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Lmao

Skopje is genuinely one of the most interesting cities in the Balkans. Layers on layers. One of the best preserved Ottoman cities in the region with a continuous Turkish-language tradition that's still intact, some of the best exampls of Interwar and Socialist Yugoslav architecture, and the waking nightmare that is the Trumpesque Neo-Baroque bullshit of Skopje 2014. It gets a lot of hate because of the Neo-Baroque shit, but it's a lot more intellectually and culturally rewarding than some other Balkan capitals that shall remain namelss (Zagreb.)

Scale model of the urban plan for the reconstruction of Skopje designed by Japanese architect Kenzo Tange following the devastating earthquake in 1963.

At the London Conference in 1955, F.R. Zorlu said, "If there is to be a change in the status of Cyprus, Cyprus must be returned to its former owner." If the two British bases in Cyprus are closed, the lands in the base areas should be returned to the former owner, Türkiye. This demand should be put on the table immediately. We Turks took the island from the Genoese, not the Greeks, and leased it to the British. Later, the British illegally occupied the island by not returning it. When we took over the island, there were no Greeks living there. The Greeks migrated to the island while it was under our administration.