Turkey will soon rue the day they poked the Russian Bear.
I don't know about that. They've posted a pretty middling record against the Russians.
During the time of Catherine and Peter the Great, the Russians were usually victorious; but in 1870 the Turks beat the Russian army like a tin drum. The reason was, the Russians were carrying older-model rifles comparable to the 1848 Springfield rifle, but the Turks had upgraded to Western lever-action rifles (Winchester 1866 "Yellowboys" iirc). The result was very one-sided.
In World War I, the Turks held their own against all the Western Allies in the Dardanelles region, but lost everything in the Fertile Crescent.