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No., its not Baghadid. Its FSA commander, famous during the first years, forgot his name. I think he's now commander in one of units under Turkish backing. I remebered the name of the unit, Northern brigade, was the name of that FSA unit, had turkish backing from the start, they are now...

When shit hits the fan i NE Syria like it udoubtly will, Bret McGurk will be the most to blame. The set up in that region which he crated was unstustainble, magic thinking, every analyst with the knowledge of the region and its actors knew and warn him about it.

It was a rushed opp. Main objective was to prevent PKK cross the Euphrat, stop PKK expansion along the border with Turkey, and at the same time insert Turkey as a power broker in the arena. When the Anti-ISIS campaign started US promised Turkey certain things, which it later didnt fulfill...

Yes. Thats the one. They never heared them much less seen them coming until it was too late.And they were expecting the attack for weeks, preparing for itm, it wasnt some suprise ofensive. Also, its fair to give credit to Syrian units that took part in opp too. They were of course less trained...

Turkish SF made PKK figters shit their pants when Olive Brench kikced off. There is a segment in that PKK video during the opp, when jurno is interviewing some PKK foreign fighters...basicly when they realized that turskih comando unit ( thats how they refered to them) started engaging their...

I would offer a slitghly differente view. Erdogan didnt want to put Islamist per se, it wasnt its mission, Turkey had no hand in inciting the Arab Spring, and protest movment. But it did embraced the Arab spring cause of enourmous opportunity it represented, status quo which was in place for...

Its rumored TAF conducted strikes against regime artillery position today. Russia is claiming their AirForce did the airstrikes on 'militants' in coordination with Turkey, which makes me to bealive the rumores about TAF strikes.

doc which anyone interested in how part of financial world works should watch. His book goes in much more detail.

Active missions no more then 5

Turkey is not only sending aid, but is also activly helping build the country so they dont depend on anyone, and start to thrive so that they can be honest partners, like it should be. The catch with sending aid by former colonial powers is to make them dependent on them and poor, so that they...

No, bro. Turkey isnt a rogue nation. Such action wouldnt serve Turkey in any meanigful way, it would only complicate thigns and give enemies of Turkey new negative narative to push against Turkey. Turkey is already winning ideological and moral battle in the wider Islamic world. Also party of...

This is his latest statment, echoing their long held believe promoted by Serbian Church By turkifier ( Poturica ) he refers to Bosniak muslims. It was one of main ideological arguments used to justiefy, cover and encourage ethnick cleansing and genocide ever since Balkan Wars. As you can see its...

BMC platforms performing good work on the fore front in Libya during GNA counterattack

TSK sending reinforcements to Northern Hama

Friend, Everybody and their grandmother knew this deal will cause a crisis and a butting of heads between Ankara and WH. Only question is, why did they go after it knowing these risks? What do goverments and turkish joint chiefs know and we, the public dont? Erdogan cant just do something like...

Akinci will be the most beautiful, elegant, UAV to ever grace the skies.

heheh, of course its Israelis pushing for it. Like I said in another thread, its all connected. https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/turkish-defence-industry-exports-updates.313408/page-217#post-11528906 Also, Turkey never had this kind of blind trust of US. Israel does.

Turkey will respond if Assad regime continues targeting Turkish observation points in Idlib, Erdoğan says "If the regime attacks more Turkish observation points and continues to take such missteps, we cannot remain silent. We want deaths to stop in Syria, the bombing of Idlib with barrel and...