Two explosions hit Istanbul's Atatürk Airport, 36 dead 140 injured reported

prashantazazel said:

Turkey will soon have to deal with home grown terrorists.

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No we wont

Nigel Farrage said:

That's the thing. They never work alone. Who paid them, who bough, transported their blast vests and weapons, who transported them into Turkey and who told them the exact time and spot of attack as they specifically targeted Arab and Turkish passengers.
There have to be a whole chain f helpers and facilitators and financiers out there.

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I'm not saying otherwise.

Malik Alashter said:

Oh yeah Turkey used to be our backyard too one of our velayats and even your ancestors were soldiers at our will.

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Ottoman Empire


Seljuk Empire


And before that we were in central asia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oghuz_Yabgu_State

You live in a fantasy world.

Malik Alashter said:

This is Iraq GDP with the turmoil the country went through

And this is Turkey GDP with all the help it got from Europe and the US and long time of rest.

Imagine we get rest and peace next year we will catch up you and we will even surpass you within a decade from now!!!.

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Your GDP growth is no where near ours. Forget catching, just to keep up, you need a growth a rate of 3 times more than ours. Since our GDP is triple of yours.

Mate, Turkey is out of your league in every way. Compare yourself with Syria, Egypt,etc...

Malik Alashter said:

This is Iraq GDP with the turmoil the country went through
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And this is Turkey GDP with all the help it got from Europe and the US and long time of rest.
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Imagine we get rest and peace next year we will catch up you and we will even surpass you within a decade from now!!!.


Oh yeah Turkey used to be our backyard too one of our velayats and even your ancestors were soldiers at our will.

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Soldiers at your will? Ahahah you have it the wrong way around.
As for economics...don't even get me started. First pay off your debts to the Kuwaitis for the stupidity you did there and then pay for all the destroyed infrastructure in Iraq proper. First create a functioning state and then comeback to talk about growth rates

Sinan said:

Ottoman Empire

Seljuk Empire
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And before that we were in central asia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oghuz_Yabgu_State

You live in a fantasy world.


Your GDP growth is no where near ours. Forget catching, just to keep up, you need a growth a rate of 3 times more than ours. Since our GDP is triple of yours.

Mate, Turkey is out of your league in every way. Compare yourself with Syria, Egypt,etc...

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Again you over rate your country our growth rate will surpass yours you ignorant one time our rate went as high as 15% that's exceed the one of china so as I said we will rock you just stay tuned.

CrimsonFury said:

Soldiers at your will? Ahahah you have it the wrong way around.
As for economics...don't even get me started. First pay off your debts to the Kuwaitis for the stupidity you did there and then pay for all the destroyed infrastructure in Iraq proper. First create a functioning state and then comeback to talk about growth rates

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find something else kiddo.

Now for both of you kids our pride the PMF swore to kick your butts once they are close to mosul are we going to see you running away like ISIS or you'll have some courage to hold your fart from blowing before you run.

Malik Alashter said:

Again you over rate your country our growth rate will surpass yours you ignorant one time our rate went as high as 15% that's exceed the one of china so as I said we will rock you just stay tuned.

find something else kiddo.

Now for both of you kids our pride the PMF swore to kick your butts once they are close to mosul are we going to see you running away like ISIS or you'll have some courage to hold your fart from blowing before you run.

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The people that gave away nearly half of the country to a ragtag militia vs. the Turkish military on an open battlefield...brain dead is what you are

Khafee said:

@Irfan Baloch @Paksanity Very well said.

To my Turkish & Pakistani brothers:

It is not only sad, but extremely depressing, to see two great nations suffer so much. In this holy month, I can only pray that Allah Almighty restores peace and prosperity, to both of my brotherly nations, and rids them of terrorism forever.

Stand Tall!!

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I wish Turkish leadership reaches out to moderate and peaceful Kurdish leaders and reach some agreement of mutual benefit in order to prevent the terrorists benefiting from the chaos. reaches out to Iraqi & Iranian governments in order to prevent the ISIS movement & its flourishing and then consolidate itself internally and at the borders

. improve its intelligence and seek out the sleeper cells or supporters within its cities that are providing logistics to the terrorists.


reason I mentioned Kurd's is that its time to minimise the hostiles so that the focus remains on ISIS destruction and anyone else PKK or otherwise who has designs against Turkey.

Beyler su arabi ciddiye almayin.

Zulkarneyn said:

Beyler su arabi ciddiye almayin.

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Ne ciddiye alacagim, dassak geciyorum bu salakla 2 gundur.

Malik Alashter said:

Again you over rate your country our growth rate will surpass yours you ignorant one time our rate went as high as 15% that's exceed the one of china so as I said we will rock you just stay tuned.

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And i'm saying our %5 Growth rate is equal to your %15.

750$ Billion * 0.05 = 37.5$ Billion
250$ Billion * 0.15 = 37.5$ Billion

Turkey's GDP growth was 4.2% in 2015. To just keep up, you needed to score %12.6 Growth Rate

However you scored %2.4. Forget catching up, rift between our economies are increasing....But of course you are free to believe anything.....maybe in a decade you will surpass US and became world's dominant power.

Sinan said:

And i'm saying our %5 Growth rate is equal to your %15.

750$ Billion * 0.05 = 37.5$ Billion
250$ Billion * 0.15 = 37.5$ Billion

Turkey's GDP growth was 4.2% in 2015. To just keep up, you needed to score %12.6 Growth Rate

However you scored %2.4. Forget catching up, rift between our economies are increasing....But of course you are free to believe anything.....maybe in a decade you will surpass US and became world's dominant power.

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They launch spaceships and colonize the galaxy by 2025..for sure

Malik Alashter said:

Again you over rate your country our growth rate will surpass yours you ignorant one time our rate went as high as 15% that's exceed the one of china so as I said we will rock you just stay tuned.

find something else kiddo.

Now for both of you kids our pride the PMF swore to kick your butts once they are close to mosul are we going to see you running away like ISIS or you'll have some courage to hold your fart from blowing before you run.

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You moron keep your bullshit out of this thread. This is About an terrorist Attack on Istabul not your stupid Numbers.

Malik Alashter said:

This is Iraq GDP with the turmoil the country went through
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And this is Turkey GDP with all the help it got from Europe and the US and long time of rest.
View attachment 314786

Imagine we get rest and peace next year we will catch up you and we will even surpass you within a decade from now!!!.


Oh yeah Turkey used to be our backyard too one of our velayats and even your ancestors were soldiers at our will.

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Turkish folks defended the Muslim heartlands for thousand years. Since the Ottomans are gone, not a single day of peace has been observed. The common folks are paying with their life, property and honor - that's the real tragedy. No words are strong enough to explain that. What's there in mere numbers???

xenon54 said:

We need this all the way from mediterranian sea to Iran border, seismic sensors, thermal camera, sharp shooting turrets, 500m buffer zone, you name it.

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What's about the crossing of ideologies??

Pakistanis who have never visited Istanbul cannot visualize the city’s splendour, its heritage and the economic progress Turkey has made in the last 15 years. According to the latest World Bank Report Turkey is now the 17th largest economy of the world with GDP of about $800-billion and per capita income in excess of $10,000.
Despite the above the Turkish economy remains fragile and because of the huge current account deficit; is largely dependent on dollars inflows from Turkish migrant workers and her thriving tourist industry

It is really sad to see that Istanbul; a city I visited only a few months back and in my opinion is one of the greatest cities on the planet; is torn to pieces again. ISIS may not have accepted the responsibility, but suicide being forbidden in Islam; only those inspired by the militant message of Syed Qutub and the Wahhabi/ Takfiri ideology actually practice it. Therefore this heinous act is clearly hall mark of the Daesh/ISIS activists.

Turkey always had to deal with some major socio-political problems due the disfranchised Kurdish population represented by the Kurdistan Workers Party who was constantly engaged in terrorist acts. Now with war in Syria and the emergence of more sinister ISIS; Turkey faces even greater danger.

Like all those who love Turkish people & Turkish food, I am deeply saddened by this carnage and the loss of innocent lives. Sadly, just as Wahhabi ideology mushroomed in Pakistan due to the policies of the bigot Zia during Afghan jihad; suicide bombings in Turkey are IMO direct result of Erdogan & the AKP’s incoherent policy toward the ISIS in Syria.

This appears to be a replay of the Afghan jihad & refugee influx in Pakistan only that it is now Syria and instead of 3-million Afghans, Turkey has to deal with one million Syrian refugees. However the consequences appear to be similar.

Turkey turned a blind eye to ISIS by allowing unimpeded transit of all groups opposite to the Assad regime because Erdogan’s gov't consider removal of Assad regime in the long term interest of Turkey. (Does this remind anyone of PML-N support of the Taliban in Afghanistan when they started?) Turkey even shot down a Russian plane which strayed across Turkish airspace for less the couple of minutes and posed no danger to Turkish assets.

This flawed policy allowed space to the propagators of militant ISIS brand of Islam to establish a strong network within the Turkish borders. As a result, in addition to fighting the Kurdish rebels, Turkey now has to deal with the ISI inspired terrorists who are attacking tourists as well as the Kurdish groups inside Turkey.

Regrettably; despite the fact that Wahhabi/Salafi/ Takfiri brand of Islam has thus far done little except butchering thousands of innocents who disagree with their brand of Islam; there are many in Pakistan who support them. Even the Oxford educated Imran Khan's PTI gov't in KPK has brazenly provided Rs 300-million ($30-million) grant to the nursery of Taliban. There must be also many naïve Turkish Muslims who are seduced into supporting militant Islam preached by ISIS because they think that ISIS is doing Allah's work.

Arabs have traditionally never cared much for the Turks anyway. Wahhabis were part of the Arab coalition during WW1 which sided with the English to defeat the Turks, thus it is strange that Erdogan favoured Wahhabis over the Alawite/Christian Assad regime.

ISIS by attacking the Istanbul airport has done serious harm to the Turkish tourism, which is one of main the sources of foreign exchange badly needed for the Turkish economy. It is therefore most important that Turkey uses all of her resources to eradicate the poison of ISIS ideology from their midst.

niaz said:

suicide bombings in Turkey are IMO direct result of Erdogan & the AKP’s incoherent policy toward the ISIS in Syria.

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Completely disagree. We chose to KEEP out of the ISIS mess in Syria/Iraq. Our focus is and has always been PKK threat because we can't risk to openly fight two terror cells at the same time. Why should Turkey carry the burden of USA+UK's fuckup in Middle East aka distability leading to terror cells that grew to Islamic State - tell me this?

Naturally our focus is PKK and seperatists movement in Turkey - that is until recently. Now it is open that ISIS has declared war upon us as well and now we have to deal with them as well.

If you think our foreign policy has been a failure related to ISIS, tell me what could or should we have done and what should we do now?