Turkish said:
Mr Khan said:
Turkish said:
They're buying weapons just because Turkey buys them, what Greece fails to realize is that Turkey is on a far higher level and can justify to buy weapons. Greece should stop comparing herself with Turkey and realize its only a little country, little countries should just be nice, its like Cuba measuring dicks with the USA. |
Knowing the long history of ill-will that exists between your nations, i would caution you in how you choose to engage in this discussion.
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Its a simple fact that Greece is on the brink of bankrupt because it kept buying weapons from France and Germany, in their head they were competing with Turkey for weapon purchases, Greece is the biggest weapons importer of the EU. Greece should stop thinking its on the same level as Turkey. Its not, it will never be. It has no huge economy nor any regional influence. It should accept what it is.
And yes this coming from the mouth of a Turk may be controversy, but outsiders like you may not know whats going on, and the Greeks themselves won't probably stress on this fact.
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There are a lot of reasons why Greece along with a whole host of other EU countries are on the verge of bankruptcy and military spending is a small part of it. Corruption, lack of tax revenue, not spending within means, not charging for public services (paying for the underground metro in Athens is (or was) 'optional'), early retirement age for many professions etc, etc
Also Greece buys a lot of weapons from Russia as well not just the EU.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKQQhGFR7JU
