🇹🇷 Focusing on the #economy, #defense & #geopolitics of Türkiye & its region. Opinions only. Please DM for news/co-ops. RTs ≠ Endorsement. We follow back!

Istanbul, Türkiye
Joined January 2022
#MUSLIM NATIONS can only gain their freedom from the rule, exploitation, wars & genocides of the West by progressively replacing Western weapon systems in their inventories with those of their own. There's no ifs, ends or buts about it!
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🇨🇦🇹🇷 Canadian PM #MarkCarney will visit #NATO-ally Türkiye on October 21-23 to deepen bilateral partnerships in #energy, #mining and #defense, reportedly exploring Turkish #UCAV solutions to upgrade #Canada's capabilities amid emerging threats from Russia & China, as well as a divergence with the US on regional issues such as the status of #Greenland. Under influence of Greek, Armenian and Israeli lobbying efforts, #Ottawa used to push a highly anti-Turkish foreign policy up until a few years ago, going as far as sanctioning Turkish #drones and refusing to deliver components for them; a condition that ultimately led to faster development of key technologies inside Türkiye and resulted in indigenous systems ―infrared #drone cameras, for example― that now surpass the specs of Canadian alternatives. Fate, it seems. Canada now knocks on Türkiye's door for the same defense equipment it once blocked. ✈️ pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releas…
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ANKARA ― #MakkahAlliance treaty is expected to be taken up by Türkiye's Parliament in the next few days, with many political analysts expecting ratification. If successful, it will clear the way for advanced military hardware and combat troops to be deployed to #SaudiArabia. ⚡️
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MERKAVA HUNTER 🚀 ― Türkiye's @roketsan #KARAOK 💥 #antitank missile demonstrating top-attack capability. The weapon is also capable of striking aircraft at low altitude. 🇹🇷
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Azerbaijan, I love you. But this is grotesque and indefensible. Dear @presidentaz #IlhamAliyev, you rule a nation that is 98.8% #Muslim. At least 1 in 5 women in modern-day Azerbaijan wears a headscarf despite decades of Soviet brainwashing and oppression. Having inherited the presidency from your father ―who used to be a senior #KGB official and the Secretary of the #Communist Party of Azerbaijan― we understand you might be suffering from the indoctrinations of a godless Soviet state delusion. If that's the case, we empathize with you. If not, read on. You're the president of the **REPUBLIC** of Azerbaijan. You can oppose your people's beliefs, you can deny your nation's #Islamic roots, you can despise your traditions in envy of the "oh so illustrious" West. But you cannot disrespect your citizens like their voice doesn't mean anything. Trust me, that is not good for neither you nor Azerbaijan! You do not want to go down in history as the kafir who banned #Islam, who denied these little girls a proper education, who forced them into a life of 2nd class citizenry. For what? Because they're wearing a headscarf? You were born with a gold spoon in your mouth. Never experienced a day of hardship in your life. So, who are you to make that decision for them? For their mothers and fathers? Who are you to separate them from their teachers and classmates? Why are you so scared of a piece of clothing? God forbid, when the next war comes tomorrow and the enemy surrounds your palace in #Baku, how will you convince your citizens to put their lives on the line for you when you're not defending their religious freedoms today? How will you convince Azeri troops that you're worthy of their #ISLAMIC martyrdom when you kick their little sisters out of schools for covering their heads? How will you talk them into valuing you when you dismiss their values so easily? Just curious... Did you ban the yamakah too? Are Jewish students at the Chabad Ohr Avner Jewish Day School in Baku, for example, now required to take off THEIR religious clothing? If not, then what is your problem with #Muslims in particular? Who are you serving? Your own people, or a foreign power? Whose bidding are you really doing? You're making a grave mistake, and as a fellow Turk who has always supported, defended and promoted Azerbaijan, I invite you to reverse it before it's too late!
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Let's be frank. Neither 🇹🇷 Türkiye nor 🇵🇰 Pakistan has any beef with the #Houthis. We don't consider them enemies. Or even competitors in the geopolitical-commercial sense. Far from it, we hold them near and dear as just another brotherly #Muslim people among many, and most Turks and Pakistanis understand, overlook and respect sectarian differences. Collectively, we all love and live the same faith. We all follow Mohammad SAV (pbuh). We all submit to Allah (cc). As we all know, there are very powerful forces with a lot of vested interest in creating division, hatred and conflict among the nation(s) of #Islam, because about 200 years ago they realized something: Only through perpetual war among us can they keep us distracted, weak and controllable. It is therefore up to us, the Muslim #Ummah, to be mindful of the secret agendas behind the loud voices that drive us to wage war against one another. We've all lived side by side for centuries, even millennia for some of us. No one is going anywhere. And no Muslim country wants another Muslim country to disappear. What, then, is the root cause of all the warfare taking place on Islamic Soil? Is there a genuine problem among fellow Muslims ―who stand side by side in mosques in the West, break bread at the same table in Ramadan, do their Hajj shoulder to shoulder in #Makkah― that cannot be resolved peacefully through dialogue? Or is there a complex plot of foreign interference, exploitation and control at play here? We all know by heart that it's the latter. But... The "but" is the part that matters. Brotherhood is not a suicide pact, and dialogue is not an unlimited license for one party to keep firing. Saudi Arabia is not an outsider in this picture. It is a Muslim state, the custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, and a country that has already absorbed years of cross-border strikes, drone and missile attacks on its cities, and disruption of the #RedSea shipping lanes that feed the region. Those attacks did not begin as a Turkish or Pakistani quarrel with #Yemen. They began as a war inside Yemen that spilled outward, with the Houthis acting as the armed extension of a larger rivalry whose ammunition, training, and strategic direction have never been purely local. When a Muslim capital is hit and a Muslim coastline is treated as a free-fire zone, the rest of the Ummah is not required to treat that as an internal family disagreement that outsiders alone invented. Türkiye and Pakistan have no territorial claim on Yemen and no desire to erase the Houthis as a people. What they can defensibly do, if asked and if they choose, is help a fellow Muslim state stop the bleeding: air defense, training, naval escort, logistics, deterrence. That is not conquest of Yemen. It is the minimum required to make further talks possible instead of permanent. Perpetual low-grade war on Islamic soil is exactly the outcome serving the aforementioned outside interests. Letting one faction keep the pressure on #Riyadh, the pilgrimage routes, and the shipping lanes while everyone else recites unity slogans simply delivers that outcome for free. Sectarian courtesy and shared faith still hold. They do not obligate #Ankara or #Islamabad to watch Saudi infrastructure burn, or to pretend that a militia which targets civilian areas and international waterways is merely another brother exercising a grievance. Help, if it comes, would be bounded: defend the state that was attacked, raise the cost of further strikes, and leave the political future of Yemen to Yemenis. Refusing that help in the name of an abstract Ummah would not end the war. It would only decide, in advance, which Muslim country is allowed to lose it. ⚠️
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🇹🇷 Türkiye's @roketsan #Simsek-1 SLV ―now widely expected to lift off from 🇸🇴 #Somalia in 2028― may carry an actual @ferganispace_ experimental spacecraft instead of a traditional "dummy load" that maiden launches typically carry; enabling both firms to test new technologies. 🚀
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In China, scientists & engineers are celebrated as heroes. In much of the #Muslim world, however, #science & #engineering are considered fields where careers go to die. As a result, #Beijing controls the world's #1 economy, while we fight over when the Ramadan starts and ends. 🤦
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✈️ First revealed to the public in Istanbul last May at the #SAHA2026 by Türkiye's #defense research agency #MSBArGe, the 42,000lbf turbofan engine #GÜÇHAN consolidates several jet propulsion systems advancements by #TEI & #TRMotor ―now known as "TEI TEKNOLOJİ"― and might power the maiden flight of a #KAAN prototype as early as 2028, possibly even replacing its 35,000lbf cousin TEI-TF35000 for the export-restricted Turkish #AirForce variant of the aircraft. 🇹🇷
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With the newly formed #MakkahAlliance undergoing rapid institutionalization and potentially facing its first "combat test" in #SaudiArabia soon, multiple countries ―reportedly including some non-#Muslim-majority states― are increasingly considering membership to secure a degree of "assurance" amid the continuing collapse of the post-WW2 int'l order and US shortcomings in the #MiddleEast & #Ukraine.
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🇹🇷 Türkiye now officially ranks as the world's 13th largest #automobile producer and the #1 among #Muslim-majority countries. China continues its lead with a comfortable margin making 3 times more vehicles than the US at the 2nd spot, followed by Japan at #3. 💹
Türkiye, dünyanın en büyük 13. araba üreticisi.
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🇸🇴🇹🇷 Türkiye plans to conduct the first test-launch of its #Simsek-1 SLV from #Somalia in 2027, a historic event also constituting the 1st orbital lift off from the continent of #Africa. Designed by #Roketsan, Simsek-1 can place a 400kg satellite/payload to 500km LEO. 🚀
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Some previously 🇺🇸 US-controlled bases in 🇸🇦 are expected to progressively switch over to #Saudi joint command with 🇵🇰 & 🇹🇷 in 2027 as they begin to host Turkish & Pakistani #military aircraft, armored vehicles, missile systems and combat troops per #MakkahAlliance arrangements.
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“Türkiye wants to use this site (#Somalia Spaceport) for its own launch vehicles, but at the same time, it also wants to open it up for international use so that space professionals can use it not only as a spaceport, but perhaps, over time, as a space hub.” — Ahmet Akyol, CEO of @aselsan (a leading Turkish defense, space and technology company)
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Here are 🇸🇴 #Mogadishu & 🇬🇷 #Athens... You won't believe which one calls itself a "European capital". 😂
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🇸🇴🇹🇷 #SomaliNavy officers receiving training on #NATO-spec systems & weapons as the brotherly #Muslim nation continues its march toward becoming East Africa's top economic & military power. 🪖
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🇵🇰🇹🇷🇸🇦 Pakistan & Türkiye have agreed to deploy #military assets to #SaudiArabia in a strategic move that significantly upgrades the level of #defense assistance to their #MakkahAlliance ally. Forces could include fighters/drones, tanks, ships, munitions and combat troops. 🛡️
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🛡️ #Aselsan just signed a €2.46 BILLION contract to supply the MoD with "hybrid #AirDefense systems", largest single deal in company's history! Its orders top €5.1 billion in the last 2 weeks alone, almost all for Türkiye's national #SteelDome systems! 🇹🇷
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