@@bullmoosevelt4495 of course he does . democratic nations can be threatened , scammed and played over and over again with each new administration and democracy is a wonderful ruse to make the peasants believe their vote actually matters.
@Rex Deorum how am i supporting it exactly? i merely stated why erdogan "loves" democracy while showing the mistakes so called "democratic" nations made over and over again when dealing with erdogan over the past decades.
Yep, perfect analogy. An enemy of the Turkish Republic hiding beneath a veneer of civility and charm. I suppose the Syrian Civil War was for Erdogan like the Clone Wars was for Palpatine, using it to gain leverage and play the sides against one another. Once the army try to overthrow him, like the Jedi tried to overthrow Palpatine, he reveals himself to be a reactionary Islamist, just like Palpatine was a Sith Lord.
@@abuzercortsuzlugil9035 Military lost in 2016 and a right wing corrupt islamist which has a seprated opposition is probally not going to go so soon,tho it would be nice if he does
You have my permission to edit all 3 parts together into a long 4 hour video, and upload it to your channel. BUT, I have two conditions. 1: Link back to my channel 2: Give credit and link to all the artists who helped me finish this series faster starting with part 2. PS: There is a reason I split this up, I doubt anyone would watch a full 4 hour video.
You're honestly one of the best creators on this platform. Like you're making more compelling and entertaining content than most Hollywood movies with multi-million dollar budgets, and with the swiftness of a normal RU-vid channel
kraut how do i start editing? i dont have programs, i dont have experiece, but just say one little thing to i start cuz i really have passion for this area
@@Terekeme1 Hitler made Germany way way stronger too, that is not the point. We have military power however, I cannot buy a car in Turkey even if I work for 5 years without spending any money. I cannot afford a vacation, I cannot pay my f*cking rent. F*ck that. F*ck all the politicians
@@rrogerx92III Its normal i guess when germans or other europeans were producing cars .Turkey was busy with different things . Plus turkish currency was good 10 years ago . After all the drama the economy is normal
@@Terekeme1 Yeah true but one thing without Erdogan we would be at a better place both economy wise and human rights wise. First and second term were not that bad but after that Turkey became a fascist state.
Channels like yours are why I’m happy RU-vid exists. Hours and hours of passionate work by artists and historians so that we can understand the world better
Unfortunately RU-vid itself tries its best to prohibit Channels like this from flourishing and getting popular, instead pandering towards daily fortnite funnies. Really sad.
I can't even express how satisfying it is to see kraut show all the books he had to read for these videos, such a rare but phenomenal thing to witness on youtube.
This video series is an embodiment of the internet's value as a medium. An independently produced, hours long documentary which covers, in an outstandingly exhaustive yet entertaining fashion, an extremely important topic and one which all non-Turkish mainstream outlets ignore because they have their head too far up their *** in their own Euro/American/Arab centric issues and biases. Bravo on providing non- Turkish audiences with this magnifcient window into the dynamics of this region.
@@funbun420 Yes it gives Erdoğam way too much credit. In reality he just used peoples values for power and stole the wealth of the people. No wonder countless mafia organisations work with government officals.
I realized why you chose Turkey when you provided the map portraying spheres of cultural influence between the EU and Middle East. My brain must be fried to have realized this now. Their perspective in modern world history must be priceless.
It makes our perspective relatively objective against both the West and the East but it also divides the country even harder than the democrats and the republicans are. However that's possible.
That would be true if our education system would let citizens of our country to build such an outgoing view to the modern world. This is ironic: While this current party in power go against Atatürk′s ″mind your own business″ principle and chase influence in Europe and Middle East, the average Turkish citizen′s view of the modern world became narrower and narrower to the point it's fixated on Erdoğan′s views or opposition′s reactions to those views, dependent on what kind of family and environment the citizen in question has been born into and grew up in. The modern world is becoming evermore polarized in the hands of nationalism rising in almost everywhere and the geopolitics of Turkey could build the perfect view of modern societies′ problems and their solutions on its citizens′ mind. But sadly, the only people who can benefit from others′ experiences are the brightest ones, and such a person′s name has been mentioned in the first episode: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. The very education system whose foundations he had built himself (Atatürk wrote the first geometry textbook in the country) has been changed so much, now it's a machine that spits out students to take extra 2-4 years in universities only to find themselves in the ever growing army of the unemployed. So all a university graduate in here can think about is whether they can ever feed themselves. There is hardly any place for priceless perspectives on the modern world history on their minds.
Being from the Ozarks... Our region is very complicated for the few people that live here. For as young as our history is. When talking about social issues they are very complex for what they are. Then again that can almost be for every country/region.
@@Kraut_the_Parrot Get a Macaw fursona please, I know hundreds of artists that would make artwork and even costume for you immediately. Also it is guaranteed to piss off reactionaries :D Sincerely from a fan who's also a furry/scalie dragon. P.S Do you plan on making an episode about Nordic countries in the future? I'm Icelandic and would be very interested in helping in regards to research if you need it!
as an egyptian with 10% turkish ancestry, this series was extremely entertaining and informative. The facial expressions on the country balls had be rolling xd Imagine if this was an anime
@@mullahgaming9446 the sheer work that goes into these videos is immense. You can't deny that. If he makes mistakes, it's because his sources are wrong, not because he is ignorant or too lazy to research
@@justabeardedguythatisahero9848 You mean that guy who regularly lies and is full of shit; Faulk is sloppy and full of shit here's a video which shows Faulk doesn't do a semblance of honest research. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BFza0_mVUxc.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EhRGXRCuikQ.html
@Hernando Malinche Ryan Faulk is a Race Realist who used to run the website and channel Alternate Hypothesis, imagine bullshit and cherry-picked sources to support a scientifically defunct position and you got Ryan Faulk.
@@GuyShōtō I like Kraut, but he really flubbed those anti race realist videos. The ideas behind it were correct, but he did kinda fuck up with some basic shit.
Taylan kuz Examples? None of this opinion bullshit either, give me fucking sources and concrete examples. I want specific instances and or data points. I want to know what works of the authors he used are wrong or have errors in their works.
As a Turk i can say that documentary is objective of course there were some informations that you should give to viewer but i didnt see any fake news or some shit just real things. He basically made a documentary that can give historical, political, social, and culturel info about Turkey well done my friend it makes me sad that there is no Turkish version of guy that makes this video but i must say Teşekkürler to you
Thank you for this effort. Speaking as a Greek, I learned more about our neighbours in the 5 hours of your work than in 12 years of formal "schooling" (or whatever passes for that in Greece, but that's another matter)!
history, especially about the neighbors and "enemies" never teached in detail in our types of countries, cause you know, plebs need to fear, and for fear you need enemies, you cannot make enemies with whom you understand
"Bugün, Sovyetler Birliği dostumuzdur, komşumuzdur, müttefikimizdir. Bu dostluğa ihtiyacımız vardır; fakat, yarın ne olacağını kimse bugünden kestiremez; tıpkı Osmanlı gibi, tıpkı Avusturya-Macaristan gibi parçalanabilir, ufalanabilir; bugün elinde sımsıkı tuttuğu milletler avuçlarından kaçabilirler. Dünya yeni bir dengeye ulaşabilir. İşte o zaman, Türkiye ne yapacağını bilmelidir. Bizim, bu dostumuzun idaresinde, dili bir, özü bir kardeşlerimiz vardır. Onlara sahip çıkmaya hazır olmalıyız. Hazır olmak, yalnız o günü susup beklemek değildir; hazırlanmak lazımdır. Milletler buna nasıl hazırlanır; manevî köprülerini sağlam tutarak. Dil bir köprüdür, inanç bir köprüdür. Köklerimize inmeli ve olayların böldüğü tarihimizin içinde bütünleşmeliyiz. Onların, yani dış Türklerin bize yaklaşmasını bekleyemeyiz, bizim onlara yaklaşmamız gerekli." -Atatürk Not so much
You got the whole mhp and iyi thing wrong. İyi was formed in 2017 after mhp campaigned for a yes vote in the 2017 referendum. It has nothing to do with woman rights.
@@jhfridhem They have 4 women parliament members (Out of a total 49) and a womens branch in their party (as do all parties in Turkey, as a way of supporting women)
Btw that's the origin of the stupid Surrender meme of the French as the american started propaganda against French military might just like the british did before with Napoleon's height both wrong and the exact opposite of what France military and leader were, which is Great
@@ommsterlitz1805 Bro chill. France has a great military history; but they got caught up in one mega blunder in WW2. Its okay. Theres always jokesters and the appreciators alike.
Yasin Tüfekçi She is socially liberal but extreme and toxic nationalist you know that. The fact that you advocate for female rights doesn’t mean you can’t be a nationalist.
@@youkiddinme6882 she is neither extreme nor toxic nationalist. She is liberal nationalist but maybe you are one of the extreme leftist who thinks everyone who disagrees with you equals to h*tler.
As a Turk, I was pleasantly surprised when I saw the first part of the series a few months ago. When I woke up that day, I sure wasn't expecting to see a 2-hour long documentary by a foreign guy about Turkish history on my RU-vid recommendation feed. I immensely enjoyed the whole series, well done sir. Most likely because I've lived through it all very recently, I found the only lacking part in these video series was the Gulen-Erdogan dynamics. But that is quite a niche topic for an outsider and very recent therefore I understand there could be a lack of trusted sources on the issue as well. Overall, incredible work.
Niye övüyorsun ki herifin onlarca yanlışı var. Büyük selçuklu ile anadolu selçuklularını bile karıstırdı. Feto darbesine darbe demedi. Atatürk'ü ermeni soykırımı var demiş gibi anlattı. Neresi iyi belgesel ki
@KdrgrpkdrgrpSaçmalama soykırım falan yok. Kendi askerimizin yemeğinden verdik ermenilere ve ermenileri öldüren eşkıya- haydutlar mahkemeye çıkarıld, idam edildi ve bunların hepsi belgeli. Ayrıca bunlar için ağzında kuş tutsan ırkçılık yapacaklar. Son olarak Atatürk bile soykırım değil diyor. Bu salak sanki Atatürk soykırım var demiş gibi göstermiş.
@Kdrgrpkdrgrp Soykırım yok sürüldüler. Ben burada yabancıların relocation dediğini savunuyorum. Keyfimizden mi sürdük onları ruslarla, ingilizler ve fransızlarla işbirliği yapıyorlardı. Bu konuda yüzlerce belge hem İngiltere'nin yüzyıl sonra gizliliğini kaldırdığı için arşivlerde bulabilirsin. Türk arşivleri de sonuna kadar açık birçok soykırım tarafını tutanlara açtık gösterdik. Biliyor musun neresi açık değil ermenistandaki arşivler açık değil. Birine sordum niye açık değil diye sordum. Belgeler yanlışmış o ne demekse. Abdülhamid'in zamanında bir sürü terörist eylemler yaptığını unutuyorsun. Banka soygunu, doğuda türkleri katletmek sadece birkaçı. O zamanlı devlet de tepki olarak gitmiş olayı bastırmış ama biz yenince soykırım-katliam onlar yenince bağımsızlık mücadelesi değil mi? Ek olarak Abdülhamit birkaç kere hamidiye alaylarında reform yapmaya çalışıyor. Beceriksiz ve halka gereksiz yere saldıranları cezalandırmak için bunun da belgesi var arkadaş. Soykırım yaptığın millete zarar veren adamı neden idam edersin komedi ya. Ulan Ortadoğu'da birsinin burnu kanasa Türkler suçlu eğer isyan etmiyorlar ise süryanileri niye öldürelim. Benim bilgimi kötülemek için ''Okuldaki eğitimle burada tarihi çok biliyormuş kafalarında gezmek cidden utanılacak birsey. '' demen daha komik napacan ki başka. Al şu videoları izle belki birşeyler öğrenirsin. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0xkrrYsU9Og.html&ab_channel=Habert%C3%BCrk ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-P4EAcAdtoSs.html&ab_channel=Almanya%27danHaber ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EhTTDa6JUs8.html&ab_channel=OnurcanM%C4%B1s%C4%B1r ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XHL00AInJok.html&ab_channel=T%C3%BCrkTarih%C3%A7ilerdenBilgiler ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jWsk9XvnFfU.html&ab_channel=Habert%C3%BCrk ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ycf9POkqK88.html&ab_channel=HaberG%C3%BCncesi
Im a Turk. i have read and learned first two video’s subjects in school, heard from older generations. it was impressive to seeing something that well put together. i was happy cuz people from other countries will have a great source to learn about my country’s history. but this one, i literally lived all these. really impressive Kraut. thank you for the video. We must share this triology as much as we can, so people can have wider, better perspective on Turkey. Sadly most people just believes media coverage.
Several corrections i wish to make: For the first years of AKP, Erdoğan was just a figurehead. Over the years he took control of the party, kicking out his old allies and filling the party with loyalists. That's when he started to rule Turkey with his own ideology and Turkey changed course, while also taking credit for the developments in the first years of AKP. Presidential System does have limitations, a person can be elected as presidently only twice, it's in the constitution. He theorically can't stay in power forever. Erdoğan did not.want to change law according to sharia. That bill about rape was a pardoning of statuory rapes for some if they were married. The reason was that many people in the less developed countrysides still marry with minors (unoffical marriages, age of consent is 18 in Turkey, many of those girls at age 15-17 and their husbands barely above 18). These people ended up getting imprisoned for statuory rapes after many years of their marriage. Many wives of such men demanded release of their husbands. Young turkish people don't necessarily lean towards left, they simply start to resemble their European counterparts, many Turkish youngsters are openly atheist but their opinions would be considered right wing in Europe. 2016 coup was staged by Gulen, not by Kemalists. It's a fact. After the purge, many kemalists who were imprisoned in the Ergenekon trials returned back to their positions. I would say the army is more kemalist than before 2016, but they would not risk staging a coup. Erdoğan is an islamist who wishes to be caliph, but he can only convince the capabable men to take action if the action would pragmatically benefit Turkey. That's why Turkey's intentions are always blurred, if Turkey follows islamist ideology or just uses religion for its own interests. No matter how strong Erdoğan is, he cannot just send army to wherever he wishes. Turkey and Iran have OK relations. Turks and Iranians have nothing against each other. Turkey dislikes the Iranian engagement in the ME but nevertheless both countries have an understanding coming from historic and cultural ties.
@@TheReaper569 wdym, it's the truth. and it's the one topic about turkey that the west is extremely confused and ill-informed about. seemed weird to me that this channel completely dropped the gülen plotline that was built from the previous video and breezed past that coup attempt with a half-assed explanation. there was also no mention of 17-25 december events that heavily damaged erdoğan's (and akp's) public image.
@@kaanaytar4793 that i agree this video is really not that accurate. What i disagree with is that the army is now more kemalist than before. They purged kemalist soldiers as well. Not only officers mere soldiers following orders who didn't know why they were there were put to prisons.
another detail that wasn't mentioned in the video: -during the aftermath of the coup attempt, erdoğan created a nationwide paranoia, as he accused his criticizers of being a "fetöcü". this resulted in various dissident journalists or authors being locked up (i guess he did kinda mention that bit in the video, after all one thing everyone knows about turkey is the locked up journalists). the weird thing is that the akp voter demographic was very fond of fetö during their prime while everyone else called akp out for giving gülen and his men enormous influence and power. after the coup, all of a sudden akp voters became the most zealous haters of gülen movement.
@@kaanaytar4793 also let's remember that during the pandemic all the thieves, murderers, rapists were let go from prisons. But the journalists and soldiers and other political prisoners were not granted a leave. 2 months ago my house was rubbed by a gang of previously imprisoned thieves..
I was enlisted in the Cyprus army at the time the 2016 coup happened, and every single higher up in the ranks at the time was sure the coup was a sham. Apart from the reported cases of soldiers being told that its a drill and not a coup, which might happen in an actual coup, what gave it away in their opinion was that they didn't cut the country's telecommunications. According to them, the first thing you should do in a modern coup, if you are not a complete moron or pretending to coup, is to cut the telecommunications network of the country. The fact that the coup was ongoing and Erdogan was publicly skype calling the Turkish ppl announcing he is fine, plus the fact that not a single one of Erdogan's administration was arrested during the coup, kinda gives it away as a sham coup to give Erdogan a reason to arrest opposition and do a rapid cleanse of the army ranks.
@Furkan8k that was the reason. I don't know if the ringleaders of the coup thought it as genuine or just pendent to make a coup, but I believe that the coup was a very well directed provocation. The reason? What followed it. The concentration of all powers of the Turkish state and the silencing of all dangerous opposition.
The telecommunications wasn't cut off because the coup attempt was conducted earlier then on planned time, due to coup plans leaking and coup plotters getting cold feet. Just because you can't answer some 'though' questions doesn't mean it was a fake coup attempt.
I just love this. such a freaking master piece. I would literally kill for a Ethiopian version of this. I feel like Eth is so overlooked and it has a special history and politics which i feel could benefit everyone if it was more distributed. i can help out with research and content if needed (or wanted). again great work!
@EiiLiioiiB, I think a lot of people would love to see an in-depth video like this about Ethiopia. That country holds a lot more geo-political importance than most would think, fascinating nation with a fascinating history.
Then go join his Patreon. He's got a list of topics everyone votes on for what he covers, and if Ethiopia's not in there I bet you could ask him to add it and he would. The only parts of Ethiopian history I know are how they're the people most likely to own the Ark of The Covenant and are one of the few countries to successfully drive off attempted colonization, and that alone makes me want to know more.
Kraut uploading the last part of the Turkish Century _Everybody liked that_ edit: Saudis and Iranians as Among Us crewmates sussing each other out was by far the best bit of art here.
Losing my shit over the revelation that my dad, a Lebanese armenian from Beirut that immigrated to America, took us on family walks through malls/shopping centers without buying anything probably for similar reasons to why Turkish people did that in the 2000’s
@@nicholassternon5857 At 21:29 he talks about how in Turkey with the wave of shoppings malls that were built because of corrupt contracts w the government there was a strange social phenomenon where poor families would go on "family walks" through these malls to look at all the stuff they can't buy with the idea that one day they'd be prosperous enough to afford them.
The Turks are important to Serbia because they support secular Muslims within Serbia's muslim community and keep islamic extremism and Saudi influence in check, which if left uncheck would cause a lot of problems to say the least, the last thing Serbia needs is an additional flashpoint.
4 года назад
Exactly! That's why you (Europe) should stop pushing Turkey away to Middle East and Asia. That makes our country more radical. We need to be the bridge.
@Lord Ball-sac the 2nd they've lived in Novi Pazar for while longer. Not really of Saudi disposition, in fact Iran was the first large provider of weapons and funding. Things change, Saudis have money to spend and with money comes influence, they're buying land, opening schools and even built a hospital. You can never be too careful about such influence, people can be swayed and radicalized. Turkey has unmatched soft power due to historical ties, much more than Russia does to Serbs and Germany to Croats.
I think US is the perfect example of what most of the countries doing in the world. Despite being a unique innovation (a combination of many different nations) it acts just like a conventional country; focuses too much on regulating the world power and fails at addressing the needs of its people. Turkey is the same.
@@mehmetgurdalHere in the USA we don't believe that it is the government's responsibility to take care of the people. We tend to fetishize the idea of individual/personal "responsibility" to an unrealistic degree. It's one of the reasons why universal healthcare is such a difficult sell and also why our "self defense" culture is so extreme. The spectre of governmental over reach is also a major factor in why we are so suspicious of the government doing things "for the people".
The Iraq war in a way was necessary. Definitely prevented a genocide of the Kuwaitis by the hands of Saddam. And the instability in the middle east was inevitable when Ataturk banned the caliphate and the entire Muslim world was left scrambling on defining what their identity truly was.
@@welcometothenextstep6496 caliphate did not mean shit when the araps revolted and sided with British. Caliphate issued orders to kill Atatürk because he was fighting for our homeland. It was an outdated system that had no real pull if the beholder was too poor and weak to enforce it.
Actually, proxy wars are meant to do one thing: SELL GUNS. Turks sell their guns, and Russians sell their guns. Everybody gets rich. And as always the weak die and suffer. That's why Atatürk and their followes like us don't like foreign interventions. (Cyprus is another example)
@@dootrevenant7203 well its normal. Governments most of the time want to tell the story that most benefiticial to them. That's why in the school we haven been thought about Ottomon Empire for six years and just a year for the rest of the history...
I think that’s because it’s told by the various perspectives and how we are seen from the outside. All the negative and positive aspects in a neutral way, it’s pretty good and informational even though there might be still some mistakes.
As Turks, collectively, I think we owe you a 'thank you'. Thank you for researching all this information to the last bit and preparing better instructive stuff than the current education system of our country. Seriously, you cant learn more than half of this stuff in your Turkish compulsory education of 11 years (I may be wrong about the length but it's around 11) both the negative and the positive knowledge. Which is not okay. Thank you for informing the masses about our entire history in an entertaining style! This was probably the shortest way you can do it though ^^
@Kdrgrpkdrgrp educational systems and requirements change almost every year, making it very hard to describe the system. But to sum it up in its entirity; its a joke. :D
History lessons in schools are intended to be limited about recent history otherwise it wouldn't be education but propaganda. Person only learn about recent history and ideologies by himself/herself.
@isak entel means "half an intelecual" tho xd so that saying is actually to insult those who pretend to be well thought/knowing about the topics that are being discussed but actually full of shit.
@@TuDeDaTe Isn't that bothers you that the people use that term is nowhere near to make that judgement for competence of knowledge? Mostly those people love the bliss of ignorance and protect their borders of ignorance with those accusations. And also, an ''entel'' is the halfway being an actual intellectual so count me in on this train my friend.
Hi. I am a Turkish Gen Z person. I've been speaking English fluently since age 14. Throughout my early teenage years I have traumatized myself with the racism, discrimination and hate in the Countryball community. Even when they were not openly hateful, majority of Turkey content was biased against Turkish people. So I stopped even looking at any countryball content since then. I gave this video a chance after 4 years and I am so shocked about how objective and correct this video is without any hate or internalized racism. Thank you so much for making this video. It was very entertaining and informative.
@Kirin Sama This guy didn't even inform us about his religion. And you are the only reason people leave this community. It's not about throwing hate at each other, we're just here to enjoy the content. You don't even know the guy and are just spreading hate in the comment section. I don't know maybe ask him his discord ID, talk a little, have his thoughts on this subject and then at least you would have spoken after examining his views on the topic. And also Islam isn't a religion in which you become a traitor if you don't partecipate, its all up to you and there isnt any punishment.
Thanks a lot Kraut. I've been feeling Turkey's important for the modern story, but I've not been able to put my finger on it. It is rarely covered much in the media, which around here has been mainly flailing between "otto man bad" and "you no be racis". This trilogy has greatly helped understand its place in history and modernity. Also, I love the polandball style. Even if it makes it twice as long to watch properly when you count the pauses :). Finally, a warm greeting from Europe to our Turkish friends. We got our differences, and I don't know the proper answers. I don't know whether Turkey should have been let into the EU, or we should never have made such promises. But our leaders - dare I say "we" - screwed you over. And in my limited capacity, I apologize for that.
4 года назад
Thank you for acknowledging that. Greetings from Turkey. :) Have a great day!
Hey, thanks for writing a comment like this. In recent years many people from Western countries hate Turkish people because of our government, so it’s nice to hear things like this from a European. Greetings from Turkey :)
Thank you for your friendly comment. We have our differences but we are all humans after all. Hopefully, the EU and Turkey will have positive relations in the future whether Turkey becomes a member or not.
If this sincerity was the attitude which Turks would see from Europeans back in the old days, I believe so many things would differ now. That's it, sincerity and some respect. You don't need to apologize on my behalf and I don't think that majority of the Turks would think the otherwise. When you just listen the other party and express yourself with sincerity and respect, you don't need anything else. Thank you, again, on my behalf.
I'm Turkish. This video series made more sense to me than any look at my own country and nation's history I received as I grew up, stuck as I was between Kemalism and Erdoğanism. I cannot explain how much it means to me to have this video series. It was 4 hours of genuine catharsis. Thank you.
to clarify a bit, I align far more closely with Kemalism but this series pointed out many flaws of that ideology to me, in a good way- so that it doesn't become dogma and can be improved.
Not really. I can't imagine ever these two to engage in open conflict anytime soon. Turkey isn't Georgia or Ukraine. Cold war comparisons are probably more accurate. Especially after we see what has been happening with Armenia and Azerbaijan in the last few days.
@michael wittmann No need to. Turks and Russians play on proxies and most of them are on stalemate. Oh about the bombing of Turkish soldiers, there was retaliation aftermath.
As a Turk grew up in a non-religious secular family, I watched all three parts in one go, and it was awesome. This is a thorough analysis of Anatolia and Turkey trying to be unbiased from start to finish. Those videos even revealed me some questions I would've never asked before seeing things through glasses of a third party. I can't thank you enough for your hard work, this was very insightful even for me, who has been living for 30+ years in Turkey. Even though I'm ethnically a Turk, I feel like a minority because I'm a non-Muslim, and I have been getting gradually more concerned and hopeless for my country year by year. Hope everything changes for the better in the future. Again, thank you very much!
I guess i am nitpicking but he didn't really think that through did he. It's easy to be confused. But you can't really interpret it any otherway. Soo i think it is okay.
its just so unreal to see how an *individual* (with help of many others of course), but still without some studio behind them, can muster up the resources and especially the stamina to produce this quality of content. kraut i offically declare you my inofficial history/politics professor and i might even rate you on ratemyprofessors(dot)com. thank you dear for everything you are offering on this platform which most often seems to be devoid of actual effort.
yes he said that but he said it in a way that at this time we are going through a time that honest people are more poor and its all because of the system that needs to be changed and its going to take time
I read an atlas of World history and the maps were fascinating and I wanted to learn more about the hittites and I went down a rabbit hole (Wikipedia page after page after page). So two days later I see that you have uploaded 2 videos on Turkey and here I am today pushing the reminder button like a little lab rat pushing a button for some coke Thank you for putting this together
The problem is that foreigners think that the Turks do not suffer, they always think we are occupying and massacring. I am grateful to you for this video.
my guy, he aint a crook, he doesnt use wrong info, if anybody is biased, pretty sure it is you, he is just giving his perspective and his opinion from HIS POINT OF VIEW, he isnt trying to tear down political enemies, he is just trying to teach some history, he does not ignore the brutality, did you even watch the first part of the series, he is not biased. you are.
I gotta say Kraut, the improvement from each part and the large audience has made me really happy, cause now people actually know something about Turkey. Thanks Kraut
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As a Turk that what makes me happy. Everything about the Turkey on Internet is filled with the same words. "Genocide, Greece, Armenia." Nothing more. As if this is all this nation with a thousands of history is about. Noone knows nothing more than these words about a 80 million nation. This was frustrating to me. We don't "only" critize AMERİCAfor what did they do the Indians right? Or Germans about Jews. There are also other things we like as well.
@ seriously. I don't know why but when I type "the ottoman empire" the top searches are about the conquest of Constantinople, WW1, and the Armenian Genocide.
Turkey: "Heh, why even try to join EU when we could potentially be the next EU?" EU: "What do you mean?" Turkey: "Reunite Muslim Countries!" EU: "NO!" Turkey: "Then you'll let us join EU?" EU: "Also no..."
@@hazarcevik7592 cogundan derken? polonya romanya yunanistan bulgarya moldova ukranya kosova albanya sirbistan belerus montenogra estonya hirvatisdan latviya malta italya vs.. umarim bol keseden attiginin farkina varirsin.. turkiye disina cikmak istersen gidecegin bir kac ulke var digerleri turkiyeden beter .. beyninizde turkiyeyi oyle kucultmussunuzki turkiyenin gucunden bi habersiniz .. uyanin negativ deyil pozitif olun.. kostek deyil destek olun.. bu kafayla bile senden daha uyanigim dftydfhtfhj:D:D:D:D:D
It’s unreasonable the amount of time an effort this man puts in, just for me to listen while I work and be calm an educated. We take the age we live in for granted, I just feel so lucky to be able to listen to someone allll the way in Europe who is also educated. I believe this is THE apex of education an knowledge sharing right now.
Just wow. As a 20 year old turkish guy, i can easily say that this documentary is the most objective and the most accurate thing about turkey i have seen in my entire life. It has to be a mandatory lesson in schools.
@@cybershadow136 If i remember he is not bilingual. Most people in Europe can speak 2 or even more languages (for me: german, english, spanish, learning french). You need to at least learn one (not native) language to the extend of beeing able to have a fluent conversation to pass school. It is even common for people to speak fluent russian (DDR/GDR had mandatory russian).
@@foty8679 That's an over-generalization, Europe isn't a single entity and every country has different education systems and approaches on learning foreign or regional languages, if you go in France you'll find few who will speak another language besides French, same goes in Italy or many countries in East Europe (unless these are from the ethnic minorities of these countries). Wealthier and more open nations (with few exceptions) are on the other hand more multilingual, northern Europeans are highly proficient in English for example. And lastly there's a generational difference, younger people speak more languages that old people, this is more evident in southern and eastern Europe (excluding those who had access to higher education, who were a minority back then).
I love the fact that non turks get to have such a deep insight into turkish society and the turkish mindset in politics instead of the dumbed down narrative of western media...
So much has happened recently, with the evros border crisis, the standoff of Greek and Turkish navies for the eez in the east med, turning agia sofia into a mosque and now a potential full out war between Armenia and Azerbaijan that i feel that i wanted to see more. However, it is one of the best if not the best documentary series i have ever seen, you have done an amazing job.
Turkish rock from 70s is also great. You should check Anatolian Rock Revival Project youtube chanel. They post mostly underrated 60s and 70s Turkish rock. American rappers like Dr. Dre and Mos Def use some of those songs as samples.
@@TheMattsem are Libyan people miss Kaddafi? Do you think that it was true to overthrow him? I know he was a dictator but all i know is Libyan people was living in great conditions in his times, can you enlighten me a little bit, thanks.
It's crazy how Turkeys 20th century history is kind of similar to Argentina 20th century history, me being an Argentinian, some things you talked about on (mostly) the last two videos ressembled a lot to the history of my country. I'm glad that i've encountered this channel, i love your videos!
Some other Argentinian user also mentioned these similarities. Would you like to recommend some works? With English subtitles or commentary if it's a video?
good morning. But come and tell this to our so called "secularists". Their Brain dont work,sorry but it is so. Without Erdogan, Turkey would be today a 3rd world country, maybe divided in several pieces.
@@cybershadow136 Don't listen to Erdoğan supporters. They are brainwashed. There is a strong opposition against Erdogan at the moment in the country, actually he is so nervous that he has been getting more aggressive in his actions- like a dying animal.
This channel, particularly the videos on China’s rise of influence in our time, Hungary’s slip into a corrupt building contract country and this trilogy on Turkey has made me become more interested in Eastern History, politics outside of my country (Australia) and the history of politics not only at a national scale but at a international geopolitical level.
Yes! Belarus is my home country and I really appreciated that gesture. Though I don’t live there anymore, I’m keeping up with the protests, and hoping for the best
@@timalechkevitch4566 a crying shame your country essentially went from communist dictatorship to non-communist dictatorship and the last time it was actually democratic it was quickly revoked by the russkies
@@booperdooperproductions2545 Belarus has todays Ukraine as a reminder what will happen to it when it becomes "democratized" with the help of the west. Today they announced that in 15 years they won't be able to pay pensions at all and even in the first 9 months of 2020 they already lack 600 mil € for the pension fond.
Image how different things could have been if France and Germany didn't oppose to Turkey joining the EU way back. Although that does me wonder if perhaps they knew something the public didn't Edit, oh yeah I forgot. Cyprus
If the french and germans let turks join the EU the English wouldn't leave it the middle east would look a hella different place and the syrian refugee crisis would be diverted. If the turkey got into EU, the EU itself would be saved lol now EU is doomed to it's demographic suicide in the next 100 years to come as the refugees they took breed more than our ageing boomers...
@@emyrgrznsky9943 europeans always fear this, on the other hand second and third generation turkish germans cant form two sentences in turkish. You guys underestimate your culture and your power to assimilate.
I better give you a little notice; This video consist of extreme misunderstanding of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's ideology. I would recommend you to read Nutuk (which is a book he wrote about the years of The Turkish War Of Independence and years following that where many reforms were made and a secular, modern Turkish Republic was formed). It seems obvious that this guy either didn't read the book or he is simply manipulating the facts to prove a point. Let me start with pinpointing some of the mistakes he (Kraut) made. First of all, before Atatürk (In the Ottoman Empire) people from different religions or different national identities weren't treated equal or even wasn't set to be equal against law. Which was later changed by Atatürk (we are talking about early 20th centruy so at that time colored people weren't allowed to enter many events in the "egaliter" USA). So Kemalism isn't about just being Turks and not being anything else. Atatürk's nationalism is based on the national identity (language and folklore etc) of Turkey but not as a religous or racial concept which would've divide the country, it's quite the oppposite, it's about unifying the people of Anatolia(which majoritly spoke Turkish) against external and schismatic threats which were boosted by imperialistic passions of our enemies during and after the great war. Also calling Atatürk an isolationist is near dellusional if not completely ignorant ( pls google the sadabat pact and earlier attempts to establish an Europen Union) as he actually set a route for Turkey which was heading west whilst establishing a peaceful relation with it's eastern neighboors. And about the minority problems: Kraut seemingly doesn't understand the challanges of the time, you may thing landlords and bandits are merely a deal of the medieval times if you leave in a developed country but after the war of independence Turkey faced a real problem on it's south-eastern region. Local authorities were revolting against the central goverment to keep their powers since they knew modernisation and reforms in their region would mean a farewell to their unrightfully claimed power so they used propaganda to turn our Kurdish brothers against us. So Atatürk had to take some hard measures, sometimes even having to use military rule in some counties. And even then he didn't insult Kurds or Armenians as a whole. People of Turkey had to fight in terrible conditions to keep their lands. For instance their villages were burned by schismatic Armenians who acted with hatred against Turks with the manipulation of their orthodox Russian friends. So sadly but naturally a hatred against Armenians was born. It's not Atatürk's policies that made people anti-Armenian in Turkey. The Kemalism you are talking about isn't Atatürk's ideology, it's what far right nationalist try to make him seem like. Anyone who lives in my country and has Greek, Armenian, Kurd roots is welcome by people like me who were inspired by how many great things Atatürk made in such a short amount of time as long as they don't insult my nation, it's leader and what this country stands for: Yurtta Sulh Cihanda Sulh ( Peace in our motherland and peace in the world). Thank you for reading this looong comment :D.
The guy is an ignorant orientalist. He brands Atatürk as racist and isolationist, quite contrary, he tried to take Mosul, was almost declaring war against France over Hatay in French Syrian Mandate. He created his own set of alliances like Balkan Entente and Sadabad Pact against great powers. Hell if you dig enough you can find a few documents about how he envisioned to help Spanish Republicans during Spanish civil war. Inverventionism to preserve stability and power of balance≠expansionism. Even today we the kemalists have no desire to expand. And our nationalism is not based upon sofcore racism like many European countries, it's based upon French civic nationalism, hence Turks with many different backgrounds (Georgian, Circassian, Kurd, Albanian etc.) represented. Of course he went against islamic fundamentalism and anti-westernism (not in a political context) as they bring no good to us. I'm tired of dumb fucks with little understanding portray themselves as quasi experts in topics like this. Like, it's okay to be not informed, but it's not okay to spread misinformation.
@@rep227Mixture of 2 Turkish, 1 Kurdish, and 1 Arab grandparent here! It's based on civic nationalism indeed, I define myself as "Turkish" not because I'm 50 percent a Turk but because "How happy is the one who says I am a Turk" motto of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
kemalism do not work at all .. it was a good idea and at 1930s it was ok but now you cannot run a country with kemalism. Erdogan smashed 80 years of kemalist republic with his 19 years of his power , what are you talking about? (but he couldn't smash it at all because of votes) atatürkün en çok güvendiği yer olan türk askeri bile ayasofyada atatürke lanet okunurken anıtkabirin resmini paylaşıp sonra da "yaşanan şeylerle alakası yoktur , rutindir önceden ayarlanmıştır başka yerlere çekmeye çalışmayın türk askeri asla saygısızlık etmez" diye açıklama yapan türk askeri de kalmadı gibi bir şey ne yazık ki , genç askerler veya subaylar vs tabi ki kemalist ama ben bugün için konuşuyorum gelecek için değil , bu askerler büyüyüp rütbe atlaması falan uzun sürecek
People are calling this your magnum opus. If only they'd been to the future like I have, and seen how far you go. The sheer POTENTIAL. Btw, I still can't believe you won that arm wrestle against Hafthor Bjornsson. Congrats in advance!
@isak the upshot in Northern African slave trade has its origin from the first Libyan War's conclusion (2011, after the void of power left by a collapsed Ganddafi regime), exacerbated by the European Migrant crisis (2014), instability in the region, and the 3-ways power struggle of the second Libyan civil war (also 2014). This, coupled with the fact that reports on slavery in Libya have only started to take up since 2014 (after a hiatus in Libyan slave trade since the second world war) suggest that social and economic destruction is a cause of the rise in demand for slave labor. So no, I don't think under Gandaffi's regime (where free public education is free and compulsory for both sexes, and percapita in come is the fifth highest for any African state, and an emphasis on social welfare and local labor force) has need or overwhelming incentives for slave labor.
Thank you for educating me on something I knew close to nothing of. i didn't realise there was such a rich history behind Turkey and am thankful to have learned about it.
I didn't know I had people with hearing impairments in the audience. I could look into figuring out how to add those subtitles for hearing impaired people.
@@Kraut_the_Parrot Thank you! I could still get the most of what you said. I'd contribute by adding community-sourced captions, but RU-vid is removing that feature. The auto-generated captions work for me as support to what you say, but to completely deaf people they tend to be inadequate or plain wrong.
Funny thing is I was living with my family there during all these times due to my father's work and lived there for more than 6 years. Will never forget how the Turks can be friendly and hospitable . Sad to see how the Turkish people are suffering under these times.
@@stalinsalazar2733 the country: powerful The people: poor and tortured by taxes. Its like how USA is nowadays, the army and international influence is always getting stronger at the cost of peoples happiness
46:34 Reason's for Supporting Uyghur's is not just because of Religion. But also because of Race. Uyghur people are Turkic like Turkey and rest of Northern Central Asia. Uyghur's even identify themselves as Turk. And reason why Uyghur's seperatist wanted to call their nation Turkestan instead of Uyghurstan
Wow Kraut, this whole series was absolutely amazing. Well done man, as a Turk I must say, this is the best analysis I have seen ever on the subject. Combine this with Peter Zeihan geopolitical comments, you will get a good picture.
Honestly turkey is one of the most interesting countries to me. From a sliced and diced runt state divided by the British, french, greeks, and Italians turkey best everyone and United the Turks into a single nation. Kraut has been able to put every single to think I needed to know about Turkey into the videos he makes. While I may not agree 100% I still appreciate the dedication and care he's put into his videos. As someone who has studied Turkey and the Islamic religion despite being a protestant I find it one of the most interesting and impacting countries of all time. Turkey being the bridge to both Europe and Asia it's been one of the most influential countries and concerning geopolitics is a very important nation. As of now I have no idea where the country is going but I wish the best for the people and country.
Best everyone but not really. All strong European powers take a neutral stance and don, t fight against Turkey. Her opponents were only Greece and Armenia and even then Turkey win only because of Soviet Russia's help that Ataturk himself said. And with United turns part you a bit wrong. By the end of the independence war in Turkey were too many Greeks, Armenians, poetic Greeks, kurds, and Assyrians for Ataturk liking so with some population exchanges he commanded the genocides that the official Turkish government denies to nowadays.
Мракочёрт Serious question. Did you watch all 3 videos or are you just an angry Greek or Armenian. I recommend watching it again even if you already seen it maybe you will understand more than
I watch it all and I am not even from any country near to turkey. Kraut just skips this controversial topic about genocides done not by the ottoman empire but by the modern Turkish Republic and Ataturk. If I remember correctly it mentions in like one sentence.
@@benjiwis5228 They acted like liberals & free market guys until about 2009ish so they garnered support among liberals and even lefties up until then after around those times erdogan regime started to sideline technocrats and almost exclusively started work with islamists even when it comes to structuring the economy not so surprisingly their failures started around those times aswell.
@MetalBucket, It's one of those rare instances where France did the right thing in foreign policy, I too was shocked. Although I wish France would show the same moral standing in their relations with Africa, especially North Africa. They seemed all too willing to nudge America toward destroying Libya for no good reason. Seems to me France was only against the Iraq war because they had nothing to gain from it. If they had something to gain, they'd be fueling the fires of war harder than anyone.
@Orion3227 Sarkozy is more the norm with French leaders than the outlier. Macron's foreign policy is just as insane if not more so than Kozy's. This is what France produces, destabilizing figures which destroy entire nations and plunge millions of people into misery. This has to stop, someone needs to clip France's wings.
@@stephenjenkins7971 I'd imagine anyone who's policy does that amount of damage to millions of people needs to have their wings clipped. It's as important as throwing a rapist in jail.
And here’s part three with perfect timing just after I watched the first two... Bless you Kraut, your videos are a cut more interesting and informative than any mainstream documentary i’ve ever seen. I can’t believe I would not only get so invested in Turkish history but am also able to watch a production of this quality for free. That passion that you have for history, geography, anthropology, etc. shines through your work and really is strong enough to capture anyone’s interest. So goddam excited for this.
Jeez, I never thought I'd sit through a four-hour documentary (on Turkey of all places) but this is top-tier stuff. I've watched a ton of your videos, but this is the best work that I've seen so far. Tons of respect! Keep it up!
