Well, even if Turkeys political stability is different than in the past, the military were a law unto themselves, which kept people like Barzani from directly interfering in internal business. however I think i follow Cirit on some of his points.
The question is what has changed, that makes all these issues stand forth. Was it because the Turkish military used to be an unknown factor that other arms forces in the region just didn't want to mess with. You have to admit, when the military was a law unto itself none of Turkeys neighbors wanted to mess around with it. Now that the military is getting under civilian rule, I guess everyone is judging the turkish military's capability from how the politicians behave.
which reminds me of, "A dog that barks at you won't bite" saying and when I look at some of the issues that Erdogan and Davutoglu started to bark about it really isn't surprising.
Example, if you try to tell the french politicians what to do when they deal with the armenian issue, of course they're going to tell you "f*** off, we do what we want", even if you threaten etc. they'll do the opposit of what you want them to. (doh reverse psychology, thought it only worked on kids).
I think it's more important to keep an eye on our neighbors like iraq, Syria, armenia, and let the diplomats deal with the issues in Europe, that's why they're hired!
We don't need a hotblooded Erdogan starting to run his mouth off everytime. There was a time it was useful, but now everyone knows how he is going to react, you think that's going to make people tiptoeing ?
Look at the US, when they want to bully countries to do as they want, they bloody pass a law that enforces their president to freeze company assets, and they can do it.
If Erdogan wants to make people tiptoeing around again he better come up with something more efficient, perhaps a missile that would make Mars implode and crack like a nutt, that'd turn some heads, and probably be an express ticket to a perm. seat in the UNSC.
