George C

Startups, former equity analyst and forecaster, general trend-spotter, cyclist.

[George C @George_Cha]

@BSerdarDindar @ragipsoylu Perfect truth reversal:TR issues illegal war threats against GR's lawful rights, violating the UN Charter it signed, then calls Greece the 'aggressor' for arming islands it threatens. While TR extends its territorial water to 12nm everywhere outside the Aegean. Enjoy ur democracy

[George C @George_Cha]

@Mangomonomo @bulutuzay_ DNA shows modern Turks ~80-90% pre-Turkic Anatolian (like Byzantine Greeks). Central Asian admixture only ~9-22%. Continuity > conquest. https://t.co/hUOOsZVaY1

[George C @George_Cha]

@katiyaruk @PeterBoulas @nords41 @katiyaruk Art.16 is very clear:"TR hereby renounces all rights and title whatsoever over or respecting the territories situated outside the frontiers laid down in the present Treaty and the islands other than those over which her sovereignty is recognised by the said Treaty.."

[Informal Economy @EconomyInformal]

Political Polarization Score

1. Myanmar🇲🇲: 3.68
2. Türkiye🇹🇷: 3.36
3. Poland🇵🇱: 3.35
4. Brazil🇧🇷: 3.22
5. Belarus🇧🇾: 3.18
6. Nicaragua🇳🇮: 3.14
7. Yemen🇾🇪: 2.81
8. Romania🇷🇴: 2.55
9. Peru🇵🇪: 2.52
10. Libya🇱🇾: 2.48
11. Hungary🇭🇺: 2.47
12. Malaysia🇲🇾: 2.45
14. Bangladesh🇧🇩: 2.37
15. Afghanistan🇦🇫: 2.32
16. USA🇺🇸: 2.30
18. Venezuela🇻🇪: 2.23
19. Armenia🇦🇲: 2.22
20. Azerbaijan🇦🇿: 2.18
21. Mexico🇲🇽: 2.13
23. India🇮🇳: 2.08
24. Slovenia🇸🇮: 2.04
27. Argentina🇦🇷: 1.90
28. Colombia🇨🇴: 1.89
29. Ukraine🇺🇦: 1.80
30. Georgia🇬🇪: 1.75
33. Bolivia🇧🇴: 1.62
34. Moldova🇲🇩: 1.60
35. Lebanon🇱🇧: 1.59
36. Thailand🇹🇭: 1.56
38. El Salvador🇸🇻: 1.53
40. Korea🇰🇷: 1.44
41. France🇫🇷: 1.43
42. Slovakia🇸🇰: 1.42
43. Serbia🇷🇸: 1.37
44. Bahrain🇧🇭: 1.36
45. Bulgaria🇧🇬: 1.29
47. Mozambique🇲🇿: 1.26
48. Russia🇷🇺: 1.24
51. Ecuador🇪🇨: 1.22
54. Croatia🇭🇷: 1.20
55. Iran🇮🇷: 1.05
57. Hong Kong🇭🇰: 1.00
58. Cambodia🇰🇭: 0.99
59. Sudan🇸🇩: 0.99
60. Pakistan🇵🇰: 0.99
61. Ethiopia🇪🇹: 0.98
62. North Macedonia🇲🇰: 0.95
63. Tunisia🇹🇳: 0.94
67. Morocco🇲🇦: 0.88
69. Kosovo🇽🇰: 0.86
71. Honduras🇭🇳: 0.84
72. Montenegro🇲🇪: 0.82
73. Italy🇮🇹: 0.75
74. Guatemala🇬🇹: 0.68
75. Kenya🇰🇪: 0.67
78. Vietnam🇻🇳: 0.60
80. Cyprus🇨🇾: 0.51
81. Philippines🇵🇭: 0.51
82. Syria🇸🇾: 0.48
83. Rwanda🇷🇼: 0.43
85. Guyana🇬🇾: 0.39
86. Djibouti🇩🇯: 0.36
88. Malawi🇲🇼: 0.33
89. Iraq🇮🇶: 0.20
90. Germany🇩🇪: 0.19
92. Indonesia🇮🇩: 0.10
93. Israel🇮🇱: 0.02
95. Austria🇦🇹: -0.09
96. Netherlands🇳🇱: -0.09
97. Spain🇪🇸: -0.09
98. Tanzania🇹🇿: -0.10
99. China🇨🇳: -0.11
100. South Africa🇿🇦: -0.13
101. Czechia🇨🇿: -0.13
104. Egypt🇪🇬: -0.22
106. Costa Rica🇨🇷: -0.27
108. UK🇬🇧: -0.28
111. Canada🇨🇦: -0.40
113. Nepal🇳🇵: -0.45
114. Namibia🇳🇦: -0.47
116. Kazakhstan🇰🇿: -0.53
117. Singapore🇸🇬: -0.53
118. Nigeria🇳🇬: -0.59
121. Albania🇦🇱: -0.62
122. Cuba🇨🇺: -0.63
123. Portugal🇵🇹: -0.64
124. Sweden🇸🇪: -0.67
127. Lithuania🇱🇹: -0.87
133. Belgium🇧🇪: -0.98
136. Greece🇬🇷: -1.06
137. Mongolia🇲🇳: -1.07
140. Panama🇵🇦: -1.13
141. Taiwan🇹🇼: -1.16
142. Australia🇦🇺: -1.16
145. Finland🇫🇮: -1.20
146. Paraguay🇵🇾: -1.27
147. Latvia🇱🇻: -1.35
149. New Zealand🇳🇿: -1.42
152. Iceland🇮🇸: -1.47
155. Switzerland🇨🇭: -1.52
157. Chile🇨🇱: -1.63
158. Denmark🇩🇰: -1.65
161. Japan🇯🇵: -1.74
162. Estonia🇪🇪: -1.74
163. Uruguay🇺🇾: -1.81
164. Luxembourg🇱🇺: -1.85
168. Norway🇳🇴: -2.11
171. Ireland🇮🇪: -2.49

@OurWorldInData

[George C @George_Cha]

@Oktayzkn19 @Kenancamurcu The "<20% Mycenaean" claim is wrong. Lazaridis et al. (Nature 2017): Modern Greeks show strong continuity with Mycenaeans (~70-80% shared ancestry).
https://t.co/IKIMFgYscG

[EastMedMonitor @EastMedMonitor]

Turkey’s irredentist challenge to Greece’s sovereignty over the Aegean islands—lands inhabited by Greeks for millennia—is a blatant historical falsehood

This claim is a relatively recent fabrication, first raised in 1996, fully 73 years after the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne established Turkey’s borders and fixed its territorial limits.

Why the sudden reversal after seven decades of acceptance? It followed directly on the heels of Turkey’s 1974 invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus, when Ankara’s expansionist appetite against Hellenism found fertile new ground.

What we are witnessing is the steady escalation of maximalist Turkish claims to control nearly half the Aegean Sea and its almost 600 Greek islands. This is pure modern imperialism, driven by an ultranationalist deep state that transcends the supposed divide between Erdoğan’s Islamists and the secular Kemalist “democratic opposition.”

The Lausanne Treaty was crystal clear and universally recognised: the Aegean islands belong to Greece, with only three narrow exceptions—Imbros, Tenedos & Rabbit islands and those islets lying within three miles of the Turkish coast.

Turkey itself respected this reality without protest for 73 years.

NOW they push a fairy tale claiming 152 islands/islets/rocks in the Aegean !!!

The audacity of Turkish disinformation is simply astonishing and purely illegal

🔗 to official text of all articles of Lausanne Treaty regarding sovereignty of islands and borders supplied by @Grok >https://t.co/yhdxzFoqoc

The screenshots below tell all the story and of there is still doubt listen to the common sense video of ex Turkish ambassador Yalım Eralp below in the thread 1/2

[Informal Economy @EconomyInformal]

Inflation Rate (%)

Türkiye🇹🇷: 30.9
Colombia🇨🇴: 5.6
Iceland🇮🇸: 5.4
Lithuania🇱🇹: 4.8
Mexico🇲🇽: 4.6
Australia🇦🇺: 4.6
Greece🇬🇷: 3.9
Spain🇪🇸: 3.4
UK🇬🇧: 3.4
USA🇺🇸: 3.3
Germany🇩🇪: 2.7
Canada🇨🇦: 2.4
Korea🇰🇷: 2.2
France🇫🇷: 1.7
Italy🇮🇹: 1.7
Japan🇯🇵: 1.5
Finland🇫🇮: 1.3
Sweden🇸🇪: 0.5

@OECD

[George C @George_Cha]

@BSerdarDindar @ragipsoylu GR is not threatening Anatolia. TR is threatening Greek territory. And spare the Lausanne sermon: TR hollowed out Lausanne’s minority protections for a century, then discovered treaty purity only when it could use it against GR. Demilitarization is not a suicide pact.

[George C @George_Cha]

@BSerdarDindar @ragipsoylu Demilitarization is not TR's trump card. It is TR's hypocrisy exposed. TR cannot threaten to “come one night,” boast that missiles can hit Athens, maintain an Aegean Army, dispute Greek islands, and then demand those same islands stay defenseless.

[George C @George_Cha]

@BSerdarDindar @ragipsoylu 4/ Greece has reservations; Turkey has non-acceptance. But Turkey does not get to refuse compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, threaten war over 12 nautical miles, and then pose as the only adult in the room.

[George C @George_Cha]

@BSerdarDindar @ragipsoylu 3/ legal question as EEZ/continental-shelf delimitation. Turkey wants to bundle everything — sovereignty, rocks, airspace, demilitarization, territorial waters, EEZ — because bundling turns a maritime case into a renegotiation of the Aegean.

So spare the sanctimony....

[George C @George_Cha]

@Mcwhaleface @ragipsoylu The site is best read as a pro-Turkish legal brief with some accurate law, some useful case-law framing, and a major overextension when the reduced-effect argument is used to justify the practical nullification of Greece’s larger islands. We all know the facts.

[George C @George_Cha]

@ragipsoylu 2. GR accepts the Court for the actual legal dispute (EEZ/continental shelf). TR demands GR first put settled sovereignty over its islands, territorial waters, and airspace on the table— fixed by the Treaty of Lausanne. That's not "peaceful resolution"; it's revisionism.

[George C @George_Cha]

@ragipsoylu 1. No court undoes treaties or gives islands zero effect. Turkey's the one expanding the agenda to avoid real adjudication.Greece went to the ICJ in 1976 over the Aegean continental shelf. Turkey refused jurisdiction and didn't show up. https://t.co/bWRfa37ztQ

[George C @George_Cha]

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[Velo @velovelovelo__]

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[George C @George_Cha]

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[George C @George_Cha]

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