Jihadis and Islamic supremacists see the world in terms of strength and weakness. If you project an image of weakness and appeasement on the world stage, they will be emboldened.
“‘Turkey continues to increase its presence in Africa,'” by Burak Bir, Anadolu Agency, February 22, 2021:
Given the rise in the number of Ankara’s diplomatic missions across Africa, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Monday his country’s presence in the continent continues to increase.
“The African continent with its 33 Least Developed Countries [LDCs] is in need of solid leadership and support from its developed partners for economic growth, social progress, woman and youth empowerment,” said Mevlut Cavusoglu.
Speaking at the Africa Regional Review Meeting for the 5th UN Conference of the Least Developed Countries (LDC5), the Turkish foreign minister said there is still much to be done for helping the least developed countries especially at a time when the world is facing additional challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“A decade ago with the Istanbul Programme of Action, we put forward an ambitious vision for LDCs. Since then, the LDCs have achieved progress in bringing the people out of poverty. However, only three countries have graduated from the LDCs category in the last decade,” he said.
The foreign minister added that Turkey, as the co-chair of the Group of Friends of the LDCs, will continue to do its best to help them reach their objectives on economic growth, social progress, woman and youth empowerment….
“Turkey Announces Massive Military Exercise in the Aegean,” by Tasos Kokkinidis, Greek Reporter, February 22, 2021:
Turkey announced on Monday that it will conduct large-scale naval exercises in the Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea between February 25 and March 7.
The announcement came from the Turkish Ministry of Defense, which said that Turkish Naval Forces will launch the exercise dubbed “Blue Homeland 2021.”
The Turkish Army and the Air Force will also participate in the drill.
More than 80 ships to take part
According to the announcement, the purpose of the exercise is to evaluate the preparedness of the headquarters, units and ships affiliated with the Naval Forces Command.
A total of 82 ships, 5 maritime patrol aircraft, 12 naval helicopters and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Amphibious Marine Corps troops will participate.
In addition, general purpose and attack helicopters from the Land Forces Command, and F-16, F-4 and HIK (Airborne Warning and Control) aircraft from the Air Force Command, will also take part….
Frank Anderson says
Erdogan is not Hitler, and Biden is not Neville Chamberlain. But the lessons are the same. Appeasement and weakness encourage aggression and war.
golem3 says
+1
gravenimage says
Spot on, Frank.
Wellington says
No one need fear Biden except, acting through his surrogates at the Department of Justice (and other Departments), conservative Americans.
James Lincoln says
Sounds about right, Wellington…
Jake says
The more money they waste the better. Let them do an exercise like this every week. 80 ships. I wish it was 800. The more they waste on this kind of show, the less they have for reality.
Infidel says
Turkey’s economy is on the ropes, and they’re very dependent on China. I can understand China trying to expand its belt/road empire, but Turkey? Do they seriously think that their attempts to assume the leadership of islam will be embraced by the Arabs?
As for the Greeks, Turkey is provoking an alliance b/w Greece, Israel, the Arabs and maybe other countries like Armenia. They would have bitten off more than they can chew
gravenimage says
They hope to bring back the Caliphate–the new Ottoman Empire.
Infidel says
They’re playing for pretty high stakes, but it does take some chutzpah on their part to do that on a shaky economy. At least China has a robust economy on which to build their empire. Turkey doesn’t, and they’re up against a bunch of oil rich countries that can buy their security, western sanctions notwithstanding!
Felix Katz says
We need a Lepanto……………..???
Fred van de Bunt says
USA and Turkey are great NATO alliance comrades, if you look at this February 2021 drill:
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/turkey-us-conduct-joint-maritime-drill-in-black-sea/2140534#
So that Islamist maniac Erdogan has carte blanche as a NATO member and he also protects us, I suppose from threats from people like ourselves: unbelievers and the likes.
Globalist geopolitical business gets more weird every day.
gravenimage says
Crazy–they are no allies of ours.
born saturday says
turkey is aquiring nuclear weapons in 3 to 4 years time… the exersise of the turks comes after continued violations in the agean sea and hydrocarbon researches that lasted months in areas which according to international law belong to greece…. the bullying and offensive language of the turks along with their ten years propaganda of the so called blue homeland has been continuous for the last ten years at least and have brought the two countries closer to war more than ever since the invasion in cyprous…. they daily retoric includes glorifying past genocides of civilians in minor asia for example to claiming around 15 inhabited greek islands as turkish…..
the appeasment and weakness of the current greek goverment towards turkey and other fatal mistakes are a result of the main institute that consults the primeminister and not only that is mainly funded by the german embassy…. germany has played the most significant role in the appeasment policy towards turkey as it is economically dependent on turkey with endless investments (same with many other countries) and a destructive war between turkey and greece would mean economic trouble for germany, italy, spain and other that have invested and given massive loans to turkey.
of course germany italy and spain also equip turkey with latest technology weapons ships subs and much more…. it is these countries including hungary that oppose the sanctions from the eu to turkey that have been requested for almost a year now from greece cyprous and france…. turkey and islam will not allow the world to go on and will drag us all to the third world war sooner or later and possibly to the end of the world…. islamic jihad is way beyond daily attacks to christians and non believers and stretches to creating a world war that humanity will never recover from a nuclear war….
also a few bits about turkish economy and its funders i will add that it is not only china backing the turkish economy but even saudiarabia did previously… qatar funds them, eu funds them with “refugee” money 6 bln a year, china funds them and previously italian and spanish banks have issued massive loans. even japan, and united kingdom each reached to 10 bln dollars investments to turkey recently….
somehow the dreams of erdogan for the new ottomaniac empire, along with the dreams of all these foreign investors for economic gain will collapse under the sireens of war with turkey that is completely out of control. 200 years from the begining of the revolution of the greeks against the previous ottomaniac empire it will be again a bunch of crazy greeks that will bring this cancer to its knees once again… they were considered invincible then and they are considred invincible now but ottomania will collapse again as history repeats it self….
No Muzzies Here says
Biden has made it obvious that he will do nothing to stop the expansion of Islamism throughout the world.
gravenimage says
The Biden Effect: Turkey holds massive military exercise in Aegean, increases presence in Africa
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Biden has emboldened Jihadists everywhere.
underbed cat says
What is Saudi Arabia doing? These arab countries that all share the operating pincipals of sharia law, origin of Saudia .., fight each other but is that just for the illusion or the race to the top for power of a world wide caliphate, as they battle each other to confuse and mislead the west, with a payout, a conflict draws aid, that our government will fund. This attempt for a nuclear deal with Iran is the Biden insanity. Nice guy but surrounded by leftists and empowering the Islamist state is another insane act. Or do I not understand? I don’t know how we can negotiate a treaty with those who will never allow it to be powered over, as Obama used to say to a different audience, sharia will show no obligation to infidels countries after the money arrives and lmay catch us, diversified and off guard? Just a reader.
SAFI says
Wow it’s “The Biden effect” : Turkey is doing… exactly what they were doing during Trump’s presidency! Incredible!
gravenimage says
They are certainly further emboldened now.