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BMC Kirpi (Turkish for “Hedgehog”) is a Turkish made Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle manufactured by BMC. Kirpi provides significant protection against mine and ballistic threats. It combines standard and add-on armor providing protection against ballistic threats while its V-shape underbody and monocoque allows it to protect the personnel inside from land mines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
BMC Kirpi is a heavy armored troop carrier and its primary objective is to transfer personnel from one place to another while protecting them against all kind of threats. However, it can receive different operational roles by being equipped with required mission equipment.
Used in:
2012 Syrian-Turkish border clashes Turkey-ISIL conflict Libyan Civil War 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Both Finland and Sweden are set to join the NATO alliance this year.
The two countries, previously neutral, changed their minds after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Finland and Sweden will both have to rejigger their armed forces away from territorial defense and toward helping defend an entire continent.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created an unwanted situation for Russian President Vladimir Putin, and one of the most unexpected effects of his actions is the flipping of former neutral states Finland and Sweden into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Instead of intimidating his Scandinavian neighbors into accommodating his demands, Putin’s invasion has pushed them into the waiting arms of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, where they will join 30 other countries in the collective defense of Europe.
Why did the Ottoman Turks call all European lands that they conquered as “Balkans”?
The Ottoman “Rumi” Turks did no such thing. Although the word “Balkan” comes from the Turkish language, its real meaning until the 19th century was different. It only referred to the Balkan mountains, not more. Balkan in older Turkish meant “steep mountain range full of trees”. Then this word became the name of that particular mountain range specifically. As for the term “Balkans” to refer to that entire “peninsula” that makes up southeastern Europe, it was invented in the 19th century by Western European scholars based on the name of the said mountain range. The term was then adopted in the Turkish language as “Balkanlar” too.
The actual Ottoman Turkish term for what is now called the Balkans was Rumeli (Rum ili), which has been borrowed into English as “Rumelia”. This was, in turn, a translation into Turkish of the more previous Greek and Latin word “Romania”, which means “Roman-land” and should not be confused with the modern nation of Romania —which, in turn, used to be called Wallachia and Moldavia and Transylvania (Eflak ve Boğdan ve Erdel in Turkish) until the 19th century. Actually, Anatolia, which constitutes the majority of Turkey’s present territory between the three seas and the Euphrates River, has also always been an integral part of the greater Roman lands. However, “southeastern Europe”, centered in Thrace and Macedonia, was even more Roman and was therefore called Roman-land/Rumeli because the capital Istanbul, also known as Nova Roma (New Rome) belongs to this peninsula. That is why it was called Romania in late antique and medieval times and then Rumeli/Rumelia.
Ottoman and Austrian and Russian Rumelia/Balkans in 1815.
Please stop teaching the world ethics, before that, look in the mirror and learn your history. And deal with your own history. Your real history, not the whitewashed one. Accept it. Learn from it, learn what you did wrong, and stop doing that.
Europe colonized all other people with inferior technology so they could enslave their people, steal their resources so they would feel richer and bossier over us.
Western civilization merely a lifetime ago, has pulled regular people like you and me from the streets regardless of who they are, they could be the brightest minds on earth, earthshaking ground breaking scientists, it didn’t matter to them, still put them into gas chambers to kill them, for the sole crime of belonging to an ethnic group.
And accuse us the same crime? To dilute the horrible crime your democratically elected leaders actually really did?
The ones your ancestors have tried to kill have escaped to our countries with the help of our diplomats! Why did they do that if Turkish people is the psychotic murderers you like to paint us?
But we got over it, we are not that people, we learned from our mistakes you say…
These “culturally and morally superior” White folk, who define non-white people as “savages” even cut of their children’s hands when the slave fathers couldn’t meet the quotas.
No! You still haven’t learned. Today Western world is just as brutal and just as imperialistic.
West still steals, still kills people in millions on the guise of bringing democracy.
West have caused a civil war in Libya just to get cheap oil.
USA killed 3 million civilians in Iraq.
Racism is still a BIG issue. It is almost impossible to hold a position of power even in a company in Canada. You still encounter racism daily if you are a “Schwarz Kopf” in Germany. People still get killed by police because of the color of their skins in USA.
Kill your TV. Kill your Social Media. They all lie to you. You are not the white knights. You are the baddies.
Seriously leave us “non-white”, “non-western”, “unfree”, “undemocratic” folk alone. We don’t need neither your gratification nor your contempt. Just turn to yourselves, look yourselves in a mirror.
entire civilization is built upon colonialism, slavery, and genocides, whose ancestors have either wiped off an entire continent of people and occupied their land.
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
What did Ottomans not do?
Did Ottoman state killed members of “the group”? No. It was a temporary relocation order.
Did Ottoman state give harm to members of “the group”? Maybe but it is not clear. It is a relocation order so yes forcefully being from your home is a trauma which could cause some amount of mental harm to some people.
Did Ottoman state deliberately inflicted on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part? No. Not intentionally. Ottomans were fighting the world bloodiest war in two fronts, during the events Ottoman soldiers were also dying of cold disease and hunger in thousands.
Did Ottoman state impose measures to prevent births? No.
Did Ottoman state forcibly transfer children of the group to another group? No.
IN MEMORIAM: Another magnificent Turk who contributed greatly to Nuclear & Macromolecular Science: Prof. Dr. Ziya Akcasu… We lost him last year. Please read the modest eulogy below to appreciate his incredible value to science, as we practice it today. His nephew, Dr. Ersed Akcasu, also a great scientist and even a greater entrepreneur who recently attended our Holiday Party celebrating volunteerism and philanthropy, lives and works in San Diego.
Dear Dr. Akcasu, thank you posthumously for your contributions to Polymer Science which I practice today. We love you and you will be profoundly missed.. Ergun Kirlikovali.
BUYUK BIR TURK BILIM ADAMINI GECEN SENE KAYBETTIK: PROF DR ZİYA AKÇASU… Nukleer ve Polimer alanlarinda buluslariyla ve ogretileriyle bugun bizlere yol gosteren, sayisiz buluslara imza atan, adina bilimsel kongreler duzenlenen bu muhtesem bilim adamini en derin sevgi ve saygiyla aniyoruz…
