Why Istanbul Isn't the Capital of Turkey 

Melbourne and Sydney kept arguing over which city should be the capital and eventually agreed that they would build a new city between them (Canberra) to be the capital. This is also kind of why Washington DC is the capital of the US, it was a compromise location between the northern and southern states.

@@AdamSmith-gs2dv Interesting.Thanks for the info

Wait , Sydney isn't the capital of Australia?

@@KishoreKumar-ve1xb Canberra is in between Melbourne and Sydney

It isn't?

Actually, "Ottoman" is pronounced as "Uthman" and Turkey is pronounced as "Turkiyye".

@@sejfzlrrhman in Turkish we don't even call it Ottoman,we call it Osmanlı and it doesn't sound like Uthman.

@Erşan Kuneri Osmanlı means from Osman or Osman's bruh

@Erşan Kuneri ha o anlamda,ben yanlış anlamışım.

@@mehmetsahin1626 no ottoman came from Arabic

@Draveth Metentium No I mean Ankara. I also mean Istanbul.

@Draveth Metentium cry

@Draveth Metentium Does acknowledging a citys current name make someone an imperialist? doesnt fantasizing about its older name when it belonged to another empire look much more like that? also >anti normie lmao ok r/europe

@Draveth Metentium Ok Neo-Legionary

Ankara? You mean Turkije? (It was the name of a city made by the Galatian Celts around Ankara)

In street surveys even some Turks think İstanbul is capital lmao

@@biliminsrlar5752 Boii, really? is like that americans who tinked that Iran was in the American Midwest.

@@greattower1650 not really. Normally primary school education teaches those but since there are alot of internal imigration in turkey especially from undeveloped south eastern turkey. Since the just dont send their kids to schools, most imigrants coming from there learn even the name of the country they live in after reaching cities. Few of them even learn turkish after living in those cities since only language they hear in their villages is kurdish.

@@greattower1650 nope thats a lie everybody knows that ankara is the capital city of turkey %98 of the people

All 6year olds

It's very similar to the case of Saint Petersburg. It's next to Finland so it's easy to invade.

Turkey will never admit what happened to that 30% non-Turk population.

I like Istanbul

@@DeadlycheesePeople not so common but lots of people aware of incidents like Events of 6-7 September and they aren't so proud of it. Also Turkey isn't the only country in region that has a policy of "emigrate its minorities". Approximately 5-7 million Turk and Muslim migrants from the Balkans (from Bulgaria 1,150,000-1,500,000; Greece 1.2 million; Romania, 400,000, Yugoslavia, 800,000) arrived in Anatolia and modern Turkey from 1783 to 2016.

@Sven The dutchman that's bigotry but anyway it doesn't matter your government recognize turkey and recognise Istanbuls name lol 😂

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inkılap dersi işe yarıyormuş demek :)

@@escphant 8. Sınıf konusu

Yalnız kuvayi milliye genel direnişin ismi yalnızca Güney cephesinin değil

Evet doğru, ama en etkin olduğu yerlerden biri orası

#Ѓ is a Macedonian letter

HASSİKTİR UZAYLI ÇIKTI ADAM TOPUK xd

shocker amright?

I bet they surrender 😂

@@nziom they just lost thats it.

@@nziom 🙄

@@nziom lol

Thank youu 😊

Now thats an art

Yes I always think so I love it

şiir gibi anlatmış. :)

I mean all countries' shapes are really interesting.

They've done that to any balkan state they've allied with. Thankfully Russia can't toy around with the Balkans' borders anymore

söğüt is probably the most confusing out of them all for foreign people

Do spend 2 minutes to read this heart melting historical answer by a great scholar A reply by Huzoor Mujahid e Ahle Sunnat, Hadrat Allaamah Syed Shah Turaab al Haq Qadiri(May Allah Almighty preserve him) Question: Shah sahib Qibla, I wanted to know what is the hukm for Sunnis, when they go for Hajj and Umrah,with regards to performing Salah behind the wahabi najdi imams ? Answer: The Salah of a Sunni is only valid behind a Sunni Imam, and not behind followers of any other sect. Before the saudis took over, the Ottomans ( including Turks, Arabs and Kurds also) were in power. They made such arrangements that four Salah congregations would take place, four musallahs were put down on all four sides of the Kaaba. Hanbali, Maaliki, Hanafi, and Shafi'ee, each follower of each Imam would perform Salah behind his Imam, therefore there was no issue whatsoever. The Ottomans era of rule was the rule of Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jama’ah.When the saudis came they took the rule from the turks, aal saud and aal shaykh took over the rule of the country.aal saud are the worldly kings which namely control today, and they went as far as naming the Hijaz country by this name also (saudi Arabia) after taking the country by force. The aal shaykh are the children of Muhammad ibn abdul Wahhaab. Before attacking the Sacred Haram aal saud and aal shaykh made an agreement that, they would jointly attack Makkah Mukarramah and Madinah Munawwarah, and when our government is established, aal saud will take over the kingdom and rulership, and aale shaykh will deal with all the religious affairs. The Imams will be theirs, qaadis, madrassas, muhadiths, muftis etc will all be supplied by aal shaykh. After this agreement, they attacked Madinah Munawwarah and Makkah Mukarramah. A few years ago, the Saudi government celebrated their anniversary. King Abdul Aziz was shown on tv riding on a horse within Haram Shareef, slaughtering and murdering people with his sword. Who were these people being unlawfully murdered ? Had the jews suddenly appeared inside the HaramShareef ? No, these were Sunnies being murdered. The Imam of Masjid Nabawi Shareef was slaughtered whilst being on the musallah by a sword. Only 200 people attacked Madinah Shareef. When I first visited MadinahShareef in the year 1977, I stayed with Huzoor Qutb e Madinah Shaykh Zia al Deen Alaihirrahmah. I stayed with them for 40 days, I would hear quietly from them about the history. Huzur Qutb e Madinah told me, only 200 people from the najdi army attacked Madinah Shareef. The Ottomans were such staunch and respectful Sunnies that when they were attacked, they surrendered and laid down their weapons by saying that they will not allow blood to be spilt within the sacred court of the Most Beloved Sall Allahu Alaihi Wa Sallam, they allowed themselves to be slaughtered and attained martyrdom without defending themselves, and the same was the case in Makkah Shareef. They took over the country in this way. People forget everything! The first thing they did after taking over, was that they bulldozed Jannah al Baqee Shareef. They dug up the graves of the blessed personalities in Jannah al-Baqee Shareef, dug up the graves of Ahle Bait e Kiraam. The Most beautiful Mazaar in Jannah al Baqee Shareef was that of Sayyiduna Uthman Ghani Radi Allahu Anhu. They took it apart stone by stone and flattened it into the ground. Then they demolished the Mazaars of Jannah al Maala shareef. They demolished all these Mazaars, and the Najdis of that time would say, The green dome is the biggest idol, this needs to be destroyed, MaazAllah, But they did not succeed in this evil plan. This took place in the time of Maulana Muhammad Ali Johar, Molana Abdul Hamid Badayuni, Molana Abdul Aleem sidiqui. There was a journalist by the name Riyaaz al Hasan or Riyaaz al Hussain, whose interview was published approximately 30 years ago in the newspaper Jang. He was a member of the delegates that went to Saudi Arabia to protest. The Saudi government promised them at that time that they would rebuild these mazaars. The small stones that you see today at the Mazaars of the ahle Baqee, which enable us to recognise the maqaam of Sayyidah Fatimah Radi Allahu Anha or Sayyiduna Imam Hasan RadiAllahu Anhu, is due to those people who campaigned at that time. Even till today they have not fulfilled their promise of reconstructing the Mazaars. The Tomb of Sayyidah Khadeejah al-Kubraa Radi Allahu Anhaa was beautifully built in the Jannah al Maala graveyard, come and I will show you all those pictures taken prior to this demolition. Now, you tell me, that those evil people who slaughtered thousands of Sunni Muslims, forcefully took over Makkah Shareef and Madinah Shareef. Have you all forgotten everything? And you still dare ask, Why can’t we pray behind them? We do not pray behind them because they consider us, the people of Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah,as mushriks. Now, you tell me, wouldyou pray behind someone who calls you a mushrik? This is why we do not pray behind them! If anyone wants to study this history, then study the book of Allaamah Abdul Qayuum, Tareekh Najd o Hijaaz. If you want to research who was Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhaab search on internet for the book confessions of a british spy. Who was this Hempher? there were seven spies who broke up the Turkish rulership, six of them were men and there was one woman. They went to Istanbul and caused havoc. Hempher, studied the Darse Nizaamicourse with a Shaykh in Istanbul, and studied the Arabic language. He would say, Whenever someone suspected me of spying, I would begin speaking in Arabic. He has completely exposed Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhaab in this book, confessions of a british spy which has been published in Arabic from Kuwait, and also from London, from where these spies belonged. It discloses everything regarding Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhaab and how he misled him, debated with himand convinced him that alcohol is not haram, and then he persuaded him that Mutah is also halal, ultimately he made him form a temporary marriage with the female British spy. He would praise and flatter him by saying, You are a great servant of Allah. You are like Sayyiduna Umar Farooq, and Allah Almighty has destined great things for you. If you do not believe me, then read this book by the british spy. The book is available openly on the internet. This is the reality of the ale shaykh and aale Saud. Today the simple Muslims think that because this is Haram Shareef, the Imam here will also be someone verypious and god fearing. We do not pray behind these people because oftheir evil beliefs and their past actions as well as their beliefs regarding us. Translated from the urdu audio by Faqeer Mohammed Shakeel Qadiri Ridawi Rabi al Awwal Shareef 2014 Wahhabism was born in the middle of the 18th century in the sleepy desert-village of Dir’iyyah located in the ArabianPeninsula’s central region of Najd ( real name for the land now called Riyadh ). The Wahhabi sect derives its name from the name of its founder Mohammad Ibn Abdul-Wahhab. Namaz behind bad aqeeda gustakhe Rasool wahabi kafir wa murtad is not allowed Hempher Wikipedia: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_Mr._Hempher,_The_British_Spy_to_the_Middle_East Book Tarikh e Najd O Hijaz: www.nafseislam.com/en/Literature/Urdu/Books/TareekheNajdoHijaz/TareekheNajdoHijaz.htm

@@stereomachine yes fool

What about Frankfurt? Also Bonn would surely be the most developed city in Germany, but others are and were so why didn't the capital move earlier as soon as repairs occured?

Actually it was because the other cities was to good. Germany Wanted to Unite and have Berlin as the capital. But if for exempel Frankfurt was the capital many was afraid that, when the unification happened, Frankfurt would remain the capital as it would be to much of a pain in the ass to move it. Thats Why a small and insignificant city as Bonn was chosen. The weird spelling and stuff is autocorrect. #blaimautocorrect

Z TARE because Adenauer lived there. Google that shit

Also: Because Helmut Kohl was from there...yeah...

@@axelgl838 Also, Frankfurt wasn't a very big city at all in 1949, it only grew in size in the last few decades. Hamburg, Cologne and Munich were by far the largest cities in 1949. I think the most logical choice for a capital of West Germany would have been Hannover, due to several historical reasons, but maybe it was too close to the East German border. Bonn seems to have neen specifically selected because it was far away from East Germany, wasn't as industrialized as many larger cities on the Rhine, wasn't affected by WW2, had beautiful historical buildings, and had some historical significance as the capital of the electorate of Cologne and an important city in the Rhineland.

bill wurtz reference much

Dude, this comment is fucking brilliant that you can make a religion out of it.

We put you well on time don't cry😂😂😂

r/unexpectedbillwurtz

I am turkish and I didn't understand what he meant with that.

Cats, the mark of a truly great city.

@Empor ! who shit your coffe pal

@Empor ! ohh ok yeah tomatoes

@In Hoc Signo Diliget (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Christopher Graffam And Greek

@edboss i live in ankara and i am a turk

Yusuf Alp Benli I’m Turkish from Tunceli

edboss i‘m also from tunceli 🙌🏾😅

Lol turkey has no history has criminal records. If just need to learn that before Sinic wall was built and Turks were on another position they were living by stealing China also when you took Byzantium you were killing so many greek people and so may i dont think that this is called history

nikos467 haha cry you little greek

iSTAAANbol

@Draveth Metentium it's Istanbul welcome to the 21st century

@Graf von Lotzing USSR killed there own people you communist

@Draveth Metentium are you a communist as well

@Draveth Metentium how about you sit your ass down edgy teenagers you still live in your parents basement and live like you were on the 8th century how pethatic this is the 21st century it's Istanbul now you can't do anything but to cry about it on the internet

*_W A I T_*

*O H F U C K*

Hol up

Not exactly !!!

He says Istanbul very fluently though 😯

Up until a month ago i though Rio was the capital.

Cause they wanted to centralise the capital to accomodate the rest of the people living inland, even though mostly no one lives there...

It's nobody's business, but the Turks

Even the Turks called it Istanbul, but secularism and nationalism got to them and hence they changed it.

Take me back to Constantinapol :)

hahahaha

Emir AKGÜN NO, YOU CAN'T GO BACK TO CONSTANTINAPOLE.

Ulema e Ahle Sunnah of turkey researches and found Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is jew munafiq. Munafiq is a person who in public and in community shows that he is a Muslim but rejects Islam or propagate against it either in his heart or among enemies of Islam. The hypocrisy itself is called nifāq (نفاق).

Muhammad Irshad Ali Wow this must be one of the most ignorant comments I’ve ever seen. And I’m sure nothing I say will change your mind so ... I hope one day you can see the world without the restrictions of your religion and uneducated mindset. Have a nice day!

@@muhammadirshadali9487 he was a Turk and he abolished islam for good. Keep crying 😎

@@muhammadirshadali9487 what does that do with the video? i am not saying it is true but if it is true i still respect ataturk as he saved the country. you are probably the type of person who wouldnt like someone just because they drink alcohol

Gandalf approves!

İzmir is a lie made up by governmant to sell bus tickets

@@biliminsrlar5752 bruh

Why Smyrniot? Was Izmir previously named as Smyrna or something like that?

@@Xaiff it's İzmir's Greek version.

@@Xaiff Yes, Smyrna was the name of the city until 1923.

@Biracial Boy Cry them

@Biracial Boy replay this 0:00

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@Korina Koutsoura Dude, learn how to write lmao

@Korina Koutsoura your English is terrible.

Most likely you’re a nerd like the rest of us 😉

@@xenemous6136 But what if he doesn't end up working at a McDonald's tho

@@xenemous6136 I mean, I am a banker so I have everything money, long holidays etc. The only thing I don't have is... Time dam it.

@@xenemous6136 what does that have to do with anything?

gay porn lol!

Is it a pun? How?

@Rohan Ghaisas Pitbull? I don't every some of his, so I don't get it.

@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions because of the coronavirus

Ah, COVID-19! Okay.

It was Constantinople under the Byzantines but was renamed to Istanbul in 1923 or 1453 depending on who you believe. It was named after Roman emperor Constantine. It was than renmaned.

Probably 100s of year of Turkish colonialism. Probably because Turkey colonized there city and forcibly remove them from their native lands. The British left India, they didn't rename an Indian city and stay forever.

Jessica Josephs A bit misleading. Ottomans didn’t “colonize” Constantinople in the same way Britain colonized India. Just call it what it was: conquest and expulsion of minorities. Many cities throughout history have been captured this way, Lithuanians or Poles don’t worry about their now renamed Russian cities. The true answer to why Greece cares is because both Greece and Turkey have massively nationalist populations that focus on irredentism as part of their identity.

@@alucardwhitehair This 100 percent. People don't seem to understand that they don't need to hate Greeks/Turks. It'd be a lot simpler if everybody thought properly.

@@jjosephs6521 well that funny, never heard of turkish colonisation. Ottoman call constatinople as konstantinye(i dunno how to write it). So in modern time it became istanbul

What an uneducated and embaressing comment. Average temperature of ankara is 11. It barely reaches -10 and it barely reaches 30 in summer, which isnt overly different from izmir just a bit cooler. Also calling ankara inhospitable is even more ignorant since ankara is a prehistoric settlement with 1000s of years of history and second biggers agricultural producer city in turkey after konya. Its fertile, it has a decent weather, its in the center of everything.

Winter is actually freezing here but i wouldn't call it fiendishly hot in summer, most cities in Turkey including İstanbul gets way hotter in summer compared to Ankara.

But izmir will easilt get occupied in a case of a landing in the aegan sea and ankara is a larger city to be a capital in terms of population, 1st is istanbul 2nd is ankara and 3rd is izmir also last but not least, adana is 4th

@@edvrongjm wasnt 4th bursa?

Banu İŞLER i searched and ur right sorry for wrong content

Not really. Also the Russia part isn't accurate either. Moscow was and is larger than St. Petersburg. Indeed St. Petersburg was established much later to replace Moscow as the capital, which was ultimately reverted again. And as far as i remember in the time St. Petersburg was the capital it never had a greater population than Moscow.

You mean how Indonesia is doing a similar thing? No, not really.

@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions no, it's not. Jakarta aka Sunda Kelapa aka batavia is already big and important, sometimes become the capital city of something. If you talked about our new capital city, whatever the name is, not really. Well, yea, one of the reason is to put the new capital city in the middle of indonesia, so the development not only concentrated in java. But some of them also because jakarta often get floods, overcrowded, traffic jam, the geography and geo-development are sucks

@@seraranasisca2434 I'm saying their reasoning is incorrect, not that Indonesia is incorrect for doing that.

You are right. It's not the only reason of course, what's been said in the video is correct too. Anatolia was abandoned for a long time, it wasn't developed at all. (Still, when you compare it to the big cities of Turkey, they lack behind a lot.) Ankara provided a good chance for Anatolia to develop. It is safer than Istanbul from a foreign invasion, it represents the Republic, not the Empire. It represents the Anatolia and leads the way.

Yes I think

Funny but thats not true.

lol

Why change it?

@@virginiansupremacy well like Istanbul the name changed because it's an Islamic city now

n ziom french conquest.

@@nziom Istanbul is still a Greek name though

Constantinople existed for over a thousand years before though, not the case for new Amsterdam

@@Forlfir Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople Been a long time gone, Oh Constantinople Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night Every gal in Constantinople Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople So if you've a date in Constantinople She'll be waiting in Istanbul

@ryan ?? Dont we have the right to name our city whatever we want? Byzantines died in 1453 so give us some slack

@ryan colonialism is European like you

@@nziom wrong. Could be applied to any empire. Muslims colonized too and often forced their Faith on others to spread Islam.

what changed bro

Unnamed Person why would they go there in the first place if it wasn’t worth it

Unnamed Person also click the links

@@dsan8742 instead of making assumptions, you can go and dig up some history books

Have you seen hamburg's tourism advs? They say "hamburg: the biggest non capital city in europe". Dont judge yourself since even the educated government of germany doesnt know what da frik is happening in their own continent

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Just because they changed the name of the city it doesnt mean that its not contantinople, the city its the same as it was when the turks conquered it they didnt burn it to the ground and rebuild other in the place, its like saint petersburg and leningrad, they're the same city

Yeah it's Istanbul

Also I love that big mosque of Istanbul

@@Mr.Flame2000 no

@MH Codes dow-john or dou-john both is closest you're gonna get withouth learning how to pronounce turkish ğ (h sound with vocal cords vibrated but without stressing it)

Elisha Rania Suleiman The population might be over 20 millions even now because of immigrants 🤷‍♂️

@@ertugrulyaprakl4654 That's true. Over the centuries, given its strategic location, Istanbul has long been a cosmopolitan metropolis. So there's no surprise about the influx of immigrants.

Pumpkin 20000 Albanians (fought to help our brothers) there and became Shehids. ;)

You mean Hellenpont?

You didn't won at Galiopolis. It was a draw!

Gaming Encyclopedia uhh not the ottomans won

Gaming Encyclopedia it was an Ottoman and German Victory, even British commander of this campaign (Ian Hamilton) admitted it in his diary

@@nickthegreek_f.t8848 I was making a joke about the song from They Might Be Giants.

Long live Istanbul

@@justiny.3482 *_why are you here._*

@@nickthegreek_f.t8848 wow it's literally named Istanbul you uncultured lol

@@noblemen1140 But it was Constantinople. Been a long time gone, Constantinople, Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks.

Selam suleiman kanuni Biz Azerbaycan 🇦🇿🇹🇷

@@HusticeBoxer23 Selam Aleykum! 😍 Stay strong brothers! We turks will be united very soon!❤

@@SuleimanTheMagnificent71618 🇦🇿💛🇹🇷♥️ We love you Ottoman and Turkey

@@HusticeBoxer23 😍😍😍😍 Thnx! 😍😍😘😘

Şehzadenin durumu nasıl padişah

Since 1453 istanbul. Please understand that stuation . You should be respect to Turkey and turkish nation. İf İstanbul is greek then Your country was have our. Because OTTOMAN EMPİRE were directed the 400 years to greece so then we can say grecee is TURKEY. is correct or wrong? Your empire has been deleted from İstanbul and turkey. So stupid and poor greeks You must be careful for when you are speaking about turkey. Ok? 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇹🇲🇹🇲🇹🇲🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇬🇰🇬🇰🇬🤘🤘🤘

Aykut Çelik I didn’t understand one word of what you said! You need to learn English and then reply to people ! You can’t speak English so fuck off!

If you and the ar*enians claimed your land, it does not mean go.

Adəm Han huh?? Can someone reply who speaks English?? Or reply in your language and I will translate it! Your English is terrible!

Ennio Paone 😂😂

As a Turk, I must say that this is the correct answer.

Because few armed terrorists with assault rifles can conquer Mumbai without facing any resistance.

After that Indian army killed terrorist.

@@Tyuroteu6e yes, right. But he potentially can make a video on it

@Thomas Shelby Leader of the Peaky Fookin Blinders firstly we have a parliamentary system where the president is merely a figurehead. Secondly, modi is our prime minister elected by majority of the voters. Thirdly Presidents in India are selected by the parliament, who inturn are comprised of elected representatives. Lastly, I don't like modi but he isn't as bad as the western media portrays him.

@@Tyuroteu6e well that and that Delhi has a lot of significance as a historical city.

Battle of Empires wait how does that relate to European colonialism. I’m talking about central Asian Turks and their impact on “ turkifying” Anatolia

🎶Istanbul not Constantinpole🎶

@Empor ! spamming the comment's all day really?

Until we take it back

@@robertyianni3623 so until eternity because you will never take it back,stop dreaming.

Lol , such a funny comment .

Fuck turkey. Constantinople is Greek naturslly.

Istanbul

@@techtheo2970 it hasn't been Greek for like 4 centuries.

@@techtheo2970 It's not Greek for 457 years so shut up.Also naturally no place on Earth except East Africa belongs to humans.

@@biliminsrlar5752 and what that means? Say whatever you want, constantinople will come back to us and your fake country will get destroyed.

Fun fact: you are most likely to die of CoViD-19, if you have the A+ blood type!

@Draveth Metentium Istanbul !!! 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

Batuhan Kader 🇬🇷

@@angelopueyygarcia43 🇬🇷🇹🇷 fuck nationalism!

@@batubatu94 😃

@Draveth Metentium wow you're a neo-nazi basement dweller

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Indtstanbull just on water to

Bet that's too many flipping alligators 🐊

It happened it India too Delhi was the capital and it was very very much corwded so they had to spilt the city into 2 New Delhi and old Delhi

Istanbul has 0 meaning in turkish, neither does ankara nor any of the cities with few exceptions. Most of them are in greek, georgian, armenian or iranian

The Is Tin Poli origin has the most weight, some people will tell you Istanbul in Turkish comes from "Islam Bol" meaning "A lot of Islam" but that's completely untrue

When the city was founded it's name was Byzantium not Constantinopole.

THIS FUCK IS CONSTANTINE?UNACCPTABLE. DEUS VULT

Nice

Dark Side of the Moon Khanubis is a god who can speak many languages

Subahanallah

Butthurt losers

@@ufuker5754 Well said Ufuk. Arsehole France.

Wasn't it Cologne?

Zelpzhx The capital was always Berlin.

@@DeadlycheesePeople en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonn#Bonn_in_the_"Berlin_Republic" Bonn was the De Facto Capital, but I want to know why it and not Hamburg or Munich was chosen

@@zelpzhx1177 Most probably because Hamburg and Munich are very close cities to the border with Eastern Germany. So I would say because they wanted the capital as far from the Warsaw Pact as possible. The reason for Bonn would be most probably because it was not that significant and was in good shape after WW2. Reunification was the goal from day 1 and capital on an important city would look like a permanent capital rather than a temporary one. Berlin was still seen as the capital for the reunified Germany. Also for a more subjective point. The cities that applied for being the capital were Bonn, Frankfurt am Main, Kassel and Stuttgart. Kassel was too close to the border with East Germany, Stuttgart couldn't affort to be capital so it was really a race between Frankfurt and Bonn. The parliament decided on Bonn in the end with mostly due to convincing of chancellor Adenauer.

@@Devillunar That is probably true, as nearby cities like Cologne or Düsseldorf were completely destroyed

Well gazi means who just damaged during the war

@@zwane9272 Ataturk was in Tripoli and a shrapnel hit his eye, so his eyes were squinting.

On the contrary. The occupation zones were only temporary and Turkey was only due to lose Smyrna and Eastern Thrace to Greece, the Levant and Arabian peninsula to French and British mandates, and the Eastern border (with Armenia) was to be determined. In the end, none of that happened aside from losing what was basically occupied territory in the Levant and Arabia to newly formed Arabic countries.

@@ppaaccoojrf yeah but Brittan and France invaded Middle Eastern countrys who had it worse than germany and there conflict started because of stupid colonialism

Hungarians and Turks lost more things than Germans and Austrians but everyone focuses on Versailles because some failed artist mustache guy broke it instead of a revolutionary leader with military succeses.

@@biliminsrlar5752 The partitions after WWI largely happened over ethnic lines. Austria and Hungary were extremely reduced in size because large parts of their territory were inhabited by other ethnicities. Same thing for the Turkish Near East. However, Turks managed to keep lots of contested territories on the outskirts of Anatolia because they won the so-called war of independence. They lost more land because they held more, but an equally harsh treatment would have had them relinquish most (if not all) of their European territory and a large portion of Eastern Anatolia (that would have probably gone towards Armenia and perhaps a newly established Kurdistan). Germany lost the least, but for practical purposes. The only real option the allies had with Germany was breaking it up into constituents (i.e. Prussia, Bavaria, etc.), which was argued back and forth and in the end deemed not worth it. In retrospect perhaps it would have been.

@@justiny.3482 Not entirely correct. The countries weren't invaded, they were militarily occupied at war and then ceded. The Ottoman Empire was just as much a foreign imperial power to the Arabs of the Levant and Arabia as the Brits or the French (if perhaps less foreign). The Brits and the French established protectorates in the area, but frankly, what else could they really accomplish? There was a power vacuum after dissolving the Ottoman Empire, and not filling it would have just plunged the countries into Anarchy and civil war (which is what the Americans accomplished 60 years later). British and French exploitation and border redrawing is indeed a factor to all of this, but it's inaccurate to assume that there were countries there that could be invaded and colonized (like in the rest of Asia for example) because there simply was none. Just people being "liberated" (voluntarily or otherwise) from the Empire that had ruled them for the last 400 years or so.

yeah :D

This is so obvious you idiot. Washington D.C is where the Capitol is the Pentagon and a lot of historical thing. There is the white house there and new york didn't look like a capital it's a economic city

It was moved to DC to appeal to southern states. New York used to be the capital, but it was moved to Washington DC because it is the midpoint between the North and South. The District of Columbia was created out of Maryland (a northern state) and Virginia (a southern state) to appeal to both sides and not look like the government favored the North over the South. That's also why George Washington was chosen to lead the American revolution, rather than a Northerner, since most people who wanted independence were from the north. It made the south invested in independence.

French are coward, they had also flee when Germans has entered paris

@Draveth Metentium is everyone who disagree with you a neo_inesert blank insult you don't have any fact to argue with Istanbul is internationaly recognized you can't do anything to change that have you at least went there? No

@Draveth Metentium yeah everyone who disagree with you is turkish sure what a schizophreniac

@Draveth Metentium it's a fact look at google maps of Wikipedia only morons who still wana live in the 11th century belive that grow up

@Draveth Metentium > people who disagree with me are ińbŕed Yeah you're totally projecting your degeneracy on others here

@Draveth Metentium you can't even spell chill right your brain is so small you can't even accept the fact that the name is Istanbul and we are living in the 21st century and you think everyone who disagree with you or tell you an acctual fact that you can literally see in any map or wiki article you're just a degenerate hypocrite that doesn't have a life you projecting your schizophrenic problems on other go get some brain cells before talking to others because you're an embarrassment to humanity

Fuck Atatürk from Turkey

@@canavarkatili6157 fuck erdoğan from SECULAR TURKEY

I doubt he would live long anymore

@@canavarkatili6157 SO WHAT, ARAB?

@@johncena-tv8cp Fuck your Secularism

Sounds like cave men or people who are still in the 11th century ;-)

@@illoumi1701 You sound like an uncool guy without sense of humour

@@illoumi1701 *do real men not live in the 11th century?*

so true, one day we will free the city

@mighty monster but conquered from the romans