Turkey: The Clever Man in the Middle
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Simon could get hair plugs like Elon Musk
I love how Keeps is sponsoring a video about Turkey
I love how keeps is sponsoring a bald man lol
Someone tell Simon kow-tow rhymes with ow as in ouch.
I'll be going there in a few weeks. This was kinda neat to find popping up given that.
An Irish man here living in Türkiye for more than 20 years. I'm not even going to comment because whatever I say will either be loved or lambasted depending on what side you're on. I will say something non political. My Turkish friends and neighbors are wonderful, warm and friendly people who are always helpful, try to feed you five times more great Turkish food than you could possibly eat, supply you with the best Turkish wine and ice cold Turkish beer or the famous raki if fish is on the menu ! You don't need to leave to go on holiday, you can ski, swim in the cobalt blue Mediterranean and Aegean, or Marmara and Black Sea if you like it cold. You can go mountaineering and trekking in the beautiful Taurus mountains, you can go back to the age of no cars by taking the ferry to the beautiful Prince Islands, you can scuba dive around coral reefs in the south or pop over to the Greek islands like Samos, or hop over the border to Georgia for a nice weekend. In İstanbul we can have breakfast in Europe, go to Asia for lunch and be back in Europe in time for dinner! You don't have to worry about the fasting month because most of the restaurants and all of the bars are open. The sun shines most of the time and you are surrounded by amazing history from Ottomans, Romans, Greeks and back to the dawn of civilization with sites like Göbekli and Karahan Tepe. The big problem if you're not earning €, £ or $, is the very high inflation. It's slowly getting under control but it's still very bad. Soon after I came to Turkey there was a new Turkish Lire, it was tl1.45 to $1. Now, it's 32tl to the $. This makes living difficult for the people at the bottom of the financial ladder.
Why do you live in Turkey
@@user-qx3mq7ff5c Why not ?😊 I traveled the world a lot over the years, more than 40 countries but Türkiye is the place I fell in love with and Istanbul immediately got my heart. A crazy but amazing city. I also happen to be married to a Turkish lady who also got my heart !!. 😊
@@brianmsahin 🤣🤣 I did not mean anything negatif. I Just wanted to learn the reason thanks
@@user-qx3mq7ff5c I understood . I was just joking 😂😂
@brianmsahin he says he is married to a Turkish lady....she is Turkish in body only.......In Turkish culture women are absolutely not allowed to marry non-turks.....up until 40 years ago her parents wouldn't be accepted in the community if they let their daughter marry him.....Turkey has been under attack for the past 70 years..... foreign powers control the educational system and all of the media......they have systematically stripped the Turkish people of their culture........now the new generation are either westerners walking around in Turkish bodies or Islamic Arab minded islamisists.......both conditions are by design.......and finally the """irishman""" who won't tell you what he does in Turkey.....no matter what he does on the surface, the probability is very high that he in some capacity serves foreign intelligence usually by way of NGO's......
And finally finally,, the author of this video at the very least has an agenda but more likely he is psych warfare agent. ....Once he told you that Turkey is 20 percent!!!!!! Kurdush.....he pretty much ousted himself!!!
I came to Türkiye 2 years ago as a Dutchmen, The Netherlands or Hollanda as some may know and I'll tell you 1 thing. I will never ever leave this country anymore. Friendliest people in the world. When you move to a new house, your new neighbour brings you food to welcome you. After eating at a restaurant you can stay as long as you like and get free tea after eating for the whole night. Anyone will offer to pay for your food when you go out to eat together. If you need to go to the airport your friends will offer you a 2 or 3 hour drive without any hesitation and nobody wants anything in return. Everyone is polite. People stand up in public transport for elder people or pregnant women. Everyone talks to eachother calling names like father, uncle, aunt, brother, which gives the feeling like this is 1 big 80 million people big family living together in peace and with laughter. The culture is what makes me addicted to Türkiye. Türk insanları, sıcaksınız, tiryakinim size ❤. Next to that the country has everything: You can go to the beach or rent a boat if you like hot weather. You can go skiing or snowboarding in the mountains if you like winter sport. You can go swim at waterfalls or go hiking in the mountains with wild çakals, wolfs, foxes, bears and all kind of cool animals if you like the outdoors. You can go old traditional bars with traditional music and Rakı if you like this. You can go to modern discotecs if you like to party and drink cocktails and beer like in the west. You can live here following any religion and if you are a good person, the people will be good to you. Almost all people here marry 1 time and stay together forever, way better then the divorce rates in the west. I truelly with all my heart love this country, it's history and it's people. Every country has it's flaws and so does Turkey, but for me it's absolutely the #1 place to be. Ne mutlu Türküm diyene... i hope to say one day when i get my passport ❤❤❤🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🐺🐺🐺
Merak ettim Hangi ülkedensiniZ?
@@ismailkaraduman1611 Hollandalıyım kardeşim
@@bennetdebakker9766 Gaziantepliyim ülkeme gelirsen seni misafir etmek isterim
@@bennetdebakker9766 ülkem için çok hoş düşüncelerin var teşekkürler
@@ismailkaraduman1611 Teşekkür ederim kardeşim. Birkaç hafta önce Antep gittim. Katmer on numera 😁😁
"There are no permanent enemies, and no permanent friends, only permanent interests."
Well said!
Poetry
Literally heard this quote yesterday in another video. Spot on!
By Prime Minister Palmerston.
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Love Türkiye 🇹🇷 from Ireland 🇮🇪
Thank you ❤we love Ireland as well
Fine people with great history and great food
Fix your nation or you wont have one.
And we love Eire!!!! Best wishes from a Turk in Germany
Mass migration is killing your country wake up
Love u too proudly ırish mates
You have to realize Fethullah Gulen movement is fully supported by the CIA since 1965. You can even do a program about the CIA's Islamist green belt anti-Soviet plan during the Cold War through south west Asia. Placing him in Pennsylvania even caused some friction between the latter and the FBI in 1999.
Guzel cevap Murat bey.
Excellent “advice”.
Waiting for your response Simon :)
yeah, i mean he is amongst the most famous members (?) of the so called gladio. i don't know about the frictions and stuff though.
Just like created extremist Islamic terrorism (maybe got the idea from Crusades ) or supported Islamic extremism such as Taliban and CIA agent Osama.
so cia ask erdoğan to put, gullen's men in the turkish judicial system, turkish army, turkish government offices. after the feto coup event, the last 10 years was, we heard xx many gulen's men taken from xx government office and sent to the jail, i didnt know erdoğan listen to cia and put all of those men in the government places.. dostum sen ancak amerikalıları avrupalıları kandırırsın siz şu kelimenin anlamını siyasetçiler güzelim memleketi yakıp yıkmadan öğrenemeyeceksiniz LİYAKAT
A important note on Gulen, who is for some unfathomable reason presented here as some random scholar who's been used as a sacrifical lamb.
Cults in Turkey are not recent. There have always been cults of personality donning religious looks both in Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic. Gulen organization is no different. They opened cheap dormitories for students only to force said students into religious practices modified by *their* impretation of Islam.
They had their alternatives for Islamic teaching (which normally would be carried out at Mosques under Government supervision) which quite literally used brainwashing tecniques on children and teens to garner support.
They were highly organized, to an extent they had an actual effect on politics, hence the reason many politicians ties with said cult.
They existed before Erdogan.
America nor any other country would give 2 nickels about some random scholar. He is not innocent at all. Even without the coup attempt, their organisation is responsible for ruining many lives.
Bullshit, the coup was instigated by erdogan who was getting annoyed by Gülen. I was participating in one of those Study groups way before the coup and I left them a little before the coupetoo and we where tought only good things and the traditional values of Islam no modified bullshit, education allways was number 1 in those Circels and they tought us independence and how to live with discipline.Erdogan on the other hand is allways talking about religion and is making the people dumber and more stupid, Education in Turkey is being driven against a massive brickwall, TRT and other State TV Channels are spewing Propaganda 24/7 and even their TV Shows are full with deulsion, a la the turkish goverment is under terrorist attack everyone is against us we need to liberate Turkey against the whole World, every Year there is a new version of said TV show. And then there are the News, 24/7 Israel reporting to distract the people from the falling Lira and whole other shit that is going on in that shithole of a country. Who believes that Gülen was the instigator is badly manipulated by Erdogan. The Democratic State of Turkey is fucked, just recently a Woman was sentenced to 9 month in jail for saying "fuck the Sharia", its her oppinion and she has to go to jail for saying something we are all thinking.
They have no clue of whats actually going on here, they just read whats given to them 😅
he is talking abut coup attempt and role of Gulen in it. There is no evidence that Gulen orchestrated the coup.
@@sehzadelee it's common knowledge on how the Gulen Cult recruits and uses it's followers. They recruit the brightest minds at a young age and indoctrinate them with falsehood, and loyalty to the leader, and it's regional luitenants. It's a pyramid scheme, and a power hungry organization. Aside from that as @kronosfobi mentioned, cults and covert groups within Turkey are nothing new. From extreme leftist to extreme right, to denominations of Islamic groups and non Islamic cults all seek a foothold in Turkey. It has been a hotbed for CIA, MI6, KGB and MOSSAD activities for yearsssss
@@sehzadelee He mentions Gulen as some random dude living in USA *protected* against Turkey's unreasonable demands.
Which is not true. Even if Gulen had absolutely 0 involvement in the coup attempt, he still belongs behind bars for other crimes.
“Shhhh babe, Simon just dropped another video”
Got my parents hooked on your CZcams channel and it’s slowly breaking their 24 hr network News addiction. Thank you for your hard work, Simon.
Good on you man. 24 news is soulless. Division is profitable
They will be so better informed with fact base neural info
Just keep them off Brain Blaze until they are 6-9 months in😂
this comment is undeniably cute.
And so the Simonverse spreads
Whole lot of information in this video is wrong/misleading tho dude. I'm from Turkey.
Mustafa kemal did not took the surname "ataturk". it was given to him by the people of the republic.
Yeah right... 😆 Every tyrant comes up with stories full of roses like this for next generations.
@@WolfyGamerPro are you speeking about your father? i think you are
@@WolfyGamerPro he really didn't took that name himself. You can say his "glazers" gave it to him.
@@WolfyGamerProJust to know, do you have any mental illness?
@WolfyGamerPro well during that time he would be the sultan if he wanted we were so ready for that but he brought democracy and crated new political parties he was a unique man
The term "deep state" actually comes from Turkey, when in 1996, a car crash in Susurluk, Turkey, revealed something strange about the passengers: what were a police chief, a member of parliament, a beauty queen, and the leading drug-trafficking contract killer in Turkey (Grey Wolves member Abdullah Catli), doing together in that car?
Thus Turkish political analysts had to offer up the explanation to the public, that there exists a "deeper state" than the public one.
I am not surprised discovering all 4 in that car because in every country including in the USA also occurs. Even some movies are made about that type of underworld leaders and head of the workers union or an MP working together for the government or for personal gains.
I've been to Turkey many times. Beautiful country with friendly people
Turkey is literally my favorite. They know how to play the game, and Turkey isn't just the US's good little boy like the other NATO members
You like a country that has committed genocide against several groups?
Kasap
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"Turkey chooses Turkey". Truer words have never been spoken. Strong allies go down together. Turkey is not interested in going down. It was a sore lesson learned during WWI. Certain groups in the then parliament were in cahoots with Germans and they dragged an already sick empire into a devastating world war. A mistake that was not repeated during WWII. Ankara's distance to and diplomacy with both the allied and axis powers kept Turkey "the only country where the lights remain on". When it comes to international politics, friendship means mutual benefit. Nothing more, nothing less. That is a blurred line that constantly shifts this way or that. What's more important is the solid bridges between nations and peoples. As long as the foundation is strong, offenses can be forgiven although maybe not forgotten. We still remember the TCG Muavenet Warship that was "accidentally" hit by 4 cruise missiles lauched from USS Saratoga during a "friendly exercise". It was a betrayal from an ally and a clear punishment from Washington to Ankara for refusing to obey their commands. Such 'strong arm' politics have often been favored by DC when dealing with Ankara and it's a HUGE error in judgment. Turks historically don't respond well to threats and insults. You can keep them in check by force for a while but not for long. That should have been abundantly clear, as many NATO/UN commanders could testify. Such 'cowboy politics' puts a bigger wedge between the two nations than anything Erdogan could conjure up in his wildest dreams. From the Turks' perspective, it's ALWAYS Washington acting childish, greedy and aggressive. And oddly enough, it may well be. Because even with the power imbalance between the two countries, the US seems to recognize Turkey as a 'legitimate threat' to her 'global authority and interests', as is indicated by the hostility of Washington and the repeated 'political analysis' from various think-tanks portraying Turkey among the "potential rivals of the US in the 21st century". Claiming that it's all Erdogan being a dictator while Washington's hands are squeeky clean would be a naive belief. Believe you me, like her adopted predecessor Rome, the US too is anything but innocent when it comes to foreign politics.
Cowardice, you're describing cowardice
@@biofoot7874this is way TURKS are still Strong and Powerful
@@islammehmeov2334strong and powerful? You guys have a literal "strongman" dictator who apparently isn't strong enough to take an insult or criticism without throwing that person in prison lmao. I've spoken to plenty of Turks who hate his regime and are literally scared to live there. You also cater to Islamic extremists while slaughtering the Kurds who simply want a place to exist after being repeatedly persecuted by you and your neighbors. Not only that, You STILL deny the Armenian genocide.
By playing both sides you have no true allies and only hold the strategic power you do have due to worming your way into the organizations (or being lucky enough to join early before it was as powerful as it is today) that run the world and by extension the politics of the strongest countries on earth.
Do you see any other country besides yours and Hungary in NATO exploiting it's rules for personal gain to the detriment of all the other member states and their generally unified foreign policies?? No.
No one in NATO would miss Turkey or Hungary under their current leadership and if either faced true military danger then I doubt the list of countries willing to help would be long. Your military may look adequate on paper but it has next to zero practical experience and has failed to eliminate your Kurd problem. I say this despite the multiple comments I've seen claiming Turkey has the 2nd strongest military in NATO and I have to say that is absolutely not true. That spot would still belong to the UK, France, Poland, Finland, Sweden, eventually Ukraine etc.
So we got an undeserved sense of pride, obsession with being "strong", believing you're smarter because your leader plays both sides, and an inflated ego regarding your military. Yep, that definitely sounds like Erdogan has passed on his characteristics to some of his people lol
Do yourself a favor and free all of your countrymen who are now political prisoners under Erdogan in your country and remove that old pathetic idiot dictator of yours before you (via civil war) or another country has to do it for you down the road. A dictator with Erdogans characteristics AND the regime he built (that will still exist past his death unless something changes) never ends well for the country or people they rule.
Frankly, I'd rather have Kurd in NATO any day of the week. Amazing fighters with a proven record, good sense of community and equality, welcoming to outsiders, knows how it feels to be persecuted relentlessly yet preserves, destroys Islamic extremists. Better qualities than Hungary and Turkey right now combined tbh
There is no power in Anatolia that has endured balancing between West and East, the time will come for Turkey's fall and it will be sufferable as it will bring both the West and the East to squeeze it, for it is in neither's interests to have a strong middle power who would play them one against the other. This has been the rule of history in Anatolia, whether it was the Ottomans (Entente powers from the West in the form of French and British troops and the East by Russian troops) Byzantium (attacked by Venice's Catholics from the West and the Seljuks from the East), the Armenians (Romans from the West and Persians from the East) or the Hittites (Greeks from the West and Persians from the East). Unfortunately, there comes a limit as to how long the West and the East would tolerate an Anatolian power's ''both-side'' playing game.
I’d rather have Washington control TR in anyway it can, cause they always tend to bite more of what they can actually chew….
As a proud Armenian Turk I’m glad to hear that you don’t pamper or praise my country. The last country you praised (Ukraine) went in to hell. If you’re attacking us that means we’re doing something right.😘
Your obsession with Hamas shows who owns this channel.
Müslümanlar Kardeştir❤ kardeşim
Armenian Turk 👀 oh
Lol what? Covering a terrorist organization causing so much suffering is not an "obsessions". Maybe get your religious bias in check
There are at least 100.000 Armenian Turks living in Turkiye. If you new a little bit about Turkish history you would know our people follow the remnants of many empires without the limit of race or religion.
For the other guy obsessed with Hamas down there @blink182bfsftw. Turkiye have way more important subjects than Hamas to talk and worry about…
@@barisbeyduz9417 is that why your president taking so much aboutHamas? Seems legit
Correction: The US put nuclear missiles in Turkey before the USSR tried to put them in Cuba. I know this isn't the way it's taught, but hey the victors get to write history :) It's all public record though.
I stopped watching at 9:11. I realized that he had no knowledge about Türkiye and its realities. He shot the video with the PKK members he surrounded himself with. Kurds gained the greatest rights during the Tayyip period. Tayyip is not against the Kurds. Comments made by those who do not understand this detail have no value.
It proves the maker of the video has no clue about Turkish history or politics. He does not know Kurds even couldn't speak their own language, sing in their own language, have Kurdish festivals or express their culture. It all have started with Erdogan. It proves, he doesn't have any knowledge about the past and Erdogan.
they are making this kind of videos for money ..and the result is to manipulate people with their agenda..
@@narniadanThat is a certified lie,come to Konak/İzmir. Kurds gather,sing and dance together. What doesnt benefit you is the time they gather to support PKK/YPG and our forces stop them to do so. So shut the f up.
@@narniadanLiar liar pants on fire.
The famous western minded economy minister Mehmet Şimşek is kurdish origin. There are lots of kurdish origin bureaucrats in AKP goverment. Whole pkk propaganda about kurds being opressed is just cia psyop
Turkish Airlines is one of the best in the world in my experience and many people I know who have used them.
He hates everything turkish, he is a butthurt Europea, ignore him
He's just against everything that has the word Turk in it.
Yep, didn't get this one neither, it is one of the best company in the world..
Worst airlines, truth be told.
@@YeahNoTellTheTruth Yeah, worst airlines but somehow it is always in Top 10 and getting international awards.
Ataturk didn’t name himself, it was the people who named him Ataturk
I don't think so. He was a tyrant of the worst kind.
@@almazchati4178 man states fact, almazchati4178: nuh uh
@@Darth_Potato_ The fact is he was named as such by the parliament he appointed.
@@almazchati4178 says an radical Islamist I assume. Turkey is the most successful Muslim nation, even tho Turkey has no natural resources whatsoever. If it wasn’t for him, the traitor arabs would have caused the downfall of the Turks for good. Now stfu or learn a thing or two before saying anything on the matter
@@almazchati4178 Stop spreading misinformation here.
I’ve been wondering how long it would be before this video came along. As a viewer of this channel since day one, I’ve noticed one name consistently coming up in nearly every video produced: Turkey. If it’s an episode to do with North or East Africa, the Middle East, Southern or Eastern Europe, the EU or NATO, and even the Far East from as far away as China, Turkey plays a role in all of it. Be it diplomatic, military, or foreign investment, Turkey as a nation has vested interest in everything that goes on anywhere in the world. More so than any other single nation, save for the US, Turkey is bound to play some role in the political games of other nations. And to be honest, it’s kind of a scary thought. But considering I’m an American, it’s also laughably ironic just saying that.
Kudos to Simon and the team for another amazing video!
Being in Tukrey's position is so frustrating. Even as a citizen, everything goes over the world affects our daily life in some way or another. We have a popular saying about it 'Afrika'da iki kabile bile savaşsa, mızrak bize giriyor'. The closest translation I could do is 'even if two tribes in Africa fought against eachother, a spear finds it way to our ass'.
@@ensdogukan dsfgbnbmö ben hiç duymadım ama güzelmiş xd
I mean the Turks as a nation are only having their fair share of "stagnation" for 200 years, before that, they were always one of the, if not THE, superpower of the world stage, since from not only the Ottomans, but pretty much from the time of the Huns. It is just that they remain silent for about two centuries that the world forgot about them
1000 senedir Anadolu dayız.
If you are not our enemy, you have nothing to scary.
What you must understand is that Turkey is the biggest shark at the region. There are no countries at Balkans or Middle East that can beat Turkey militarily. On the contrary, Turkey can make military operations inside each of its neighbors territories easily (like they do at Iraq and Syria right now). Even Russia (which is not a neighbor) will never attack a NATO country and has huge economic interests inside Turkey so it is forced to be somewhat friendly. This makes the continuation of an independant foreign policy very easy.
The fact is that Turkey needs real allies to count on and countries that do not have medieval prejudices about the Turks. We will do without certain allies who constantly dare to criticize Turkey's internal and foreign policy and then do worse.
Mustafa Kemal didn’t take the last name “Atatürk” by himself. The Turkish nation gave him that last name via Turkish parliament.
Turtleneck goes hard. Nice switch up from the blazer 🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Turkleneck 😂
I gotta wonder if it symbolizes something.....
@@Steve-O_27 I don't think so. I suspect Simon put it on because it made him look like Carrie Fisher in Episode IV.
truly a fashion icon
I hadn't watched a sneakily Turkophobic video in a long time. Thanks...
15:19 - what problem do you have with Turkish Airlines? I’ve been and I had a great experience
This channel only reads scripts pre written drivle.
This channel pushes a lot of western opinions so I'm not too suprised although I still like watching them
İm pretty sure this guy hates turkey.
@@MrPooky-jl6oz True, I still watch them too even though I noticed a western bias in their perspective. I was just surprised on this part because even by western standards Turkish Airlines is still one of the best airlines in the world.
Turkish Airlines doesn't care.
You started with the countries airline and point out false claims with no prof and somehow made it sound like they are bad/wrong at everything yet this should be a informational video. More like a propaganda or your personal belief/hatred.
You lot always say “false claim! No proof!” But then neglect to say where or what the false claims are
@@dr.coomerphd4937 wtf even is that mean? Why or how would i neglect sometingg that isnt real. It just isnt. I dont need to show proof, if you think the claims are corrct then you are the one who is responsible to show it
@@dr.coomerphd4937 And "you lot" always bring up bullshit claims like this and then act like nothing happened
@@dr.coomerphd4937that's because Turks are super nationalist online and can't stand criticism. They don't offer counterpoints either, they just get mad. My countrymen are the same unfortunately
Turkey sided with Germany during the World War I and almost lost everything. Currently there is a division between the west and the global south. Smart countries play both side currently
Smart? Lol. Sure.
Ottomans sided with Germany and after the fall the Sultan sided with the Anglo-French occupation, while the people and Pasha Kamal Ataturk fought back and kicked the occupiers out.
@@georgedevries3992 i mean non alignment if youre not a western country is the best strategy, ngl
@@rickstube5299 Awesome. Just remove yourself from that WESTERN alliance you're a part of first and you can do whatever the f you want afterwards.
Sound fair, right? :)
@@Amen.ahmed1 who put this sultan on throne after forcing Abdulhamid 1909 out of the throne? Abdulhamid would never enter ww1
Turkey is pro Turkey is the best statement.
Silk Road era to Byzantium, to ottomans to modern Turkey they are who they are and they have always played by their own rules.
There is an old paranoid proverb in Türkiye. Old people says "Three sides of the Türkiye is encircled by waters. But, four sides of the Türkiye is encircled by enemies." :)
Turkey might be a muslim majority nation but not by that much. 55-70% is probably a safer guess contrary to what the graphs say.
No.
@@riskrik2924 yes
younger generation of Turks are mostly either atheist, agnostic or deist
Source: Trust me bro
why so mad brother
17:41 That picture is icluding Kurdish and Turkish villager victims by Armenian Tashnak and Hınchak Militias , Gangs violences between 1915-1922.They invaded to NorthEast Anatolia with Russian army untill 1917 and South East Anatolia with French army untill 1922.Russian and French army archieve documents has a proves of violences of Armenian Tashnak and Hınchak gangs and militias.
They don't care about who killed who and how many turks died they only care about how many armenians died. Both sides should apologise to each other. Its degeneracy.
How do they know, Europeans, make some propaganda and you will take away their bread
17:28 the photo shown as far as I can see does not include any of the uniforms of the forces appearant in The Middle East. They should at least put some attention in the photos used when they are accusing a country like that
Me and my husband were having this argument two years ago when the war in Ukraine was just getting off the ground. Turkey's economy, eternally in a sorry state, convinced my husband Turkey will play no role in this conflict. I remember telling him, that not only was he wrong, but that Turkey will actually have most to gain from this conflict between the so called "Rotting West" and "Communist East". What Turkey has going for it is its secularism, making it easier for them to adapt to any shift in the political climate in the country.
You should never underestimate a people, who are eager to mix with other nations. That's how empires are made
21 Yy Türkiye Yüzyılıdır... Macaristan Çin setti arası Türklerin yaşadığı coğrafya Türk devletlerinin tamamı birleşerek TURAN Birliği kuracağız. Ukrayna ve Doğu Avrupa Balkanlar Ortadoğu Afrika Güney Amerika TURAN Birliğinin konturolünde olacaktır...
Turks have build 16 Empires. Number 17 TUrkiye - Turan is coming in the next 20 years.
@@tlqa Pampa merak etme kimse atatürk'ü ve düşüncelerini silmek istemiyor. Senin orta asya'daki insanlara gelişmemiş demen biraz bilgisizlik sadece. Mis gibi seküler bir toplum daha ne istiyorsun? Ayrıca turan tek devlet değil, bir birlik olacak. AB gibi düşün. Biz batılı olmak zorunda değiliz, uygar olalım yeter
The person who wanted the establishment of the Turanian union the most was Ataturk. So keep your stupid thoughts to yourself.@@tlqa
Turkey is not secular. Turkish secularism is not a Western one. Turkish secularism is a form of state-conform religious tolerance. Turkey's highest budget ministry is the Ministry of Religious Affairs, the Diyanet, that controls religion both in Turkey and in the Turkish diaspora. Turkey is an exporter of Islam in the West and a danger to Western civilization. If you think they are doing something good by supporting Ukraine, you are a fool. They are happy Christian civilization is dying and at each other's throat (between Catholics and Orthodox, Western Europe against Eastern Europe, Rome against Constantinople) as has been the case for centuries. It is the reason why the Turks are successful, because they play us, Christians against one another and thus ruled for 600 years over European lands...that is until the Entente Powers of WW1 was created, an alliance between Western Europe (France, Britain) and Eastern Europe (Russia) that brought the end of the Caliphate in 1918....yet that didn't last long, as the moment Russia turned Red, the old dividing line between Western and Eastern Europe was reestablished and the Turks launched their ''war of independence'' which was nothing else than ridding themselves of any historical justice being restored for the Christian genocide against the Greeks and Armenians, the true owners of Anatolia.
I hate this kind of people, it bothers me a lot.
They think to understand what's going on Türkiye, why do they feel the need to make a biased absolutely uncorrect so called informational video based on what? Even they are not living in Türkiye.
For example, if i make a video about this person, how accurate can i be even i did see a lot of video's of him??? NONE
To make an accurate and thrustful video, i almost have to live with him to understand.
Yes you my friend, stop making this kind of video's or at least learn how to make nuanciation's.
Geographically Turkey between China and EU two of the biggest economies in the world so turkey is destined to become a link between the two
we have been that link for very very long time already
As a Turk once again I'm gonna say this;
YT: How much bias you want to be against Turkiye?
Simon: VERY.
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That aside, I mean there are some truths in the video but there are also MAAAAANNY important things he's missing on purpose that pretty much shows it like Turkiye doing those things because it wants to do it for his own will not because of important reasons.
Random army barracks 👊
Exactly this, had to stop video at 12th min. That much bias and missing/wrong info, what the hack ??? Looks like someone funded this video, so if you are not Turkish or do not know what he is talking about, do not take his word for it, mooossssttt of the information given here are wrong and misleading for a specific anti Erdogan vibe, i almost never comment on videos but this one is almost toxic but doing it as if its objective and informative, really disturbing, there might be small truths here and there but it would be much better not to watch this and misinformed purposefully ...
Please mention the parts of the video that were wrong. Does Erdoğan not violate human rights and harm peaceful protestors? Does he not deny the Armenian g*? Does he not use propaganda? Does he not support Iran to a certain extent? Does he not suppress the Kurdish people? Did he not deny peaceful democratic countries the right to be in NATO to gain leverage? Also, remember; just because many think Erdoğan is bad doesn't mean we think Turks are bad people.
@@bobthegoat7090 Erdoğan violates human rights, erdogan hurts and injures peaceful protestors, he denies it because it doesn't exist (even though it did, armenian did the worse and there are evidence), i thinj he is neutral to Iran but he is using the war between Iran and Israel as a way to convince his old age voters whose mostly islamic and very agnorant, i'm Kurdish and no, there's no suppress. I am from Siirt/Turkey. Those who are being suppressed are the ones that joined pkk and those who bomb the south-east of Turkey. And when it comes to Sweden you're dumb for even asking that.These so called friandly and peaceful countries are letting pkk propagandas in their country. Go watch some news and learn what these pkk members are doing in Japan. There are ones that wants land from Japan. But surely you won't talk about it. I doubt you will even reply. Also go learn about what Armenians did to little childeren. There are books about it written by Armenians. About how they ripped of the arms of childeren and raped them and their mothers. Go learn about the Turkish pilot who got tortured during the Cyprus war (1974).
@@bobthegoat7090 All correct but you forgot about the part, that Erdogan is and will always be a NATO puppet. No matter what he says
Things that I immediately think when hearing name Turkey - Midnight express, amazing city of Istanbul, and turkish sweets. Been there couple of times, and I must say nowhere else I felt as welcomed as in Turkey! Amazing warm hearted people!
Do you? I see only ultranationalistic Islamofascists that have purged so many civilizations. Your tastes are indeed weird.
If you sit on the sidewalk in Istanbul, the cats come right up to you for cuddles.😊
Things that immediately comes to my mind when I hear about the US is Shawshank Redemption, Newyork and McDonalds.
Bot.
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correction 4:35 he did not take the name Atatürk but was given that name by the people.
The map on 05:56 is fictional. The Zaza population is highly exaggerated. In Erzincan province for example they are at most 20%.
Few points to add to Simons mentioning of Greece and EU membership.
While Greece and Turkish Republic are rivals due to territorial disputes and Cyprus issue, they are also allies in natural disasters and against 3rd party interests, until recently at least.
Both nations made a joined application for NATO and EU membership was also planned to be a joined application as well. The coup at the time broke the Athen's trust and their reaction was a hastened solo application for EU membership, which was rather swiftly accepted.
A decade after said Coup, Turkish membership of EU was in question again and has been a political tool to garner votes in Turkey for decades now. However the second Coup and territorial disputes with Greece, on top of the Cyprus issue drove a wedge between the two nations.
I wont go into Cyprus issue here as it is not mentioned in the video.
But EU membership efforts of Turkey was not unanimously denied by the council as Simons ''Shelved for human rights concerns'' may imply you to believe.
Firstly, our ancient rival Greece has been one of our greatest supporters for EU membership since it would quite literally solve every single problem between the two countries.
The only nation that Vetoed the Turkish application was France.
France did *not* demand Turkish forces to leave Cyprus, an EU member state, which would've been logical.
France did *not* demand anything related to Kurds, Israel or Libya. Latter of which they have no leg to stand on.
France demanded Turkey to accept Armenian Genocide and stated it would not pull its Veto unless done so. Erdogan refused and only *then* the EU application was shelved for both sides.
Very well said, and an excellent elaboration upon the topic
I like how the convenient left out these details. He also does not even know how to pronounce anything. He is obvious ignore on the topic and simply spews and Anti-Turkish propaganda.
Also regarding the EU, there is no way they would like muslim majority country with a large population like Turkiye. Also, the US/NATO countries did not sell Turkiye the patriot air DEFENSE system. Every reaction has an equal and opposite reaction.
The true reason and not the BS excuse is that Turkey is too big of a country to be a EU member which would rival French and German influences on the union by its own rules, a big culturally muslim country at that. Both Sarkozy and Merkel at least openly said that they wouldn't let us be members instead of stringing us along with promises. also the Cyprus thing is another huge blunder by them. They let a country that is in conflict into the union which is a direct violation of their laws and now they have to contend with Greek Cypriots vetoing decisions to advance their own interests which they have every right to since that's the right the union gives them and are not to be blamed for.
Turkey ancient rival of Greece bro??😂😂😂😂😂When did this happen??Also about Cyprus,no country recognises invaded by Attila part of Cyprus!A NATO country Turkey invading Cyprus!Where 10million Greeks and U guys r 80million U have one of the worlds largest Armies and U bully a little country like Greece and U r taught to fear it,we have no overseas military or have been in wars or have the largest Military Amphibious personal of 250 thousand marines on the Aegean coast!Get real my neighbours "Caseus Belli" against us for maritime around our islands which the past years Erdogan has started to dispute??One question were have the People that live on those islands being paying taxes,why do they speak Greek for centuries,why do they identify as Greeks,why ancient Greek philosophers and mathematicians,astronomers,etc are known as Greeks around the world in history.3000 years ago Black sea was named Euxine Pontos Greek Empire ,never have I heard of Ancient Turk anywhere or read in any book!Turks show up Steppen Empire Mongols !
@@georgegi4062 I said ancient rival because thats literally what Simon says in the video.
I didnt mention occupied part at all. I stated there is a Cyprus issue and that I would not go into it as it is not mentioned in the video.
If you want to fight, go sign to your local fight club, I am not responsible for your childish tantrums.
How are you saying Erdogan is alienating Turkey's Kurds? A large portion of Kurds vote for Erdogan. I don't like the guy but he has given a lot of autonomy to the Kurds, giving them their freedom to promote their culture.
He's also treated their parties like boogie men to increase his own vote, and wage ideological war on any independent Kurdish state
@@european-one Kurdish independent state has no support
@@shafsteryellow lol that's a total lie. If it were true, Turkey would simply allow a vote on the matter
@@european-one go check any polls.
@@shafsteryellow lol, there's no accurate data for this in Turkey because Turkey is terrified of the idea. Have a vote coward.
92% of kurds voted for it in Iraq, so you are already proven wrong that no kurds want it
1:40 - Mid roll ads
3:05 - Back to the video
3:50 - Chapter 1 - Corpse of an empire; rise of a nation
5:35 - Chapter 2 - The caliph, the gentleman & the villain
15:10 - Chapter 3 - Turkey on the map
20:15 - Chapter 4 - East vs west
OGBB❤
Turkey has great food, too!
Food recipes from Greece, Iran, Armenia and Arab countries.
@@Proud2bGreek1Is that why the etymologies of those dishes are mostly Turkish, Greeks legit add a -ki suffix and claim them for instance Dolma-ki 😂😂😂
@@nenenindonulokma’s we’re stolen fromm Greeks. Loukoumades was used as a reward in the Ancient Greek olympics
@@ApostolosFilms Lokma is a Turkish word and emerged as a Turkish food in the Ottoman period
@@nenenindonu Imagine claiming that all those cultures that were superior in every way to that of the nomadic warrior Turks of central Asia, waited for said nomads who only drank mare milk and ate raw meat tenderized underneath their saddles to come and teach them how to make food with wheat, honey, milk etc.
No, the Turks simply adopted the culture of all these civilizations and the terms used to describe these foods are simply irrelevant.
Turkey can increase its influence in Central Asia and tighten its relations with China. That's why Turkey is pressuring Armenia. Azerbaijan is seen as the gateway to Central Asia. The new gas agreement with Turkmenistan is important. In other words, the pressure on Armenia is not historical, the purpose is different. Erdogan started to give more importance to the organization of Turkic states. Turkic states in Central Asia are starting new language reforms. Kazakhstan will switch to an alphabet identical to Turkish. It started to make more sense for Erdoğan to turn his attention to the Turkic states instead of dreaming of the Ottoman Empire. He is dealing with the PKK in Syria and Iraq, other than that, I don't think he has much interest anymore. He makes statements about Palestine because of his sympathy for the Muslim Brotherhood, but Turkey, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan have high commercial relations with Israel.
Nah he can't work with the likud and Netanyahu it's impossible.
turkiye trying to improve relations with a country that is currently commiting genocide on a turkic ethnic group would be pretty dumb and it would backfire pretty bad on the goverment
Turkey or any other country, their choice own goals and they act like that. U cant blame
are you joke? im living in ankara and im turk. this video very funny. is this comedy right? because you say unreal story to us. what is your source? i live in ANKARA i dont know this your story :) there is one true thing is your story. this is location of turkey :) im sure that you think we using camels for transport :) hahahaha. i will give you answer we are not arabic. we are turks. and turkey have no camels :)
Turkey proves just because you're empire dies doesn't mean you can't prosper/still have power
To those who wonder, Ç is read as CH as in chair => çair. Ş is read as SCH as is schengen => şengen.
I was hoping you could do a video on this topic, Simon hardly disappoints
Incoming brigade of Turks in the comments saying how they’re the best country in the world and the US and nato is nothing without them
That’s the US literally every day and I’m betting that’s where you live so get off your high horse.
Without Turkey Russia would have a way to escape the black Sea
@@joshlittke9305 We contribute almost 90% of the funding to NATO. We can talk all we want. We also made 90% of the technology used in war today. Firearms themselves included. 🤚
@@joshlittke9305 found the Turk
you have to be nationalist when your motherland wants to be conquered by every neighbour you have !
Love your content brother. Suggestion regarding the ads: maybe film them in the studio so the audio difference isn’t wildly different.
It kinda feels like you want to compliment Turkey but just can’t bring yourself to do it. Then you seem to blame every war created by the west onto Turkey. Your video turns into another let’s hate Turkey video which has support from people who don’t know you are being dishonest with the truth.
So you are saying you support Erdoğan and his authoritarian, nationalistic and propaganda tactics? You support harming peaceful protestors, which is a clear violation of human rights? You support using veto power in NATO to get what they want, keeping well-intentioned countries like Sweden and Finland from joining? Do you support the denial of the Armenian gen*cide? Do you think it is right for Turkey to support Iran? A country that is known for brutal implementation of Sharia law and human-rights violations, not to mention the support of the war on Ukraine? Also, please don't generalize the west. I would love for us Scandinavians to not need the support of the US, as they also use abhorrent and egotistical tactics. Especially republicans like Trump. Furthermore, remember; Simon doesn't write the script.
Best comment i read. Personally im thinking in this video there is critical wrongs. But you know what , i and we are not should wrote an defend writing. we know we need to be stronger , and we focused this our collective target as whole Türkiye. It is all about that. We are getting stronger , we are getting Türk governments singularity. And we will be the glue in every Türkic and İslamic regions. With in fairly. We building an extraordinary empire. And every person which is live in this extraordinary and new type empire is gonna love this our system. We believe we will be succesfull about this being glue. We working extremely for a fairly loving new system. Like everyone in Türkiye i included this goal too with my heart. Because we are side of fair , not east or not west.
@@salihergun5875 🦃
@@salihergun5875 🦃is a rather big country with a small nation complex. A wannabe Russia that lacks the nukes and resources to tell everyone to shove it and begin it's imperial conquests. But the worst part is the economy. Russia is the most sanctioned nation on Earth, but Turkey can't deal with it's inflation, huh? You ain't restoring your empire any time soon.
Nobody forced turkey to invade Rojava and cause death and destruction just so they can be happy the Kurds couldn't secure their homelands and live in peace. Hatred for Kurds means instead of a booming economic zone to feed off from, they have a warzone to the south. When ISIS had the entire boarder they never once had a desire to invade, but the moment Kurds regained their freedoms the threats of invasion has not stopped since. That's when the economy of Turkey took a turn. Let that sink in and you people can be satisfied of yourselves. But don't ever think others are to blame, i think that for me is where I have to speak up.
Love the channel,keep up the great work
This is a great insight. I am actually surprised. Not often see non-Turkish channels know this much.
Simon is found in many places, makes amazing educating content.
This channel and all the other platforms this bald dude pops up in are very biased against Turkey, their videos are like entirely onesided where Turks are demonized while Greeks, Armenians, etc. mentioned as the ultimate innocent apex victims
Adamın kendisine göre anlatmış sende övüyorsun. şakamısınız la.
@@MightyOwllNe kadar da tarafsız diyen olmadı, adamın bizim açımızdan anlatmasını da beklemiyorum zaten. Diğer yabancıların yaptığı saçma sapan bilgilerden oluşan gerçek dışı analizlere bakarsak evet bu baya iyi
@@yigitgokhanemeklieradam resmen gülen raskele bir imammıṣ gibi davranıyor.
Regardless of the current political powers in Turkiye, I always agreed with historians that say it is the crossroads of the world. Just by its geographic location it has influenced most historical events to some level
Many many ethnic cleansings and massacres of non muslims.
Remember when ads on this site were 6-second SolarCity ads and not longer than the video you're trying to watch?
Is this a poor person joke im too rich to understand?
Would you prefer to rather pay for the content?
@ryansauchuk7290 I pay for hulu live, hbo, paramount and prime video but you must be smoking meth if you're spending money on youtube 😂😂
What ads were you hit with? Lmao I always skip his ad read so it was 5 seconds for me, or maybe 10 max
You can skip ads in 10s minimum, why are you complaining?
Turkey is the classic tweener. Not necessarily a good guy, not really a bad guy, just a guy to keep a close eye on
He's Yabushige!
Definitely a bad guy multiple genocides, ethnic cleansing, dictatorship
@@archyarchfiendx2938genocide and ethnic cleansing? Sounds like Israel
They were evil, they started the fricking slave trade. Why do you think Portugal and Spain did the most of that? From whom did we learn?
Their leadership are definitely evil
I promise I would not be bored watching a 900-hour deep dive with you Simon.
New warographics vid to watch while I work!
Does anyone else watch mainstream news for entertainment and turn to Simon for the actual important stuff?
There is no value in mainstream media, even entertainment.
Not even for entertainment,they just lie and lie to a level these peoples brains have no clue what even hypocrisy or even an ounce of objectivity
Covers the topics we don't see on the telly
Yep, here in NZ we do... our leftard media were paid off by commandant Adern and are now losing their jobs!!!
My Cable TV was detached long before. Thanks to Smart TVs
What a coincidence i was actually looking for a good turky geopolitics video. Thanks!!
I like how the dot on the i of "wins" is reaaaaally tiny
Someone went "I really want to dot that i"
I’m actually reading a book on Turkey/the legacy of the Ottoman Empire, so this video came at a perfect time. Ottoman Odyssey by Alev Scott
Nobody cares about an empire of brutal misanthropes.
Hello, I was wondering which dates do you read and where are you from?
Is it weird that turkey reminds me of USA. The frameworks feel very similar. The division within politics. Am I being silly?
Turkish people are too nationalistic to be compared to USA
Yes, polarisation turned people to 2 party. Education so hit, we are crumbling without true innovation and government not funding good private business but their allies.
Economic instability degrading ethics of society..
Also George Washington and Atatürk is very similar too
Yep 😂
I half expected Simon to go off on a tangent about some time he had a terrible experience on Turkish Airlines, then I remembered which channel I was watching.
Personally im thinking in this video there is critical wrongs. But you know what , i and we are not should wrote an defend writing. We know we need to be stronger , and we focused this our collective target as whole Türkiye. It is all about that. We are getting stronger , we are getting Türk governments singularity. And we will be the glue in every Türkic and İslamic regions. With in fairly. We building an extraordinary empire. And every person which is live in this extraordinary and new type empire is gonna love this our system , also every person living in world are gonna love our system , and they all will want to include themselves our new system. In our roots we saying come everyone as who you are as. It root is coming from both Türkic culture and İslam. We believe we will be succesfull about this being glue. We working extremely for a fairly loving new system. Like everyone in Türkiye i included this goal too with my heart. Because we are side of fair , not east or not west.
The fact that Turkey is considered an ally and not an adversary under Erdogan is wild tbh
US knows Turkish military is the only capable army in NATO, after the US and the Strategic location of the country. US needs friends now more than ever before after the Ukraine/ Russian war, and Israeli?palestinian war. the whole world turned against the US except few Western European Countries.
@@Amen.ahmed1 Turkey helped Russia in Syria and now they're helping Hamas directly. Erdogan has openly discussed bringing them from Qatar to Turkey. That doesn't seem like an ally tbh
@@Amen.ahmed1 Shhhh, comrade. The rubles will be there soon.
@@Amen.ahmed1
"Turkey is the only capable military in NATO after the US."
*LAUGHS IN BAGUETTE*
go ahead, make us "adversary". no one is stopping you.
I was in turkey with family a few years back and saw just cops with mp5k smgs standing at the side of a motorway but overall nice place
Do a video on US / India relations and India foreign policy in light of India making a deal with Iran and angering the US recently?
I didn't know we were angry with India.
@@Hollylivengood Neither did we know, we angered the US?
India and Turkey are the two big middle men.
US and India are business partners.
@arpan9937 Who told you guys the US was pissed off with you? We worked with India on all kinds of things, and do business in a lot of ways. And everyone knows India works with everybody, and has no cliques to get into. I think someone is making up artificial beef.
Lived and worked in Turkey, BOLU.
Wonderful people, lovely scenery, history literally at your feet.
A pity that they have allowed themselves to be taken over by a despot.
It is a crazy neighborhood plus he has a lot of supporters from rural/religious people plus he also caters the right/far right. He is a great politician but the average Turk the pros out weight the cons. The past 25 years has been very turbulent and despite current economic issue Turkiye is a lot strong it was 20,30,40 and 50 years ago. It was a very poor countriy pre 1980's./1990's.
you are right, Turkey is not pro-east or pro-west, but rather pro-turkey (as is India or most countries in the world). so why do you keep calling them anti-west?
I mean they're western so 😂
You don’t know anything Turkish politics and Erdogan. How the you say Kurdish are suffering? Look at the Erdogan ministration more than half of the Ministers are Kurdish origin including secretary of the state head of national intelligence treasury of the security just a few I wanted to mention. You westerners are love to have you own alternative reality which serves to your interests.
Actually Turks are suffering in Turkey rn not minorities
When was the last time you saw 6-second SolarCity advertisements on this website, not longer than the video you were attempting to view?
3:10 “the modern history of any state is so broad that a video going over it all in exhaustive detail would be both incredibly boring to watch and also 900 hours long”
Kraut holding his 4 hour long ‘The Turkish Century’ video in the corner:
Unfortunately, you don't know Turkey at all. The information you gave is just gossip, but we got used to it :) Türkiye has been asking for an air defense system from its allies for years, but you did not give it to them. When we bought the air defense system from Russia, we became unreliable :) Will we protect our airspace according to your taste? Türkiye has been experiencing a conflict between secularists and conservatives in politics for many years. Whenever a conservative leader came to power, he was overthrown in a coup. Erdogan was imprisoned before he even came to power. Voters in Turkey do not want the government to govern the country well, they want the person who comes to power to have their own ideology.
It isn't lost on Ankara that the Russian Empire is in a similar stage in its decline as the Ottoman Empire was when the European powers started to develop designs to carve it up. As the Kremlin becomes unable to project power in the Caucuses and Central Asia, someone is gonna have to fill that void. Ankara is already moving into these areas politically and militarily. Even if their leaders were not motivated by ambition, the Turks would be forced to assert themselves for their own security before Tehran and Beijing fill the vacuum themselves. These Moscow "allies" (Turkey, Iran, China) are basically just rooting for their friend to fall right on his face so they can benefit. At best, China in particular, is only interested in Russia falling in the most gradual and manageable way possible to make the transition of taking over Moscow's sphere of influence as smooth as possible. With friends like this, who needs enemies?
What you don't know is that Keeps is, in fact testing its prototype beard care products on Simon
"Bowgee-man", I giggle like a little girl everytime he says it
I feel keeps is trollin you Simon
Or he's trolling keeps, they keep paying him regardless of his lack of hair
@@thejuize06 I presume they have plans for Simon.
@@TheNoronist Ah, XTC nearly
@@coops1964 what do you mean?
Thanks for covering this! With the EU elections coming up, would a deep dive into parties, factions and policies be possible? I know you and your team cover a lot of topics, but I'm heavily interested in your perspectives on this.
Please do a 9 hour version. Would you include everything? I will watch it multiple times
Thanks for educating me about Turkey.
Basically Turkey has great geography yet, somehow, awful neighbours at the same time
I have binge watched both iterations of "Magnificent Century".
If one has the patience to endure English subtitles and two to three hour chapter lengths.
It is well worth the effort. It is available here on the 'Tube.
Fantastic content
2:00 There's a saying in Turkiye: "If the bald had a cure, he would take it on his own first"😅
Imagine your house is on a bridge that connects Europe, Africa and Asia. And some of your neighbours are Iran, Armenia, Iraq and Syria... By the mean time US and Russia are fighting over right of way for that bridge... How come you become something else than "Pro Turk"?
Kemal did NOT take Atatürk as his last name. We, gave him that name!
All countries carry reverence(patriotism? Nationalism?) for “founding fathers” I am curious if this could be measured for its increase/decrease over time?
@@kevinhylan5649 it is not only about that reverence part.In modern turkish history Ataturk and its tremendous reforms and idealistic thinking is (as mentioned in the video) the backbone of the republic. Amount of respect and the ideals he created are not only patriotic feelings. Turks (atleast the educated ones) feel a deeper connection and love for him because for everyone from every background can found something to hold on in Ataturks ideals and reforms. it is rather hard to explain but especially in hopeless situations you can find something to hold on to in his life or ideas or words.
@@kevinhylan5649 he was, in his personal life maybe even a troubled man yet he fought on to the end walking out of hell uniting a nation under ideals and a flag to hold on to
@@kevinhylan5649 in conclusion we dont love and respect him only on patriotism, (im not a big patriot tbh) he really is a father figure. These are the reasons in almost every shop, school, public area we still hang his pictures. he is the symbol of hope
@@naimburakkahraman5584 thank you, you’re answers feel like those of the “common person” the every person of turkey, thank you for perspective, it creates a greater understanding of some of the culture of turkey. my curiosity is more a wide spread question on all nations and nationhoods. I am no expert, just openly curious. I can only compare to my own USA background and the merit, reverence we place on men like Washington, Jefferson, and beyond into the modern day. Are these men whose deeds will survive the ages, like the ancients across the globe? Questions only, NOT judgements.
You know Simon, there are some horrifi-- very innovative experimental hairloss treatments, including cloning hair and then performing plugs. Thousands upon thousands of plugs. Might be fun!
Great expose on one of the most underestimated regional players, but no less important.
Shoutout to the people who were here early but didn't say "FIRST" "SECOND" "THIRD"
First
Why must the first comment always be bragging about being there first.
CZcams tradition and you're not going to change it
While I agree with you, why must we feel a need to jump on someone's fun. 😅😊
First
Because children seem to have little of substance to be proud of.
How incredible it is that it is possible to misunderstand everything, even the barest truth. It is impossible not to envy.
The amount of nights I spend falling asleep to Simons voice is borderline creepy 😂😂😂
Shouldn't it be Türkiye now?
You know, I both understand and low-key hate the name change.
@@ibrahimozgursucu3378 The name hasn't change. All the languages call it Turkiye or very similar. As many English words in English, the word for the Turkish land is corrected.
Lol whatever. When Turkey recognizes the Armenian and Assyrian genocides then we’ll talk about recognizing their name change.
@@lrmry You sound like Netanyahu. You should recognize the Azerbaijani genocides by Armenians and French. Also recognise the French genocide in North Africa and Africa. Genocide in French Caledonia. Genocide of American Indians by the the US government.
Best sponsor Simon ever had hands down 😂
13:08 I live in Ankara and heard about this incident. I think some toll booths and bridges used to enter Istanbul were closed with tanks.
Are you sure that static factions didn’t exist upon the restructuring of this region?
Finally the video I have been waiting for more Turkish geopolitics please
I choose Turkey every thanksgiving
One day Turkey will visit you
I take Jill every night
Who are you? Are you the funniest comedian in the world or something?💀💀💀
We love your videos in our family. Another excellent video. Thank you.
I mean it works really well until the actual fighting breaks out, then you get it from both sides like Italy or poland.