At the Frontlines of a Culture War in Turkey | S09E07 

Probably you should wander the old city like everyone else, unless you have a physical disability or disadvantage. Those places are thousands of years old and not intended for the motor vehicles which emits carbon.

@@canerc6668 olum niye türkce yazmıyosunuz ikinizde türksünüz hastamısınız siz

Turkiye is a muslim country

@@rezaeshaghi1727nah shut it

Turkiye is a Muslim country. Its constitution gives the government the right to regulate the religious life. That makes it a non-secular country. What you call secular, is not really secular. You are talking about the anti-Muslim policies before 1950. Anti-Muslim policy, is not secular, it is simply against Islam but favoring other religions.

@@almazchati4178 In order for a country to be an Islamic country, the religion of the state must be specified in the constitution. Our state has no religion and our form of government is based on the people. Everyone can belong to a different religion. There is no such thing as dividing or differending Muslims. This country is not governed by SHERIA!

@@seymylmz6499 You are wrong. There is a branch of the government looking into rekigious affairs. It used to sanction the governments anti-religious ideology, disguised as being anti-sheria, but since more democratic governments, the tide turned around. You admit that early republic days were anti-muslim, by citing SHERIA. It was an atheist government, and that his what you are espousing. If you meddle with religion, religion will meddle with you. In that sense modern Turkey is not secular, Ottomans were more secular.

as a turk? indians start a convo like that here son. dont fkin do that and dont embarrass us

Wow, thank you!

I totally agree! The top main sailing channels have been getting lame, and you’re taking top spot, in my humble opinion.

Completely agree! Could not have said it any better.

agree this is brilliant

I agree also. This is a fantastic RU-vid channel!

Next time leave the keys with me to take care of the house when you guys are not around 😀

I am an American as well. My wife’s parents live in Istanbul an old historic town called Beykoz. We also have a home in Bodrum. Going back for a month in June -July.

when you came from america can you give me donut and fried chicken

Bodrum is nice but small..why would an american chose such a tiny city?😊​@@chalmerelkins8965

As an just retired Turkish American, I am about to buy a house from Bodrum. Istanbul is colorful and very dynamic city, never been boring but a little tiring. Good for visiting once in while.

Rubbish. That naive person has no knowledge of Turkish socio-cultural structure or politics.

iyiki İstanbul Anadolu yakasında yasıyorum cengelkoy merkez ☺️🤗

Selçuklu, Osmanlı ve Türkiye Avrupa askerlerini denize dökerek tarihi dersi size çokça verdi diye düşünüyorum.

Ataturk was a British implant

about the part you say as if it's the same as other nations is incorrect imo. Countries like US and turkey has extreme polarization that people of religion show actual hate towards non-religious even hate crimes happen often due to this. And also there is non-religious can't stop talking sh*t about religious. It feels like a big polarization and not a usual one, it's even a topic used often you can see on law suggestions and even kids on streets talk about such things at such young ages. I do think there is a mental fight keeps going in there. that's more than usual

I wasnt now that now I must to search it Thanks for info

Konstantiniyye is arabic name and turks never used that. it is just today's revisionalism of islamists.

@@ogunkovan Biraz Osmanlıca ibare okuyabilseydin ve biraz kültürlü olup İstanbul'u gezseydin ibareyi kitabelerde görebilirdin dost

​@@ogunkovanTam bir boş ve yalancisin

@@ogunkovan Yes Ottomons were not Islamists, They were secular like greek kamalists of today.

Actually there is no restriction to go on the floor in there. There is a separate section which people goes there 5 times in a day for praying, you just don’t want to interrupt their prayer, that’s all!

Actually, you can go there. I went there with my Christian friends.

They can go onto the floor by the way!..

There are facts that are not told to Europe or your country. During this division, the exist of Anatolian Christianity was wanted to be divided because it was against the interests of the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox Empire and it will be at a level that will affect their domestic policies (We are witnessing how Anatolians affects the Islamic world since they established Ottoman Empire), so Anatolia was occupied first at 1204 by the Crusaders while it was totaly Christian. In order to damage and eliminate the powerful status of the Hagia Sophia church, entertainment was organized with prostitutes inside. Nothing happens without a reason. Unfortunately, the dignity of these people, their temples was violated. Since Anatolia is the cradle of civilizations, it does not accept the status of a satellite place that can be directed from outside. It was always born to be the center. after all, that's exactly why the churches split in here and related to this. Also Instead of the concept of Anatolia, they wanted to establish small weak Christian statelets dividing Anatolia into more than 5 parts. First the Latin empire builded in Constantinopol. Thereupon, Anatolians declared the Crusaders as invaders. They had many justified reasons for this. n here Christianity has been used as a basis for divisive narratives. holy books and sacred texts are used to exalt concepts like Pontus, great armenia or great greece, state of constantinopol, instead of one Anatolia. These political debates revealed religious erosion. Thereupon, Anatolians moved away from Christianity. They started to become interested in Islam the newest religion. It is impossible to conquer this place without the help of the Anatolians with an army of 1300 people. Here it can be seen that this army is an expected army. There are so many untell stories here. Actually This story begins with the division of the Roman Empire. But as you see They are still Anatolian, their genetics and everything, They call their self now Turkish nation. Hagia Sophia has belonged to this nation from the beginning and they have the right to use it as they wish. They didn't destroy it because they thought it belonged to them. We must respect all their decisions for no war anymore. That's why the mosques they built resemble Hagia Sophia. because they whisper to us that they are the same people. There are still those comments who claim that they are Greek. However, according to them, everything started in Anatolia( Turkish 'Ana-dolu' means Motherland), not in Greece. Since Anatolia is the cradle of civilizations, it can not be a colonial place where someone can be guided from outside. He was born to be the center always as I said. So why should they express themselves with the identity of the Hellenic Peninsula? They want us to understand this. Just like Archaeologists says; The concept of origin is a situation that is thought to be genetic but is socially constructed. Some of the genetically similar people in our region describe themselves as Bulgarian, some as Albanian, some as Macedonian, some as Greek, some as Turkish, some as Armenian. What is important for human dignity is to respect the way we define ourselves. Peace for all cultures and respect to everyone's country borders.

Not really. It happened in Nicaea modern day Iznik. A very close city but its not in Istanbul