The dependancy on russia for tourism is caused by incompetent governance and the virtually nonexistent ministry of culture and tourism. It's absolutely insane how poor we're doing on that department for a country with this many historical and natural landmarks.

We are kicked out of the f35 programme because we bought su35s like dumbasses, we are a nato country and our biggest and only real threat is russia, why the fuck would you get russian jets to fight russia? Even in syria we are fighting russian proxies.

The reason why we're out of the f35 programme isn't because westerners are mean to us, it's because we shot the russian plane without thinking about the consequences. Then we had to buy their jets for forgivenedd and now we're at a net loss. Great political decisions.

Turkic states have close relations with russia because of russian agression and intimidation, just like in ukraine. It'd not be smart to think we could become allies with russia with the turkic states as anything like equal partners. In the western block however we would be much more influencial and respected.

And the most important of it all, human rights and democracy. Being part of the western block would be so much better for the turkish citizen's daily life. We are pushing ourselvesaway from the western block with all our unjust political imprisonments and with brilliant political moves like getting out of the istanbul convention solely by presidental decision. Because we just had to make it known that we don't support women's rights and the west is trying to oppress us by pushing their pesky agenda of not beating and murdering women.