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Greece and Cyprus on the other hand have done everything the USA/EU demanded to support their economy war on Russia. Are we going to be rewarded for this and Turkey punished?

I highly doubt. USA/EU will still not care to put any sanctions on Turkey regarding Cyprus, and if Turkey sees Russia losing out they will just change their tune at the last moment and then they will be praised on how supportive they are.

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  2. We’re a tiny country. We don’t get to demand anything. That’s just the reality.

    The days of treading a “neutral” path between east/west are well and truly dead and buried. In fact our leadership should have realised this at least 6-7 years ago when the US(and others) was warning about Russian expansionism, interference of Russia in brexit and US elections, not to mention already the war in Georgia and Ukraine in 2014.

    Instead we doubled down on Russia supposedly because of their stance on the cyprus problem. But we actually just became their bitches because of our dependence on dodgy money and fear of western countries supporting turkey. When in fact our actions only isolated us more and more from the west/EU.

    So we end up with our main “ally” as an international pariah, and in the process became a pariah ourselves within the most important international org we belong to.
    Since joining the EU we could have cultivated more and better relationships with other members, but we just spent 20 years getting more and more addicted and intertwined with Russian money. Terrible foreign policy from multiple successive governments.

    Maybe now we can realise that we belong in the west and act accordingly. We only lost like 20 years…

  3. Well after USA, Turkey is probably the most effective supporter of Ukraine on military means rather by supplying military equipment ( check the drone footage, [they even wrote a song for TB2](https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1498692841526251526)) or closing up Turkish straits (4 Russian warships are waiting there right now). Turkey is just picking fight on areas that it is strong.

    >Are we going to be rewarded for this and Turkey punished?

    More the fear againts Russia grows, more the importance of Turkey will remembered. Altough this events will effect Turkish economy really negativly. West will probably come to a point they have to rethink their position on Turkey because of Turkish military strenght.

  4. When US stopped delivery of F-35 to Turkey, they did not cared if Turkey is a NATO member or not. Hence, Turkey has every right to act suitable to its interests. And in this situation Turkey has every right to not to take a hard side between two of it’s important trade partner.

    Moreover, if Ukraine is resisting until now, it is due to Turkish support of military equipment specifically drones.

    As you don’t like to remember the past as always, US put sanctions on Turkey for years right after 1974 and as they are not doing it right now is that everyone is aware that Turkey is not the whole source of the problem in Cyprus.

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