Comments by "Ggoddkkiller" (@ggoddkkiller1342) on "Turkey’s power plays in the Mediterranean" video.

This was quite neutral with especially mentioning Greece also has maximalist policies as pretty much entire western media acts like it is only Turkey somehow!! But even then there were several mistakes that im sure they were unintentional such as ''Greece recently claimed such EEZ after Turkey-Libya maritime agreement'' which is completely wrong as Greece was claiming exactly same ridiculous EEZ for decades while Turkey always refusing it!! There weren't any escalations in the region as both sides weren't doing anything in the disputed area which changed with discovery of Leviathan gas fields and East Med gas pipeline project to carry it to Europe as if that pipeline happened it would legitimize Greek EEZ claims forever!! Which is why Turkey is not involved as they can't involve Turkey into an agreement which is reducing Turkish EEZ from 145,000 km2 to 41,000 km2.. So they signed such an agreement literally against Turkey then naturally Turkey started act more aggresively in the region in order to protect it's rights and signed a maritime agreement with Libya to block East Med pipeline project. I would completely agree Turkey's claims are also maximalist and wrong but Turkey has no other choice but forcing Greece into a middle ground such as the biggest problem between Greece and Turkey is a tiny island called Kastellorizo (Which is the reason why Greek EEZ has weird W shape) that Turkey defends it can't have full EEZ rather only 12 miles as it is far away from other Greek islands and 550 km away from Athens while it is only 2 km away from Turkish mainland, in fact if Kastellorizo was a Greek island in 1923 Greece would have to cede it to Turkey according to treaty of lausanne but it wasn't a Greek island in 1923 rather an Italian island so it remained under Italian control until WW2 that after the war allies were wrongly ceded all islands to Greece including Kastellorizo which is extremely close to Turkey. So now we have this ridiculous dispute about it and Turkey is completely right about Kastellorizo as even ICJ ruled not once rather twice similar islands can't have their full 200 miles EEZ rather only 12 miles for both Snake and Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon islands so only solution is Turkey and Greece sitting down and finding a middle ground which will beneft both countries but sadly Greece will never do that while some European countries are blindly supporting them!! While Turkey would definitely risk a conflict as even if combined force of those countries are way stronger than Turkey it still has a serious power and those countries can't risk a serious conflict, in fact such a conflict against Turkey can even escalate into another world war so Greeks are literally destroying their chance but whatever, making them see reason is just an impossible task... Here are some articles about those ICJ verdicts: https://www.languagesoftheworld.info/russia-ukraine-and-the-caucasus/ukraine-romania-border-conflict-islands.html https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/05/st-pierre-and-miquelon-last-french.html As you can see ICJ ruled both Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon and Snake islands can have only 20 km/ 12 miles EEZ exactly same as Turkey defends not 200 miles like Greece claims at all so Turkey's true intention isn't claiming EEZ of Crete or Rhodes rather stop Greece unlawfully claiming 104,000 km2 area around Kastellorizo.. There were also some mistakes about Libya such as saying ''Turkey sends Syrian fighters to Libya'' while in reality Turkey sends SNA (Syrian National Army) members to Libya who are former FSA members that Turkey both trained and armed. It is only called ''Syrian fighters'' to reflect it like Turkey sends hts or even isis to Libya which isn't correct at all as Turkey doesn't support, train nor arm any of them, in fact vast majority of isis terrorists were Iraqis but those are just ''irrelevant details'' according to the most ''neutral'' western media!! Same goes with not mentioning mercenaries in haftar's side while he has mercenaries from Russia, Chad and Sudan who fought for him more than 6 years!! On the other hand Turkey started to send SNA mercenaries since January 2020 but even then some people could act like Turkey started this proxy war somehow...
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They tried to capture Turkish straits for at least 300 years and miserably failed while Turks tried to defend Crimea and they also miserably failed!! At the end Russo-Turkish rivalry only significantly weakened both sides with 12 wars and constant bad relations which continued during cold war as well so sides are finally trying a neutral policy towards each others including both in Syria and Libya. Such as Russian mercenaries didn't directly fight against GNA since Turkey started to support them early this year rather kept retreating until they reached Sirte then Russia blocked GNA advance as Russia seriously supports warlord haftar. It is pretty complicated and looks like doomed to fail but we will see..
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@AsMinor1977 Turkey signed Sevres and excuses?? Ottoman signed treaty of Sevres while Turkish government in Ankara refused it and even denounced Ottoman for signing it!! After 3 years of more fighting and defeating all invasion forces including Greece Turkish government in Ankara also abolished Ottoman and established the Republic of Turkey which is why treaty of Sevres became invalid and entente powers signed a new agreement called treaty of lausanne, i really wonder what kind of ''history'' class you had...
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@AsMinor1977 You are completely wrong as Nicaragua applied to ICJ while they didn't have any kind of maritime agreement with Colombia, in fact Colombia even stated they won't accept ICJ's rule as i mentioned earlier!! So instead of such cheap excuses you must check the maritime dispute between Colombia and Nicaragua then see Greece doesn't apply to ICJ willingly as there is a serious chance ICJ won't rule in their favor same as Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon and Snake islands. And Turkey is always ready for a war as it is the only reason why there aren't 7 different countries in Anatolia today which was going to happen if we somehow trusted europe and their ''fair'' and ''lawful'' treaty of sevres...
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@redan3237 In your video there is no indicator at all that it was actually recorded in Libya not Syria and i must say this extremely looks like Syria!! As they are using completely Russian equipment unlike SNA/FSA who uses a lot of old American equipment as Turkey gave them and the vegetation also matches to Idlib!! Expect the title ofc which says '' The Libyan army annihilates a group of Syrian mercenaries affiliated with Erdogan'' which literally proves this is just a propaganda video as everybody on Earth knows Turkey sending SNA members to Libya so care to explan why the title mentions ''affiliated with Erdogan'' part like Turkey is secretly sending them to Libya??.. Also Russian or Sudanese etc mercenaries in haftar's side are fighting because of their love for haftar and Libya?? Or for money?? Seriously some of your points don't make sense mate..
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@AsMinor1977 The answer is in your question, HAGUE!! Due while many European countries are very openly supporting unlawful Greek claims it is only ridiculous to expect Turkey trusting a EU based organization somehow especially while Turkey isn't a western country like France, Canada, Ukraine, Romania who applied to ICJ!! Also Greece doesn't need Turkey's approval to take our case to ICJ at all such as Colombia kept stating they won't accept ICJ's rule even then Nicaragua took their case to ICJ and Colombia didn't sign UNCLOS neither so Greece can very well apply to ICJ but Greece never did that nor even planning to do that, care to explain why is that exactly? Perhaps because there is a serious chance ICJ won't rule in your favor??..
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