Why Turkey is Transforming Istanbul Into an Island
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I am from Turkey and i am learning why we are transforming Istanbul into a island from a foreign CZcams channel
@sülüman yes we all are
Love it how his son in law has already land where the new canal will be made... Corrupt politicians always do that, transfer money from foreign countries (e g . US paying them to get to Black sea) , into their own pockets.
I’m am too
Much love to turkey
Same here
EA: To get the full Black Sea experience you have to buy the Istanbul canal DLC
:d
@@mckone9 and extra regime tax for that
Only 999.9$
lmao this made my day
😂😂😂😂
As a representative of Turkish people, we don't want canal. Dictator Erdogan is oppressing us
When you said that Suez is 200km long, you counted the Red sea, which isn't artificial. The Suez is at least 2 times smaller (but still quite big)
Its 193.3km long, I guess he just rounded
THIS, is probably one of the most interesting channels I’ve EVER stumbled across!
I CAN’T go to SLEEP! 😂
Thank you.
Boats: Zzz this takes so long
Turkey: you want bosphorus premium subscription?
😂😂😂 best comment of the day
Skip add. 🤣
Lmaoooo
oh, you made ma day 🔥🙏 :D hehe
oh NO!!
"Using Istanbul canal is like using CZcams premium"
Comparison of the year.
yeah and noone uses it
Its more like a project to arabify the İstanbul and launder money.
Wait,why're u commenting on a non-chess vid?I only see u in chess vids of gothamchess,etc..
Worth it.
@@herrleser6337 I'm watching this video on CZcams Premium! No commercials and unlimited music is worth it. 👍
we appreciate the informative video about the Istanbul canal project. However, we noticed a few mistakes that we would like to point out. Firstly, the Suez Canal is not actually 200km long but is still quite significant. Secondly, we want to clarify that Istanbul is not the capital of Turkey, it's actually Ankara. Lastly, it's important to consider the potential environmental risks that could come with such a large-scale excavation project. Despite these points, we are grateful for the opportunity to learn more about Istanbul's future development plans. Thank you RealLifeLore!
They didn't actually say that it's the capital of Turkey, they said that it was capital of 3 great empires, the romans, byzantium and the ottoman empire.
They said that Istanbul was the capital of 3 great empires as in empires that existed before Turkey, not that it is the capital of Turkey. They also explained a lot about the potential detrimental effects of such a large scale excavation
I did a double take on his Suez measurement because the graphic didn't add up, but it was 162 km during creation and now 193 km. I'm more interested in why the Bosporus Straight has such significant traffic problems, it's massive. The Suez is tiny. Fun: You can see several submarines underwater on Google Earth near the mouth of the straight to the Black Sea
Fascinating. Thank you!
Once the canal is completely built, an evergreen ship will be stuck on the bosphorus thus everyone would have to go through the new canal. Chaching
lol
You need at least 3 Evergiven class ships side by side to block it even in the narrowest point.
Dont temp them.
Guys, this is a joke 🤣
Guys, this is a joke 🤣
Turkey: let's build a canal to avoid the city center.
also Turkey: Let's develop the area next to the canal to make a new city center.
Like ending the Uranus joke by changing its name to Urectum.
I thought it was obvious. They'd rather blow up new buildings that have no attraction for tourists than blow up the buildings that tourists want to come and see. The people that live there are of no concern.
Yeah but man instanbul is actually closer to 18 million years
@@sammyttheg412 wtf?
@@northofnashira2575 common people are always NPCs for governments
Very detailed well explained video thx. 1 addition, the damage of canal on the environment will be catastrophic too.
Environment, economy, culture, political agenda... this project has far too many risks if you ask me.
I'm pretty sure the second after you mentioned why nobody gets youtube premium the immediately hit me with an ad lol. Thanks for the great content!
"...was the capital of three great empires, the Romans, the Byzantines..."
*Two spidermen pointing at each other*
byzantine was a legacy of ancient greece. the romans were.... well, the romans.
@@dotmashrc The Byzantine Empire was literally the Eastern Roman Empire, not some ancient Greek remnant. 18th century academics didn’t like calling it the Roman Empire because it offended their enlightened sensibilities, so they made up the term Byzantine Empire. The people living there called themselves Roman and referred to the state as the Land of the Romans. Even long after the Ottomans conquered Constantinople, the area was referred to as the Rûm Millet or Roman Nation.
Not to mention they still had a Roman senate, the roman Ranks, institutions, education system etc
Calling eastern Roman empire as Byzantine empire is like calling France as Lutetian republic (France's capital Paris old name), and calling China as people republic of Fanyang (China's capital Beijing old name), thats sound ridiculous right ? just because some holy german confederation (HRE) claim themselves as romans when they really not, it doesnt erase the real history of eastern roman empire.
@@dotmashrc Romans were the legacy of Ancient Greece too.
"Guns are not allowed, so we only have missiles"
this so American lol
PSYCH! The missiles carry guns!
Turkey argued it, my God the silent genocide we don't talk about a 100 years ago, political corruption but a factional democracy, oil hungry, a failed political coup backed by foreign powers. It's like I never even left.
'Murca fuck yeah!
I love my country enough to know politicians are raping her 😭
@@GabrielHellborne Murcia
Great video, thank you.
I think it could work since wait times are really important in shipping bussiness. If the cargo gets to late the loss could be expenontial sometimes so people decide to give toll money instead of waiting.Although this needs to be measured like how long the wait will be,how much the loss will be and to make a profit how much you need to put toll money.
But again this is just a way Erdodan to get his pockets full. Neutrality is the most important thing in my opinion also transport over the bridges is just a nightmare for the citizens. So it comepletely expected to be both military and citizens oppose the idea.
Just to clarify: Istanbul is not the Capital Of Turkey, it's actually Ankara.
none of that is true its constantinople
@@rovari524 nova roma*
@@rovari524 *miklagard
@@rovari524 in the dreams of greeks
@@rovari524 nah bro ı am turkish and one one sayin istanbul to contantinapole its just to long and ıf you say consantinapole in street turkish peoples beat you up
Hearing that Istanbul's economy alone is larger than that of my country's, South Africa, makes me wanna cry.
If it'll make you feel better, most of turkish economy goes to corrupt government and citizens do not get profit from it. Rich people get richer while poor people get even more poor each day.
Turkey itself is rich compared to most other countries, but turkish people are not.
@@tilkilit thanks for the attempt to console me, but the same thing happens here in SA too. Politicians chiefly enriching themselves.
@@Siphamandla.Ngcobo Yeah i've heard of that most african countries have corrupt governments. We both suffer from the same things i guess lol
@@tilkilit for instance, the SA president fired the defence minister last week. This week, that same person is formally nominated as Parliament Speaker, by the same party the president heads. There are little to no repercussions for politicians being incompetent or corrupt in SA, so it seems.
@@Siphamandla.Ngcobo Do you think South Africa will balkanize along ethnic lines in the future? As an outsider, it sadly seems like a very unstable country with alot of ethnic tension.
Feeling a little lucky to have driven USS KAUFFMAN FFG-59 through in 1999. It was a little nerve racking with the amount of traffic; the 13 minute point is a good representation.
I laughed out loud at the assertion that cargo ships from Shanghai ever transit the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal to go to Rotterdam. Besides the excruciatingly slow speed of the Canal versus the Mediterranean, the maximum beam possible in the Canal is only 38 feet versus the typical cargo ship which is more than 100 feet wide - usually much more.
Yeah that was rather ridiculous and one of the many errors in this video.
@@NeovanGoth Yeah American cant do geography
Haha, same here. Makes me wonder what else is off the mark.
RLL is a fun channel, but I wouldn't cite him in school papers let's just say.
Indeed. The waves produced would also massively erode the river banks. Major civil engineering would be required.
Missiles are not technically guns has to be one of the greatest arguments ever used😂😂😂
well, if soviets havent be so damn agresive towards everyone, turkey woudnt have to argue such stupidity
Well Soviet’s rocking in the strait is another loophole they did lol
@@Lawrance_of_Albania well, if america didn't invade the soviet union, then invade majority of the countries in Europe, invade majority of Germany despite soviets being the liberator, subject europe through Marshall plan propaganda to eventually remove the large opinion of the Soviets as the primary liberator in the second world war, if the US didn't suppress the communist movements in turkey, soviet union wouldn't be aggressive and turkey wouldn't have someone as stupid as Erdogan and a situation where their lira is inflating, and usually that ends in a coup for turkey, LOL
@@Lawrance_of_Albania so we need to send our misles into mexico bay to stop damn american agression to everyone
@@user-cl7pm7zm3x It isnt even that i dislike russia, i live in orthtodox nation and russia is greatest protector of orthodoxy. But such a stupid move is what i call "shoting yourself in a foot"
That communist moron stalin pushed turkey in NATO, and thats faaar from his only mistake
A 100-year-old treaty that sucks? Let's make an island.
if the americans are payin for it
It doesn't make sense to mess with it. As an American, the only reason there should be American war ships in the Black Sea is if there's a war going on. If there's a war going on, does the treaty really matter?
If Americans again Not interfere-
@@Sheridantank I reckon there are no reasons for American war ships to be in the Black Sea even if there is a war there. It's halfway across the bloody world. But you know, how else are they supposed to provoke Russia?
@@milseq Honestly the Russians have a right to be angry if there are American war ships in the black sea. America likes to stick it's fingers in everyone else's pie.
I don't understand why you're telling Danube River is a major asset for trade.
The Danube is very big, but cargo container ships can't navigate on it... only few trade on the river with some small ships.
Barges move grain. Lot of wheat and sunflowers.
Agreed. I can see the canal connecting the Rhine and the Danube from my bedroom window. There are not a lot of big barges going up and down there. Maybe one medium-sized one every half hour. Not a lot in terms of global trade.
Lots of nonsense in this video. No major Russian ports (not even Murmansk) ever close due to ice, and most Russian oil exports by sea actually do go from the Baltic ports of Ust-Luga and Primorsk, not Novorossiysk.
It's 2023 now and i haven't seen any progress yet, and i drive all 3 highways a couple times a week.
I know you were just reporting the info you had at the time, so this isn't a complaint, just an update/observation.
Turkish goverment made so many promises for 2023 just to win the election again.
"Why Turkey is Transforming Istanbul Into an Island"
-So they can call it Islandbul
i hate this canal thing but if they do i will own 3 house in EU island.
🥁
that is so stupid but I fucking love it
that's Constantinople
@@suryamukherji4943 no it's islambul
At 8:50, the line that shows the size of the suez canal is wrong because the canal is only the upper part which was dug through the land and not the whole passage. I think the 200 km is right though but I'm not sure about that
"WE DON'T CARE"
@@fhc3240 I do and I'm sure some poeple care about receiving correct info
According to Wikipedia the Suez Canal is 193.3 km long. You are correct that the graphic incorrectly puts the Red Sea as part of the length of the Suez Canal. The Suez Canal is properly measured from its entrance at the northern tip of the Red Sea to its exit on the Mediterranean.
And the video does the same thing with the Istanbul canal. The beginning point in the south is a natural inlet, just like the Suez.
@@fhc3240 looks like people do actually care
9:12 look at the dolphins in front of the ship. racing :)
9:17 cute how those dolphins are playing in front of that gargantuan ship. it really gives a sense of scale
Looks like tons of tourists will go here because its an "island"
Lol
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@@GoinGreninja they're bot man
just report if you see any of these comment next time,i can guarantee you will find it a lot
And maybe future battlefield, again. I already see that travel companies ads:
Visit Istambul! Centre od culture and wars since Romans.
@@abiez4018 True. But the few times I've reported them, they didn't go away. Hopefully they go away after I report them now.
9:17 “upon arriving, ships have to usually wait an average of 14 hours”
Ports on western coast of North America: “Hold my beer”
It's like an Ever Given jam every single day here at LA/Long Beach
NOPE! Dolphins are like "hold my beer" - you have to, they have only flippers
I be nerding out with these vids sometimes
Turkey: Guns are not allowed.
US: okay but we have only missiles?
Turkey: okay you can pass.
🤣🤣
Just to clarify: No big cargo ship is able to travel through the Danube. Only a "barge" can travel on the Danube. We call them "Binnenschiffe" in german.
Exactly
Another correction is that the convention they talk about also affects the Dardanelles. So Turkey needs to build another canal there if it wants to bypass the Montreaux Convention.
@@ardagurbuz6924 but dardanelles only prevent the war ships part of the montreaux to be bypassed right. Turkey still can charge for the new canal?
@@muratakburakma Probably, yeah.
There's always a word for something in German
As a Turkish citizen, I always taught that Montreux needed to get renewed and modernized. It would have saved a lot of effort and cleaned up the problems of the strait. The canale idea itself is very cool but on paper has a lot more negatives than pozitives. Hopefully, the project will stop. And right now Istanbul and the Eagen coastlines are facing a sea pollution problem as well. Adding more waste to that won't be any smarter I reckon.
Ok both super powers were stupid in this case 😑. Both Broke turkeys s rules which was uncool. Nearly provoked a neutral nation which was uncool. And abused a potential Allies for Idiocracy
Don't worry since when president erdogan religion mindset ruined Turkish economy
I think they should address those water pollution and shortage issues before they think any further.
@@Borg231 I you listened well , they both did not broke any rules they subverted. As both did not sign UNCLOS for geographic reasons, self determination is a pretty word in diplomacy you see you can't force another to sign a largely voluntary treaty. As for the other Treaty it did not describe missile ships, I know both countries Turkey and US, you can include Russia as well if you want subscribe to a Roman law, of "what the law does not include it excludes".
I don’t think Montreux needed renewing. There would have to be a new convention to renegotiate the terms
totally educational! bravo!
The water bridge that literally separates Europe from Asia. This fact is mind boggling I live for this stuff. Who’s plan was it.
@@M3E92V8 South Korea didn't exist in 1915 and Euro became a currency in 1999/2002. The 1915 Çanakkale Bridge was built from 2017 to 2022. The 1915 in the name honours an Ottoman naval victory against the navies of the UK and France during WW I.
U S A
are you unaware of the ural mountains
russua also connects asia and europe
this canal has existed for like ever... back to before the byzantine empire
Turkey:
"In terms of money, we have no money."
They do but it's not enough in terms of their everything else
Turkish lira is only for 🚾 paper..
@@PROUD-COUNTRY would be funny joke if you weren’t from Greece, a country that almost destroyed the Euro during the 2008 finanical crisis because of Greek government being too inpatient to actually do things legitimately to use the Euro
@@stantorren4400 and h win of this ? Germany 👌
@@stantorren4400 His point still holds true
Turkey: “I don’t want to use this canal, I’m making my own”
China: I don’t want to use your canal, I’m making my own”
As a representative of Turkish people, we don't want canal. Dictator Erdogan is oppressing us
@@kebabseverim3364 lol to the west your a Turk , no one likes you !
Doesn’t matter if you pretend to be western or not.
@@mrwhitenoise376 ah yes keep living in your small world where everyone is Serbian Greek Romanian and Armenian
@@kebabseverim3364 dont mind these people they probably support pkk or feto orgnanisation. sorry to say that but there are so many people inside Turkey that dont want Turkeys success
@@mrwhitenoise376 I have good life and family. I don't need strangers like me lol n**i kid
WOW..... I knew only some information about the strait, but this is sick man, god damn...
With the construction of the canal, the Treaty of Montreux is not bypassed. Montreux also includes the Dardanelles Strait. It seems impossible to build a canal for Dardanelles.
“The Romans and the Byzantines” the Romans would like to have a word with you
LOL.
*The Eastern Romans would like a word with you
Justinian: "What is this you are talking about?"
@@nhandinh7404 IKR
they still live In Istanbul it was there idea
Sometimes in life you've just got to transform a city into an island
Cool 😎
Maybe they could do that with California
What Saudi Arabia did with Qatar lol
@@mjbowman2004 meh probably would make itself a country of its own later on
@@crowjan not yet. They have only hinted at it.
Please do an updated video.
Congratulations...regards from Athens Greece..
After all of this remember that Istanbul isn't even turkey's capital.
It was used to be the capital in the Golden Age of the Ottoman Empire, but never meant to be after that, especially in late 19th and early 20th centuries. As it was tactically useless since there was such little land protection left against European forces like Balkan countries.
Original: It was used to, but never meant to be. As it was tactically useless.
@@poyrazaliguner2554 what are you on about.
Tokyo belongs to France
@@44theshadow49 Given the whole sentence, I'm quite certain they meant "it used to be" (if this is the bit that threw you off). Not everyone on the Internet is a native English speaker.
@@Basauri48970 I'm more criticizing the assertion that Constantinople, one of the most historically significant cities in the past 2 millennia, lauded as "The City of the World's Desire," and was famously difficult to siege, is "tactically useless." Its so backwards I thought he was trolling, but the tone of the rest of his comment leads me to think he's serious.
9:17 - Dolphins abide by no conventions, they just swim wherever they feel like it!
Lol exactly
Good eye
maybe thats why in Red Alert 2 the Allies had military dolphins
Dolphin get freepass to any sea ...no patrol will stop them....
9:17 - dolphins oh yeah
As a Turk, on top of the comments made by my friends, Turkey has 3 bridges on the straits, not 4. In addition, Turkey has a bridge connecting Bursa and Gebze and a newly opened bridge in Çanakkale
Çanakkale is a strait as well, so 4
@@alpers.2123 olm istanbul boğazında 3 köprü var yaw
@@keremimamoglu9552 olm adam ileri görüşlü 4.yapar bunlar diye demiştir
I thought that 4th one showed in the video is Eurasian tunnel (location wise seems correct)
@@megujoestar 4. Kopruyu yab mak farz -fatih sultan mehmet
Companies will be very happy to use the new canal. Even now there are sometimes several day wait times to cross. Ship operators lose money sitting around. This new Canal will be very helpful for everyone.
As a resident in İstanbul, none of my neighbors want this project. Everyone thinks that turkey should focus on other problems such as unemployment and high inflation rates. This project is just a way to launder Erdogan and his friends' dirty money.
This should generate a lot of employment.
As a Turk all my friends and my familys frieds also disagree with it too.
@@leadharsh0616 No. That is a lie. They are building this to launder money. Also all the houses and properties near the canal are sold to Qataris.
Turk nationalist: BuT ThIS wIlL bOosT cOnStRuCtIoN sEctoR
Actually, with counter-cyclical fiscal policy, infrastructure projects are ideal for helping with unemployment
CZcamsrs: I want to monetize my channel!
Istanbul: I want to monetize my channel too!
🤣
google: just sign this agreement
UNCLOS: just sign this treaty
Nice
Great lesson teacher
They’re making a giant transmutation circle. Where’s Ed and Al when you need them!
13:38 Berat Albayrak is no longer minister of finance. He resigned at 9th november of 2020.
yeah he is missing
@@marlena7965 With all of the money he stole
@@trashposs3849 after all the help he did for his kayınpeder
Abi bu kanalı izleyen Türk buldum ya artık rahat ölebilirim
@@nitrogen1881 İzleyen var kardeşim ama biz bayrak atmıyoruz her yere :)
So, let's build a new canal to divert dangerous volatile cargo away from the heavily populated Istanbul center.
Also let's heavily populate the new canal's banks! 👌
Seems legit.
And cash
Yes, But! The Bosphorus is a natural waterway, you cant change its geography. With the new canal, you can take the necessary actions and preparations to avoid possible dangerous accidents as much as technologically possible. Not that I support but if this is the topic, the canal would be of course much safer. The Bosphorus is a difficult waterway to navigate with many big accidents in history. One recently, a ship crashing into a $25m historical mansion.
The actual goal was to make rich investors who bought land along the proposed canal richer.
@@maythesciencebewithyou Thats for sure one of the ideas. But cost of the project is basically much higher compared to the investors. I think there are few goals here;
- protecting bosphorus straight
- finding new investment areas in Istanbul
- global attraction
- political stand against Montro
- of course economical benefits
- increase power against black sea countries
I just got back and I can definitely say Istanbul was an eye full!
“We’re gonna build a canal to handle dangerous cargo, and then building housing and the worlds largest airport around it”
Genius move guys
Yeah, but think about this... almost *everyone* in the government will financially benefit from the canal, so they don't care lol
They do this because corrupts close to the government bought territory from the cannal İstanbul area when it was cheaper with hopes of government building the cannal.
The Airport is already built and is operating, just not 100%. And in case of a disaster such as an explosion it is less dramatic if newly build residental and commercial areas get destroyed rather than the historical and more inhabited city center.
maybe that argument means nothing, it's there just for public support
The land around the proposed canal belongs to Erdogan and his cronies. The canal isn't for transporting cargo, it's so that the future houses there have a canal that goes next to them, so they become worth more.
9:12 Happy Dolphins playing and jumping in front of a massive cargo ship.
Those are top secret Russian Anti-Submarine sweep and destroyer agents and they are not having fun, they are protecting the motherland!
thanks i didn't see them!
Thanks! You have perfected even your attention to detail.
Are you offended?
@@sarlaz3407 ayo man nice catch there
Thank you for the video. A number of people indicated quite a few errors. Let me add that the mosque at 0:38 is not an Ottoman Mosque, it is in Iran (Agha Bozorg Mosque). Also, the Montreux Convention applies to Dardanelles as well.
Can you make a video about the logistics of the Suez Canal
Turkey: Imma turn instanbul into an island.
Everyone: *you weren't supposed to do that.*
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in turkey we are trying to say that to Erduvan but he is not look like listening
@@arhanuzun7867 I confirm
Turks: you weren’t supposed to do that.
@@arhanuzun7867 I confirm
The Istanbul earthquake will definitely happen one day, when it happens, Turkey will go back at least 5 years. Most of the Turkish politicians still do nothing about it, and they still think the most important and priority issue of Istanbul is the making the canal.
Just consider, 15 million people live in Istanbul and most of the houses are very rotten.
And we already know what happened in the Izmir earthquake.
had to look it up... yeah that could happen again there.. and would be NOT good.
5 years is a very modest number to be honest. More like 15.
Many of the houses in that part of the world are old and masonry doesn’t have any steel reinforcement like rebar. I was around that area in the 1970s and remember seeing building being built where they put straw in the concrete, what’s with that?
@@afinoxi I said 'at least'
@@Chris_at_Home Even today, most of the houses built in Istanbul are still too weak for earthquakes around 6.1 - 8.2.
And keep in mind this, although only 4.5 million people lived in the earthquake in Izmir, the poor infrastructure of the earthquake left many people homeless.
Istanbul is gorgeous and a dazzling city indeed.
RealLifeLore: "wAtCh tHiS vIdEo aD fReE oN nEbUlA"
Me: "Haven't you heard of ad blockers?!"
As someone from Turkey that also lived in Istanbul for 15 years, I can say that basically no one supports this project anywhere in our country. Especially after the mucilage breakout in the Marmara Sea this year. I hope this problem gets more international recognition and can be canceled. We already have a lot of problems and many don't want to add ecological collapse of the Marmara Sea to that list.
Forget it. No one has even heard of it until now. And frankly from the reactions here, hardly anyone cares whether it gets built. If you want more attention, go stage a huge protest and show the world when people gets arrested and killed. That’s how you get attention
@@TheZachary86 You dont jack about turkey
@@TheZachary86 Erdoğan Controls The Media. The people that opposed Erdoğan's rule had made an march similar to salt March made in India with Ghandi, but even bigger, no one cared or heard about it. Even me living in Turkey didn't even hear it and learned about it years later after it happened.
Edit: Sorry not weeks, YEARS.
protest and make everyone aware
@@raptorfromthe6ix833 We are already doing that. Nobody cares or even knows about it because Erdoğan Controls The Media, like the Bosporus University Events. Wich all the students were suddenly called "Terrorists" because the media under Erdoğan said so.
The canal isn't the point of this project. Making money for construction companies is the whole point of this project. I wouldn't be at all surprised if in ten years there are several bridges to nowhere but no canal.
So having a canal is just a plus?
I do not know that much, but i heard that it is an old dream for the turks, and it is finally getting done 🤷♂️
@@Mr-Money01
It would be a plus, but not us. Not to regular citizens.
This and all other "Build-operate-transfer
" projects made under AKP government have been primarily about shoveling public money into few private companies (all Erdoğan's allies). No project made in this arrangement provides any profit to the public coffers, on the contrary, they get payments each and every month from the treasury.
One example to this is the Avrasya Tunnel connecting two sides of İstanbul from the south. It's a good tunnel except it costs too much to use and costs way way more if we don't use it. Because the deal is there needs to be certain quota met each month and treasury covers the difference if that quota is not met. Since its opening in 2016, that quota of use was met only one month. That's it. And this is one of the better projects made under this arrangement, there are far worse ones out there.
@@Mr-Money01The idea is that it is the reason used to convince and gather majority support for the expensive project. The construction companies and real estate owners will likely be the first to benefit and made loads of money from whether or not it is actually completed.
@مالك القطيف Having $25.000 per capita was the dream for the Turks yet here we are, wasting money on useless projects instead of helping the 24 million people living in poverty in our country.
13:11 “It’s sort of like how people feel about using CZcams Premium.” Your well placed bon mot just killed me!
"and they'd like to go for the 100% achievement" lololol too true
did anyone notice he dolphins swimming in front of the cruising cargo ship ? 9:18 So Beautiful
That is why we dont want Canal İstanbul. It can destroy the whole İstanbul's ecosystem
Pasha? Where do you govern?
@@dorukstar7377 sometimes, these dolphins, whales get hit and severely injured by large ships. Thats so sad.
@@dorukstar7377 so true
@@TuAFFalcon I'm from India
When a piece of paper is stronger then metric tons of rock and dirt xD
It s not the paper, it s tens of armies of tens of nations. They re trying to outwit and bullshit each other. The paper is but a small but critical component of that.
Rock, scissors, Montreux Convention
@Russ Makhauri I choose rock!
@@user-fi4wn3te8v ROCK IS SUPERIOR
@@Bikavin not to paper gentlemen
What is air travel is replaced by hyper loop or some other technology in near future?
There's only very little traffic on the canal between Rhine and Danube. It's also way too small for ocean going ships.
6:53 I like all the "stan" being salty and not signing an agreement about the sea, even Bolivia and Paraguay signed it.
Well Pakistan and Afghanistan signed it so that's a lot of cap
They don't want to divide the Caspian lol. That's their only way to world trade through Russia's canal.
@@isaa7010 ya cause they aren’t touching the sea but ya that’s it’s cap 🧢 that all the stans aren’t agreeing to it
Reallifelore: Doesn't have a sponsor that is dashlane, skillshare, squarespace or curiosity stream
Everyone: *Impossible*
my lord is that legal?
its POSSIBLE
OMG ITS CAN'T BE POSIBBEL
*skillshare*
@@hazelich9113 Oh yeah, I will correct it
I love youtube premium and have been a loyal and happy customer for nearly 5 years now. being able to play youtube videos while my phone screen if off is invaluable and I cannot stand ads. The only time my sub has lapsed was when my card expired.
Having residential developments alongside the canal works as a human shield. A plot to sabotage the canal might develop leaks if large numbers of lives might be lost.
"Minister of finance"
*Looks at the crumbling economy*
Economy is in crisis everywhere. Ever heard of Corona? At least Turkey is going its own way despite the sanctions and economic warfare of the west. Albayrak did a lot of good after his predecessor by actually tackling inflation which spiked shortly before he took office.
@@minzblatt are you erdogans secret agent
Reverse stonks
@@nicholasthuya7683 Probably one of his countless sheep
@@nicholasthuya7683 Erdoğan is turkey's second greatest leader after Atatürk
"Did you receive a profit from the canal?"
"Yes"
"What did it cost?"
"Global conflict at our doorstep"
To be fair they Joined Nato but flit with Russia so neutrally is really no longer an option.
@@GreenBlueWalkthrough peace was never an option
@@GreenBlueWalkthrough I am Russian and I think Russia needs to be destroyed
@@Redaft then you're not Russian. No wise person set's fire to their home because they want to feel warm
@@whosasking9655 by “Russian” I mean I was born in Russia and live in Russia rn. This country is garbage and I want to destroy it so much because of government, people, nation mentality and some much more.
9:16 best part of the video (Dolphin's swimming in front of the massive cargo ship.
9:17 you can see a dolphin swimming in front of the ship
RLL: talks about Turkey digging canals
me: aww that dolphin on 9:12
Aww the bullies of the sea that only reproduce through rape. Ever saw a dolphin teeth?
I know someone here to say this, ues I know about it use quillfish as viagra or something, just, ha, they have to lead the ship
Aww, such a cute dolphin. 😊
the dolphin:
omg there's a giant ship following me help it's too fast i will get killed
@@Morningstar_37 they re racing with ship :)
Romans and Byzantines were one and the same. They never called themselves the Byzantine Empire, historians called them that to differentiate between the ERE before and after the fall of the West.
@@maniaces not all byzantines were greek but they were greek speaking romans. They still considered their empire the roman empire. Only it was eastern and western
They mostly spoke greek but latin was a second language. The eastern roman empire had conquered most of the old western roman areas at one point just to regain lost roman land. They viewed themselves as romans with greek characteristics just like the egyptians viewed themselves as romans with a egyptian characteristics. The same could be said of The rest of the old roman empirical areas with their own identities.
Byzance était un petit faubourg de Constantinople.
@@pmparda some kings were Latins but Byzantine is a Greek empire.
@@maniaces The “Greeks” considered themselves Romans up until the Greek Independence Movement revived the terms “Hellene”, “Hellas”, “Hellenic”, etc. Actually, they considered themselves as Rhomanoi for about a generation thereafter, because the poorest areas were contacted last.
I'm still not fully awake but i swear i've heard "Go to hell fresh" in the intro ad
Good info
Me, learning that Europe is cut in half by two connected rivers:
My world view: 🤯
They are not naturally connected, they are connected by a canal
So a half of Europe is an island?
Rhine-Main-Danube Canal flows through Nuremberg, where I live. Actually, it's approximately 5 minutes away from my home. I go there for a run multiple times a week, feels special every time.
@@roiq5263 no, Europe is still connected to Asia via Russia. Also a continent isn't an island, otherwise North and South America would be an island. And Australia isn't classed as an island because it's classed as a continent.
@@roiq5263 my thoughts exactly
Wow a dolphin is having good time in front of the ship. 9:16
It is a dolphin
I don't think that's good. Boats are dangerous, if they blow their horn it will likely cause permanent damage to... well everything.
@@setysssty1845 Yes
actually they use wave forces from the ship to swim and having kind of fun
@@user-wu4rk1ls6x PETA: Nooooooo that ship is trying to crush those dolphins! Someone save them!
Dolphins: Haha wake surfing go brrrrrrr
The information given at 2.40 time stamp that shippes from asia are passing Bosphorus and are traveling via Danube inland is not true. It maybe technically possible to transload containers from ocean vessel at Black see to river vessels on Danube, it is definitely not the case that the ocean vessel would sail into and through the Danube inland waterway. Also the transload of containers onto the river is very low volume. If container is reaching a port in anywhere in Europe, it likely goes by rail further to final destination.
But otherwise its very good educative video!!
Istanbul..a beautiful City...biblical and historial..the Bhosphorous River..so beautiful
I was there..in Ephesus...
"Its like CZcams premium, but nobody buys it" so true
You can bet your sweet ass that the US would pay to put subs next to Putin's South Beach residence.
I do :(
I bought it
As soon as he said that I got an ad
@@riverrat777 damn...
This sounds stupid. Instead of negotiating the terms of a UN treaty to find a solution everyone is happy with, turkey is needlessly wasting resources building a redundant canal
We live with these bullshits every day, news or projects doesnt make sense
aside from the UN being useless. you have 5 countries that can veto any resolution the UN makes up. And if you have watched the video 3 off the ones that can veto have an interest in it.
You need the vote of the five security council I don't know about the other but Russia will never accept
It is. The reason they want to do this project is not because they care about the public.
The reasons why the government wanted this project:
1- Being richer by building the canal and the city around it. That is corruption,
2-Vanity,
3-In addition, the man at the head of the government sees himself as the sultan. He probably has something like a god complex.
Such a channel is completely meaningless when there is a natural strait next to it. The Suez Canal saves ships from circumnavigating the African continent, which is about 10 days less travel. Kanal Istanbul does not have such a function because there is a natural strait right next to it. They say that Kanal Istanbul will reduce the ship traffic in the Bosphorus, but the ship traffic in the Bosphorus has been decreasing since 2008. This is because larger ships are being built. Apart from that, they claim that with the construction of the canal, the danger in the strait will decrease. Because a ship had hit a mansion before. However, there is a problem here: They will build cities on both sides of Canal Istanbul. Moreover, the widest part of Kanal Istanbul is narrower than the narrowest part of the channel, the deepest part of Kanal Istanbul is shallower than the shallowest part of the Bosphorus, and Kanal Istanbul is longer than the Bosphorus. Other arguments are that Kanal Istanbul will increase revenue. They talk as if the ships passing through the strait don't pay. This is not true. Every ship that passes through the strait pays. If this money was to be raised, they would have to resort to international laws for this. However, they do not have the political power to do this, and that is not their main purpose.
In short, the government knows that all this is not true. But like any dictator, they want to continue to rule. For this, they need to please interest groups (those who commit corruption and much more).
@@gareaap7806 VETO only work on Security Council, normal general assembly didn't have VETO and there are tons of agreement passed GA every year if they really want to. So It just about didn't want to do the paperwork.
Im Turkish, first of all thanks for spending time and creating this video , and if anyone wondering what is this canal about watch 15 seconds from 13:30 this tells the whole story . A selfish project that even lead Turkey to war
Yup
I lived near the danube my whole Life (i only lived for 2 years away from the danube) and i never Seen Like a Transport ship
Basically Reason: To sell Arabs more land, coastsides. To make companies' ships trade faster in same amount of time, with that they gain more and there's a reason to pay to acces it. Also Turkey loves buildings, if that happens there would be several bridge thus consruction companies profit
It's just to get more money. It won't even start i don't think.
@@unknownv1065 construction already started.
@@fightsports66 n o pee
@@unknownv1065 I checked and you are right. The foundation for the first bridge is set to start work in the last week of june. That is next week so it has not started as of today.
@@unknownv1065 we show the CHP how things are being done for the last 20 years. They only moan and complain until they themselves are using the facilities and projects like every bosporus bridge built until this day, the two big airports, the intercontinental subway marmaray and much more.
1:21
Oh boy, that map is going to make a lot of people angry.
At least it's accurate;)
@@benmm01 map is wrong actually
Idk what's wrong. Is it because of Kosovo?
@@olexander13 I meant the Crimea part is accurate. I wasn't paying attention to the other parts)
Cyprus?
Thank you. Perfect video
I've now watched a few of your videos, and whilst they've all been very interesting, I do wonder where you get your information from?
Alongside some critique of your facts from other viewers, I find myself doubting how one person can produce so many in depth videos, whilst fully researching the content fact.
Perhaps, as well as promoting your sponsors at the beginning and end of each video, you could cite where you've obtained your information. That would only serve you well, I feel and also encourage more viewers, if they can actually find reference that what you say is actually true.
But please do carry on posting your videos, as I do find them interesting. As I've said though, its be good to also know where you get your facts, seeing as several have been disputed by other viewers.
With a little more authenticity, I'd most certainly subscribe to your channel. As it is, I'm an interested sceptic, but keep up the good work, just improve it.👍
I'm sure you know better than a channel with 6.4 million subscribers lol
0:32
Ah, yes:
Rome, Rome 2, and Ottoman Rome.
My favourite ancient Empires.
You mean Latin Rome, Greek Rome and Turkish Rome? :)
@@truegamer_007 that also works
First Rome - Pagan
2nd Rome - Christian
3rd Rome - Muslim
Yeah i totally agree, Ottoman is the Third Roma.
@@elemparador Considering that the contest Is between them and the Russian Empire(yes, the russians claimed to be the third Roman Empire), It Is not an hard choice 😂
The main reason is provide a profit for upper class people who are close to current gov half of the lands already bought from peasants for cheaper price before the announcement.. coincidence??
Happens everywhere
May I ask why did u choose saddam hussein as your name?
Of course they’re going to use cheap land to build it. Why would you pay extra when you don’t need to?
@@uhohhotdog cheap land has been bought by individuals, not by the state (yet).
I'm almost starting to believe that's what they are trying to do in California. Make everyone leave and grab the land for cheaper later.
absolutly amazing how you built in the advertisment in the video. this is truely storytelling.
When I was sailing there we always had a 3 day BBQ because we always had to wait. Our route was Italy, Greece, Turkey, Ukraine Georgia and Russia etc.
"Greece claims Istanbul under its EEZ"
"Turkish officials bamboozled"
Highly possible
nice idea lol, wait till i tell this to lord kulis
Honestly that ,Eastern Thrace and the rest of Cyprus are all we want back.
@@yanniskarageorgiou3573 lmao eastern thrace and istanbul combined have more than 2 times greek population, and a bigger economy
@@yanniskarageorgiou3573 there was coup happened in cyprus
greek military junta took over cyprus and turkey invaded cyprus to defend his citizens
why you guys want cyprus back when it has peace right now