How Turkey's Geography Affects Its Neighbors 

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You know what bothers me the most about is Turkey European or Asian issue? Whenever a website asks me to pick region, you'll have Turkey under Europe on others you'll have it under the Asia on others yet you'll have it under the Middle East so every time I just have to guess which. So developers everywhere, I would just much prefer it if you put Turkey on its own category. Not Europe, Asia or Middle East, just Turkey. Thanks.

Question : Is Turkey an European country or an Asian Country KhAnubis : Yes

the fact that the last word of the vid is "yes" makes me happy to my core.

Turkey is not in THE customs union, it has a bilateral customs union with the EU.

Umm in the past, when corn was first introduced in Turkey, it is said to came from Egypt. Egypt is "Mısır" in Turkish. So people called it "Mısır darısı" which means "Egyptian millet". They dropped the "darısı" part so corn just become Mısır.

People like to discount Turkey’s “Europeaness”, but Eastern Thrace (the part of Turkey that is geographically part of Europe) has a population of 11 million people, that’s larger than the populations of Ireland, Portugal, Sweden, Greece, Switzerland, Bulgaria and many, many more! It isn’t an insignificant tiny piece of wasteland. Yes, the vast majority of the country is in Asia, but there are still literally more Turks in Europe than Greeks, or Czechs, or Scots….

For most of history it would have made no sense for anyone but a horse nomad to travel to Asia via Ukraine rather than Anatolia. That would be picking an empty, underpopulated steppe traversed by dangerous horse nomads until lighting in urban civilization in Transoxiana, rather than going through the cities and towns and somewhat travelled routes of Anatolia, Syria and Persia, all pretty much the 'Asia' that people meant anyway.

I'd say that, as a Muslim turkish citizen, 95% of Turkey's population being Muslim is not relevant anymore. It is assigned as such in our IDs automatically bc our parents are Muslims. However, Turkey is heavily polarized in the case of religion. But good video after all. I didn't know that you knew some Turkish lol

Turkey in a way was blessed. Having mountains for defense plus being at literal geographic crossroads. Turkey in their previous iteration the ottomans was the main reason Portugal and Spain started venturing out and would “discover” new lands. So everyone in the America’s except natives should be thanking the Turks.

The name Mısır comes from the original arabic name. On the other hand the word mısır which basically means corn comes from zea mais (may not be one hundred percent correct) which turkish people translated it to mısır

I really wanna go to Turkey some day, to experience the country myself. Very interresting video.

You're so good with your jokes. I love hearing your commentary.

Sam, I'm 74, my parents are long dead, my wife and I live in our own house, and I love your channel!

Crazy how much your maps have improved. These look great!

The sponsor for this one sounds genuinely interesting! Plus, I think it's kinda awesome that you speak some Turkish! Thank you for the video! Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends! :)

a little correction, izmir is in aegean region not in marmara like said at 1:50 . also i'm from turkey and i can say that %95 islamic population is not realistic. i know thats come from official counts but in turkey you assigned to a religion from birth; mostly islam, because of family members. even your family members are non-islamic (mostly ateist or deist); they tent to assign you as muslim. because the peer and government pressure (last 10 years for g. pressure). well, no pressure offically, thanks to secular government (and essentially Atatürk), but you can have some "difficulties" as government employee also as private sector employee. if nothing else mobbing from workmates and bosses. so turkey has growing non-theist believes especially in younger generations but mostly slient because of that shits. %70-80 more reliable, also (likely) %70 of muslims are secular people and on harsh rules of islam, they does not count as muslims by strict muslim believers. because they tend to drink alcohol and lack of religious rituals (namaz, oruç, kurban, etc).

We have a popular saying in Turkey: "Geography is fate."

I love this video. So knowledge and thorough. 💯✅😏

Popcorn = Patlamış Mısır = Exploded Egypt 😅

Murmansk and Vladivostok are Russian ports open year round that aren't bottlenecked by Turkey and Denmark. Murmansk is kept ice free year round by the tail ends of the north Atlantic current. Actually the Baltic ports like St Petersburg aren't even ice free year round, and from December to May Murmansk, far to the north, replaces St Petersburg as the primary port of the Northwest. That's how powerful of an effect the north Atlantic current has on the environment of the area. Even further to the north the western sections of the island of Svalbard have ice free waters year round, well north of the Arctic circle. Though of course this is not relevant to Russia.

This was indeed a great video! I have one suggestion, can you make this type of video on Georgia?

early! Love your vids btw - keep it up!!

You are rocking that long hair, it suits you really well. Also, kudos from Brasil. Fancy learning portuguese? (I dont recomend it)

Great animations!

FUN FACT: The "Turkey" bird in America is named after a bird from the land of Turkey that it reminded the settlers of. That is the link in the names.

The progress of Turkish defence industry and foreign policy in the past decade is quite astonishing and is one that left all its foes and friend mouth wide agape in equal measures needless to mention its growth in both soft and hard power too,especially in middle east and Africa. Turkey has successfully presented itself as an afroasian country,with its airline flying to 60 African city,second after Ethiopian airline and first in cargo services in Africa. Turkey also has military deals with several African countries like Libya,somalia and recently Niger. Turkish government prowess in foreign policy advancement in Africa is at its climax as it has opened embassies in 45 African countries and that has pitted her against her western alliance, especially France which always saw Africa as its cash cow. Turkey's involvement in Africa is one that come in a multifaceted manner,ranging from education, heath,construction, diplomacy, military deals and trade. Disequilibrium in world power polarity notwithstanding, I hold the considered opinion that Turkey has cut itself a niche in international system under the stewardship of current president Taib Rajab erdogan.respect from Kenya 🇰🇪East africa

As a software developer, I love how the statement "Is Turkey European or Asian" evaluates to True.

Fantastic video

truly a mangificent geographical location

Another answer to this question could be in the realm of Climate: The Anatolian plateau contributes to the circular motion of cold air masses converging with hot air masses over the East Mediterranean, thus creating the Cyprus Low fronts, lasting for 3 days approx. moving west to east. This is crucial for the short rainy season of the Levant - Only ~5 months of quality rainy season, out of which 90% of rain comes in a few of those Cyprus Lows. It's wonderful how climate forms and depends on topography, even in the Meso scale. :)

dame turkey is such an interesting place through out its history like it has been my favourite to learn especially after kraut video about it and learning about it's Geography and how it effect it's geopolitics is always welcomed

Thanks for the informative video. Es war sehr aufschlussreich und belehrend zu gleich. Vamos ha ver si yo aprendo un poco turko, como que en el districto donde vivo, mas que 60% son turkos. Viele Dank! Keeping my eyes open for more of your content.

Turkey is an Asian, Europe/Western-integrated country. Turkic people originated from Asia and spread through all of the asia and some parts of Europe even before major powers like Ottoman Empire. Good work!

your pronunciation of turkish cities is on spot dude

Such a great vid! Teşekkürler ;D

Geography is destiny. Selam from european middle east (Bosnia).

Is it just me who realized Khanubis uses the font from the star trek title in his video thumbnails?

Nice to see you drew that Halayeb in Egypt.

Super video! A Turkish professor who worked in America once stated: "Turkey is like a transvestite; it's mind and body are in conflict." I couldn't have said it better. I will check out the language program who sponsored you. I've been here 8 years and still can't speak the language. lol

0:52. Just a correction. Anatolia refers just to the peninsula which makes about 3 quarters of the asian part of Turkey.

Very good and informative, but sorry turned off when the commercials arrived...

Really nice

A DAMN building spree. I lol'ed.

If I may, are you from Portland Oregon? I just heard in your history of how Russia got bit video that you used it in a comparison!

Surprised no reference to (1) the rapidly collapsing Turkish economy, which will certainly curtail Ankara's ambitions to becoming a regional power, and (2) increasing tensions with Greece and Cyprus, leading to the former's military integration with the US and France.

Nice vid but a little strange to have a language app sponsor that doesn't offer Turkish on a video about Turkey 😁

Helping geography now with his Turkey episode huh.

i have no idea why i found the "dam building spree" joke so funny

Nice video

You and CaspianReport have uploaded the same content at the same time!

6:26 very nice Turkish 👍

09:08 Thank you! I'm always picking up 'misir' whenever I hear Turks speak! Turns out they are just obsessed with corn 🌽

Omg!! You speak Turkish?! It's so hard to learn.👏

You should talk about how Turkey is exporting in large quantities audiovisual media all over the world, specially to Hispanic America.

Please make video about Georgia too

Him well its geography will give anyone a rocky start 🥁. And if we look at history we can answer this easily

I guess I owe an apology, first I tought another clickbate video but it turned out very well covered one.

Us Bulgarians also serve as a bridge to Asia ....maybe

8:30 I don't think Egypt & Sudan would be too fond of that border line in Bir Tawil

Bro, how do you make that turkey border animation in the intro

Great video

1:11 it's actually 7 writing systems

I like Turkish geography

Ich kann Deutsch, weil ich in Berlin gewohnt hätte. :D Spannende Zeitform :-) x)

Fun fact: In Turkish, India directly translates to “Turkeystan” -“Hindistan”

Türkçe bilmiyorum ama öğrenciyorum. Ben Amerika'da

Map statisticians: *put turkey under Europe* Everyone: Turkey isn't in Europe! Map statisticians: *put turkey under Asia* Everyone: Turkey IS in Europe! Me as a Turk: just put it in both categories so I can see turkey's statistics in both Europe maps and Asia maps

Yes, Edirne is totally a big city. Tekirdag is 2 times bigger than Edirne. I know that Edirne has a historical importance, but its small nowadays

No sabía que hablaras español. Deberías subtitular los videos en español.

Please, do Malaysia.

Greece was the one most affected by Turkey's Geography.

Yusuf tazim: You have Europe on the left and you have Aisa on the Right

“Live in No Where, Oklahoma” I have been doxxed ahhhhh help ahhh, how did he find me??!?!?!?

Wow

Is Turkey, european or asian? Answer: Yes.

Mısır (popcorn) Mısır (Egypt) it’s true

Its a Eurasian country.

Great content, the vid was on point. But I would like to point out that bothers me. In every video, chat, talk everybody is constantly saying that Turkey is %99.9 muslim, %95 muslim. This is not a good representation of a country. Recently it has been published that out of each 40 people 7 of them categorize themselves as non-believers or atheists. Thank you

I watched 3 times and I didn't hear anything at all, I think until you speak up I won't come back. My phones at max volume so its not my phone

9:08 well, Egypt, if it makes you feel any better, our word for Turkey means a large tasty bird

Hey why's you have to call out "nowhere Oklahoma" like that? We have German and Spanish classes

One big problem I have with this vid is the complete silence on Cyprus. Turkey owns the northern half of the island and it's still an ongoing major geopolitical issue.

As a Turk, i really enjoyed your video 👏

They just officially changed the name to the Türkiye Republic!

Vayy adam Türkçe biliyormuş

“Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.” ― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Puns threw me off, 8/10

Euro civizilation lies in west of Turkish one and asian civizilation lies on east of Turkish civizilation.

You got me with rinderetiketten keine Ahnung gesetz.

Can you make video on India someday?

9:00 exploded egypt… very nice

I´ve lived in berlin is I habe in berlin gewohnt.

Generally considered an Asian (Western Asian) country with a small piece of land in Europe (South-eastern Europe).

Let's hope Turkey's neighbours don't celebrate Thanksgiving by carving up Turkey

Please for the love of God man just make a playlist with *ALL* of your videos in it so I can play it to sleep to and get you free views!

i wish we could just move ourselves to middle of pacific ocean and finally get rid of this stupid place

As a turkish, that was a pretty ok sentence.

Why isn’t dubai the capital of 🇦🇪

TR DEN SELAM ❤