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There was a lot of gold donated to Anatolian Resistance from Pakistan back in the Turkish War of Independence. Pakistan is definitely a very close country to Turkey. Both Pakistan and Turkey has much to offer eachother. Both countries should definitely deepen cooperation. Turkish companies...

Can you give specific information about Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)? What ISA does that use? Is it a Russion one? Then you are going through a dark tunnel that might lead up to light or darkness. If you use Russian ISA then you'll need an OS to run on it. Since Windows won't be an option...

Well the plans seems old like @atatwolf stated. China will never go to war either for N. Korea or for Taiwan. That paradigm has changed in this decade. Today China supports for Koran reunification if a unified Korea will be an independant/neutral power between US and China, unlike today. Today...

Definitely true and one more thing. Economic relations of Japan and China today complement each other. There is not much direct competition, more of a cooperation. Unlike South Korea or Taiwan which Chinese companies start to make fierce competition with them in the key national economic sectors...

@atatwolf what's wrong between you and China? Why do you try to bash them in every thread you start? Japan is a pacifist country for years by it's constitution. Japan's military budget is relatively tiny compared to it's GDP (around 0.7% as far as I remember). Japan did not involve any war...

I don't know Riyadh or Karachi but we have enough openly atheist caricaturists in Istanbul who makes fun of every religion including Islam.

@TaiShang @LeveragedBuyout You had similar yet from different angles opinions on this one. I wanna go into this European Left arguments that tries to bring legitimacy towards religious political movements. We've seen this process very clear in Turkey, going parallel with Europe. Turkey has 3...

Well that's the point. Do you feel like you and them do belong to same moral values? Actually your moral values and theirs are completely different and they also contradict. Then how can you and them be in the same sect? You should be called as something different then them to distance youself...

Charlie Hebdo massacre represents the political and ideological infertility of Muslim majority countries. I want to hit hard from the first sentence. No one should expect any sympathy or anything from me. Normally I could have supported (like a European Left Intellectual and tons of other...

I won't be able to speculate about whether or not they will accept the proposal. But I think that's what AKP asks to them to cover up the federation issue, that could cripple his votes. There is one more thing, an official NATO umbrella is safer then having US as a temporary ally. If you are a...

CHP won in the past because most people in living in remote kurdish villiages weren't participating the elections. Also as you've mentioned there were no political movement, before PKK emerged, that promotes a kurdish national identity in some sense. Such movements were crushed back in 20's and...

Hey thanks a lot :) Well your question should be approached from different angles. I don't want to be faced with the grim replies of the fellow Turkish members here but, from the mid 19th century to early 20th century a portion of people (intellectuals, professionals, middle class etc.) tried...

Hey Thanks a lot for the input. Turkey is a unitary state by it's constitution, therefore central government is extremely strong. What you've said about the city governors are being appointed by the central government is true. It's not only that but also city governors are subject to the rule of...

Well first of all we should define which ones are the Advanced Economies in the world. Being rich is not the only prerequisite for being an advanced economy. You need to be both a producing and a consuming nation in order to become one. And if you look at the pattern of Advanced Economies you...

No actually. It's the complete opposite. Turkish middle class is the one that is secular. I've read a study somewhere about the correlation of educational background and voter share of political parties. Every 1 out of 2 university graduates vote for CHP. That makes CHP the party of middle...

Actually modernity has a solid definition in terms of sociology. Modern society is definitely materialist, positivist (you can put these two like secularism but it's not only that), it's nationalist, it's industrialized and it likes "strong" leaders that can defend national interests. And...

Turkey can not be transformed into a true secular society or a religious society without a civil war. Because middle class and working class does not cooperate. They have conflicting culture and world views. Same happened in France, lasted for 200 hundered years, created a civil war a.k.a French...

Did @SouI give KSA as a counter example? :) Back on topic. Yeah the rich countries are the first ones that have developed the science and free speech etc. is a well known sociological thesis. Ancient Egypt and Greece is given as an example of this. However for today's societies one should...

What was the discussion specifically? Sounds like a nice topic tough. I might be on board on this one.

Sometimes I think Taoism is the ultimate stuff :)