Turkish Naval Forces
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Oct 13, 2026
Yanis VaroufakisGUEST
I think it is absolutely essential for both the peoples of, um, Greece and Turkey.
Yanis VaroufakisGUEST
But nevertheless, this tension has been extremely lucrative, firstly for the American military industrial complex because, you know, if you look at the Turkish Navy and the Greek Navy, if you look at the Turkish Air Force and the Greek Air Force, they have exactly the same planes bought by the, from the same dealers in the United States.
Yanis VaroufakisGUEST
So when the Turks buy a f- frigate from the American Navy, you know, we b- we buy the equivalent, usually secondhand ones.
Yanis VaroufakisGUEST
So, you know, and the Greeks and the Turks who participate as middlemen in this, they make a mint from it, from it.
TonyHOST
When you first encounter a clip that shows bright lights and an odd silhouette, the brain instinctively looks for explanations rooted in known objects, ships, planes, even satellites reflecting sunlight.
TonyHOST
In two thousand and seven, the Turkish Navy had a new class of fast attack crafts operating out of Istanbul.
TonyHOST
Some speculators thought they were the culprit behind those glowing points.
TonyHOST
But if you compare the timing of Yalman's recording, midnight in Istanbul under moonless skies, to the operational schedules of naval vessels, a mismatch appears.
TonyHOST
That claim relies on pattern matching with very low confidence thresholds.
TonyHOST
A random arrangement of pixels can accidentally align with any shape when you allow enough variance.
TonyHOST
There was also an attempt to correlate the timestamps in the video metadata with official Navy logs from that night, and no vessels were recorded near the Kumburgaz area at those hours.
TonyHOST
A skeptic might say, perhaps the guard didn't have a camera battery.
Dimitri KalyuginHOST
You know, there's definitely some world leaders discussing some of the major affairs related to Middle Eastern escalations, which I think everybody now anticipates will take place, whether it's just before the Israeli elections, the end of October, or at some point after the American midterms when the, you know, the administration of Donald J. Trump loses some major influence in the US, and he will be left with no choice other than to again pursue pro-Israeli foreign policy in the Middle East.
Dimitri KalyuginHOST
And certainly, Eastern Europe is just full of some insane developments diplomatically and on the military front, which again, we're here to talk about.
Dimitri KalyuginHOST
Naturally, everything sort of ties back to energy, especially this week, Conrad, as the world essentially stands on the brink of what we would call an economic recession and possibly a major energy crisis, which we really haven't seen before.
Conrad FranzHOST
The energy crisis again seems to be getting to the point where it can no longer be ignored.
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Conrad FranzHOST
They've been dramatically escalating both with missiles, uh, and with drones.
Conrad FranzHOST
So, and again, that isn't com- counting for the fact that the US sometimes holds some of these casualties and numbers back.
Conrad FranzHOST
I mean, remember the eight Marines that were severely injured on that one, uh, ship acting as a, you know, a naval ar-artillery ship despite not being, you know, a direct military vessel initially for what it was created for.
Conrad FranzHOST
That, those casualties weren't revealed for several, several days, I think even over a week.
Konstantinos KolokotronisGUEST
So all of these aforementioned examples highlight the use of, uh, fishing fleets by Ankara, by Turkey as activists, activist forerunners Of the Blue Homeland doctrine, trying effectively to gradually erode the Greek-Turkish maritime border, which is based on the median line between the island's territorial waters and the opposing Minor Asia, the Turkish coast.
Konstantinos KolokotronisGUEST
They're trying to subvert Greek jurisdiction and the exercise of Greek sovereign rights in those areas on the cheap, because effectively, they're not deploying large Turkish Navy vessels.
Konstantinos KolokotronisGUEST
They're instead employing highly expendable Turkish, uh, fish boats or smaller Turkish coast guard assets.
Konstantinos KolokotronisGUEST
And through the use of these measures, they're trying to undermine the economic lifeline of local island communities by taking advantage of fisheries that line the area, sometimes within Greek territorial waters, through illegal fishing activity in those areas.
Gulshen ErkanGUEST
First generation, first generation Australian.
Gulshen ErkanGUEST
My father actually, um, was, uh, Turkish Navy.
Gulshen ErkanGUEST
So he, he came and he, uh, arrived in Western Australia.
Gulshen ErkanGUEST
And he actually left the Navy and decided to stay in Australia.
Ömer ÖzkızılcıkGUEST
We have Turkish military presence in Libya, in Qatar, in Somalia, in Syria, in Iraq, in Kosovo, in northern Cyprus.
Ömer ÖzkızılcıkGUEST
We see that the Turkish Navy is growing very significantly.
Ömer ÖzkızılcıkGUEST
Turkish defense industry is growing.
Ömer ÖzkızılcıkGUEST
So to be frank, what's happening is that we see the rise of the Turks.
Aslı AydıntaşbaşGUEST
And I call it sometimes non-binary in the sense that they are, they see that they can have an economic relationship with Russia.
Aslı AydıntaşbaşGUEST
So they're not going with Russian sanctions, but they certainly want a strong Ukraine and they have been supporting, they're building, you know, Navy ships, frigates for various ships for Ukraine.
Aslı AydıntaşbaşGUEST
They continue to sell weapons.
Aslı AydıntaşbaşGUEST
There's some joint production going on.
Christopher ChivvisHOST
I mean, that would be problematic for Turkey.
Christopher ChivvisHOST
Oh, they certainly don't want that.
Aslı AydıntaşbaşGUEST
And of course, let's also add that Throughout the Cold War, Turkish Navy was strong, but Russians then started doing better in the Black Sea.
Aslı AydıntaşbaşGUEST
But right now, because of the hits they've been getting from Ukraine, Turkish Navy, I think, is the strongest force in the Black Sea.
Sal MercoglianoGUEST
You know, they build quality ships extremely good.
Sal MercoglianoGUEST
The Turkish Navy, again, Turkey has its own little independent shipbuilding function for what Turkey needs.
Sal MercoglianoGUEST
They're doing an exceptional job.
Sal MercoglianoGUEST
Russia, it's always hit and miss with Russia, depending on what they're building.