The complex history of Turkey and the Kurds, explained | The Fact Checker
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- To assuage the outrage that followed President Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. forces from northern Syria, which exposed the Kurds - U.S. allies - to Turkish attack, he has made a slew of claims about the relationship between the Turks and the Kurds. Namely, that they have been fighting for hundreds of years.
The reality of Kurdish activity, and both Kurdish and Turkish identity, in the region is much more complex. Their history is a complex saga of peace, suppression, resistance, cooperation and violence. Most of that violence is a result of relatively recent political tensions, and at times, it has been on behalf of the United States.The Turks and Kurds have not been fighting for hundreds of years, as Trump has claimed. But they do have a complicated history. To understand how the Turkey-Syria border became a conflict zone, we need to go back to the partition of the Middle East at the end of World War 1. The Fact Checker examines the complex history of Turkey, Syria, and the Kurds. Read more: wapo.st/2NJng46. Subscribe to The Washington Post on RUclips: wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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I am Kurdish, and what Trump said about long-time conflict is true no matter if anyone is happy or sad about that. With respect but you only explained 20% of what's going on and the complex history of Kurds and turks.
Most of turkey life peacefully, happy & prosperous in Turkey. Pathetic Kurds life in mountain with AK 47 sent by US & EU to terrorize turkey
Basically copy and paste for Cyprus. At least we have something my poor Kurdish brothers suffer at the hands of big bully Erdocunt. Love Turkey and it's people but their government are evil unreasonable bullies
Turks Turks Turks oke understand
That's Western media for u. Only explain half truth and twist the story to fit their narrative. This is very common with Western journalists.
@@kilicmoKurds kurds kurds yes ofc
About that some kurds are saying "I am ethnic kurd but feel turkish" this is what decades of turkification do and the fear of being jailed. When ISIS attacked kurds and kurdistan-region military wanted to help kurds in syria, Turkey didn't let the military pass the border. It's not only about terrorist groups. It's about avoiding kurds in Syria gets autonomuse like kurds in Iraq because if they do then it will affect the mindset of kurds in Turkey. There are around 25-30 mio. kurds in Turkey.
And being Turkish and being Turkic are differenr things.A kurd can be turkish nothing wrong with that.
@@rcppkrwith all respects kurd are not Turkic we are aryans we have been before islam before the mongols came so please don’t spread false information 😊
@@DanaDana-of3ll Also mongols ans turks are culturally similar but they arent the same Mongols came after turks came to anatolia.Turks have been in anatolia since 1071.
@@rcppkrexactly Kurds are not Turks and modern day Turks are not Mongolian you can't just erase people's history and nationality identity when you do that you create hate and resistance
@@Hellodarknessmyoldfriend26 We have never been mongolian.Modern day Turkish people are balkan and ancient anatolian.We have the right to live here.I am half Albanian half Crimean living in Turkey.But I dont support seperatists.Even a lot of Kurds here dont support the terrorists.And are loyal to the republic.Forming a puppet for Usa in middle east isnt gonna help in anyway.
Kurdish language was banned, like 40 years ago, it was a crime to speak Kurdish. I am kurdish but I cant speak my own language, I never learned it.
geber amk öğrenme
@@rustincohle2441abi sakin😅
ahahahhahahahhaha cheater
Öğren sana öğrenme diyen mi var. Bak ben Kürt değilim ama Kürtçe öğrendim. Bi jiyana xwe ya axaftinê ya betal re berdewam bikin. Are you okey.
Ogren amk bozguncular
Yes As a kurd we have been fighting more than 100 years with Turkish racism people and we will never give up until we get our freedom...long live kurdistan
@linkk no currency?
@linkk You don’t have a stable one.
"And We're all Muslims"🤣
@linkk4624Kurdistan is existing
@tinytank6642 yes we do
No Kurds say I am ethnically Kurd nationality Turk . Maybe some assimilated so call Kurds say that. I born in Istanbul from a Kurdish family I never felt I am Turk. Actually there is a big distrust among both side to each other.
is there many kurds in Istanbul??
do kurds and turks intermarry?
Bizim sülale komple dediği gibi Kürt ama türk gibi hissediyordum diyor
Bizim sülale komple dediği gibi Kürt ama türk gibi hissediyordum diyor
@@letshangout6359 Yes. Istanbul hosts the largest Kurdish population in Turkey, and Turks and Kurds very often intermarry. There is no deep rooted animosity between Turks and Kurds, there is an animosity between Eastern Turkey (majority of which is made up of Kurds) and the rest of Turkey.
@@letshangout6359 They exist not only in Istanbul but in all major cities. There are mafias on our beaches. The Kurdish mafia is involved in all kinds of illegal activities in Turkey. There are parties in the parliament. The prime minister of Kurdish origin ruled the country for more than 10 years in the 80s. Currently, most Turkish ministers are Kurds. Contrary to popular belief, our government is not far-right. Erdoğan is Georgian and his wife is Arab.
There are no Turkish Kurds, only kurds in turkey
Yeah!Bijî Kurdistan✌💙
Only kurds in north of Kurdistan
@rockn roll looool
Spawn you mean a kurdish turd?
Spawn Google the Word turd
This is probably the least biased video that Us media ever released on this topic
can dağlaroğlu i totally agree with you. Hatta saskinlik icinde baktim buna, bati bir medya kanalindan beklemezdim
Glossing over the fact that this coalition of armed Kurdish militias, have nothing to do with our REAL long-term Kurdish allies, the Iraqi Peshmerga Kurds, who did more fighting against ISIS, than the YKG, & the PKK. In fact the Peshmerga, the pro-western Kurds, who've our allies for decades, don't even like these radical, anti-democratic, Kurdish groups in Syria, because they give Kurds a bad name. The PKK, who are recognized as a terrorist group by Turkey, {A critical ally,
and NATO member, since the late 1940's}, the US, & most
countries in Europe. It's not like the PKK doesn't deserve the TERRORIST label. In thousands of separate attacks, INSIDE Turkey, they have killed more than 100,000 Turkish citizens,
over the years. Their terrorist attacks lead to many more
deaths than even ISIS was responsible for, & this includes Turkish citizens of both Turkish, & Kurdish decent. Without the help of the US, & the other 10-12 militias, and National
armed forces in the region, ISIS would still have it's Caliphate in the Kurdish areas of Syria, killing, raping, & enslaving many more Kurds than the Turks harmed. The media is lying to all of you again, when they claim we were obligated, or made any promises to defend these Kurds. They were never officially allies in any real sense, but fought against our common enemy, ISIS.
KOut
@@kellyowens1868 Very well summarized sir. This whole thing reduced the American image to the biggest terrorist supporter in the world in the eyes of the Turkish people. Causing irreparable damage to the US-Turkish relations. Even after Erdogan is long dead this will be remembered.
But at least for the first time in years there's a step in the right direction.
Mongolians belong to Turkmenistan not middle East
@Can Şentürk yeah could be more objectiv if they showed how the turks butcherd and killed alot of kurdish civilians in the 1928s. Also they forgot to mention that Kurdish culture and music and language was banned til 2006. Turkey is a terrorstate in NATO. Nato is a criminal organistation anyways.
The Greek historian Xenophon in his Anabasis book talks about the Kurds “Kardouchoi” in 401 BCE[1]. They had formed their own societal system.
- It means Kurdish are on this area thousands years before Turkish.
Thank you for sharing that
Okay but they didn’t defend their land..
this is true
It was already the turks' marauding community
@@blacksper457 You are one of the local indigenous peoples of the area who are now called Turks.
There are very few genuine Turks who came from Mongolia.
At the end I want to say the Turkish army killed and tortured my father, in Syria just because he said that he is a Kurd. But of course i will forget about it like it’s normal and say that we are brothers, and share bread😂
Cry more and more.
@@toxichuman208god listens to the oppressed so know that your racism will be the very thing that will destroys you and your country mark my words god has made many oppressors fall who were much stronger like the luts yet god destroyed them entirely so keep being racist let nationilism eat you and blind you until it leads you to hell
When did this happen?and are you Kurdish,or an ISIS member.
@@toxichuman208 no one is crying mongol
I don't think ur a kurd but probably an ISIS member.
Support Kurds from India 🇮🇳
Blame Britain, France & USA for the inevitable battle of Turkey vs Kurds(PKK,YPG,SDF).
please dont call the pkk ypg sdf kurds this is an isnult for them
Kemal Sürmeli majority of the fighters in those groups are Kurds, I just put it to overly simplified.
Kemal Sürmeli western media talks about Kurds (SDF)
And I just put an overly simplified groups of terrorist or linked to terrorist, that have majority Kurdish back people in it or was created by Kurds that share similar ideas.
@@Wicked-hx7yg isis was created by arabs yet no one calls them just arabs the western media calls pkk kurds because they want to make turkey look evil as if they fight against kurds simply because they are kurds this is an war of words
Kemal Sürmeli I put Kurds and groups to over simplify stuff, you don’t get what am saying. Am not talking about every Kurd being a terrorist, 🤦🏻♂️
The Kurds should never trust the West. Also you didn't mention how the Syrian regime always saw the Kurdish minority as an existential threat at the same level as Israel.
@Tarık Mengüç Syrian Baht regime is an panarabic nationalist, they see an arab in Tunisia (arab in culture only) as closer to them than a kurd neighbor in Edleb. You can't blame them for wanting to secede.
I would rather trust the west and turkey, a fake muslim country
This is supposed to focus on Turkey and the Kurds.
@@capncake8837you will never understand the biggest picture, if you didn't mention the details.
Great, but you went to fast on turkey. The Turks oppressed the Kurds many many years before PKK came
Wow they did do a good job explaining something that needs minimum 2-3 hours into 7 min.
If you enjoy iife inside your bullet-proof media bubble, and the reassurance, that comes with the soothing sounds of cognitive dissonance. What you like to see as "a good explaining," is considered a sleek, and clearly dishonest misinformation effort, that was effective against those who heard what they want to believe, as opposed to the unvarnished truth, the American people deser For anyone who has even rudimentary knowledge about these armed Kurdish militias, and the recent history of this area of region of North-Eastern Syria. Those who've followed events in this region, know the PKK is called a terrorist organization, not as a means to discredit, or unfairly smear them. The dishonest WaPo admits they are considered a terrorist group by Turkey, but intentionally OMITS the truth that the United States, and most of the countries in Europe have designated them as an extremely dangerous, violent terrorist org. for easily understandable. One would think the more than 100,000 murdered Turkish citizens, killed in 1,000's of deadly terrorist attacks the PKK has conducted INSIDE Turkey, over the years, would be helpful in understanding the broader context of this decades-old conflict. WaPo doesn't want to explain this inconvenient truth to you, since mentioning the huge numbers of the innocent victims of their imaginary, cuddly Kurds, would certainly hurt the invented "victim narrative" the WaPo propagandists are trying to sell you. Why wouldn't WaPo want to explain that these armed Kurdish militias, (a large % of whom are members of designated terrorist groups, while others are avowed radical socialists), have long been militantly anti-US, and anti-Western, and anti-democratic, through much of their bloody history. Wouldn't that be something useful to know. It would only take a few lines, maybe 30 seconds, for WaPo to explain that the militant socialists, and deadly terrorists that dominate this Kurdish population, have nothing in common with our REAL long-time Kurdish allies, the Iraqi-Peshmerga Kurds, who fought, & died to eliminate the ISIS Caliphate, more effectively, in larger numbers, for far longer, than these groups did. Our staunchly pro-US, democratically ruled, Peshmerga Kurdish allies, who have fought along side US armed forces for decades, in several different regional conflicts, have a great deal of animosity towards the PKK, & YKG, because they give Kurds, in general, a bad name, not to mention that a large % of those 100,000+ Turkish citizens killed, in 1,000's of terrorist attacks, were other ethnic Kurds.
I am neither Turkish, or Kurdish, nor am I of Syrian decent. I have no reason to mislead you, or LIE to you. It is not in my nature to withhold any facts, or a more complete picture from anyone, Why won't the Washington Post treat you with the same respect? Explaining the wider context, with accurate information is their only ethical obligation. The creation, and publicizing politically biased, one-sided narratives is not what press freedom, & constitutional protections are designed for. When propaganda
replaces actual journalism, and the unbiased search for the truth, it portends dangerous times ahead, with an unelected, self-interested few, in control of what we know. Yikes!
KOut
it's very oversimplified but in a mostly unbiased way. Most western publications are more than happy with painting the Turks as genocidal maniacs and Kurds as nothing but victims. At least they aren't beating the war drums against Turkey.
Well.. remembering genocides... Mmmm... Who has a history of that.... Yeah I know.. it's definitely not any Kurdish militia or state... Yeah I'm pretty sure of that... Good luck fixing that man..
No man they didnt.
Most parts were lie.
As kurd that lives in Kurdistan i say we are suffering they we are living in Turkey iran syria and iraq
@@kellyowens1868 what are you talking about? The YPG Is a Socialist and DEMOCRATIC,They're not Anti-Democracy At all,They are by far the most democratic Group around Syria.
As for your Comment claiming that 100K People died in Turkish-PKK conflict,then I only can laugh at that,Only 40K people died in the Conflict and Ironically,Most of them were PKK Militants.
Most of your Comment Is just schizophrenic Blabbing BS that literally make no sense whatsoever,However you deliberately tried to imply that Kurds Are not the victims despite them being Oppressed for centuries and Massacred,Literally go to the Wikipedia Page on Turkish-PKK Conflict and you'd see that Both sides Committed atrocities.
To back up my claim of Kurds being Oppressed,Check out these :
*Dersim Massacre*
*Zilan Massacre*
*Persecution of Kurds in Turkey*
*Turkish War-Crimes in Syria*
These are enough to Debunk your BS Comment,Have a good day.
Kurdish is under opresse in turkey and their language is in danger
?they dont even know Turkish.
@@federkleid0 they are forced to learn and speak turkish. Let Kurdish kids learn Kurdish at school.
Liar
@@federkleid0 you are racist, and then you wonder why Kurds and turks are enemies. Dude, just open Kurdish schools, release Kurdish politicians, make peace with the pkk, give Kurds autonomy and then we will maybe become friends. Oh, and vote Erdogan out. Big step for peace. We don't need a neo-ottoman dictator. Less political islam and more Kurdish nationalism. Kurds are more important then your mosques, don't you forget.
@@yurichtube1162 I would like Kurdistan to be established, but if it does it would be in the hands of foreign powers in 2 days(turkeh too) Wait for the war to end in the Middle East just think of you and us. it will be better for u just wait 20 years. Dont go to mountains pkk is a terrorist we wont they killed many children AND U R REAL RACIST JUST LOOK AT THE WORDS...and i dont support erdogan...he will go ,no problem btw im not muslim, and the mosques they are from ottomans.erdogan is just a georgian with him arab wife
Wake up Kurds ! Get your state and rise up !
LONG LIVE KURDISTAN
Long live balochistan .lots of love from Balochistani . Hope to see one day Kurdish azada
Long live Kurdish long live balochistan
@@DocumentaryfilmBalush Long live Balochistan and Kurdistan✌
Guys this is why safe sex is important
@@doublemosasaur5091 ?
How can something "live* if it's not alive.
There was no political entity or state except Turkish Empire, neither Syria nor Iraq existed. Both are proxy/fake states that Europeans established to exploit the region. The alliance was formed to tear apart the Turkish Empire. They were unable to finish the plan as Turks resisted and saved a part of Turkey (current borders of TR). People of these new states have suffered a lot after the collapse of the Turkish Empire no matter what their ethnic origin or religion was. Unfortunately they still continue to suffer.
Yeah after 1918 that was all about riots wars slavery and poverty for syria iraq lebanon and palestine because non of them are natural countries based on geographic linguistic or national basis
@@ardasari7692 Most definitely
Not Syria
@@teemadarif8243 true , lol French were there
*Ottoman empire is the correct name, not Turkish.
Saying kurda are natural enemies of turks is total bullshit. I am a kurd myself how come a nation with well over 20 million Kurds in its population is an enemy with the Kurds. My cousins are serving in the army and navy and my uncle is a police.
@mutlak Türk yes this country is our home. I love this country and i will never betray it.
Erdogan has arrested 100+ of Kurds just because they are Kurd. and united Europe was worried about that
@@haryadidris6628 nobody arresting eachother just because of their race in turkey. Those 100+ kurds you said either have been in contact with terrorist groups or were just common criminals. As I have said before I am a ethnic kurd myself and I don't remember any single person in my family being arrested because they were kurds.
22 arabic countries. Turks rule turkey 🇹🇷, kazakhstan 🇰🇿, tajikistan 🇹🇯 , and they have official statuses in many other countries. Persians rule iran 🇮🇷 (which is only about %60 persian, the remaining are kurds, luri, and baloch), and afghanistan 🇦🇫 .
Not only that kurds don’t have a place to call home, but also being terrorized, looked at as 2nd degree citizens, without mentioning continued Genocides that have been reported by a third party reporter , e.g, European 🇪🇺 or American 🇺🇸 . And yet not only that you are not ready to apologize to the kurdish people and urge your government to find peace, but you deny kurdish, assyrian, armenian 🇦🇲 , etc.., genocides, and claim righteousness in your actions and cause? Which is but to regain the othman empire and continue the same loop until there are no other nations to wipe out!
tajikistan is iranic, not Turkic. Turkic states are Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. At least botherto learn proper history and geography before appealing to ignorntocidentals
ur missing the whole point@@skullsforerlikkhansthrone9306
If I had to put it in the most simpilist way of looking at the Kurds after watching this, it's that they wanted to find a "home" to call their own, and were sadly denied that promise.
While it may not mean much or help in the slightest, I hope that somewhere in the future the Kurds get their wish in finding the home that they've always wanted through people who will genuinely help them.
❤️💛💚
They already have a home. It’s called Syria. Maybe they should appreciate it more. Not every group deserves national independence.
Darksydesamy No, their home is Kurdistan. Kurdistan that was promised to them after WW1. They have history there. Thousand years of history. Just because it was taken from them, doesn’t mean it doesn’t rightfully belong to them.
Thunder Emblem Lol how uneducated can you be ? The Kurds were in those lands way before the Arabs were even there, and the Arabs have been there for quite a while. The arabs came to the region around 7000bc and brought Islam with them, but the Kurds were there long before that and they have history to prove it. History that the enemies are trying so hard to destroy.
And yes, it was taken from them. After WW, there weren’t many established countries in the region, so people started establishing them. The Kurds were promised their land but they were lied to.
Brush up on your world history and stop making such hateful, ignorant comments. Oh and a little reminder, the Turks came to the region around 1200 I believe. Literally thousands of years after everyone else. The Turks have oppressed many people and committed many genocides. Just ask Greece, Cyperus, Armenia, Kurdistan, among many others.
@@zebu1520 Where do you think the "proof" goes? Our people and proof are being destroyed.
The Turks and Kurds absolutely have been fighting for 100s of years, since Turks have been in Anatolia there have been conflicts with the Kurds. if you're going to start a video off by getting a fact that simple wrong then every other aspect of the video is in doubt.
There’s no such thing as a Turkish Kurd. Have you heard of a French German? Or Italian Greek?
French is French
Italian is Italian
and a Kurd is Kurd.
These are misconception caused by primitive languages such as the Turkish and English languages.
What about the Americans ? How can they all be Americans then ?
talat guneyli - They are not all Americans. That’s the point. There’s the Navajo, Apache, Dene, Tarahumara. These are ethnicities of the so called America. But have been assimilated into the concept of nationalism.
@@wexqlp3863 I know that but they call themselfs so, or the government points out so, then i would ask who are Americans ? if they are not all who are ?
talat guneyli - Call them selves? What do they call them selves? They don’t call them selves Navajo American or Apache American. They call them selves Navajo or Apache. Simple. The government names all people. The governments just label everyone as they like. That doesn’t mean the governments have the right to do this. It’s only accepted because governments are tyrannical structures who oppressed communities into their own benifits. For example, there are Assyrians, Lazuri, Albanians living in Turkey. Would you call them Lazuri Turkish or Albanian Turkish. No. You would call them Albanian or Lazuri. Ethnicities cannot be ties to nation-states. Ethnicity and nationality are two different things. But poor ethnic group in the diverse countries like Turkey, are made to believe their ethnicity and nationality are the same thing. They are not.
@@wexqlp3863 You got me wrong i wasnt talking about native Americans , im talking about in general American public . I know the Americans are quite patriotic most have flags on their houses stuff like that but who are they really ?If we look at it like you say none of them are etnically Americans but still they say they are and they are even patriotic about that . So with that example where do you stand?
Kurds are a group of people that mixed in the region, they have been there Many thousands of years before arabs and turks. the kurds Are a mix of Mitanni, Kassites, Hourites,Hurrians, hittites, medes, sumerian, gutians,Phrygians,luwian and Mannaeans. in the 3rd Century BC these different groups unified their Culture and called themselves Kurds.
the Arabs invaded in the 7th Century AD while the turks arrived in the 12th century AD during the mongol invasion.
Puahahahaaaha
The video is kinda wrong. The reason why Turkey doesnt want tbe SDF and Kurds to have an atonomy in Syria is because they are afraid of the same thing to happen with their Kurds, the reason why Turkey Iraq and Iran all landlocked Iraqi Kurdistan and stopped all trades after their referendum votes. cause none of them want to give away a chunk of their land So Erbil had no option but to withdraw. It's a whole game of try to be friends with your enemies cause they are stronger but when the time comes, swallow them.
Divide and conquer,that is what the west does. And sadly you all fell for it and bit the bate.
Great video! Thank you for this! The subtitles are messed up though.
Beacuse they dont wanna mention that Kurdish language was forbidden for 50 years and if you speak Kurdish you would be imprisoned.
@@musicfromeverywhere7562 right now no you wont get arrested
@@leleloy360 probably turkish government will arrest me
Post-colonial borders in the Middle East should be revised. The Kurds deserve own country.
it’s easy to say, but you can’t just take something value from someone and give it to someone else to make them happy, that’s unfair
@@miktaruikitaiinia5262 It's also unfair how imperial countries like Turkey and Russia acquired big parts of their territories - by conquering and exterminating indigenous people, stealing their property and erasing their culture. It's shocking once you learn what happened to Circassians, Armenians and Kurds and how they lost their homeland in the past.
@@pistoletprezesa6835 Turkey is not imperial country Turkey did not erasing Kurdish culture Kurds are free and happ in Turkey
I have a question ... I recall learning that in Germany after the Nazis were defeated that some citizens who looked the other way in regards to the concentration camps were walked through them by force so they were forced to gain an understanding of what hitler was doing to the Jews in their country. I live in Texas ... how am I not just as bad knowing that children and families trying to cross the border are being treated poorly and caged but I am not stopping these actions? I don’t really know what I could do to help ... I am not financially able to really do anything and while I can and will vote and stay informed it just doesn’t seem like enough. I have three beautiful kids and my heart aches for these family’s being separated from their babies .... I had a son in the NICU for 10 days and it was absolute hell to have to leave him there ... this is just so sad to watch.
At least you are making the effort to stay awake and ask. There is so much responsability / Love in that. THank you.
You have great heart! God bless your and your family.
omg i feel the exact same way!!! thank you for making this comment, assuring me that i’m not alone in these thoughts!
None of that is true. It’s all propaganda
Im kurd and u probably dont know how this feels but all i wanna say is goodluck german and greece
TC CcCcCCcCCCcCcCv
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@@sweetXlips1 go back to beating women you ottomani facist.
Who leads more Islamic life? Turks or Kurds?
@@FS-me8mj by far kurds
Forgot to mention what happened in Iraq and Iran. Also left out a whole lot of important information about what happened in Turkey and Syria.
In Iraq there was a genocide of Kurds led by Saddam Hussein in what is dubbed the Anfal campaign, against the Kurdistan Democratic Party
and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.
During the campaign, 50,000-100,000 Kurdish civilians were killed, according to Human Rights Watch. And around 4500 Kurdish villages were razed to the ground.
the numbers were way more my parents and grandparents used to tell me storys rly rly disturbing storys
Assalamualaikum my fellow. I am not a turk not from middle east. I have no knowledge of these conflicts. I want to learn about it. Can you tell me a book that is on this topic. Syria Iran Iraq these wars etc. one or many
“I’m ethically Kurdish but I feel Turkish” said no one ever 😂
Literally!!! How are these Americans making statements on our behalf lmaoo
@@zhilasalam5292 we conquered these lands, thats how it works..........ur claim means nothing
@@kanki147 that has nothing to do with my reply 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm a Kurd but I feel Turkish
@@hamdiyeninorguleri1052 No you are just assimilated.
Biji Kurdistan from Albania 🇦🇱
It's almost like these issues are nuanced and can't be summed up w/ a soundbite...
Believe me, it is not complex. The strong one oppresses/occupies the weaker one.
i read that saladin the great, who is one of the greatest muslim warrior king was kurdish.
Also Ibn Taymiyah
@@hasseaouled6032 lol, Ibn Taymiyah's teaching influence on contemporary ultra-conservative ideologies such as Wahhabism, Salafism, and Jihadism... he's a controversial guy.. he was also imprisoned several times.... Al*Qaeda follows Ibn Taymiyah's teaching...
@@hasseaouled6032 lol, Ibn Taymiyah's teaching influence on contemporary ultra-conservative ideologies such as Wahhabism, Salafism, and Jihadism... he's a controversial guy.. he was also imprisoned several times.... AllQaida follows Ibn Taymiyah's teaching.....
꧁Реыхан замановиц꧂ I never said he was a saint, I just said he was a Kurd.
꧁Реыхан замановиц꧂ lmao what. You know nothing about Ibn Taymiyyah. AlQaeda is just a reaction to western & soviet intervention in the Muslim world.
I wish Turkey would accept Kurdish people as part of the countries culture. The have a different language and set of traditions but countries can always have a culture that’s made up of different groups of people. Offer Kurdish as a second language for students and set up some government representation to make sure that as a minority they aren’t discriminated against and are afforded the same rights. Make a social movement to encourage people to understand and love each other more. If you try to divide people up by their differences you’ll always have conflict and sadness.
Turkey were a minority in Cyprus just 16% and they took half of our country. You can't reason with them they're bullies. The Turkish people are amazing but Erdoğan and his government are terrorists not the pkk
Its not about accepting they want their country which is to take 20% of Turkey as their own sovereign state!
If you wish this for the Kurds then where ever it is you are from you should allow minorities to make their own country too and take 10-20% of your country as their own too because you wish this for them you have to wish it for all no double standards.
We all have minorities in all countries then all these minorities should have their own countries within the country they live in. Lets go. You go first.
@@check4566Kurds were living in the area long before Turks. And let’s forget a sovereign state for a minute; the Turkish government treats minorities and immigrants like sh*t. If you walk down the street in Ankara and you “look Syrian”, you will get beat for it.
The Turkish government needs to treat the minorities (who were all living there long before Turks from Mongolia).
@@4-1-2 I agree with the mistreatment. And also it was the Arab revolt that caused this anyway. If Muslims didn’t topple Muslims then this would not have happened. And again UK was heavily involved in the Arab revolt. Then the UK drew their borders again just like they did in Africa. It is what it is. The lines have been drawn. Regardless of who was there first the west is always dividing to make it easier to conquer!
Look around the world 🌍
The same peoples are at war with each other
Pakistan and India both same peoples but again lines drawn by the west causing tension
Cyprus
Same again lines drawn before the invasion of Atilla 2 and Atilla 2 of Turkey
All because Makarios eas befriending the USSR ( Russains ) and nato didnt want any Russian involvement under a nato ally
After 1974 the west (UK/USA) heavily armed Turkey and moved bases there too!
North Korea and South Korea The same peoples
Taiwan and China the same people caused by the west meddling
Ukraine caused again by the west trying to make a USSR breakdown country a nato ally which goes against the non signed red line deal in 1991
And am not even gonna mention Africa cause them borders been drawn up by rulers. So bad.
We should have all stayed united in the ummah under the Ottoman Empire
But the west new their chess games and said “You’re not a Turk youre an Arab youre bot a Turk youre a Kurd”. Etc etc
But the ottoman empire didn’t stop anyone being anything it was a religious empire under the Quran but greed set in.
Check out the Arab revolt which caused the division and the deal of the lussane treaty in 1915 which caused you guys to be homeless. All because of the Arab revolt.
Soon inshAllah there will only be one Ummah the Muslim ummah.
We as Kurdish people live all over the world.. we are big hearted people who just wanted to survive, take care of our parents and children
I’m European and support Kurdistan! Kurds are stronger than ever!
Your history of the Kurds lacks clarity , data and more information. I know the format is short but what about this jump from the 60s to 2018... Also a video about the history of the Kurds not showing a map of the repartition of the Kurdish people... Come on wp you can do better
Finally a non biased video on what is happening between turks and kurdish people in syria
They dont talk about Pkk/Ypg murdered 70k Kurd and Truk inculuding children. Or their drug sealers.
Nice try, however, you have failed to discuss the designation of the PKK as a terrorist group/organisation. You have failed to discuss why the PKK emerged, why the US agreed with Turkey to designate them as a terrorist group/organisation, what it means for a state to have a monopoly on violence, why there is still no universal definition of terrorism and how not having one makes it hard to define one and easy to abuse such designations (especially when countries depend on other countries, making them more inclined to designate a group as such), what the Turkish policies towards Kurds are, and many more..
These questions are all relevant to the situation. Maybe next time you can start by answering these questions first before diving into the rest of the historical facts. What is a fact worth if it is based on a lie? How these facts are lies you ask? You build on this idea that the PKK is a terrorist organisation when the questions should start with all the above. The first of them being, is the PKK truly a terrorist organisation? And, how can you designate a group as such when there is no universal definition? I rest my case.
You didn’t rest your case at all. Killing civilians,murdering those Kurds not willing to join them,kidnapping kids to join their ranks,kidnapping under age Kurdish girls and boys taking them to the mountains bombing schools,killing innocent people, if not terror I would like to know what then?heroes? You can make no excuses for terror. You you are bought by foreign agents to weaken the Turkish state. Those who arm you are the enemies of Turkey not the friends of Kurds. Why don’t you tell us why PKK emerged,why did the west support them?
The US agreed with Turkey that the PKK is a terror organization because Turkey was and is still a NATO state. And Turkey was very important for the US during the Cold War. If there had been tensions, the US could have brought their nuclear weapons down to Turkey. The PKK also got help from Syria. Syria was an ally of the Soviet Union and the PKK was a socialist militia. That means: The US had many reasons to be against the PKK. To them the PKK was just another communist movement that had to be fought, just like the Vietcong. They didn’t care that Turkey burnt several villages in Kurdistan.
@@bhka6423 Exactly. I want to add that the Cuban missile crisis happened because Turkey was aiming the US' nuclear weapons at the Soviet Union.
All those decisions were mostly based on ideology, not on justice, which makes them illegitimate. It is why the European Court of Justice judged that the PKK should be removed from the EU terrorist list.
@@Marmer The reason why the PKK is a terrorist group to the NATO is because of the Cold War. Everyone knows that the PKK has been founded because of oppression. And everyone knows that Turkey was close to a civil war in this time. Showing weakness was a No-Go in the Cold War. That’s also the reason why the US sent troops to Vietnam although they knew that they couldn’t win this. As you said, it was not about justice.
@@bhka6423 the US was on the verge of winning in Vietnam
The US lost due to politics back home, not because of millitary defeats(they actually won many battles and inflicted more casualties both flat numbers and per capita)
When the pressure back home came to a boil to bring US troops back, the US govt was forced to withdraw. 2 years later South Vietnam lost to the Viet Cong
👍Thank you so much for putting the truth out - our country needs it badly right now!💜
How's is the weather over there at "Agency: headquarters in Langley Virginia? How's those massive Afghan Opium Poopy fields doin'? CIA still reaping $Billions in heroin sales?
@@jimm6095 Stop throwing gibberish and lies on my thread troll!
Earthling15 ! Okay kiddo, the Europeans almost invaded a whole continent but failed, and even used slaves and killed them, did you forget that? And the Americans also killed thousands of native Americans, nobody is perfect kiddo.
True. It's good to see the WP acknowledge that the Kurdish YPG are a communist terrorist militia. Showing why Trump made the correct decision not to protect them against key 70 year NATO ally Turkey 👍
@Earthling15 ! you are most probably 14 years old kid from Israel
A Kurd who feels Turkish is a Kurd that has a job/livelihood to protect in Turkey. That’s how I feel as a German as well. It’s normal to feel like one when you’re desperately trying to prove you belong to somewhere which is a feeling Kurds can’t have that easily.
As a Kurd I agree but not just because Kurds don’t have the feeling of belonging somewhere regardless of borders Kurds would all say they belong to Kurdistan, but the years of genocides, torture and being separated from your family, living among people of different culture does give the feeling of belonging more to the side of your oppressor than your own nation.
some Kurds are very logical....they dont want to be against the goverment why should they ...some kurds like you live in a dream building and living in Kurdistan...what a stupid way to waste your time..even children do know there is no place called Kurdistan.. @@usernotfound232
@as a Kurd I don’t want a country for us I want money for us and a big Iman.
@@LineisMappingwallahi you took me. Just Iman. And that's it. 🙌🏻🙌🏻
@@LineisMappingdo you recommend any history book navigating through these kurd turk thing ???
Kurds has no rights in tehir lands. If a Kurd does not know Turkish and needs to go Doctor he or she has to find a translator. A Kurd can never received a service in Kurdish language. As a Kurd i studied 16 years in my lands and i did not find a single word about my language,my history, literature or anything about Kurdish
Im kurdish myself and i can say 70% they don't know what they talking about, many lies... This is not near 10% of Kurdish History! God willing one day Kurdistan will become FREE.
inshallah
@mutlak Türk ur dumb. watch then. erodogan is trash (like u seem to be)
@Spawn well im dreaming and i can see.
mutlak Türk who do u think u are 🤣
Free Assyria 💙🤍❤
How can Turkey and Syria fight for hundreds of years when Syria is like 80 years old? There was the Turkish Empire and the Arabic Caliphate. The Turkish Empire eventually dominated the Arabic Caliphate. But there have never been this many nations upon middle east before. Most of the time the middle east was a united region, at worst times there were a 3-4 competing factions but it has never been like Europe. All these modern middle eastern nations are creations of England and France, so that the region remains seperated and weak, therefore western powers can abuse it as they like.
As a Kurd, people should know that at least 90% of Kurds do support the PKK. Some may or may not openly admit, but most of Kurds know that independence is the only way for freedom of oppression. This fact was not mentioned in this video.
@lkfvhg define "many". yes the remaining 10% of 60 million people is still a lot, but relatively few.
Agreed
90% of the Kurds doesn't support PKK
They support YPG 😆
no they dont liar
*_✍️ I am Kurdish on my mother's side and Azerbaijani on my father's side. There has never been a problem so serious as to "shed blood" between Turkish and Kurds. I agree! The government made some wrong decisions a long time ago. But there was no need to establish an armed terrorist organization just for this. Kurdish citizens living in this country did not establish the PKK / YPG / DHKPC organization, which is a terrorist organization. It is the American and Russian secret services that founded this organization. America and Russia, who come facing each other on almost every issue in the world today, agree on the issue when it comes to the terrorist organization PKK / YPG. They both provide weapons and tactical-strategic training to the members of the organization. This organization was established to prevent the Turkish state from getting stronger in the region and to make superpower states such as America and Russia do what they want and force them to accept it. Today, when the state of the Republic of Turkey got a little stronger, it immediately changed the fate of the region by intervening in regions such as Karabakh, Libya, Syria and Bosnia. Turkey has historical ties with these regions and the people living in these regions. Knowing this, states such as America, Russia and even France and England established and supported the Terrorist organization, which has the richest and widest range of action that history has ever seen. For America (USA), the Marxist-Leninist ideology of the PKK terrorist organization is no problem when it comes to Turkey. Or when it comes to Turkey, how warm relations the PKK organization has with the United States is unimportant for Russia.._*
*_✍️ As long as Turkey continues to be weak and prevents the Turkish State from making moves outside its borders due to the turmoil created by the terrorist organization in the country. The thing I regret the most about our Kurdish citizens, deceived by this terrorist organization! While the guerrillas live in a disgraceful state in the Mountain, the children of the organization's senior executive staff live abroad in the most beautiful schools, the most beautiful cars and the most beautiful houses in luxury. If the terrorist organization is fighting for the Kurds, who are an oppressed people, then why don't the children of the top organization leaders fight with them on the mountain? The terrorist organization PKK has harmed Kurdish citizens the most since the day it was founded. He raided Kurdish villages that refused to support him, and massacred women, the elderly, babies and childrens. The Turkish state, on the other hand, is trying to win over all citizens who want to leave the organization by enacting a law of remorse, by showing the smiling face of the state. After this law was enacted, almost 2,000 to 5,000 members of the organization fled from the terrorist organization and sought refuge in the state. According to what those who escaped from the organization told, if you were caught escaping from the organization, various brutal punishments were given as punishment, such as being thrown into boiling water and left to die, gang rape, shooting. Which, in a funny way, says that this terrorist organization defends "human rights". But it punishes those who want to leave the organization with death! Does anyone know who the founder of the PKK organization is, dear Americans?_*
*_✍️ Someone named Abdullah Öcalan. Before the September 12 coup in Turkey, Abdullah Öcalan, although a Kurd, went to the "Ülkü Ocakları" meetings, which he founded as the youth organization of an ultra-nationalist political party called the Nationalist Movement Party, organized organizations in the student movements adopting Turkish nationalism, and called themselves the Gray Wolves. While he was a member of the organization that said, he established the terrorist organization PKK for himself as a result of the contacts of the CIA secret service. Yes, you heard right! Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the PKK terrorist organization, once carried out actions on behalf of Turkish Nationalism. However, as a result of his contacts with the CIA and KGB, a terrorist organization was established for him. In addition, I would like to point out that the only leader in the founding staff of the organization who does not speak Kurdish is Abdullah Öcalan. Yes, he is a Kurdish People's defender who does not speak KURDISH. SUPREME Epic Lie_*
*_✍️ I want to say something to the people who read this comment while watching this video. The Turkish and Kurdish peoples have no problems within the borders of the State of the Republic of Turkey. For centuries they lived together, got married, became relatives. Those who pretend to have a problem that they don't have are their enemies inside and outside of this country. In the past, lies were told such that Kurdish citizens were blocked and they were not given any duties in the state administration. I recommend you to look at the "AK PARTI" parliamentary lists, founded by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the power that governs the Turkish State today. There are people of Kurdish origin rather than Turks in origin. Let's take the newly appointed Minister of Finance Mehmet Şimşek. He was chosen from Batman province. Mehmet Simsek is Kurdish. He went to visit the Kurdish Regional Government of Northern Iraq. During the press conference, a journalist ASKED him an ENGLISH QUESTION. Mehmet Şimşek gave the answer in KURDISH. There is a video on RUclips. You can write Mehmet Şimşek Answer Kurdish. More than 25 million Kurdish citizens live in this country. At least 90% of these 25 million Kurds do not support the PKK terrorist organization. They know the real face of the organization very well. If the PKK had been right in its case and it had been an organization from within the people, it would have been able to leave this country with the support of 25 million Kurds today. Or he would go into civil war. But they don't. Because they know! They know very well the true face of the organization, they know very well who founded this organization and who supports this organization. Another issue is Islam. Kurds are sincere Muslims who are very devoted to the religion of Islam and most of them are Sunni (there are also Alevi Kurds). Turks and Kurds pray together in the same mosque. If those who try to divide the state of the Republic of Turkey over the Kurds succeed, it will be Islam that will suffer the most. The Kurdish people know this very well. That's why the superpowers who want to divide this country will never stop playing these games. The Modern, Contemporary Crusader Armies, which have never stopped throughout history due to the geopolitical position of the Republic of Turkey and its underground and aboveground riches, will not stop. But Turks and Kurds will always continue to live side by side in brotherhood in these lands.._*
american media and truth hımm interesting...
*_Why is the translation of the video subtitle and subtitle only 23 seconds ? If you're doing a job, do it completely or don't do it at all. What gifted employee thought of putting only 23 seconds of subtitle translation on a video that is almost 8 minutes long ?_*
How can a statement be both "completely false" and "oversimplified" at the same time?
That line was weird I agree
The big fat lie is that Kurds consider themselves or feel they are Turkish that’s a big lie.
Why every party hates us Kurds and we are human
@Kamen Rider Kuuga You are an assimilated person. Every Kurd would wish an own country.
This video is largely incorrect. Around the 1 minute mark she claims that the idea of nation states didn't exist outside Academic Circles.
Kurds were the first nation within the Ottoman Empire to try and break away and form their own country. In fact, the Kurdish regions were always ruled by local Kurdish Kingdoms and Principalities for the entire duration of the Ottoman Empire's existence; no other region controlled by the Ottomans had this set-up, because the Ottomans simply could not subdue the local Kurdish rulers.
Already in the mid 19th century, 70 years before the collapse of the Ottmans, Kurdish chiefdoms united and rebelled against the Persian Safavids and the Ottomans combined, in an attempt to establish a Kurdish Nation State. That idea did not exist among other nations elsewhere. In fact, it is believed that the Kurdish Polymath Ehmede Xani was one of the first intellectuals in history to call for the establishment of a (Kurdish) Nation State in the 16th century. At that time, the notion of nation state did not even exist in Europe, where religion and feudal lords still had a large impact on society.
Turks, Arabs, Persians, and others try to portray Kurds as backwards tribalists and as a nation that lacks unity. The truth is the opposite; we pioneered many things, and the Middle-East and Europe would have looked entirely different without our existence (the fact that we are descendants of both the Medes and the great Ayyubids of Sultan Saladin is enough to validate this great claim).
Ne mutlu kürdüm diyene 🙃
Çalma sözümüzü
@@hz.juanyamano8367 Words are free
BIJI KURDISTAN ✌️
There is nothing called turkish kurds .. kurds were there when turks were still in central asia and mingolia !!!
And the whole problem starts when turks can’t stop conquering the lands of others (Kurds,greeks, armenians, ….)
And also there is fascism overload among turks unfortunately…….
Turkish is not an Ethnicity rather it is a nationality, everyone who are a citizen of Turkey no matter you are Kurdish or Arab or Laz or Zaza you are Turkish, and don't get it wrong that it propagates in this video, Turkish Kurds are one of the most proud Turkish people from their states and those who wan't seperation are not even %1 of the Kurds, that is why Kurdish people hate PKK because it doesn't actualy represent them but they claim they do even tho they are not even %1.
@@youravaragetoxicmasculinem9508 so that means arabs in phalestine are considered to be israelians 👀???
@@RenasAb No because they didn't fought for Israel to exist and they do not accept it as their state also Israel is a colonial state, only reason it exists is that Britain made it. but Kurds in Turkey fought for Turkey and do not want to seperate, it is the Westeren media that makes it look like Kurds in Turkey hate being a part of it but actually people who actually support seperation is not even %1, and i can easily say that most Kurds in Turkey are as patriotic as Turks and i can say that because i am a semi Kurd myself, many people don't know about Turkish history that Turkish liberation war started in Kurdish populated areas.
We ignoring the fact that Ocalan had one of the best character arcs in recent history. Completely changed his ideology and went from a violent tankie to libsoc feminist
As preceded by Studies by two Turkish scientists ,, ((Timucin Binder), (M. Yasar Iscan,) not even 10% of the current inhabitants of Turkey are Turks ,,, in fact they are Greek-Armenian Ionian Phrygians Laz Kurdish.
You Read about it.
Yeah , like we are gonna belive it ...
*_Gertrude Bell wasn't really drunk when she drew boundaries. He used the ruler very effectively. Perfect country borders, almost Perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!_*
With all due respect, there wasn’t any kurds in this video, so you have no right to speak on their behalf, let alone spread misinformation about kurds and pkk and ypg
Amen
For years Turkey has been thumbing their nose at America I say we arm the Kurds to the tooth and tell them go to work teach Turkey a lesson in manners and cooperation.
there were no turks either, you dingus.
This is the most objective explonation of the situation. I didnt expect that from a western media. Good joob washington post and greetings from turkey!
just tryin to remove some ignorance and gain understanding. is it true that there is usually strife and tension between the turks and the kurds? if so why? if not, why is this a common assumption?
@@elizabethkimotho6613
First Question: There was, in the 70s and 80s, there were some ultra-nationalist presidents that would persecute Kurds that dared speak a word of their own language. This, in turn caused the PKK to gain popularity and by proxy, allowed other ultra-kurdish terrorist groups to be born. Nowadays tho? On the contrary. If you get out to the street today, find a Kurd speaking Kurdish and confront him about it, there's gonna be like 20-25 Turks backing that Kurdish individual up and you will probably get a good beating if you don't apologize. Kurds and Turks are living in harmony in Turkey right now. Obviously some old people just can't keep their thoughts to themselves and speak of racism against Kurds, but they are generally shunned by society. Honestly, now that I think about it, the Turkish-Kurdish conflict is so old at this point that it is practically non-existent in Turkey. And even when it was, a lot of Kurds didn't know what the PKK was on about, and there were even Kurdish soldiers fighting for Turkey. Even nowadays, some Turkish soldiers wear "Puşi"s ("Keffiyeh"s in Arabian) for tribute to the Kurdish culture, to show that they respect it and that they fight to protect it as well.
Second Question: It's mostly Americans that assume this, and unsurprisingly as well, given their ignorance and urge to look into matters that have nothing to do with them. They also assume that Turks and GREEKS hate each other, that Turks are Arabians, that Turks are these camel riding fez wearing barbarians that are stuck in the 1900s. They say that Turks are barbarians because they conquered a lot of land, when at the day and age of said Turks conquering lands, Romans were putting slaves against wild animals like tigers and lions and watching them get ripped to shreds, laughing and having fun, but they romanticize them. They make reenactments of their own crimes against humanity, against the blacks and they show it off like they are proud, and they are... They are proud of that being their history. They ignore their ancestors that had 100s of slaves, had hypocritically fought for slavery. They ignore that they tried to take over multiple countries by some absurd means and have almost destroyed the world with Russia over some stupid rivalry. But no, we Turks are the barbarians. It's just usual American ignorance, being offended by something that even the people they assume to be offended are actually not.
Tl:Dr :
First question: Yeah, like 40-50 years ago, not now, we get along pretty good.
Second Question: American ignorance, it's as national as baseball and apple pie.
Anyone remember when candidate trump promised to erase national debt, but actually increased federal deficit with his tax cuts?
Her hebe netewa Kurd!!!
Did we have an agreement with the Kurds to go to war with Turkey to defend them against a fellow NATO ally?
There wouldn't be a war. Turkey wasn't going to attack if we stayed put.
@@deniselever3840 - Do you know this because you work for the state department in the pentagon or are you making an assumption based on racist fake news CNN or hateful rachel madcow on conspiracy msnbc?
@@deniselever3840 Then the US would have to stay in Syria forever. Erdogan has been threatening to launch the operation while the US troops are still there. For Turkey there is no greater evil in the world than PKK, these people are baby killers. They are responsible for 40 thousand deaths since the 80ies. Erdogan has the support of the entire country behind him and he knows it.
Nothing short of an all-out war can save the PKK, their fate is sealed.
İbrahim Çetin LMAO so I’m guessing u didn’t hear that them ‘baby killers’ helped the US troops defeat isis?? 🤦♀️ ur confusing urself mate
Honestly how much hatred u guys got against the Kurds?? If u just had any sense of humanity you wouldn't have said that... It literally says in the video about the forced replacement, about moving people across the country to a place they don't belong to... You're worse than the Soviets and stalin. at least they had beaten the Nazis.. I'm not sure what an accurate word could describe all of this in one word... But maaan you are crazy nationalist maniacs.. u don't even accept the history. You insist that the stories of all those families are just bunch of lies.. shame on you...
During the world war first the turks and the kurds committed the genocide against the Armenians !!!!!
not kurds
yes, but that's the past, as long you recognize the actions of the past , we can move forward.
@Hannah Hanson ı am kurds
@Hannah Hanson You cannot blame all the Kurds for the mistake made by only a few tribes, the Kurds saved nearly 300 thousand Assyrians/Armenians in the Genocide, I suggest you do your research.
I hate that the west has a habit of calling those terrorist groups "kurds" as if they represent them in any way.
The closest analogy to this would be calling ISIS "the muslims", which is incredibly offensive
But hey, they are westerners. For them that reduction is a culturaltrait.
Leave the Kurds alone
@Spawn you dont know what you talking about
Spawn first use English keyboard, not Turkish. Don't be a racist while Typing.
As a Turkish, I was expecting something like a portrayal of these terror groups as angels like most of the American media organizations do, to be honest. But, it was straightforward, short storytelling. It doesn't clarify anything, but at least gives a fundamental idea to the people who don't know anything about the situation.
@aa K0stic So, why are you telling this to me
@aa K0stic I just couldn't understand what is the point of that with me. That's why I asked.
@aa K0stic Thanks for let me know, have a nice day
your literally support alqaeda in syria you terrorist mongol
You are the terrorist
my fathers grandmother is kurdish
I die for my country 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
😂😂
نعم يجب أن يقام وطن الأكراد هاذا حقهم
kurdistan
@@vahidismayilov6657 The Kurdistan region in Iraq is inhabited by Kurds .. in you you search for Kurdistan and know where is Kurdistan?
That is a great explainer of a complex situation. Thank you!
No peace for kurdistan - no peace for those people because of these fuckin enemies - MUCH RESPECT K..
Turkey is the United States NATO Ally. There is no such treaty with the Kurds.
I love KURDISTAN ❤️🤍💛🤍💚
For years Turkey has been thumbing their nose at America I say we arm the Kurds to the tooth and tell them go to work teach Turkey a lesson in manners and cooperation.
How far away is this from the United States? How many countries are closer? How is it Trump’s fault that this area is fighting? Any link to the 2020 election?
There's a possibility that Trump was blackmailed into pulling our troops out of there. This may become a bigger news story coming up.
Wow now he is being blackmailed for trying to pull draw down military in middle east. How can they spin this next to make it a negative on Trump. Unhinged Dems
@@tdubz87 It is not a "spin", the Kurds and the US are allies and the US basically betrayed it's promises to the Kurds, leaving them to fend for themselves resulting in many deaths. Think before you speak. The US took it upon themselves to occupy the area in the first place then suddenly pulled out in the Kurds time of need.
Usa used kurdish militias to defeat isis. Then they left and left kurds in the hands of turkish fascist state which bombing and killing them! That is their guilt. As a result isis reviving itself now cause turkish state of fickin erdogan literary suports them. They prefer islamic state on its borders then kurdish autonomous region which is not islamic but secular. Thats the fault of usa. If thet dont care of the region why they were involved in syrian civil war?
Good job, I needed a history lesson just like this.
There‘s not such an War between Turks and Kurds. It is a fight between Turkish Military and Terrorists(PKK/YPG). Erdogan gave the Kurds rights, He allowed to speak Kurdish and allowed Kurds to be political active. With that He is the first and only President in the Turkish Republic with that massive Support to Kurds. And the turkish Kurds like him, the Most of the turkish Kurds chose AKP. Dont Trust the Media. This Video is a step forward, Maybe there‘s some mistakes but its a step forward.
Coach what kind of rights can Kurds have their ethnic background or can they speak Kurdish you what happened to Laila Zana and Ahmed kaya, let's forget about them what about Kurds the other parts? We know that the Turkish government is against the Kurds around the world 🌎 when Kurds from Iraqi Kurdistan tried to get independent Turkey was against it, you never feel the pain that they have it
Killer America is trying to teach us humanity
Yusuf Yorulmaz and your representing country thinks they are caring about humanity.
@@tolhildan7227 According to the national income per capita, we are the most assisting country in the world.
Yusuf Yorulmaz what has that to do with humanrights.
At least they've explained it neutrally and without praising Kurdish militias or insulting the Turkish people.
they should have turks suck
lol🤣
You ladies are lying. Because Iraq and Iran have been in war and the Kurd have been in those wars. Israel and Palestine now Siria and the Kurd have been in the middle of all that plus Turkish have always pick on the Kurd and there identity. Period. Is the same with the Armenians.
As a Kurdish from Turkey I can say Kurdish issue is more complicated than you think. Even experts in this video are disagree with but Trump can be technically right. Because before Turkish state so many Kurdish rebellions happened. But most bloody one is PKK rebellion start 40 years ago and still continue. And even this is just only about Turkey. Iraq and Iran have Kurdish minorities too. All of them effect each other. I hope one day all middle eastern people will live in peace.
Let us not forget Turks never took arms against their kurdish minorities unless they did.
One of the most significant developments in recent Middle East affairs is the close relationship which now exists between Turkey and Israel in military, political, economic and intelligence matters. This change in the power structure is usually attributable to the old Arab maxim “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Since both Turkey and Israel count Syria and Iraq as their strongest threats, the close ties between Turkey and Israel are quite logical.
However, there is good evidence of a less widely known but absolutely fascinating story behind this relationship. Turkey, which has a population almost exclusively Muslim, has a government which by law is committed to being totally secular. This goes back to modern Turkey’s founding father, Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk), 1881-1938, leader of the Young Turk Movement which took over after World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
Ataturk and his followers moved rapidly to end religious domination and many religious practices in the daily life of the country. They decreed a change from the Arabic alphabet to the Roman, and they outlawed the fez and the veil. They opened schools to both boys and girls, and their main goal was to Westernize Turkey and secularize its practices. The Turkish army has been the main enforcement agent of this secular policy in times of rising fundamentalism among some groups.
Turkey had always been allied with israel since israel's establishment. Relations had soured only for about 10 years. BTW secularization of Ottoman Empire started in 1820s, a century before the establishment of Republic, so much so that the late Ottoman Elite were closet(or sometimes open) atheists. Kemalists just hastened the process(revolution rather than evolution)
A tragedy...
And
They are huns
During WW1 Kurds together with Turkish were killing Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks. In total, more than 2 mln Christians from Anatolia were killed and approx. 2 mln Christians were displaced during that time (approx. 10 mln people inhabited Anatolia before WW1).
Kurds manipuleted by the Turkish government.
My mother is Turkish and my dad is Kurdish. We are not enemies. We are natural allies, and will stand together against alien interests, and have always fought side by side for our shared homeland.
@Hakan Fidan I agree, Kurdish should be an official language alongside Turkish ideally.
Hopefully the people of Turkey can work on a solution for that peacefully in the future. We should always remain united though until that times comes. This is my view on that topic at least
Sure, “shared homeland” that oppressed Kurds and Kurdish identity 😂😂
@@PIXELGamerzXvlogs I’m not opressed, but I’m sorry if you feel opressed. No one should feel like that
@@collnorway maybe you aren’t, but Kurds and kurdishness as a whole are.
@@PIXELGamerzXvlogs No they arent. The only problem is Kurdish language is not an official language in Turkey. (As a Turk, i totally supporting the idea of Kurdish language being a local language.) But right now there is no oppression against Kurds. I have plenty of Kurdish friends and i didnt see them get arrested because they spoke Kurdish. (You can speak Kurdish or learn it it's not illegal) Or they didnt exactly got opressed because they are Kurdish. They have the same rights as we have by our Laws.
The oppression on Kurds thing is stuck in the 1980s. You have to be living in the 80s to say "Kurds are opressed by Turkish Government."
mesotopia is place of kurds
🙏❤❤With All The Respec Kurdish People Are The Great People Of The World, From The Bottom Of My Hurt I Want Free Kurdistan, God Bless America And God Bless Kurdish People. ❤❤🙏
girl, what Turkish Kurds? while talking about erasure.
Explained so nicely. Thanks.
Sounds like a mess Trump is right let them slug it out. No Kurd or Turk was with me when I served . Never did hear of them coming to help us after Japan bombed us or Hitler declared war on us.
Thank you so much for this! I'm currently doing a project on how nationalism presents itself among Kurdish people. The background info is really helpful!
dont use this as source. Use others. I am a kurd and i will say that use some other source like a kurdish one and not this one since this is too leftist/liberalist/westerinst. We have been genocided by turkey, iran, syria, iraq. And we dont like any of their leaders.
I am kurdish.... We love turkey!!!
Pis yalanci kürd değilsin
AskerVR I am kurdish and I will say that you are not kurd you are just Turkey dog and we kurds hate turkey 🦃
Well, yeap there are still Kurds who say the same thing that goes " I am Kurdish but I am proud to live in the shade of the Turkish flag " and the reason why they feel so is that they have always been oppressed and intimidated not to speak their language and give up on preserving their culture hence they have been assimilated, it is genuinely hard to find Kurds having a purely national spirit, whoever in the shoes of Kurds would be the same as Kurds
are you nazist?
Most of turkey life peacefully, happy & prosperous in Turkey. Pathetic Kurds life in mountain with AK 47 sent by US & EU to terrorize turkey
This program has not done is background check properly. The YPG and PKK are not communists. That was back in the 1990’s. Their current ideology is Democratic Confederalism. I can see, Turkish rhetoric has had some influence of this article
The Turkish-Kurdish war is one of the largest investments for the US in the Middle East region. Turkey itself is one of the largest users of US-made weapons and military software, for example Turkey is one of the largest users of the F-16 in the region and still maintains the F-4 Phantom and F-16. Turkey also licensed various variants of the M113, and currently still uses Kobra and Super Kobra attack helicopters, then collaborated with Israel to upgrade the M60 Patton and in the past Lockheed Martin also collaborated with Turkey in making the SOM missile. Meanwhile, because Turkey is a NATO country, on the other hand, because Turkey is a NATO country, NATO-US invests billions of dollars in Turkey's defense industry and large investments produce many weapons systems, and expand Turkey's weapons production and research capacity. and various types of locally made, US and other weapons are massively used by Turkey to fight Kurdish guerrilla groups including YPG/SDF in Syria, PKK in Iraq and PJAK in Iran. even a few months ago the US offered Turkey 40 F-16Vs along with components to upgrade their old F-16s to Viper equivalents. So actually, however, the US can't do much if the Kurdish Militia is destroyed by Turkey because on the other hand the US also supports Turkey in eliminating the Kurdish Guerrillas. because the US itself does not want to lose Turkey, and makes billion of dollars in the Kurdish-Turkish conflict
Nice brother that is 100 prosent the truth
No you need to came back 1514 when kurdistan was not divided at all and ottman and persian after a big fight divided the kurdistan to 2 parts
WHERE DID YOU GET THE SOURCE OF SUCH HISTORICAL INFO
Exactly 👌🏻
Man, Europeans messed up this region 😫
OMG THEYRE ARE NO TURKISH KURDS
Atalay but it is a wrong statement.
Your correct they are only Kurds
Where are u from
@@zeisbara5145 kurdistan hbu ?
@@babadookdook1853 doesnt exist
thanks for making an unbiased video bout the operations of turkey but social problems of turks and kurd are going older, so this video is insufficient. I still subscribed