Why Turkey is Preparing to Invade Syria (Again)
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Goodday to you sir
Thanks so much for making a video about the Libyan Civil War!
Japan doesn't involve any war, but Toyota is not limited to that.
Toyota is a war lord in the middle east
toyota is the official sponsor of isis
I love japanese pickups perfect war machines thanks overworked to death island people!!!
Toyota are war machines
Shinzo wasn't wrong to try getting rid of that Article 9 by champion of human rights
26:06 one of the most devastating and complicated situations in the world, but seeing the the US and Iran on the same side against Israel and France is always so unfathomable that all I could do was laugh. Foreign affairs is endlessly messy.
You mean palestine
Palestine ❤
To be honest, except Turkey, UAE, Egypt and Russia, no one was really commited to supporting their preffered side much. It was only thanks to Turkey that UN recognized government of Libya survived Haftar's assault and defeated them. But they weren't strong enough to capture all of Libya either.
I don't see much different between Iran and Israel. Criminal regimes running a criminal country.
* Palestine
14:52 i remember how much we as Turkey tried to buy patriot air defence systems and how hard usa tried to not sell back in 2010-12 era. we needed the air defence system more than every other nation since there are wars waging on our north, east and south sides. america just did not sell it and and this led us buying s400. even trump admitted that.
Turrek Systeem ! All Paranoïde
Bro why would a country trust you when you can just change side by threatening your partner ally by buying from its enemy? Besides turkey wants the inner workings of patriot to be in the deal, to which US didn't even give information to its most closest allies. Turks also want to know the inner workings of S400 too, but ofc russia is not stupid.
There so many conflicts. Saudi Arabia once bought weapons from USA to help defend against Iran, but Saudi attack Yemen instead.
@@night8285A country is usa thats trying to rule the world and already rules media when they see a country like turkey need them they always make things harder thats not about trust problems that’s about what they’ll earn when they support turkey
@@night8285 Remember that Turkey bought S400 long after AFTER USA refused to sell patriots. Turkey has the right to defend itself, and when its allies refuses to sell defense weapons needed to do so then Turkey has a moral obligation to buy whatever weapon is available to protect its people.
3:35 "who pay taxes and contribute to the economy" made me burst out laughing, and anyone from Turkey will understand why :D
Bro, they don't even pay electricity bills. 😭😭
kaçak elektrik bro daaghahah
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@@hashstation74 They can't. They don't have the money to afford it.
😂
Wow this one had a lot of geopolitics that lie outside the main media’s scope. Very interested to see how tight a game is being played in Syria by Turkey and Russia
mainstream media isn't designed to keep you fully informed (keyword: fully)
Don't forget Israel and iran
Turkey are in the right on most things. They get so much unnecessary hate.
Everything that is of substance is outside the media scope it seems
@@zccau2316 intentionally diluting the demographics of an area to assist in the already blatant and rampant repression of an entire people isn't morally sound
Wow, just stumbeled upon this channel / video, what a great content creater you are ! I'm a new fan, hoping for more interesting vids ! Keep it up 💪
8 The Turkish state does not disturb the Kurds. But the autonomy of the Kurds, that is, a handful of land belonging to the Kurds, disturbs the Turks. With this hypocrisy, they call the Kurds brothers.
Turkey didn't "blamed" them, PKK OWNED the attack and declared that they did it.... What a way of explaining from the first second. What a mess.
What? Pkk said they didnt do it
@@EAD. are you seriously trusting pkk?
@@ersanylmazturk1761 yes, why would they even do the attack?
@@EAD. Because they are terrorists
What a complicated mess!
The great thing about this program is that it explains the motivations of countries allying with different groups which is something news agencies are clueless about or doesn’t make a good sound bite for them.
Is not really that complicated. Both Syria and turkey are govern by despots, while the Kurdish side emphasizes democracy and the liberation of it's people. Since democracy poses a treat to despots, not to mention that they are generally hates by the west as well for having (ever so slightly) "leftist" ideology...
That's just a minuscule part of why the Kurds are always in constant treat, even when they are constantly fighting against terrorist, more than the syrian/Turkish army, sometimes
It's really not, the Kurds deserve their own state or at the very least autonomy! Maybe, if all these shitholes with dictators in charge, gave them some autonomy and freedom they wouldn't feel the need to secede! Anyone who doesn't see the Kurds as 100% the victims who are owed some level of independent statehood is an idiot!
@@PickyPaige well let's not be this harsh. Most american don't know where Mexico is, let alone Kurdistan. So it is not surprising some people approach this subject with a bit of "bothsides-ism", even when if you read just Abit on the matter you immediately know who are the bad guys and who are the victims.
@@33up24 Not Surprising sure. But it doesn't change the fact that supporting Turkey in these Actions is almost no different then what Russia is doing. Americans are ignorant because we have our own Continent. And the Cult of Ignorance in the US. It is Seen as being MORE REAL. Donald Trump despite obviously being a Dumbass seemed very Genuine to many people LITERALLY BECUASE HE WAS A MORON.
Turkey are in the right on most things. They get so much unnecessary hate.
I know there’s so much more to learn about the situation in the Middle East but you have given me more clear information than the news has for the past 10 years
Turkey doesnt invade
Altough i dont want soldier in another country there is so many immigrants terroists drugs and guns entering the country
Media never shows us any more than it wants us to know.
@@barbarosh.turaman6283 Like how kurds have gone through oppression and terror ever since after WW1 with green lights from the West.
Here %80 information is wrong. dont hurry for thanks.
@@alanolympus2399 back in those days even Arabic prayings in the mosques were banned.
Can't say if it's because I am Turkish and already know a lot about all these topics or is it because you explained it so clearly but I felt like this was so well explained and I never felt it's too complicated to understand. Good job
Its 1 sided.
tereyağı
understanding a topic you already have knowledge about is a biased view so the opinion you give has 0 meaning if we look at it factually in sample size you would not be considered a value myself included
Doğrudur abla
@@sanane66543 whatever you're just arguing for the sake of arguing Enes
This is some extremely good storytelling, well done.
Thank you, as a Turk it was nice to see an objective and well compositioned video about the subject. We are in the middle of the selections and all our people are quite distressed at the moment, including me. Mostly because of the state of economy, refugee problem, terrorist organisations... But I believe neither of the presidents could make it any better. I stopped trusting politicians long time ago.
Also, to clarify, no. We don't declare a war against Kurdish people, we declare war to terrorist acts. If you "could" call it a war, of course. We fought together for this land back in 1920s, altogether as Turkish, Kurdish, Laz, Circassians and more... We won't divide our land that we all fought for. So stop saying stuff like "booho give their lands back" when us Turkish and Kurdish people clearly fought side by side to protect our borders and country.
question for you as a person living in Turkey, any possibility that the bombing was a false flag operation?To justify actions against Kurds?
Your government is attacking the most democratic front in Syria. Kurds have never been fascists and racists like you. They have not genocided other ethnic groups like you. Take a look at the past, the genocide and denial of Armenians, Kurds and Arabs, etc. and naming their motherland as Turkey. Of course, we Kurds are never looking for revenge, we just want you to leave us alone. We were not enemies with the Turks, Arabs and Persians, they were the ones who tried to harass us at the same time.
@@ivanvuk4372 I live in Istanbul so I haven't encountered terror acts with my eyes. But there are people I know that live there, some report that there are many Kurdish flags and they don't let Turkish people show their flags, they threaten them. A police officer that we know reports these. One of my friend's cousin lived in east region, he was taken to mountains. Being taken to mountains means joining the terrorist organisations with guns in the field, btw. Some are encouraged, some are threatened, some women are raped before taken to mountains.
Also, there are many martyr news, there are even teachers that were murdered in the east regions such as Aybüke teacher. I don't think the government would bomb their own land to justify the acts; given all these examples, there is no need for that
@@potatp.3714 I agree with you. Western media generally to defame eastern governments, also they support the terror organizations and they manipulate the media of their own ideas. As a Turk I dont care to western media.
@@potatp.3714 thanks for the quick answer, damn news worldwide doesn`t say anything about that, giving out the picture that Kurds are on the receiving end of terror. I hope life will get back to normal for you guys, I have spent lots of summers on beaches in Turkey, a beautiful country with fabulous people.
Watching this after the devastating earthquake and wonder how much this event has changed this ambition
Yeah literally it will take decades before Turkey to make this happen,. I feel bad for the innocent people that died or it's about to die, but not for the Turk government
I expect not much since war is a cherished distraction from domestic problems.
The earthquake will only have a small impact on this moving forward (unfortunately). This is nothing new for the region. Its been going on since the Ottoman Empire and will continue long after we're gone.
Erdoğan didnt help us and called it a fate!???? Lots of people may have live but they even sold blood with money!! Good thing there is an electşon 2 days later so we can say goodbye to dictator erdoğan
@@chesi_7_0_79 keep consuming theese woke channels and think pkk is nothing but muslim extremist terrorists that all dreaming conquerroring the entire middle east, including saudi arabia, israel palestine, there are multiple terror groups in middle east and when they fight each other you people ignorantly support one of them like they are not terrorsts too its disgusting just stay out of our business keep babbling in youtube and twitter
Message to Turks from an Arab:
It's better to be alive and hated by the world than to suffer like the Palestinians or Arabs in kurdish territories. Do what you gotta do
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8 The Turkish state does not disturb the Kurds. But the autonomy of the Kurds, that is, a handful of land belonging to the Kurds, disturbs the Turks. With this hypocrisy, they call the Kurds brothers.
@@TaktikyokWe are not enemies with the Kurds. We are enemies of the PKK.
Arabs suffer in Kurdish territories? I’m sorry that your Arab friends who joined ISIS suffers from their consequences
Nice video, unfortunately it does have some false/lacking information:
-France is not ethnically homogenous with them even dealing with their own ethnic terrorists in the past against the FNLC and the ETA (Corsican and Basque seperatists respectively).
-There is no mention of the Kurdish government in Northern Iraq that is virtually independent from Baghdad since 1992 that has good relations with Turkey and allows them to not only conduct airstrikes in their own lands but allows them to set up military based in Iraqi Kurdish soil. The Iraqi Kurdish government allows this due to a power struggle between them and the PKK that culminated in a civil war in the region in 1994.
-Both the figures for inflation and the number of refugees in Turkey are state numbers that should ABSOLUTELY not be trusted. Inflation is reaching 200% on a lot of goods and the number of Syrian refugees has been reported as being 'stable' for the last 4 years.
-There was no mention of the fact that the first military operation in Syria by Turkish Armed Forces was conducted against ISIS forces that had reached the Turkish border. The plan was to show the Americas that the Kurds weren't their only ally in the region against ISIS (and ISIS has been practically dead for the last couple of years anyway).
-You did not mention the demographic shift that has taken place in Northern Syria during the civil war as most of the refugees to Turkey are Arabs/Turkmens (A group you entirely failed to mention) from Northern Syria. Before the war the region was majority Arab almost entirely with small Kurdish towns/communites (although I am not accusing the Kurds of ethnic cleansing its just that the Kurds who lived in the area wanted Kurdish rule so they stayed while the rest fled north)
-This is not a mistake but I wish you talked more about the geography and how it affects conflicts in the region (specifically the mountainous landscape that allowed to the Kurds to live with low outside interference until recent history but made them splintered and without a common goal of nationalism (again, until recently)).
That's just your opinion man
The video mentioned that Turkey initiating a relocation would result in a shift in Arab refugees to the Northern Syria so I don't think the video completely left out that part.
@@GEEZYEA777 the problem is that he left out the fact that the demographics there were already shifted compared to what they were 10 years ago
@@yungsteaksauceakalilwasher6571 Dont you think that Kurds in north-Syria also would have fled into Turkey like the Arab population did?
@@p.v.h1776 yes they did but its does not change that kurds are were ( still ) minority in north syria same like Turkmens .
That one passed me by in the news. Thanks for shedding a light on this topic.
Western media is supressing this news. because it is a nato country.
That's because the news is obsessing over Ukraine.
its is not a light. It is a cheap propaganda over syria. The truth is more easy for syria
Thanks very informative godspeed
Well done. Thank You. 🌍
The sheer complexity of the geopolitical entangle in the Syrian territory and the tense and carefully balanced relationship between Turkey and Russia is absolutely astounding. I don't know how I'd even begin to understand a fraction of what's happening, had I researched it on my own.
But can I commend RLL for making such a ridiculously complex topic actually so accessible??? I pride myself in having a decently easy time in understanding complex geopolitical conflicts, but this is the first time I actually felt like, without this video, I would've been completely lost. The video is so amazingly well structured and it introduced every idea not a second later than it was needed so consistently, that I was able to follow a half an hour long essay on a multi state, multi ethnic, multi decade long, multi conflict web of war and geopolitics like it was nothing. Even beginning to untangle this myself would've been absolutely momentous.
This is not just knowing about the topic. There are so many ideas that are mutually exclusive here and that they wiuldn't make sense if they were introduced in the wrong order. By starting with the motivations of the biggest players, the Turkish government and the Kurdish nation, RLL managed to construct a very cohesive and consistent narrative that still managed to convey the sheer depth and complexity of the topic. That takes very real writing skill and, up until this point, I was never able to see it. This video outright amazed me. It has got to have been one of the best geopolitics video I've seen.
Ditto to everything you said. I was blown away at how well all this info was organized.
The sheer complexity of how the big players interact with each other in this conflict is confusing. if RLL did not organize and structured the narration, we will be lost in the middle of this video
Kurdish nation?
Yeah i agree with you he is well organized that's amazing there is someone knows the similarities between hell & my country 🙂
@@nono-ck5xr yes, Kurdish nation, in the proper definitionr rather than a synonym of state:
/ˈneɪʃn/
noun
a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.
This is a master class of geopolitical analysis
More a masterclass in human stupidity
fr this video must have taken forever to make
It took me only 4 hours.
Maybe, if all you have is a high school diploma.
Lol ok from one side....
Can’t wait for the nebula content to hit CZcams at some point
"despite their claims of having nothing to do with it" he said as he talked about terrorist organisations who perpetuate these sorts of attacks on a monthly basis in Turkey
terrorists usually take pride in their attacks, so that actually reinforces his point
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lol
I agree the ISIS and the Jihadi terrorists Turkey supports have attacked Turkish citizens monthly.
But they almost always claim responsibility. Erdogan must go.
23:45 it is not UN recognized Turkish EEZ, it is Sevilla University(International Reltions department) map which is asked to draw by Greece. It is just recognized by Greece and EU, nothing more. But you need to know that UN recognized Turkiye's EEZ at 24:08 as you showed through accepting the EEZ agreement between Libya and Turkiye.
istekileri yerden anlama gibi huyları var bu arkadaşların anlamadığım nokta her konuda hakuk hukuk adalet ucu başkasına dokununca siktir et mantığı gerçekten iki yüzlülükleri iç acıyası
@@thedrunkgeek6824 Mongols aren't Turks lol. I think you need history lessons.
After watching some videos that he talked about things that are in my country and area , I realized how biased he is. Idk where he gets his facts from lol
@@thedrunkgeek6824 ooh, interesting comment from your mother's basement, at least you know a little bit of turkish history. If you have a history that belongs to your own ancestors, happy for you, I hope your ancestors did not live in that history for a few centuries under the command of the Turks. If he lived I'd just laugh at this comment
@@dry_strawberries This is really not true thing to do btw. Because the people you caused to revolt, with such a kind of a lie, can cause to death of thousands. CZcams is a big window that can allow mosquitoes like these to pass. So dangerous, even despite of the existence of wrong sourced media companies.
its not just the ports Russia wants in Syria, there are gas and oil fields in Syria which they don't want Syria to tap into and start exporting to Europe
It’s always about fucking oil man
There is not that much gas/oil in syria. Enough for syria and some export but not enough. And currently the usa is controlling that area.
@@nieink Not in Syria but enough in Saudi Arabia and Qatar....and russians don't want that .
Yeah, American occupy the oil field right? Heard they stealing it right now. 🤔
@@djprojectus and what has that to do with syria? He claims russian want syrian oil/gas. Or do you mean an pipeline through syria. But syria didnt want that.
I naturally do know all this as a syrian , but I would never have made such a simple straight forward video its really nice simple pictures videos and transitions and really well written good job and thank you!
As a country the worst thing you could do is create division, animosity, exclusion and domination. You can then guarantee you will face an uprising.
Leadership and governments can sometimes be so stupid
Lets hope this DOES NOT turn into a "great war of Africa" (also known as the second Congo war) like scenario. For those who don't know, the great war of Africa (1990s) was the bloodiest conflict in the world since WW2.
There's been a great war in this region for over 50 years now. The only reason it hasn't been so bloody is because the most important actor, Turkey, has chosen the path of calculated restraint.
it will not
majority of the casualties in the 2nd congo war where from starvation and disease.
Syria isn't nearly as susceptible as the Congo so while it may turn into a bloody(ier) conflict, the casualties will not even be close
Thanks, i will read about it.
@@SandiegoRockstar stop coping. Turkey is the only reason this war exist.
@@bigdaddyeddy1252 No, the reason is the terrorists.
Dang this HOI4 run is getting pretty interesting 🤔
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Yeah, can’t wait to ally with the fascist Islamic State to defeat Turkey for this
I didn't like Turkey going neo-ottoman focus tree
@@alialtuntas8207 Too bad because they chose it
@@alialtuntas8207 Time to re-load the save game!
Rojava is not concerned with its ethnic demographics, it's rooted in Kurdish liberation but aims for the liberation of all people and welcomes all ethnicities into its borders. It is already a multi ethnic area which is held together by direct democracy instead of nationalism in the same fashion as an ethnostate
As a Syrian, all I can say is that this is probably one of the most complicated wars/political issue in history, its all literally a chess game.
I feel bad for you
Your country is getting gang banged bbc style and its not gonna get fixed for years
in history?? have you ever read a history book before?
@@emir7135 yes and this shit seriously is incredibly fucking complicated, I am not kidding it's mind boggling and terrifyingly sad when you consider all the parties who are fighting each other and the combinations of which are working together... I understand I am opening myself up to another snarky comment but whatever, this stuff is bonkers and frustrating as fuck
Dudes right, I can’t think of another conflict that’s as convoluted as the Middle East right now
@@aldrans1998 Every country went through that, this time it was our turn. And sadly Syria's location is very important meaning other powers constantly want to hold influence/power in the region so that leads the war to go on.
Great work! I am amazed
Good god what a complicated web of death ☠️ and destruction
I live in north iraq and our lives always been like that tough and complicated 💔
The Turks literally want the genocide of Kurdistan they are the enemy.
@@Addino25 you mean Kurdistan?
@@jegerbaderkhan71 Kurdistan doesn’t exist
The extremely sad true is that was the idea. How the European powers of post WWI divided up all the land was perhaps deliberate to cause chaos in the region and let European powers continue growing while the Middle East mired itself in petty conflicts. It is a lot like Europe 1200-1690ish with opulent royals and governments quibbling over the most random of things as the common people suffered. The only way this mess can end is if the people of the region finally get fed up with constant war. Took Europe AT LEAST 500 years to do that. Do we believe the Middle East is more or less stubborn?
Fascinating!
I wonder if it's true when he says at the end of all his videos "I would love to tell the rest of the story but CZcams would demonetize my channel". Is it possible that could be true for every single video? It just doesn't seem like it could be.
I really quite enjoyed the animated segments on the map, it adds a lot of value to the video
It also helps to understand this whole dilema
Map gamers and enthusiasts visibly excited*
True.
Although I do take offense that the map of Israel is severed.
just saying as an american i have much respect for my turkish brothers. i hope all goes well.
As a Turkish firstly i want to thank you but everything will go worse. Most of the Syrians come to Turkey and broke our national avarage. They are not going back to their homes and we are not letting them to go europe for the money coming from there. Erdogan selected again (20 years and still president unluckly) 2 days ago and he said he wont send syrians again to syria. Their mans are killing-r@ping our womans. Their kids (avarage turkish people have 2-3 kids despite the fact that syrains have at least 5-6) and womens begging in our streets. We want them to go. Not pregnants or child for now. Their mans should go and fight for their lands. (According to not formal numbers there are 8m sryans in Türkiye 80m turkish people in Türkiye)
You shouldnt honestly. As a Turk i can say that Turkey is a really bad country with a bad economy that has like LOTS of foolish people.
Thanks dude
what goes well that they are a racist facsist county that oppresses Kurds?
thanks love
No one is talking about what the fuck America is doing in Syria, which doesn't share the same continent, but talking why is Turkey in Syria?
The mere fact that Japan is indirectly connected to all Middle Eastern War is fascinating to say the least
Istiklal (where the bomb explodes) is not just a shopping area, It's like Champs Elysées of Turkey.
Do you mean the Champs-Élysées?
Shenzelize has to be the grossest misspelled word in a history of mankind.
@@Gene-ns2wk Yes ☺
ERDOĞAN 🇹🇷❤️❤️
@Adam18, NEVER TRUST A TURK!
I’m from Syria and I’m studying political science and international law and I believe your video has well explained the situation
Do you still live in Syria?
@@lukas6610 thankfully no, i live in the US. But i have more than half of my family still there
@@ghayathalnabulsi2087 hopefully one day we'll all be able to go to Syria again and enjoy the beautiful culture and landscape
@@lukas6610 thanks 🙏🏼
@@ghayathalnabulsi2087 good luck on your studies i hope the best for you and your family
This situation is way too complex, any decision is going to make people unhappy. Wow would hate to be in any of their shoes
Wow, I'm getting goosebumps of how all conflicts around the area are linked, from Libya to Ukraine to Iran (and further all world conflicts probably), and how complex it is and that it's not as simple as "Russia & Iran are allies" or "all Nato countries are allies" (Turkey & USA in this case) etc. etc. ...
seeds of a third world war are planted…
Dont forget about Azerbaijan and Armenia, also Ethiopia and Egypt
It not so much countries but Islam, Islam has a problem over the difference versions Hadith which is the translation of the Quran. It’s a case of how Muslim do you want to be with things like the head dress and how many jaws and christians they wish to laminate. Kind of sH!ts all over the religion of peace narrative.
@@sarahwilliams755 😂😂😂
@@sarahwilliams755 Ah yes US- China conflict or Russia Ukraine war is due to Islam.
A good lesson (or reminder) that the world is much more complex than the average person realizes
Yup there's no good and bad, just self interest
@@seyamrahman1002 iiiii'd say genocide is pretty bad, that's just me, though
As a Turk I think that’ll be a blood zone more than a safe one!!! no more wars Kurt’s are our brothers sisters🥺
Many Turks do not want peace with the Kurds. And the Kurds have become convinced that there is no possibility of peace with the Turkish people
@@roniwhite6042written by someone who has not lived in Turkey all his life.
Finally someone who didnt blame Turkiye for everthing and can seee the truth with his on eyes.Thank you man.
Kurdish can be spoken both in privite schools and in public school in Türkiye. There are universities derpartmans wich consist Kurdish language.And like every other country İf you live somewhere regardless of your nationality you become citizen.
This is not true. They face racism in schools, and many Kurds in Turkey did not know how to speak Kurdish
@@roniwhite6042 have you ever wach the Turkish News ? Stop making propaganda. There are Turks in Germany who can’t speak proper Turkish to. This problem cause the indivudual people you can’t blame all nation even if there is a racisim
I'm not crazy to watch Turkish news. As for why the Turks in Germany are not fluent in Turkish enough, the reason is because living in a foreign country. But the Turkish government is fighting the Kurds while they are in their original land
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@@roniwhite6042 So you are a terrorist note a Kürd. Becasuse real Kürds stand with Türks. We are Turks( Kurds,Cechnian, Laz, Türks) we are multicultural nation and you will pay for what you done the innocent people .
what is even a original land dafuq are you talking about you mean suleymaniah, you people come from iran (zagros mountains) stay there ffs
France isn't a great example of homogeneity...
What Turkey is doing to Kurds is what we did and sometimes still do to our own minorities, which are basically anything outside the former royal domain, something like 90% of France. The only difference is that we started way before Turkey, so the job is mostly done now. But there are still people alive who lived through getting punished at school for not knowing French because they were native speaker of a regional language. I met elders who can only speak in a regional language (Gallo or Brezhoneg in that case) and do not consider themselves French but rather under French occupation. In most places it's just a bunch of people sad because France killed their culture, traditions and language, but in some places (Britanny, Corsica and Basque Country) it's an ongoing issue. Corsica only stopped armed resistance quite recently actually (2014).
just like I said, this video is just blatant propaganda.
@@ethandouro4334 what?
Yeah I loughed out loud when he called Germany and France ethnically homogenous countries
We'll be homogenus too someday
@@hazzmati Even Japan actually, there are the Ainus in Hokkaido if you want to deep dive. But it's probably one of the best examples anyway.
great video, but it's very hard to keep up with so many information, is like a tsunami, nevertheless I love it
I think Turkey has it right. It will respect the border while simultaneously securing a safe zone in that country to buffer itself.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Kurds had it in their mind to nominally take over Syria. Which makes sense for them to prop up one of Arab factions in exchange for autonomous port access and control over Kurdist sectors of Syria until they break off.
the video should over at 0:58 cause on the map its showing the Syria have been divided. the Yellow area are calls SDF ( Kurdish forces) so Türkiye has no problem with a Syria. Turkiye has problem with kurdish rebellions teroristic groups who try claim to get a big part of eastern Turkiye. The Bases of the That Terrorist in located eastern Türkiye and northern Syria. so Turkiye make an operation to that are. they never planned to invasion or claim that areas. I am asking whole citizen of the world, If in your border country have pysically divided and you are getting attacked. terrorists bombing in your country and killed civillians do you support a military operation to there or not ? thats clear.
another wrong information is about the ethnich minority the speakers says 15 millions of kurds in Turkey. actually real population is more than this. also the Kurds are not minor population they are a people of Turkey. Its very difficult to understand for the nation countries. cause they can diverse the population minor and major or etc but for Ottoman leftovers countries the nation is not so important. as an shor information in Turkiye parliament there is a Kurd political party and they have 67 parliamenter and they are openly support the Kurdish independency. but in opposite side there is 230 kurdish nation parliamenter which is totaly againist.
Türkiye Parliament Etchnic diversiton
AKP Total 290............Kurdish Parliamenter : 135
CHP Total 144............Kurdish Parliamenter : 73
MHP Total 50.............Kurdish Parliamenter : 12
HDP Total 67.............Kurdish Parliamenter : 67
İYİP Total 40.............Kurdish Parliamenter: 10
total parliementer of Türkiye is 600 and 297 is Kurds.
The only HDP is support Kurdish independency with 67 parliementer. so what kind of ethnich minorty is is ? to understand a country people should know not a ethnic population numbers or etc. must know the culture and mutual history.
Along with the great explanation, the map presentation and editing is extraordinary.
Indeed a geopolitical masterclass.👏👏
Without this channel I would know nothing about current events
His content is politically one-sided, recommend to make research on your own
@@fanteasy7399 Explain. Which side? Let me guess, you hate Russia?
@@fanteasy7399 not from my experience
@@fanteasy7399 No hes not, you should make ur own research
that's fuckin sad
We declared war because Syria is sending refugees non-stop and now we are advancing
interesting background music
Ok there is a bit of bias in this video. I am not Turkish, I am Polish but implying (11:28) that Erdogans approval rate is "Barely hovering above 40%" making it look like it's really low is just deceiving to say the least where half of the European leaders stay below 40% constantly. Macrons approval stays around 35 to 40%, Olaf Scholz have 30% approval rating. His approval rating is staying on the Western European level.
Well, please note that turkish political climate is extremely polarized and you either think erdogan is jesus' second coming (or more likely best thing since Prophet Muhammed since if you like erdogan you are likely muslim)or worse than capital getting nuked, %40 approval rating means he is quite likely to lose next elections, especially due to economical crysis and opposition finally being able to unite centre left, far left end even centre right and kurds in a tenous political alliance. %40 percent approval rating means almost %60 will vote against him.
However, according to the new Turkish Presidency System (which accepted with the 2017 constitutional referendum) at least 50% + 1 vote is necessary to become president. On the last election Erdogan's vote rate was 52.59% (24 June 2018). So I think it is okey to say that 40% is low for the standards of Erdogan. Now the new elections will be held on June 2023 and 40% is definitely not enough.
The importance of aproval rates in turkey arent linear but expodentional not only did this exact reason cause a shift in parlemental systems but also combining of multiple partys under alliances to 2 big ones just like it is usa
@@bilalsenay4689 you're conflating vote with approval
Even us presidents tend to be below 50% approval rating despite winning >50% of vote
Turkey is autocratic, so approval ratings should be inflated due to murder of dissidents
This is such a complicated mess of war. I can't imagine how tough it would be for an average person just trying to peacefully live your life as best you can.
Turkey are in the right on most things. They get so much unnecessary hate.
@@zccau2316 nope
As a Syrian who lives in Aleppo...i can confirm its very very tough
@@hazem.shersho dude I live in damascus , supporting turkey means the demolition of securlism in syria
thank you I dont want a taliban syria
I want to ask 1 simple question to the @reallifelore ..... You are from USA and there are 42.5 Million of people speak Spanish and they live there. So the question is : If They want to establish a new country in USA what's your opinion ?
The Spaniards later went to the USA, they were not born there. They have no right to claim land in the USA. The Kurds existed in those lands before the Turks.
@@mehmeta2538 But Red Indians did now Where is Red Indians where is their calture Their language their religion huh ?
@@Tv.Charlie it’s because our right to speak our native language and that’s why we’re fighting like every ethnicity has its right to speak their native language like you Turks always cry for Uyghur Turks in China but deny the existence of the Kurdish language
@@uguryzg Uğur Just go outside of the road ask any civilian. Nobody care Why you speak Kurdish. My cousin's husband is Kurdish and we like him we are family we live in same country under the same flag. The problem is If any Kurds wanted to create new country within the borders of the Republic of Türkiye, That is unacceptable. Second thing. Now The Kurds are not happy about the Syrian Afgans immigrants because they understand now Turks and Kurds same but not Arabs. That's why in elections. All eastern people voted for CHP.
@@Tv.Charlie I will ask those Kurdish freedom fighters fighting against a fascist state like Turkey so I don’t give a f about who is in your family or who voted which party. Don’t worry borders always changed throughout the years so will it be the same for East Anatolia
At 2:49 it's the jordanian flag and not the iraqi flag
О shit, this is complex.
Thanks for saving my 30 mins lol
It is making sense why Israel is preparing a big war against Iran.
@@zohaibtariq7351 go watch cooking shows if real life scares you
@@choonblaze they're really not any less complicated 😒
@@choonblaze neverita cooking
Really interesting video with a sad but important to teach topic. I think there are hard times coming for everyone in this world. Many conflicts that are possibly coming in the next years.
I'd argue months at this point, Serbia is bulking up on Kosovo as well...
@@utopia4056 yeah I don't think NATO would like that and Serbia isn't a big country like Russia so Serbia vs Kosovo and NATO's indirect or direct help wouldn't go well
Not in North America.
Thank god for the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
I live in Canada the only problem we have with our only neighbour is the international bridge fee was raised to $4.
@@utopia4056Rather, NATO's trying to provoke Serbia
@@Crashed131963 I also feel very lucky becuase I live in the pacific
10:00 Would you rather opening the border gates that connects Turkey with Europe?
As a Kurd living in Turkey, I do not have any problems. I have equal rights. Every Kurd who does not disturb the internal peace in the country is as valuable as a Turk. The Kurds who are disturbed by this situation are the Kurds living outside the borders of Turkey. Apart from that, 90% of the Kurds living within the borders of Turkey do not leave Turkey and do not attempt to rebel because we are Turkey. We see their lands as our own land and the Turks as our own brothers. Kurds who left Syria, Iraq and Iran, please do not interfere with us and our Turkish brothers. If you continue to threaten our borders with the PKK and other terrorist organizations, we will defend the Turks and Turkish lands until the last drop of our blood. How happy is a Kurd who lives under the superior Turkish identity. and I'm a Turk
Exactly these people just want to cause problems
Ömer birtanesin o7
Sambo
sana helal olsun tüylerim diken diken oldu
Adam ya geldi adam
Honestly feel I got a much better understanding wtf is going on around Syria
If Iran evil regim is destroyed, Syria and Iraq will rise. It's that simple.
The video is extremely biased towards the kurdish separatists
The strikes by Turkey and Israel are being done to distract you while the U.S pillage their oil.
@@Redwan777 im kurdish my self and we have never been oppressed, my uncle is also a police officer lol
@@erolaga31 kurdish areas get little to no investment or care by the turkish government. That's a form of oppression.
More videos like this please. It goes so much more in depth than traditional medias. I've learned more about this conflict in 30 min than in my entire life.
NO NO YOU CAN SPEAKA
It is still very simplistic. It doesnt Talk about divisions in kurds or even autonomism. PKK is no longer looking for independence
Most do not know that Carter (1977-81) was the main culprit for 9/11. He cut the funding to CIA foreign office, gave funds to help the Ayatollah Khomeini, and turned his back on longtime and vital ally the Shah of Iran. After Khomeini took over, they captured our embassy as America seemed to collapse. Iraq then invaded Iran, and Russia saw its chance and invaded Afghanistan. That was where Bin Laden got his start.
I am a Kurd living in Turkey. Certainly the PKK does not represent us. The Kurdish majority in Turkey respects the unity and solidarity of the country and there is no oppression or oppression. Kurds can live and talk wherever they want, however they want. In schools, they can receive education in Kurdish on demand, and they have organizations that represent them. The PKK forcibly kidnapped many of my Kurdish acquaintances against their will and forced them to war. The PKK massacred thousands of our people. We do not want a separate state, we want peace and tranquility. The events are not as the western media tell. (My English is bad so I used a translation)
@@IronMan-ew7psBen Kürtüm.Sen bir moğol türksün.🤣🤣🤣🤣 Yaşasın bağımsız vatanımız Kürdistan
bro what is Tape Receipt Ordogan💀
LOLL
As a turkish person our government does not have any conflict with any kurdish person, we define turkish people as people who are legal citizens of turkey and not based on any ethnic character. However, pkk is a terrorist group that caused harm to turkey by targeting the civilians and resulting in a lot of deaths. Their main goal is to establish a new regime in Turkey and they are terrorists. Therefore, as any government would do, government of turkey protects it's citizens. In the media it is seen as in Turkey there is a discrimination against kurdish people but there are actually isn't.
If I wasn’t a Kurd I would believe your bs. The Turkish ID also puts X or XX in it to identify Muslims from non Muslims such as Christians, Alevis, Yazidis etc. to discriminate them. I mean your fabricated text sounds so lovely. Why don’t you mention that Kurdish was banned and criminalized for almost 100 years? That even the Kurdish identity was illegal? What about those massacres you Turks committed against Kurds before the PKK was found? (Dersim, Zilan, Roboski). Or that the Turkish secret service MiT supported ISIS terrorists in 2016 to fight the Kurds in Rojava? It’s also funny that Turks never mention JiTEM (a secret government organization) that abducted Kurdish civilians and Kurdish politicians tortured them and later killed them.
Lmao as a Kurd from Turkey I can confirm your government since Atatürk have always had a conflict with us, this is not a secret.
@@uguryzg Hi, in 20+ years ago, Turkish ultranationalist governments did the Kurds wrong, you're right. But for the last 20 years or something, good steps were taken and groups like PKK only serve foreign geopolitical interests. Today, Kurds have equal rights with a Turkish citizen in every aspect possible. It would be in Kurds' best interest to not work against their own country. Seperatism only hurts them.
@@albertnoble2727 the country of the Kurds is Kurdistan not T*rkey which occupied it. It is every Kurds fight to fight against it. Why don’t Turks support China when it comes to Uyghur Turks? Y’all have double standards
@@uguryzg Most Kurds don't support seperatism and love their country. Brainwashed PKK supporters are a different story. PKK kills Kurds who don't support them. They are terrorists that use Kurdish identity.
I've been watching this situation for months now, happy for you to finally cover it.
I thought I was well informed about the wars in this region but apparently I had no idea. Extremely well made video!
One can never know anything completely.
I read the title as 'Turkey preparing to invade Spain'and was so confused.
SHIT THE COVERUP TITLE STOPPED WORKING - SIEZE HIM
"Sending millions of people to a war thorn country where they don't feel safe"? Dude they go to syria for holidays. After the earthquake some even told that they go for resting their head.
İs Syria is safe , why the fuck your country keep sending its military there ?
Really excellent video. Thank you Joseph and team!
one of the finest modern history lessons I've ever seen. GREAT job
Turkey could have avoided this by fighting for the Kurds within Syria and Iraq, claiming those regions, and offering the Kurds security against Syria and Iraq, and a degree of autonomy, in exchange for them remaining a part of Turkeys economy.
this won't happen
Turkey is interfering in Syria because the U.S. is already occupying the oil fields in Syria and Russia is occupying the Syrian ports on the Mediterranean
This was simply amazing! I realise you can’t account for everything in under half an hour but this summary was brilliant! I got a whole different understanding for these conflicts than I’ve ever had before!
if this video changed your view, it means you know nothing about syria and you will never know :)
The Thing is, usa lost the war in Syria. Soon Turkey And syria will do the handshake with support of Russia And what will happen? YPG will Lost the control. Which means usa will lose control and last american forces will leave the syria Soon
But if Conflict between Kurds and Turks will contunie ? If you make people belive that Turkey will harm the kurdish people in Syria...
So there will be a reson for Usa to still stay in syira.
Don't belive in cheap propaganda. I don't say Turkey is an angle. But , if you need to do a trick, you should make people to look somewhere else. Now they keep you look on Turkey. Before they were keeping people to look on isis
Everything he says is a lie
Thanks for all the effort.. it is really the best content that ever described this conflict
And lastly, this has a lot to do with water. The area Kurds claim to be Kurdish are conveniently located in water sources. Kurdish ethno nationalist theories are quite aggressively funny about all that, from claiming there have been numerous Kurdish states before Rome in the region to claim old Medians being Kurds.
But the area these types are interested in has the water sources of the region
Well linguistically and genetically Kurds are closer related to the Medes than Persians are but I guess an assimilated Anatolian farmer like you still believes he’s Turkic. You basically commit ethnics cleansing against Kurds like you did with the Armenians and aren’t man enough to admit it. Is also Turkey looking for water in Rojava (Northern Syria) that they had to support ISIS in 2016 in fear of the Kurds there? Don’t make yourself a fool by believing your own lies
The medians are Kurds, it says in wikipedia
@@fish.man123 You can give direction to wikipedia by writing many comments. There are thousands of lies.
@@b.b.k.2788 one lie is that Turks are genetically Turkic
Bro eastsouth anatolia and water😂😂😂😂😂 as a Turkish, this is wrong except Dicle and Fırat rivers
So this was 9 months ago? Did it happen? I don’t remember it.
Woah... Syria, Ukraine, Libya... Kurds... That's a geopolitical puzzle. So nice to get a broader view of regional conflicts. Thanks!
All nations act in self interest and that interest changes depending on the region in the world and the way of the nation. Geopolitics is unruly.
Ukraine took part in Iraq 2003
Its not a broader view though it is as sided as it gets, more or less it's official US propaganda Version.
Thanks for all the work you do my man. Videos like this are more valuable than anything mainstream news orgs produce on complicated geopolitical topics.
Wheres occupied Golan Heights on your maps presented at 0:43 ?
Isn’t that where the oil wells are ?
I'm very curious about your videos Please add Turkish subtitles
Man, I knew all this and follow each of thesse events but it was overwhelmnig to watch all of this in one video. Basic yet covers almost every aspect of the conflicts. Well done.
The depth of your understanding due to the work you put in is incredible. This is classic geopolitics lecturing for free on Yt. Kudos RLL!
And also, Kurdish taxes come from western Turkey. Taxation is one of the biggest beef with Turks of the country and Kurds, who don't even pay their electricity, use electricity illegaly and Turks from tax-paying regions are actually compensating a lot of the cost in their own bills.
One of the big reasons Turkey will never allow an anti-Turkish state is the very fact that ever since Turkey was formed; it's been desperately trying to bring water to the region, revive it's economy, education etc. The dams of Atatürk and Keban been so difficult for the ailing economy in 70's, if you're a doctor who's born in İzmir, as an ethnic Turk, you're obligated to do Eastern Service, in those Kurdish dominated regions too, because the state does force you to at least do some community service type of era to help the region out.
Teachers who want nothing to do with the east are to go work there for a time, the state uses a lot of it's tax income to support Kurdish regions for decades now
After all that, nobody, absolutely nobody give up the region over some ethnic minority with hopes of an ethnocentric state that's run by a bunch of insurgencies.
The reason Turkey doesn't want a Kurdish education, is simple. This isn't an American mish mash society, there's literally no reason for any Kurd to speak only Kurdish. The region is not keen on education, people hardly finish high school and curtailing their ability to speak the official language is harmful to them in the first place.
@12:40 US trains taliban against Russia, and the last update was us fleeing Afghanistan...
This video is incredible. It felt so smooth and I didn't notice that it ended
I am an Austrian and it is illegal to use any language other than German in any parts of our country. Which makes me question; why my common Europeans rage when they hear Kurds are not allowed to speak their own language in other countries lmao.
well the thing is, the whole "kurdish banned" thing is a complete fucking lie. It was never banned and it is not banned right now
Cope harder
Der Unterschied ist, dass alle anderen Sprachen meistens Sprachen sind, die von den Migranten kommen. Die Kurden allerdings sind keine Migranten in der Türkei, sondern lebten schon immer in diesem Gebiet.
@@GokuResho If i remember correctly, kurds came into Anatolia after Turks conquered it. We might say the same thing about ''migrants'' in the next few centuries.
@@GokuResho Die Kurden haben da nicht immer gelebt erst nach dem die Osmanen es eroberten deshalb wird den Kurden nie ein Part der Türkei gehören
Middle eastern minorities trying not to start an insurgency with the goal of statehood challenge: impossible
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How else should they create a state without fighting and Oppressive Authoritarian regime
After the earthquake happened, I don't think Turkey will attack anymore. They have to focus on their economy after the huge losses they encountered
Turkey's Kurdish issue has a historical background. After the 1980 military coup, the use of the Kurdish language was restricted, and Kurdish cultural and political expressions were suppressed. Over the years, there have been some efforts to address the cultural and language rights of the Kurdish population, but challenges still persist.
Discussions concerning Kurdish identity, language, and rights are sensitive and can vary depending on different perspectives. In recent years, there have been some advancements, such as the introduction of limited Kurdish language broadcasts and an increase in political representation for Kurds. However, it is essential to keep in mind that this is an ongoing and complex issue, and further steps may be required to achieve a comprehensive resolution.
Your videos are always great but this one was amazing. So informative!!
Excellent video. So detailed and well researched. Well done Sir.
I really hope that one day there will be no borders where everyone is accepted and for all greed to die so we can work for the future of humanity no the future of a country but that is an impossible task no matter how you look at it
24:06 Gokceada and bozcaada is a Turkish island
Honestly thank you for this video I wouldnt of known ANYTHING about whats going on in Turkey without you
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@@adam.259 yoo
@@adam.259 Sg mal
@@pxndaa nerene girdi Erdoğan senin?😃
And you haven’t even heard of Turkey trying to undermine the Montreux Convention of the Bosphorus strait by building a Canal right next to it. (Technically giving way for the US into the Black sea).
What an excellent video. Thank you so much for the work you put into making your videos
Npc comment?
@@eliashelfer2740 Alwasy been.
NPC commenter spotted
literally 50% of the info that dude gave is wrong.
@@kaanozkuscu5079 no + cope
As a Turkish citizen, no. We are NOT preparing to invade Syria. In my country, even the goverment gives more advantage than us. Such liars.
BRO IF THIS VIDEO IS RELATED TO Türkiye, WHY IS THERE NO TURKISH SUBTITLES?