More Turkish Military Chiefs Arrested

Zoots


Joined: 05/02/2011
Posts: 669

Message Posted:
05/06/2011 00:12

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=tsk-no-evidence-of-intervention-in-821707-elections-2011-06-03

Good to see the once-powerful Turkish military is now under the control of a democratically-elected government. That may account from the marked troop reduction in north Cyprus.

I wouldn't want to be skulking behind the somewhat shaky "protection" of the regime in the TRNC right now...

Turtle


Joined: 28/05/2007
Posts: 2669

Message Posted:
05/06/2011 01:02

Cloudiness,....thick pea green soup or maybe cotton wool



What the hell goes on inside your head..

YFred


Joined: 06/05/2009
Posts: 1471

Message Posted:
05/06/2011 01:43

About bloody time. Let's hope they lock them all up. Let it be a lesson to any budding fascist soldier to do his job rather than try to run the country.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
05/06/2011 08:31

@ msg 1, "banned for life "member" Zoots": (...) I wouldn't want to be skulking behind the somewhat shaky "protection" of the regime in the TRNC right now... (...)

▶ Living in the past in front of your computer, powerless dreaming about the future - dream on.



@ msg 3, YFred: (...) Let's hope they lock them all up (...) any budding fascist soldier (...)

▶ Fidel Castro, Christofias, YFred - not all commies are dead yet.

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
05/06/2011 11:05

@ Zoots



by what %age do you think troops have been reduced ?

Zoots


Joined: 05/02/2011
Posts: 669

Message Posted:
05/06/2011 13:47

mmmmmm,

Hard to say, but military traffic convoys and soldiers off-duty seem to have reduced in visibility by about half in the past 10 years I've been around N Cyprus. So unless they're being confined to barracks or spirited away for their own R&R, Turkish troop numbers would appear to have been cut. You also used to see them out on live firing exercises and manoevres almost every day. That just doesn't seem to happen as much now. Whether they needed them back home in the south-east or whether it was for some political reason, who knows.

YFred


Joined: 06/05/2009
Posts: 1471

Message Posted:
05/06/2011 14:06

Dutch, now I understand why the Boers were the way they were. And look where they ended up. Have you not learned anything from the past?

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
05/06/2011 14:26

@ msg 7, YFred: (...) Dutch, now I understand why the Boers were the way they were. And look where they ended up. Have you not learned anything from the past? (...)

▶ What have I got to do with "the Boers"..?! Many of them were/are religious fanatics, who left Holland centuries ago. Why don't you start your history lessons with the conquest of Cyprus by the Ottoman Turks, the proven forefathers of you and many other Cypriot Turks? Without them you wouldn't be a Cypriot Turk - the Boers are in South Africa without me. See the difference?

YFred


Joined: 06/05/2009
Posts: 1471

Message Posted:
05/06/2011 14:41

I would have been born in Cyprus with or without them. What difference does it make what I am. I am a Cypriot first and foremost. I can also converse in Greek and if TMT did not ban Greek in schools I would have been able to read and write greek too.

Nationality makes no difference to me. People and their wellfare does.



Gadalves me reh gumbare.

andre514


Joined: 05/10/2010
Posts: 763

Message Posted:
05/06/2011 15:01

troop reductions?

if it is so, well there are two ways of looking at it:



either the republic of "cyprus" is calculated not to try anything stupid,

after all, there have been precious few incidents these last ten years



or in line with best practice, with attack helicopters, and soon the f-35

stealth fighter becoming available, it will hardly be necessary to keep

to the sort of numbers on the ground before the situation solidified



so mmmmmm's you should be glad if there is progress in reductions,

but zoots don't count your sand grouse before they've hatched