What the hell is a pro-democracy coup? Coups are there to restore order, not restore democracy. The coup of 1980 did just that, restore order in Turkish society.
@@eges72 eh, its a problem on those who eurocentric culture rewards have to deal with lol. aka most of the human species doesnt have it. everyone knows that anything friendly to europe always gets completely plundered and left to rot by europe. history shows nothing else.
@@TheGeneralGrievous19It was centuries of “opression” by a medieval sultanit. The ottoman empire was unbelievable humane and did not even discriminate as much as greeks did after their independence to turks in greek. Also i as an albanian can say that the greeks opressed us for 1000 years or some shit but that doenst matter anymore. We should move on make a better world
I love that you release these kinds of videos in conjunction with incoming elections as you did with Italy. Exposing how much the absolutely undemocratic American interference influenced our young "democracies"
america is just a colony of the uk at this point. and has been for nearly a century now. dont blame americans for what a government thats entirely owned and controlled by european monarchs does against their will. the government not only doesnt represent us, ,but it demonstrably only harms us and enriches europe at our expense...
as a turkish socialist, this video is very well-made. ik its a minor detail but i applaud you for actually getting the pronunciations right on turkish words.
@@lenny_lax no shit we do, we are the Turkish Left. The same degenerates that mass murdered and displaced the Armenians also killed the first Turkish bolsheviks. Why does every westoid bring this up when they see a Turk online. Don't see the same assumptions being made with US and Japan.
@@lenny_lax No. It's a imperialist lie. I don't know if it has been translated into another language other than Turkish, but Mehmet Ali Aybar, one of the important figures of the Turkish socialist movement, has a wonderful evaluation on this subject. J. P. Sartre and Mehmet Ali Aybar argued about this issue while the US government was being tried at the Russell Tribunal in Stockholm for the crimes it committed during the Vietnam War.
Comrade I propose to you that You do the story of the Anti communist crusade in My country, Colombia one of the countries we're top extermination of communists happend, and where our PC turned revisionist
The efforts Capitalists go through to suppress the liberation of the Working Class is extensive; many a slave revolt were put down, but the brutality of the slavers only justified the destruction of their system.
As an Alevi, THANK YOU FOR INCLUDING ATTACKS TO US! Our history and hate that Gray Wolves had to us is something we will never forget, even through today's Gray Wolves try to show theirselves as "Alevi-accepting". My own mother still shakes when walking in front of their building in the city we live. Their terror is something that no Alevi should forget.
@@alanahmad821 Nooo, they don't, obviously they like us very much that they tried to heat our homes by burning them. You're brainwashed by Western nations and communists 🥰😍
@lichking9510 1) Gray Wolf is our national symbol, where do i say the otherwise? 2) Gray Wolfs attacked WITH those so-called "ummah". I know my history better than a genocider. 3) Looks like a lot of Gray Wolfs and Sunnis in this country needs to accept us existing. 4) I speak for the community BECAUSE we all lost a part of us in Sivas, Kahramanmaraş, Çorum. 5) Again, where do i claim my ancestors weren't nationalistic but they were peaceful social democrats. 6) I am Turkish. I don't think you have to and have the right to question that when Ataturk himself said "Everyone who said i'm a Turk, is a Turk", but yeah. My own Alevi village existed for hundreds years, so did my ancestors lived in the same village.
I am a Turkish leftist. I genuinely don't believe such a beautiful video could be made to enlighten not just the people who don't know about the solkırım in Turkey, but also enlighten me on some subjects. Beautifully made, keep up the good work. I am also extremely surprised at the accuracy of your pronunciations, you did your homework!
Because he speaks perfect Turkish but has an agenda, he is a propagandist. If you listen carefully, he peppered lies all over his videos. He is anti Turk, anti Ataturk.
As a half kurd/norwegian, this video was absolutely fantastic. It made me so angry and emotional. My father was imprisoned and tortured after the coup in 1980.
It's crazy how this time period often gets overlooked when people discuss 20th century Turkish/Kurdish history and how the country is today. So much of our current political period can be traced back to this time period. Thx for making this video. Really excited to watch it.
@@rickb3650 Best example climate change. Researchers have been warning the public and politicians for over 50 years to no avail. When Greta Thunberg makes a speech as a member of the generations that will bear the full brunt of climate change thanks to the older generations catastrophic mismanagement they all go in denial and instead of actually listening to her telling the world to listen the researchers they either mock her for being autistic or on the creepy side debate whether she is "legal"....
It's sad to see that Turkey is sole responsible for all of the atrocities happened to it's own people AND Kurds who have been already getting the short stick. Despite that Turkish-Kurdish revolutionaries believed in this country's proletarians and fought until their last breath. The government created it's own enemy and now everyone doesn't question when Turkey does a military mission on the border or in Northern Syria or Iraq. They think the Turkish army is monolith while the army consists mostly of peasants and villagers because people with money can pay it off for a good price of 1K Euros. Crazy right while they boast about how great the Turkish nation is...
@@gencuags The government created the enemy? More like marxist rhetoric and rabble-rousing did. Thankfully its died out and have been awfully quiet other than a few marginal populations here and there. The communists did try to create several layers of militant revolutionary groups, ranging from city-dwelling leninists to maoist militias roaming the countryside. They ever only had a weak following within the population, and the previously Maoist PKK turned to Kurdish nationalism to garner support. Just like Stalin had to during and after WWII, they had to flare up the populace somehow. "they think the Turkish army is monolith while the army consists mostly of peasants and villagers" That is untrue, since the majority of the Turkish population dwell in cities and are not peasants or villagers. "people with money can pay it off for a good price of 1K Euros." We can discuss the pros and cons of conscription if you like, previously this system didn't exist and everyone had to do 2 years. Now its been reduced drastically. "Crazy right while they boast about how great the Turkish nation is" Our nation is a great nation, anyone who says otherwise can go suck a dick.
This is was a very important video since in the english speaking circle of internet the Turkish movement for Communism isn't even mentioned. Also, after you finish making a video on Greece( since you already covered Italy and Turkey it looks like you will make a video on it ) will you make a video on India( my home country ) and how the Fascist religious extremists have already captured power here with the full support of US Imperialists.
Been following turkish modern history since my teens in the 80s, still this documentary is full of new information for me, clarified a lot of questions since we read only about the events without much analysis. Looking forward to your documentary on Greece's communist and socialist history!
My Grandparents and their close comrades were academicians of METU, the university where Gezmiş, Aslan, and İnan were from, thus got their houses bombed by the Grey Wolves just because they were suspected "communists" even though they did not have explicit political stances aside from loyalty to Ecevit.
@Astrobaut He could have easily said "coworkers" or "peers". But I know METU quite well, I'm pretty sure that some of these were at least in league with these groups as they are today. And if not in league, they are most likely sympathisants who simply favor students of their own political association above other students in academic grading. I've seen it happen with friends who weren't in STEM, and most communists don't usually study or major in those areas, it's just too much substance and too little rhetoric to work with. But in say, political science and international relations or psychology and stuff, yeah, plenty of em Marxist teachers who are "comrades" with their students.
@@Astrobaut Yes in this particular sense I meant exactly that. They were all academicians. Any person who work side-by-side with you is called a "comrade" in the classical sense. By socialist and Marxist definitions, we all call each other "comrades" because we work side-by-side in achieving our ideological goal.
I'm really happy seeing this video made by you, it really made me emotional... It's just so sad that nobody talks about all this. As a Dersimli I (and my family) can't thank you enough for your hard work on this, yoldaş! Elerinden öpüyoruz. I'll make sure to spread this video and your channel as wide as I can.
I clicked on this video expecting it to be 20 minutes or something. Only to find out that it is over an hour long... Truly the definition of a video essay.
@@maayan748 Agreed, though I'd hasten to add that socialism being the direct successor to capitalism is not a foregone conclusion by any means. Something worse could well pop up after the C-word takes an S-word.
This video is excellent, the story is very reminicent of other numerous CIA operations and collaborations with fascists throughout the world, yet this is one example which I had no knowledge of. Thank you for providing this information.
Whoa, what a video! I learned a lot from this one. The bourgeoisie is very afraid of Marxist Leninism because of it's revolutionary aspect and workers owning the means of production and distribution. They are power crazy.
They no longer are scared of Marxism-Leninism. Today, they are scared of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. This is because Marxism-Leninism has developed and turned into Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. All of today's consistently revolutionary Parties and organisations adhere to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, including Kaypakkaya's TKP/ML.
@@despa7726 Are you absolutely sure that today's China won't fully become capitalist? The CPC is using fire that could burn them in the end. I understand using capitalism under strict regulation for development; however, more state run enterprises are being privatized and that is a very bad sign to see in China. Marxist Leninism of Russia made quite a few mistakes during it's existence. The biggest was the reformists who believed in reintroducing capitalism with markets. The US and the West were very instrumental in the fall of the USSR with the help of Gorbachev and Yeltsin. Russia is now fully capitalist but the US and the West are upset that Russia did not bow down to their rule of being exploited for their natural resources and we see a proxy war happening.
Thank you for making this video. I've been going through some of your content taking notes on each of these videos to get the overall movement of the social/historical forces, the parties, the organizations, the leaders, and the people in each. Massively helpful as always!
Thank you for the video. You promised to make a video on Turkish gladio and you delivered very timely. I will watch it and review it after I watch the elections unfold in my country.
It's great to see your channel grow. I'm not sure exactly when you'll cover China, but I am very interested on how the Chinese revolution worked to combat the triad and the opium traders from the British, Chinese opportunists, and the Japanese. I hope to see your channel continues on its series of revelations!
@@Historia.Magistra.Vitae.sure..that's why all business leaders provided the fascists with as much raw materials as they needed in turn for suppressing trade unionists and communists. Why you always lying?
@@Hakimist-Empenadaist : Fasc ism was based on trade unionism i.e. syndica lism / corpo ratism. Also did you miss the memo where the fascists were totalit arians? It's not like "business leaders" had a choice on the matter. They were ordered to provide by the Govern ment and if they refused, their factories got seized. Dict atorial tactics 101.
you definitely deserve A LOT more subscribers. such a well-researched and well put together video! thanks for all of your hard work, i really enjoyed this video. and extra props for the great pronounciation of turkish words!
Perfect content, with some much dedication and research i beg you to make a Brasil video sometime and to talk about the colonial families that hold us in bind with the US along with the struggles of the 60's (and todays) PCR, of the anarchists and the founders of the PCB, the old PCdoB and the new commie wave in our country, as well as the history of our heros and martyrs such as Zumbi, Manoel Lisboa, Carlos Marighella, of the tragic history of Olga and his husband and activist for PCB, Luis Carlos Prestes, of how PT (Workers Party) depolitized the people and allowed for the rise of fascism among other things, i begg I love your content and as a communist militant myself i hope to see the flames of revolution engulf not only my and your country, but the world at large
I've heard about this Car Crash & that the Term Deep State was coined in Turkey at that time & i was always interested in this Story so thanks for the Information
Absolutely amazing video! There is so much I didn't know about the Turkish left. Do you think you are ever going to make a video like this about the Communist Party of Peru?
@@antioligarsiKemalizm hakkında bence de yanlış bilgi verdiği kısımlar var. Dersim katliamı Atatürk'ten çok ülke içi güç kazanan Faşist kesim tarafından yapıldı. Atatürk o sırada hastalığından dolayı yönetimde değildi.
Once again, more excellent and thorough historical accounting in general, but especially of a period of history not given appropriate attention in the West. Well done!
thank you for this. power to the people! They may martyr our leaders but the contradictions still remain. And the passion and militant struggle of the oppressed will overcome!
This is such a wonderful video ,I hope for a similar video for my country Egypt as I know we once had a great potential to be socialist state but it was blown down, you earned a sub from me
The more I learn about the history of our struggle, the more revolutionary I get. At this point I’ll die before I stop trying to foster it. They won’t hold us down forever. 🚩🏴☠️✊🏻
That was a great video yoldaş "Turkey's future is molded from steel; maybe it won't be us but this steel won't forget the water it took" Ibrahim kaypakkaya
It can trigger me to see people not realising just on basic logic how NATO behaves. But it is groovy to see people organising their thoughts and presenting it effectively.
Obviously this is a great video, but like all your videos, the music selection is outstanding and I'd love a list of what's used. I see it says 'coming soon', so I'll be patient.
Banger Video wie eh und eh das warten hat sich mehr als gelohnt ❤ eins über stay-behind/BDJ, Faschismus/Anti-Kommunismus in der BRD oder vllt ein Treuhand Video als Nächstes würde giftig kommen~
Now do a video on the forces fighting GLADIO. Years of Lead, RAF in Germany, Japanese Red Army etc. This history about postwar clandestine operations and leftist struggles must be understood
Wonderful video! Please cite your sources, I know you have 'Coming Soon' in the descriptions and hopefully they come soon but you should cite the source you used within the video by adding a in-text/in-video citations!
I have added them, & although it takes a lot of time to add them directly in the video, I will consider doing this again (used to do this in my first few videos). & Thank you!
@@BesDMarx Thank you for adding them! Yes it does take some coordination to add them directly into the video but it is very useful for referencing. I will be sure to check out some of the sources you cited as I'd love to learn more.
great video. turkey is an important country. also im greek and understanding turkish politics is the second best thin gto understanding greek politics. the targetting of greeks in turkey is also something that's basically never mentioned, so im glad you go into a bit
What do you know about the targeting of Turks all over the Balkans and Crimea, which is a region where Turks have been the dominant population element?
@@mamaymirza hang on, are you saying crimeans are turks? that's. untrue. they're turkic, you misread the wikipedia page. and i dont even know what 'dominant population element' is supposed to mean, if you meant majority you should say majority
@@granola-approach I am a Crimean, we interchangeably call ourselves Crimean Turks or Crimean Tatars. The reason that I didn't use the majority/minority language was solely because Crimean Tatar heritage is pretty much destroyed in Crimea rather than being reduced to a minority state.
@@granola-approach but this is exactly what I had in mind. When it comes to Turks, all of the senses of compassion and respect go deaf. This occurs to the extent that you can go on as far as to educate a Crimean Tatar about who Crimean Tatars are and claim I've read a Wikipedia page wrong, whereas my knowledge about my own descent isn't based on a Wikipedia page. Also, I don't treat Wikipedia as an academic source of knowledge. All of this is besides the point, though: the source of your dissonance is either based on your greekness or your leftistness, or both of them at the same time. This is only natural, as both of the said elements were factors in the eradication of Crimean Tatars and other Turks from their own lands. But when it's the kurds, or this or that, you have to raise your voice, right?
@@mamaymirza I mean you're right that crimean diaspora in turkey are turkish, it is very common for diaspora communities in a particular nation to be folded into that nation, but it's a mistake to project that backwards onto all crimean tartars outside of turkey, especially historically. The people who had atrocities committed against them in Crimea weren't turkish, even if many of their descendants are. That's beside the point though, the point is this: I pointed out turkish atrocities against greeks, and for some reason you viewed this as undermining the acknowledgement of opression against turkic peoples in various places. Why? How does that undermine it? The turkish state did not, does not, oppress or genocide turks, and the turkish state is what we're talking about here. Why bring it up? What's your implied context?
