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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a speech to fellow party members in Sakarya, promised to “revise the outcome of World War I and annex Syrian territories (formerly Ottoman provinces) into Turkey,” Telegram channel "Turkey's Top News" reported.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 37 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Turkey is such a beautiful country with great people, and I'm never going back until this bastard is deposed.

He's more dangerous than Orban

[–] Ugurcan@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Thanks pal, we’re doing our best but the game’s rigged.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What a dunce. WW1 was over a hundred years ago now. There are probably three generations of people removed from that tune period who have lived in the area their entire lives.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 5 points 7 months ago

The wwi borders of syria don't make sense and never did. What makes sense is a hard problem though - I'm guessing tha country needs to split into 3 but I'm an outsider who locals of syria should not listen to.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

In related news, Italy announces plans to annex Turkey.

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 9 points 7 months ago

Or Greece annexes the rest of Cyprus...

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 3 points 7 months ago

i wonder if south Italy or turkey is more fucked

[–] poplargrove@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

Telegram channel "Turkey Top News" reported

Maybe Erdogan did say that, but its absurd giving a Telegram channel like that as a source.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The historical precedent for a leader promising to revise the outcome of World War I is (how shall I put this) a cause for concern.

A large number of Syrians might be happy to become Turkish citizens, since many of them preferred to be in Turkey even as refugees. However, I doubt Erdogan has them in mind. I bet he's thinking about Kurds who definitely don't feel that way.

[–] ghurab@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

An Armenian news website citing some telegram channel on news about Turkey. yeaaaaaah, sounds legit /s

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Wonder if he's going to revisit Turkiye's policy on Armenians. Maybe he can ask Bibi for guidance on how to genocide if he forgot.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Fucking dickhead. This doesn't help the turkish people, country's fucked, and this won't fix it.

source : turk

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, because having more Kurd population in Turkey will solve all problems, lol.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

dafuq are you serious is everybody trying to change territories now? anybody else wants to say something?

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can we (the US) take the opportunity to give Texas back to Mexico?

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Mexico: no takesies backsies.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 2 points 7 months ago

Alamo? Never heard of 'er

[–] No1@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago

If I were an authoritarian or dictator, I'd be staking a claim before my friend and admirer takes office in January.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 7 months ago

Do they need them?