(02-08-2017, 07:08 PM)GI-Land Wrote: Trump and Erdoğan emphasised the common things, Turkey and the US share and ensured to one another a good partnership and especially a good cooperation, when it comes to the "war against terrorism".

I hate when my country does business with tyrants. Erdoğan, much like his predecessors, are terrible. They still have yet to recognize the Armenian Genocide and their constant oppression of the Kurdish people. The latter also applies to Iran, Iraq, and Syria. Us westerners screwed the pooch in 1916 with the Sykes–Picot Agreement. We wouldn't have a disaster in the Middle East if we didn't go hunting for oil in the first place. I think that, if we were serious about fixing the Middle East, we would sit down at the table and renegotiate the boundaries of the Middle East. The borders that exist today are colonial holdouts from the past. They yell western imperialism. Well, if they're serious, let's decolonize the Middle East once and for all. We renegotiate the existing national boundaries and give independence to the Kurds, Assyrians, etc. We form a coalition to wipe out AQ and ISIS, and everyone can go home and live as equals.