there was a time not long ago when turkey had imperial control over north africa, the levant, the arab peninsula, southeastern europe and mesopotamia, but a fundamental outcome of the wars of the 19th and 20th centuries was that turkey's imperial project was severely curtailed and reversed and many of these conquered and subjugated peoples rose up and declared independence for themselves. however, this process is incomplete. there remain subject kurdish, armenian and ionian populatons, and the longstanding illegal occupation of constantinople also needs to be addressed. further wars through the 21st and perhaps 22nd centuries will finish this process of the abolition of the turkish state, and return sovereignty to the remaining subjugated populations of greeks, kurds and armenians. it would appear that a new round of popular uprisings in this illegitimate usurper state is imminent.
the illegal occupation of constantinople remains one of the greatest injustices of modern history and it will be a day of great liberation when the turks are finally permanently expelled from the city, and the greeks take their rightful place as sovereigns of their own capital.
those who seek to align with the turks as a rising power are flat out stupid. turkey remains a collapsing empire and a sick society lost in backwardsness that has no future but elimination. the permanent and total cessation of the turks state is both imminent and desired by all freedom-loving peoples. those advocating for turkish power in the 21st century need to be wiped away, into the latrine of history.