turk, I'm sure he said somewhere he was Assyrian or something, but his family are from Iranian Azerbaijan so he speaks Azeri Turkish. Either way it's not important. Whenever Turkey is under the cosh they show their true colours yet when its Iran under attack they want us to be...

This is right, Erdogan always said they should retreat to Sochi lines or he would push them back. No one should expect anything beyond that. Unless of course, events require the need for it.

I'm hearing rumours that dozens were killed

We will find out the extent of Iranian involvement in killing Turkish troops in the coming weeks. What is clear is Shia militias are dying and they are only there on Irans orders

I haven't visited these forums in months because the troll factor was so high but after recent events in Syria I thought I would check it out. So glad I did now. Watching assadists who were gloating over Turkish deaths the other day become so incoherent and self destruct has been quite...

Huge if true

Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies

Bad time for Hezbollah. Reminds me of the western PKK fighters who didn't know what they got themselves in for when Turkey came at them in Afrin Now reversing assadist gains south of Idlib too

It's true that treason is pretty big in Turkey. I think the reasons are more complex though. I doubt many of them see themselves as traitors, they're misguided though. A lot are sycophants who believe if they do the biddings of a foreign country then they will be accepted by them. This is...