Turkey suffers from a chronic illusion of grandeur. A bubble inflated by symbolism, nationalism, and repetition.
Massive convoys for a football team eliminated without scoring a single goal. Endless boasting about NATO’s second-largest army - formidable against Kurdish guerrillas, invisible everywhere else.
A defence industry promoted as a revolution, yet Iranian missiles expose the gap between propaganda and power.
The rhetoric is imperial. The results are humiliating.
When a country has to remind the world every single day how strong and important it is, it’s usually because it isn’t.
Real power speaks for itself.