Türklere üzülerek söylemek zorundayım: Çin’de kimse Türkiye’yi umursamıyor. Çinlilerin çoğu ya Türkiye diye bir ülkenin varlığından bile habersiz ya da Türkiye’yi üçüncü sınıf bir ülke olarak görüyor. Kimse Türkiye’ye saygı duymuyor. Bizim gözümüzde yalnızca ABD var.
I’m sorry my Turkish friends.
I don’t mean to join this fight because I think it’s boring and distasteful.
But honestly speaking Turkey is an irrelevant country with nothing to show for.
Not in the AI race.
No semiconductors.
No global brand.
No global top 100 universities.
No space program.
Nothing impressive.
Only known for kebab döner and baklava and migrants to Germany.
Even if you wanted to it's hard to avoid these days the beef between Turks and Chinese on X. This whole thing started from a Turkish Uighur related post and exploded, with many other accounts of various nationalities, the vast majority of whom against Turkish positions. A few thoughts:
Turkish nationalists online have managed something no other group have today. They seemingly are at odds not only with the usual Greeks, Kurds, Armenians, Israelis etc. but also the Chinese and Indians at the same time (!!!), and even their closely related Azeris lately, while many frequently bash the EU and the US and often speak derogatorily about Arabs, Persians etc. as well! In short they act as if the whole world is unjustly against them!
But why would that be? One can only think of the very belligerent nationalist narrative heavily promoted in Turkey. One that touts them somehow as rightful "leaders" of both the entire Turkic peoples and the Islamic world. A narrative that glorifies aggression and expansionism instead of cultural contributions and peaceful co-existence, while promoting a totally unsupported by facts superiority complex, based on a largely imaginary and heavily distorted past. This is what we deal with...
Οι Κινέζοι τις τελευταίες 3 μέρες έχουν περάσει γενεές 14 τους τούρκους, και με την ανώτερη παιδεία τους τους έχουν κάνει χαλκομανία μια γελάει το σύμπαν μαζί τους. Από τη μία η απόλυτη γνώση και από την άλλη μόνο ύβρεις. Τέτοιο ξεφτιλίκι δεν έχω ξαναδεί στο Χ.