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Turkey is losing influence every minute this incompetent fool is in power.
It's a misconception that Erdoğan has made Turkey powerful. If anything he is the one thing holding us back. Before he was prime minister Turkey was taken very seriously. We were like a larger version of Isreal and by far the most powerful country in the region. Our army was feared by all our neighbors and it often fixed any problems simply by threatening invasion...
Now under Tayyip TSK has lost its old image. It went from being a feared institution to Tayyip's little tool. He sends in soldiers and just let's them die and then he just barks. Pfft. What are we Saudi Arabia or Egypt? What a freaking joke.
This piece of sh!t has been polarizing the country and arming extremists from within in order to start a civil war. He was put in power by America and he will always support them. He doesn't give a crap about defeating YPG, he just wants votes and support. If he actually cared about the nation he never would've made MULTIPLE ceasefires with PKK!
Now some of you will talk about the defence industry.. well after Menderes killed it, it restarted in the 70s. By the 90s we were making Kobras and other equipment that we still use to this day. The J-600 Yildirim was used by the army ever since 98 yet was only revealed to the public in 2005. Back then instead of barking and making propaganda our defence industry was allowed to work secretly in order to guarantee national security. These days we find about projects years before they even come to fruition.. and Erdoğan uses them as propaganda for himself. It doesn't help the 98% of TV channels are in his hands.
All the corruption, foreign policy failures and countless other problems indicate that this man should not rule the country anymore. He needs to go!
We sometimes forget about the greater powers at play and the grand schemes that we aren't privy to.
Citizens of Pakistan often hail or hate certain leaders because of economic development, etc., but in almost all cases it was linked directly to American assistance because they needed us - at different times - in Afghanistan. Similarly, in Turkey I see that the Americans are trying to pressurize the govt (as any truly independent, strong country in this region is generally unacceptable to the US) and creating a lot of problems for him, both in the psyops/info warfare realm (to discredit him and paint him as a failed leader) and in many other ways (economic pressures, especially.)
Don't be so harsh. At least you're not somebody's puppet or b*tch today.