...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's power and damage Turkey's position," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
said on March 16.
"This is the reason for support given to [Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Scourge of Qusayr...
] and also to Daesh [the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of Iraq and Levant, ISIL]," Erdogan said, speaking at the opening ceremony of a new facility of Turkish defense company Aselsan.
Without going into details, he pointed to "some circles that do not want Turkey's development."
Erdogan vowed to continue to support the development of the domestic defense industry, saying Turkey is constantly strengthening its political power with economic power.
He also pledged to diminish the Turkish defense industry's foreign dependency, which he described as "a mistake made from the 1930s until 2000."
Turkey's defense industry is currently worth $5 billion per year, with exports bringing in $1.65 million dollars, Erdogan said.