Chapter 1760 These people are quite important
Seeing Gregory's disgusted look, Xiao Peng almost laughed out loud.
The relationship between Russia and Turkey is rather complicated. They have basically been fighting each other from the 17th century to the present. Before World War I, there were ten important wars between the two sides. The fighting between the two sides in World War I and the subsequent Turkish intervention in the Russian Civil War are usually considered to be the eleventh and twelfth wars between the two countries.
The two countries have been at war, on and off, for over 240 years, with a major war occurring less than every 19 years on average—not counting smaller ones. The most recent conflict was the 2015 Turkish downing of a Russian aircraft, which was ultimately resolved with an apology from the Turkish president.
Anyway, the relationship between the two countries is very strange: it is no exaggeration to describe it as a "roller coaster", sometimes they are on good terms and the next they are at loggerheads.
Even more interesting is that the two countries enjoy very harmonious economic and trade cooperation and people-to-people exchanges. Wealthy Turkish tourists often visit Russia, and Russians do the opposite. In some tourist cities in Turkey, speaking Russian is almost as effective as speaking Turkish. For a long time, Turks were the largest tourists in Russia's tourism industry, while Russians were the largest customers of Turkey's. Wealthy individuals from both sides have been buying property in each other's countries, and those who can afford it have been marrying women from the other country.
But no matter what, the relationship between the people on both sides is really average.
But in Xiao Peng's eyes, this is really not the Russians' fault. It is estimated that no one on this planet can understand the Turkish way of thinking except the Turks themselves. Many things that the Turks do are things that even the screenwriters of the legendary dramas dare not write about.
For example, in 2018, a murder occurred in Kuwait. An Asian man killed a Filipino maid. When the local news reported this incident, the appearance of the Asian man was not disclosed but only his back was shown.
Their neighbor Turkey learned about this incident and reported the news. They probably felt that just using a back view was not enough to tell the audience that the murderer was Asian, so they took out a frontal photo of an Asian man to report the news, telling the audience that the man in the photo was the murderer.
So who was this unlucky Asian man who suddenly fell from the sky while sitting in the pot at home? It was Korean President Moon Jae-in. The Korean embassy was so angry that it pointed at Turkish officials and cursed them in the street!
And this was not the first time that the Koreans were harmed by Türkiye.
In 2015, they had a conflict with Daxia, so a group of Turks took to the streets to protest, then stormed into a Chinese restaurant run by a Turk and beat up the Koreans inside, then ran to the Thai Embassy and burned the Vietnamese flag...
Some people may say that such incidents are isolated cases and cannot represent the usual style of behavior of the Turks.
Haha, naive!
After the shooting down of the Russian plane in 2015, the Turks became anxious and insisted that the Russians were declaring war on them. So the indignant Turks rushed into the Dutch embassy, beat up all the Dutch people inside, and burned the Dutch flag!
Why is this so? The Russian flag is a white, blue and red tricolor from top to bottom, while the Dutch flag is a red, white and blue tricolor from top to bottom. They got it wrong!
The poor Dutch embassy was smashed, and the poor Turkish officials could only bow and apologize to the Netherlands pitifully to resolve the matter.
And later on, they really offended the Netherlands.
In 2017, during the campaign, the Turkish president did something that normal people could not understand: he went to the Netherlands to give a campaign speech to win the votes of Turks living in the Netherlands.
A head of state! Going to another sovereign nation's territory to carry out propaganda? You dare not let the Americans do this, but the Turks dare to do it! And it's done by a sitting president, and they think it's normal!
This incident also infuriated the Dutch: "You really don't consider us a country, do you? You think I'm just a village in Turkey?" This is unacceptable to anyone! So the Dutch directly criticized the Turkish president and banned the Turkish foreign minister from entering Dutch territory.
When the Turks learned about this, they were furious again. Although they knew where the door of the Dutch Embassy was after the last incident, they still didn't dare to smash it again. After all, they were in the wrong in the first place, so they changed their way of protest - people were surprised to find a group of Turks gathered on the street and burned the French flag.
This time the flag colors are correct. The French flag has the same order of blue, white and red as the Dutch flag, but the French flag is upright!
What is the reason behind Turkey's arrogance? Of course, it is their powerful military force!
Don't underestimate Turkey. It is known as "NATO's second largest conventional military force" and can be understood as a "lite version of India". It also mixes weapons from many countries, including Russian missiles and helicopters, Israeli drones, Korean artillery, American planes, German tanks... In short, it buys whatever it sees. It is definitely a military power.
And their army's combat effectiveness is also strong: during the Tokugawa tug-of-war on the peninsula, 5,000 elite Turkish soldiers rushed to the battlefield, and in the first battle they wiped out a friendly Goryeo army of more than 1,000 people!
Not only are they cruel to their friendly forces, they are even more cruel to their own people!
In 1974, Turkey and Greece were locked in a bitter dispute over the sovereignty of Cyprus. Turkey decided to send a fleet of five destroyers to transport some soldiers to Cyprus. This fleet encountered a Turkish air force patrol in the Mediterranean.
Then the Navy thought the Air Force was Greek, and the Air Force thought the Navy was Greek.
So things became simple: just fight.
The battle ended with the heroic Turkish Air Force destroying three destroyers and killing 232 people, while the heroic Turkish Navy shot down two Air Force planes.
Many military experts still can't figure out why this happened: the warships were all flying their respective flags, so how could they fight each other?
On second thought, Turks? That's not surprising!
Gregory said angrily, "I really can't stand that Turk. He treats those Koreans like his grandsons and bosses us around. Those Koreans are nothing. They rely on their wealth to think they are the Tsar!"
After hearing this, Kasim lowered his voice and said, "Didn't Nikida say that people often disappear here?"
Gregory lowered his voice after hearing this and said, "No, these guys are quite powerful, especially the Korean leader. He may not look very old, but he has a very strong background. Otherwise, why would our police chief come here to protect him? Don't mess with them."
Xiao Peng laughed and said, "Why should we provoke them? Come on, Gregory, we'll treat you to a meal."
Kasim muttered, "Based on my experience, every time you say that, you end up in trouble."
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