I am Iranian. I wish all the best for my Turkish brothers. Unfortunately these days the relation between Iran and Turkey is not in good mood but at the same time we have very great commercial relation with each other. This relation is very especial. Iran and Turkey had wars for 3 centuries but during last 150 years every thing was calm and their border is one of the oldest borders in the world.
The regional powers in that area always have been and will continue to be Anatolia, Persia and Egypt. Everyone else is a flash in the pan. How power and influence distribute themselves among Turkey, Iran and Egypt, and whether or not these polities can get past their ethnic, historical and sectarian differences will determine whether or not the region as a whole blossoms or withers.
Welcome back, CaspianReport! Could you please broach the Kurdish-issue? It is a current topic and I would like to know about your viewpoint. Greetings from a Kurdish subscriber.
Thanks, the Ottomans have always been my favourite empire, in the last 2 months I've really been studying Turkey after a room mate from Istanbul started living with me. I'll have a hunt for the book in my town today! P.S. Glad to see your back Shievan (hope I spelled it properly). Would you have any other reading material to recommend on the subject after I finish this one?
Saadia ahmad ... go look to Wikipedia. .... to see an little. İ can tell you that Turks and the Otteman Empire is made of human seeds Who are Empire builders and civilisation builders... see this also as builders of science tecknology and culture. İ know western information Will not Confirm what İ tells because... Thèse twee civilisations have always been in war. .. Afther 1923... their is an secret cold war between western countries and Turkey... Secret because western countries did not want the Turks to know their is an cold war against them .
Welcome Back. I always enjoy your videos, and the knowledge you share about the geopolitical atmosphere that's canvassing the European and Middle Eastern region. Please keep making more videos.
Great review, i love your writing skills which is why i subbed to you before and you haven't let me down yet. Seems like an interesting book that i might have to pick up when i get some free time, also welcome back.
I really want to get started on history with this kind of stuff. I just don't know where to start my studies. My grandfather was a student of history, but sadly he passed away this summer and he was too old for him to teach me anything. He had a lot of articles and notes he made, but sadly they get distributed among family members which prevents me from looking into them easily. He also had a library of over 7000 books, Encyclopedias and history books, most of which are hard to come by these days. I'm really sad and wish i could continue my grandfathers work, he had much knowledge and he was a very wise man.
+Burns history is a fascinating subject, i hope you can get hold of some of your grandfathers books i think he would of been proud to know you are studying what he loves :D
we love turkey and urdogan with same intensity as we love pakistan. turkey has bigger role to play in the world even though surrounded by so many enemies. salute to this brave man and brave turkish people.
brilliant as usual but sad thing is that the books your refer are hardly available, the amazon versions are too costly and there are hardly any torrents
Give it 6 months or a year or so & then there will be lots of used for sale & the main price will also start dropping. Agree, it is way to high on Amazon, even at $15.98 on Kindle. I'll wait.
Turkey has started to grow up after the election handled in 2002. There were heaps of to do things was not solved before that. pkk was just one of that problems and Turkey almost sort that out, additionally Turkey sort out most of the other problems such as the rights of ethnics and scarf ban in Education and public institutions. During last 5 years, Turkey playing a great game against Israel, USA, England (inc all Europe), Iran and Russia. Turkey realized that this is the only way being the most powerful country in the middle east. If you guys look objective and check the history of the Turks, you can easily see that Turks have this power and just woken up from a sleep taken almost 100 years. And if you look without blinkers, you will notice how big changes held on during last 12 years then, you can predict where this country will be in next 10-15 years.
from what I absorbed from reading lots of Turkeys politics culture history etc.. is that Turkey is starting to move away from the west not only that they even wanted to become part of the shangai organization! what does this mean for Turkey will they ever achieve the goal of the shangai wil russia china ever allow them to be part of that? will turkey ever leave NATO? and what if turkey really achieves that goal of becomming part of the shangai organisation what could happen to europe/usa?
DeadManRising Turkey is not abandoning the West, those ties are irreplaceable. Ankara is just getting closer to its historical Eastern neighbors. Thus you could say Turkey is moving not to the East or West but to the Middle.
they bent over backwards to try and get into europe, but the european union didn't want to thank god because the EU is a ticking time bomb of failing economic policies now they look east
I understand Cagatay is currently employed by Turkish either government or an institution that lives in peace with the government? Meaning he will never critisize Erdogan the way he should be. Should I still be interested in the book?
The collapse of turkey was exactly 100 years ago right then when the rise of oil started Iran has a better chance of becoming a superpower in leading the world with its natural resources and military industrial complex.
i'am now convinced that you hibernate cause i noticed the pattern before but i wasn't sure, so i think about 3 weeks ago i thought the kaspian report guy should be putting out content anytime soon and there you are. so where are you? or what are you? (X-files music). do you live in the northpole or Antarctica or are you a lizard? anyways great videos as always.
(1)Ex-Sunni Muslim Imam, Turan Dursun, was savagely killed in Turkey after numerous fatwas from countless clerics to have him killed for insulting Islam. (2) Jewish and Christian groups have had to fight increasing pressure to study Islamic religious texts in public schools I would not say that in a society where ex-Muslims are killed can be called secular-leaning by any stretch of the imagination. I would say that a government that forces Jewish kids to read the Quran in school is an Islamist government but who am I to not hold their hand and pretend they are reforming. 4:35 you claim that surrounding Muslim nations will follow Turkey's example of secularism? Have you watched the news lately? There is a huge Islamic Caliphate state next door to Turkey now!!! Secularism is NOT spreading, its fading away. Your job is to convince everyone in the English speaking world that the Middle East is reforming, enlightening and coming to terms with modernity. Shame on you......dont use you education to promote a pan-Islamic agenda- people are dying. Time to be an atheist and help your people instead of hold them back. Azerbani-Love
Well, I didn't read the book and that's why I don't know if you convey well or not. But I didn't like the term of "Turkey is now slowly awakening from its ninety years-long coma sleep"
This may be a hard question to answer, however, do you think that Turkey is changing due to social pressures from Europe and the Anglosphere? If so, could the dualities you describe perhaps be the result of this, i.e. the German idealism that has heavily influenced the Western world.
Very interesting. I shall read, time permitting. Turkey is stuck between two diametrically opposed personalities and identities. My Turkish friends in America mostly left because of this slow painful return to Islamism. If Turkey continues a path toward Islamism I can assure that there will be a brain drain to the west as the secular intellectuals who don't pray 5 times a day pack their bags and seek better ideologies. One Turkish Engineer I know cited the arrest of Fizal Say in 2012 as the last straw. He said that Attaturk's effort to modernize was going to slowly be overshadowed.
there has been almost half a century of forced secularization. Now you are seeing the backlash. However, the country will not move to the saudi wahabist type islamism.
What are you actually trying to say when between 1:32 and 1:37 you said "And as Turkey is now slowly awakening from its ninety years long political comma"?. I would appreciate a detailed perspective on this, because this is a very strong statement that requires a very deep and extensive arsenal of knowledge to make such a statement. Please don't misunderstand me, I am not questioning your knowledge nor your integrity concerning this such matter, I just want to know what you base your statement on.
bugder Im Turkish and I would like to detailed that state. With strong power and the caliphate Ottoman Empire became the leader of the whole muslims. For centuries 'Turk' was equal to muslim, in Europe. Even in our worst and weakest times which are 1800 to 1900 all muslim world are respect and follow us and Ottoman Empire was everywhere in the world except sub-saharan africa and americas. For example we sent aid to Ireland we opened consulates in China India Indonesia we tried to took care of the muslims. We were not responsible to only our country we were responsible to all muslims. Also muslim people were helping to us. For example Pakistan people helped us in our Independence War. But with the republic and abolition of caliphate and secularization and nationalization putted us that 'comma'. This is the shortest way to explain it. Today again we are everywhere in Egypt in Syria in Palestine in Asia in Balkans in Somalia in Africa in South America. Im suggesting that you people should take a look TİKA Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency and what are they doing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_International_Cooperation_and_Development_Agency www.tika.gov.tr/en
carpediemdeii Although there is some truth in your statement it is quite biased and inadequate. The Ottomans lost power due to its uncontrolled expansion and the corruption within its ranks. Its refusal to adapt to the changing world and its inadequacy in handling foreign affairs aided its fall. Your statement is much more in line with propaganda instead of pure history.
carpediemdeii First of all learn how to write in English properly, secondly you are too simple and lack any intelligence. Swearing just shows how much lacking your intelligence is and how much of a real imbecile you are. What are you trying say by "comma" ? As far as I know a "comma" is a punctuation rule. Learn English!
Is there any good book about sociopolitical functions under Erdogan, like Turkish equivalence of Fragile Empire or All Kremlin's Men? I felt that we have heard of enough about "religious" aspect of every muslim majority countries.
Great review, but how influential is Turkey now? Saudi Arabia is the one driving the Muslim World and spreading its brand of Islam. How can Turkey compete with Saudi's oil revenues?
carloa877 Right now the Iranians, the Turks and the Saudis are competing for a new balance of power. Each country is spreading its own version of Islam, governance and ideology. In general, Saudi Arabia and Iran have larger financial and hard-power resources. Turkey, on the other hand, has better soft-power, diplomatic and military resources.
also the muslims countries in central asia like afghanistan and pakistan and uzbekistan will play a big role in armageddon war as a muslim we belive that big army will come from the east who fight the western and zionists
Do you have any contacts within Aliyev family? I have one personal question,it's in regard of my mother and Aidar Aliyev mail correspondence from 1945 to 1955 after they returned from Berlin in the summer of 1945,his short stay in Minsk and his departure back to Baku.
so glade to have you back on youtube please do a video on isis i think there a low theat but i could be wrong anyway thanks for all of the knowlleges that you have left on here and congats on geting marrierd.bye
As a non-Muslim American looking at the Near & Middle East, I have never been impressed with Turkey. While they have a good geographical position, and are not the type of people you want to get into bar fights with, they simply have too many internal problems to deal with. Perhaps this is what makes them so passive and cautious in foreign policy, or any policy , really. The Kurdish tribes are much more aggressive and willing to give their lives in battle. The Turkish military seems to be some kind of jobs program more than a sword to wield when necessary. Just as the Chinese tend to succeed in every country they go to live in, and the Russians do better than their neighbors with their limited resources (the Russian thugs economy is about the size of Italy), so I would bet on the Iranians to dominate much of the Middle East way before I would bet on Turkey. It's really a matter of national character.
shiz777 Being a Miley fan is an excellent way to quickly separate out people who don't in general have good will towards others. So I don't have to spend lot's of time trying to assess their character.
Well except for that Iran is Shi'a and basically everyone else including Turkey is mostly Sunni. This means Iran is very unlikely to dominate since Shi'a and Sunni hate each other like the Protestants VS Catholics in Ireland.
***** Not true. im a kurd and ive lived in Iran and Turkey. In turkey most kurds were killed for saying they were a kurd or speaking Kurdish and in School Kurdish is not allowed to be spoken. In Iran Kurds are not very good at speaking Persian and some dont even need to learn Persian since it is more populated by Kurds. And in kurdish-iran kurds speak Kurdish not Persian. And kurds were and are treated as second class citizens in Turkey.
***** I know brother, nationalism is never a good thing. Freedom for the Kurds to decide their future! And freedom to all oppressed peoples of the world!
Thank you for your review Shirvan, but I hope you stay subjective as usual and we use to see you and I'm sure you are intellectual enough not to fall into the trap of media or to be influenced by it.
Excellent book review and I agree w your last analysis of what this book lacks. Maybe a few twitter notes to #cagaptay will encourage him to discuss Erdogan, the government and the repression of the more liberated Turks. I look forward to reading it, but it is overpriced on Amazon for such a short book that isn't quite up to current conditions in Turkey. I'll order a used copy, reasonably priced. Erdogan's resistance to helping the Kurds against ISIS in Syria is sad but I understand they are having to handle most the refugees alone and are only asking for a no-fly zone. The Kurds have large populations in close proximity to one another in four adjoining countries~it seems they should have their own state. I want to learn more about them. Do you suggest any books on Kurdish History? Also, what is Erdogan's beef with Assad? Maybe you should write your own book as your reports are very interesting, and bring many otherwise unknown things to light.
Ali Budak regional power with F-5E jet fighters and captians of submarines that are hitting all the time rocks in Aegean? hahahha Merkel is just repaying her ww2 debt
f-5? Hahahah mate, stop showing your ignorance. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Air_Force have fun with our f-16, bankrupting inept greek. our closest enemy is Iran, but we are stronger than them too; The website Global Firepower offers an extensive comparison of the militaries of these two countries: World Military Strength Comparison "Though their armies are similar in size, Turkey holds a significant advantage in total aircraft (1639 vs 992), helicopters (629 vs 232) and armored vehicles (8532 vs 1550). Turkey's annual defense budget is also nearly three times as great ($18 billion vs $6 billion). This reflects the much more advanced weaponry that Turkey receives from their NATO allies as opposed to Iran's aging hardware. If there were to be a war along their shared border, it would not be an easy fight. Likely, there would not be an outright victor, since neither would be willing to sustain such high casualties. In a hypothetical all-out war, however, Turkey's advanced weaponry (particularly in the air) should prevail. Turkey's advanced fleet of F-16s would quickly gain air superiority qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-57eb52da3db91a39a9c8f5b8be6c5fd9?convert_to_webp=true Iran has struggled to find parts to keep its aging fighters (an F-5 shown here) in the air. Described here: medium.com/war-is-boring/4a26263947ca
Ali Budak Don't show me global fire power ranks , are inaccurate about Hellenic Army , the site itself have agreed to that, also What Advanched F-16 Fleet? What Airsupperioty? Our F-16 are upragding to AESA and we have also F-16 Block 52+ ( The best F-16 in the world) We have Mirage that can shoot Exocet. Your closest enemy is Russia , Greece , Armenia , Cyprus , Israel , Kurdistan , Syria and Iraq Actually , you have been encircled by 2 Meditterean Super Powers Greece & Israel , an world Power (Orthodox) Russia and 7 Minor but strong forces . You have no hope even against Greece , how can u match so many forces? Your airforce also is nothing , as it can't operate in Aegean cuz A/A Greek Shield is able to even Lock Ankara with its missiles , by the way Turkey now doesnt have any A/A shield . Hellenic AF have the best Pilots in NATO , Turkish General when was spectulating the exercise of PARMENION 2014 , asked the Greek Defence Minister , '' How can they have 100% Accuracy on the enemy positions with 2 weeks of prepaparation only?!! . Yesterday , i show that Turkish ''Economy'' is at collapse , you are in worst position again against Greece , as you dont have any serius logistics to stand or to confront Greece that its stockpiles are heavily fullified to last an very long war.
The wish of the government is not the wish of the people.Just look at the political situation in Turkey today.Your iberal mind doesnt allow you to see the truth.
+Supertyam the byzantine empire also "lawled" at osman the first and his little tribe.little they did know just like you.once we get out of this sleep completly.another era of 1000 years of domination like our ancestors will start obviously if Allah wills.
Yoldash you can not manipulate history for defending pan turkism - because you have to be realistic about war between Osmani empire and Safavids ( Azerbaijani people) - Safavids raised as a shia Islam and formed the country of Iran 500 years ago - Today republic Azerbaijan is a banan republic dominated by Turkish raising empire - Reason is clear Azaris are shia and pan turkism destroyed all shia mosques in Republic azerbaijan and build 100s of sunni muslem mosque in Shia azeri country - and same time under Karabaq conflict turkey was totally passive with invaider Armaniansso please stop became house animal for pan turkism - and save Azeris culture and land!
So? They could fuck off from Turkish lands and can build their own nation. There are 5 million Turks in Germany, is it about the time that German Turks have their own country too?
Ali Budak The Germans decide, it is their country. Well yeah, you can say the same about America as you can about Turkey, should the Turkish get out of Byzantium and go back to Turkmenistan? No, because they both conquered it centuries ago and both have their own people living there. Yes but the people there are not Turkish, they are Kurds, it is already a kurdish country and land they just don't have a government yet. Why fight a war for lands that don't belong to your people? Why not just let the Kurdish rule themselves.
MrJarth Why Germans decide? Why? They are migrated, they conquered those lands just as we. No we don't go back to Turkmenistan because we conquered Anatolia. No USA don't go back to Britain because they conquered the Americas. Whether people are Turkish or not, those lands are Turkish. You don't care who is living in, when you assigning a government. In Berlin, there is a place called Kreuzberg, includes many Turks and few Germans. Even the street signs are Turkish, there are Turkish restaurants and plazas everywhere. But Kreuzberg belongs to Germany, not the Turks who live in Kreuzberg. Belonging is a matter of government not the people. If Kurds want to establish a government, they can freely go to Iraq or Syria or what the hell they want to live. Do you think those lands have been given to us free? No. We fought and conquered. When Germans give Kreuzberg to Turks (which is ridicilous), when Americans give Americas to the native american, when French give some land to Algerians in France, when half of London given to immigrants who is non British, I will give my land to Kurds. Okay?
Ali Budak Because the Germans are the native people and they own their country. German conquered the land from who? Neanderthals? HA no they can't Iraq or Syria won't let that happen :) Also they are conveniently under the control of ISIS. I wonder who benefits from that? hmmm What you asking for is a full rebellious war then with so they can brake away. There is no other Kurdish country they can go and live in, like the Turks who are living in Germany. All these other groups have their own country, the Kurds don't. You continue the conflict by not allowing them to rule themselves. The Armenians rule themselves, they are not Turkish or even Islamic. If you took over their country there would be only conflict. So there is no point to rule over them.
I am Iranian. I wish all the best for my Turkish brothers. Unfortunately these days the relation between Iran and Turkey is not in good mood but at the same time we have very great commercial relation with each other. This relation is very especial. Iran and Turkey had wars for 3 centuries but during last 150 years every thing was calm and their border is one of the oldest borders in the world.
+Feri Nz i wish for the best for you guys too buddy. hope both of our governments stop being so bad one day
The regional powers in that area always have been and will continue to be Anatolia, Persia and Egypt. Everyone else is a flash in the pan. How power and influence distribute themselves among Turkey, Iran and Egypt, and whether or not these polities can get past their ethnic, historical and sectarian differences will determine whether or not the region as a whole blossoms or withers.
Between Turkey and İran their has not been an war for 500 years . Thé borders between two countries are Uncharted in Thé past 500 years.
Finally! I've been waiting for another video.
You're back .. great vid (don't be long away next time, your vids are great!!) THANKS
You are back! YAY!
Welcome back brother excellent job as always!
Thanks for telling us about this book! Your videos are very helpful for the average man to get a better grasp on what really goes on in geopolitics.
Good to see that your making videos agian, ive missed watching your videos.
You do a good job talking about these very serious issues. I see facts not propaganda when I hear you talk.One step above. Good to see you back!
Welcome back, I hope we get to see more of you soon!
Welcome back, CaspianReport!
Could you please broach the Kurdish-issue? It is a current topic and I would like to know about your viewpoint.
Greetings from a Kurdish subscriber.
YES!!!
Finally you are back with an awesome video
Welcome back man
Thanks, the Ottomans have always been my favourite empire, in the last 2 months I've really been studying Turkey after a room mate from Istanbul started living with me.
I'll have a hunt for the book in my town today!
P.S. Glad to see your back Shievan (hope I spelled it properly). Would you have any other reading material to recommend on the subject after I finish this one?
James Kenny What did you learn?☺
Saadia ahmad ... go look to Wikipedia. .... to see an little.
İ can tell you that Turks and the Otteman Empire is made of human seeds Who are Empire builders and civilisation builders... see this also as builders of science tecknology and culture.
İ know western information Will not Confirm what İ tells because... Thèse twee civilisations have always been in war. .. Afther 1923... their is an secret cold war between western countries and Turkey...
Secret because western countries did not want the Turks to know their is an cold war against them .
Shirvan*
Well done, as always. Keep up the great work !
Welcome back my friend
I'm really glad that you're back, your perspective is very valuable to me. Congrats on your recent wedding, and keep up the good work!
Watching this in 2024.
I can appreciate how far this channel has come
Glad to see you back Caspian, keep on posting
Welcome Back. I always enjoy your videos, and the knowledge you share about the geopolitical atmosphere that's canvassing the European and Middle Eastern region. Please keep making more videos.
Great review, i love your writing skills which is why i subbed to you before and you haven't let me down yet. Seems like an interesting book that i might have to pick up when i get some free time, also welcome back.
I really want to get started on history with this kind of stuff.
I just don't know where to start my studies.
My grandfather was a student of history, but sadly he passed away this summer and he was too old for him to teach me anything.
He had a lot of articles and notes he made, but sadly they get distributed among family members which prevents me from looking into them easily.
He also had a library of over 7000 books, Encyclopedias and history books, most of which are hard to come by these days.
I'm really sad and wish i could continue my grandfathers work, he had much knowledge and he was a very wise man.
+Burns history is a fascinating subject, i hope you can get hold of some of your grandfathers books i think he would of been proud to know you are studying what he loves :D
Zach Iremonger Thanks :)
مرحبا مجددا , لم تأخرت علينا في فيديواتك الممتازة , شكرا
Welcome back .
HE'S BACK😃
good to see ya back Shirvan. thanks for another great report
we love turkey and urdogan with same intensity as we love pakistan. turkey has bigger role to play in the world even though surrounded by so many enemies. salute to this brave man and brave turkish people.
Madiha Khan We love you to our Pakistani brothers. We are always on your side and love your country.
Welcome Back Shirwan, i kinda lost hope that you are going to show up. Good Video
We missed you! You are great, we love ya. =)
Welcome back !
very interesting, i've always thought turkey was a unique country
Does this mean more frequent uploads? I hope so. You put some of the best content on youtube.
WOW !!! CASPIAN REPORT IS BACK.
Where did u go this summer?
An interesting review... thank you, Sir 🙏
Everyone loves Turkey
I wanna move to turkey
no you dont
Nice to see some new videos.
Welcome back and congratulations on the wedding.
yeeeey! Finally back!
Shirvan, good review, thanks.
Welcome back
brilliant as usual
but sad thing is that the books your refer are hardly available, the amazon versions are too costly and there are hardly any torrents
Give it 6 months or a year or so & then there will be lots of used for sale & the main price will also start dropping. Agree, it is way to high on Amazon, even at $15.98 on Kindle. I'll wait.
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the prices are way too high. in my country books are not this much costly
"Turkey simply cannot be run by 1 party"
This is when I nodded my head violently :D
could u do more geopolitics vids?
fk the EU, but I agree that Caspian should make more vids
Fantastic stuff!
your back
Also mentioned in the book "the next 100 years"
Turkey has started to grow up after the election handled in 2002. There were heaps of to do things was not solved before that. pkk was just one of that problems and Turkey almost sort that out, additionally Turkey sort out most of the other problems such as the rights of ethnics and scarf ban in Education and public institutions. During last 5 years, Turkey playing a great game against Israel, USA, England (inc all Europe), Iran and Russia. Turkey realized that this is the only way being the most powerful country in the middle east.
If you guys look objective and check the history of the Turks, you can easily see that Turks have this power and just woken up from a sleep taken almost 100 years. And if you look without blinkers, you will notice how big changes held on during last 12 years then, you can predict where this country will be in next 10-15 years.
from what I absorbed from reading lots of Turkeys politics culture history etc.. is that Turkey is starting to move away from the west not only that they even wanted to become part of the shangai organization!
what does this mean for Turkey will they ever achieve the goal of the shangai wil russia china ever allow them to be part of that? will turkey ever leave NATO? and what if turkey really achieves that goal of becomming part of the shangai organisation what could happen to europe/usa?
DeadManRising Turkey is not abandoning the West, those ties are irreplaceable. Ankara is just getting closer to its historical Eastern neighbors. Thus you could say Turkey is moving not to the East or West but to the Middle.
CaspianReport Hahaha!
"Turkey is moving to the middle."
How eloquently put, what a joke of a novice historian you are, Caspian.
ShTiCkY┌∩┐( ` __ ´ )┌∩┐iS iCkY
instead of cracking him down why dont you try to fight back with facts?
DeadManRising
Turkey will join SCO as well as Eurasia, after joining the EU.
they bent over backwards to try and get into europe, but the european union didn't want to
thank god because the EU is a ticking time bomb of failing economic policies
now they look east
I just finished this book and.....damn. DAMN. Going to see the movie tonight!
I understand Cagatay is currently employed by Turkish either government or an institution that lives in peace with the government? Meaning he will never critisize Erdogan the way he should be. Should I still be interested in the book?
The whole "Islamic Calvinism" angle by itself makes the book worthless in my opinion, so, no.
Nyc vid as always. Do a '''PETRODOLLAR"" video n welcome back!
The collapse of turkey was exactly 100 years ago right then when the rise of oil started Iran has a better chance of becoming a superpower in leading the world with its natural resources and military industrial complex.
i'am now convinced that you hibernate cause i noticed the pattern before but i wasn't sure, so i think about 3 weeks ago i thought the kaspian report guy should be putting out content anytime soon and there you are.
so where are you? or what are you? (X-files music).
do you live in the northpole or Antarctica or are you a lizard?
anyways great videos as always.
He was getting married. I don't know where he lives, but my guess is somewhere in the Caspian region... Possibly Armenia or Kazakhstan.
Mauro Augusto Mexia he lives in azerbaijan
Mauro Augusto Mexia
yh i heard him say he lives in azerbajan in some video, what i want know is how do you know he was getting married?
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I think he either said it in a video or in a post on Facebook? idk lol it was like a month or 2 ago hehe
Mauro Augusto Mexia
ah, i don't have a facebook, to be honest i didn't even know he had a facebook lol.
oh well, congrats to him i guess.
Hey should make video about Recent Indian Elections, They can change geopolitics very effectively.
(1)Ex-Sunni Muslim Imam, Turan Dursun, was savagely killed in Turkey after numerous fatwas from countless clerics to have him killed for insulting Islam.
(2) Jewish and Christian groups have had to fight increasing pressure to study Islamic religious texts in public schools
I would not say that in a society where ex-Muslims are killed can be called secular-leaning by any stretch of the imagination.
I would say that a government that forces Jewish kids to read the Quran in school is an Islamist government but who am I to not hold their hand and pretend they are reforming.
4:35 you claim that surrounding Muslim nations will follow Turkey's example of secularism? Have you watched the news lately? There is a huge Islamic Caliphate state next door to Turkey now!!! Secularism is NOT spreading, its fading away.
Your job is to convince everyone in the English speaking world that the Middle East is reforming, enlightening and coming to terms with modernity.
Shame on you......dont use you education to promote a pan-Islamic agenda- people are dying. Time to be an atheist and help your people instead of hold them back. Azerbani-Love
Well, I didn't read the book and that's why I don't know if you convey well or not. But I didn't like the term of "Turkey is now slowly awakening from its ninety years-long coma sleep"
My country :) I watched this video and I am feeling different now.
How would someone categorize turkey's region though? Anatolia?
CaspianReport - Please upload an assessment of Pakistan.
Don't mess with Turkey.
Not "introductional", it's introductory. Not "equal strong", equally strong.
This may be a hard question to answer, however, do you think that Turkey is changing due to social pressures from Europe and the Anglosphere? If so, could the dualities you describe perhaps be the result of this, i.e. the German idealism that has heavily influenced the Western world.
Sağol ??? are u Oghuz CaspianReport ??
Very interesting. I shall read, time permitting. Turkey is stuck between two diametrically opposed personalities and identities. My Turkish friends in America mostly left because of this slow painful return to Islamism. If Turkey continues a path toward Islamism I can assure that there will be a brain drain to the west as the secular intellectuals who don't pray 5 times a day pack their bags and seek better ideologies.
One Turkish Engineer I know cited the arrest of Fizal Say in 2012 as the last straw. He said that Attaturk's effort to modernize was going to slowly be overshadowed.
there has been almost half a century of forced secularization. Now you are seeing the backlash. However, the country will not move to the saudi wahabist type islamism.
good to see you back....and now a married man.
What are you actually trying to say when between 1:32 and 1:37 you said "And as Turkey is now slowly awakening from its ninety years long political comma"?. I would appreciate a detailed perspective on this, because this is a very strong statement that requires a very deep and extensive arsenal of knowledge to make such a statement. Please don't misunderstand me, I am not questioning your knowledge nor your integrity concerning this such matter, I just want to know what you base your statement on.
bugder Im Turkish and I would like to detailed that state. With strong power and the caliphate Ottoman Empire became the leader of the whole muslims. For centuries 'Turk' was equal to muslim, in Europe. Even in our worst and weakest times which are 1800 to 1900 all muslim world are respect and follow us and Ottoman Empire was everywhere in the world except sub-saharan africa and americas. For example we sent aid to Ireland we opened consulates in China India Indonesia we tried to took care of the muslims. We were not responsible to only our country we were responsible to all muslims. Also muslim people were helping to us. For example Pakistan people helped us in our Independence War. But with the republic and abolition of caliphate and secularization and nationalization putted us that 'comma'. This is the shortest way to explain it. Today again we are everywhere in Egypt in Syria in Palestine in Asia in Balkans in Somalia in Africa in South America. Im suggesting that you people should take a look TİKA Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency and what are they doing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_International_Cooperation_and_Development_Agency
www.tika.gov.tr/en
carpediemdeii ???
didnt u ask what is comma?
carpediemdeii Although there is some truth in your statement it is quite biased and inadequate. The Ottomans lost power due to its uncontrolled expansion and the corruption within its ranks. Its refusal to adapt to the changing world and its inadequacy in handling foreign affairs aided its fall.
Your statement is much more in line with propaganda instead of pure history.
carpediemdeii First of all learn how to write in English properly, secondly you are too simple and lack any intelligence. Swearing just shows how much lacking your intelligence is and how much of a real imbecile you are. What are you trying say by "comma" ? As far as I know a "comma" is a punctuation rule. Learn English!
Please make a video on Pakistan geopolitical signifies and chine pakistan economic corridor.
Is there any good book about sociopolitical functions under Erdogan, like Turkish equivalence of Fragile Empire or All Kremlin's Men? I felt that we have heard of enough about "religious" aspect of every muslim majority countries.
Great review, but how influential is Turkey now? Saudi Arabia is the one driving the Muslim World and spreading its brand of Islam. How can Turkey compete with Saudi's oil revenues?
carloa877 Right now the Iranians, the Turks and the Saudis are competing for a new balance of power. Each country is spreading its own version of Islam, governance and ideology. In general, Saudi Arabia and Iran have larger financial and hard-power resources. Turkey, on the other hand, has better soft-power, diplomatic and military resources.
CaspianReport
Turkey never compete with Saudi Arabia or Iran..
Because of Turkish hardcore seculerism and westernisation
also the muslims countries in central asia like afghanistan and pakistan and uzbekistan will play a big role in armageddon war as a muslim we belive that big army will come from the east who fight the western and zionists
Do you have any contacts within Aliyev family? I have one personal question,it's in regard of my mother and Aidar Aliyev mail correspondence from 1945 to 1955 after they returned from Berlin in the summer of 1945,his short stay in Minsk and his departure back to Baku.
so glade to have you back on youtube please do a video on isis i think there a low theat but i could be wrong anyway thanks for all of the knowlleges that you have left on here and congats on geting marrierd.bye
As a non-Muslim American looking at the Near & Middle East, I have never been impressed with Turkey. While they have a good geographical position, and are not the type of people you want to get into bar fights with, they simply have too many internal problems to deal with. Perhaps this is what makes them so passive and cautious in foreign policy, or any policy , really. The Kurdish tribes are much more aggressive and willing to give their lives in battle. The Turkish military seems to be some kind of jobs program more than a sword to wield when necessary.
Just as the Chinese tend to succeed in every country they go to live in, and the Russians do better than their neighbors with their limited resources (the Russian thugs economy is about the size of Italy), so I would bet on the Iranians to dominate much of the Middle East way before I would bet on Turkey. It's really a matter of national character.
How can you ever expect anyone who listens to Miley Cyrus to be taken seriously?
shiz777 Being a Miley fan is an excellent way to quickly separate out people who don't in general have good will towards others. So I don't have to spend lot's of time trying to assess their character.
More MileyPlease
hahaha you sound as delusional as your role model.
Well except for that Iran is Shi'a and basically everyone else including Turkey is mostly Sunni.
This means Iran is very unlikely to dominate since Shi'a and Sunni hate each other like the Protestants VS Catholics in Ireland.
TheBlindingStar
The middle east is guided less by religion than you realize, it plays a part but not that large
the video barely loads for me for some reason
I doubt Turkey will become a big power. But well.. Lets see.
Political coma??? You are mad
and we have Pakistan here...
So why don't they want to release Kurdistan as a sovereign state and why aren't Kurds allowed to speak their own language?
***** Not true. im a kurd and ive lived in Iran and Turkey. In turkey most kurds were killed for saying they were a kurd or speaking Kurdish and in School Kurdish is not allowed to be spoken. In Iran Kurds are not very good at speaking Persian and some dont even need to learn Persian since it is more populated by Kurds. And in kurdish-iran kurds speak Kurdish not Persian. And kurds were and are treated as second class citizens in Turkey.
Cuz Turks are very much racist supremacist nationalists.
PixelDansIronFist There very nationalist.
***** I know brother, nationalism is never a good thing.
Freedom for the Kurds to decide their future! And freedom to all oppressed peoples of the world!
dont know where you got your information but kurds are allowed to speak and right in their lauge
Thank you for your review Shirvan, but I hope you stay subjective as usual and we use to see you and I'm sure you are intellectual enough not to fall into the trap of media or to be influenced by it.
We are with you , one day inshallah allah will help us to restore our glory ... From pakistan
Excellent book review and I agree w your last analysis of what this book lacks. Maybe a few twitter notes to #cagaptay will encourage him to discuss Erdogan, the government and the repression of the more liberated Turks. I look forward to reading it, but it is overpriced on Amazon for such a short book that isn't quite up to current conditions in Turkey. I'll order a used copy, reasonably priced. Erdogan's resistance to helping the Kurds against ISIS in Syria is sad but I understand they are having to handle most the refugees alone and are only asking for a no-fly zone. The Kurds have large populations in close proximity to one another in four adjoining countries~it seems they should have their own state. I want to learn more about them. Do you suggest any books on Kurdish History? Also, what is Erdogan's beef with Assad? Maybe you should write your own book as your reports are very interesting, and bring many otherwise unknown things to light.
The Greek Army will stop their Dreams
and their dream of ''regional power''
we already are the regional power.
not the bankrupting inept greeks.
pay your debts and keep sucking merkel
Ali Budak
regional power with F-5E jet fighters and captians of submarines that are hitting all the time rocks in Aegean? hahahha Merkel is just repaying her ww2 debt
f-5? Hahahah mate, stop showing your ignorance.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Air_Force
have fun with our f-16, bankrupting inept greek.
our closest enemy is Iran, but we are stronger than them too;
The website Global Firepower offers an extensive comparison of the militaries of these two countries: World Military Strength Comparison
"Though their armies are similar in size, Turkey holds a significant advantage in total aircraft (1639 vs 992), helicopters (629 vs 232) and armored vehicles (8532 vs 1550). Turkey's annual defense budget is also nearly three times as great ($18 billion vs $6 billion). This reflects the much more advanced weaponry that Turkey receives from their NATO allies as opposed to Iran's aging hardware.
If there were to be a war along their shared border, it would not be an easy fight. Likely, there would not be an outright victor, since neither would be willing to sustain such high casualties. In a hypothetical all-out war, however, Turkey's advanced weaponry (particularly in the air) should prevail.
Turkey's advanced fleet of F-16s would quickly gain air superiority
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Iran has struggled to find parts to keep its aging fighters (an F-5 shown here) in the air. Described here: medium.com/war-is-boring/4a26263947ca
Ali Budak Don't show me global fire power ranks , are inaccurate about Hellenic Army , the site itself have agreed to that, also What Advanched F-16 Fleet? What Airsupperioty? Our F-16 are upragding to AESA and we have also F-16 Block 52+ ( The best F-16 in the world) We have Mirage that can shoot Exocet. Your closest enemy is Russia , Greece , Armenia , Cyprus , Israel , Kurdistan , Syria and Iraq Actually , you have been encircled by 2 Meditterean Super Powers Greece & Israel , an world Power (Orthodox) Russia and 7 Minor but strong forces . You have no hope even against Greece , how can u match so many forces? Your airforce also is nothing , as it can't operate in Aegean cuz A/A Greek Shield is able to even Lock Ankara with its missiles , by the way Turkey now doesnt have any A/A shield . Hellenic AF have the best Pilots in NATO , Turkish General when was spectulating the exercise of PARMENION 2014 , asked the Greek Defence Minister , '' How can they have 100% Accuracy on the enemy positions with 2 weeks of prepaparation only?!! . Yesterday , i show that Turkish ''Economy'' is at collapse , you are in worst position again against Greece , as you dont have any serius logistics to stand or to confront Greece that its stockpiles are heavily fullified to last an very long war.
Nemesis HD As long as the Greeks remain captive to NATO and the Western powers, you will not be able to do much. Never forget Constantinople.
@@vals4207 your ancestors were turks ??
Turkey is been westernize, and this is not good at all.
Why??
cause they are not westerners!!why you give up your believes?whats the point of becoming like somebody else,is uniqueness what makes us different.
But they can become however they want as per their wish
The wish of the government is not the wish of the people.Just look at the political situation in Turkey today.Your iberal mind doesnt allow you to see the truth.
Turkey is not being westernized! Their identity is still alive. There is a big difference between Modernization and Westernization.
i will choose back to midle age era at caliphate, democracy is disaster for turkey and arabs country
just wait people :) turkey will rise for world power and peace
Lawl
+Supertyam the byzantine empire also "lawled" at osman the first and his little tribe.little they did know just like you.once we get out of this sleep completly.another era of 1000 years of domination like our ancestors will start obviously if Allah wills.
Yoldash you can not manipulate history for defending pan turkism - because you have to be realistic about war between Osmani empire and Safavids ( Azerbaijani people) - Safavids raised as a shia Islam and formed the country of Iran 500 years ago - Today republic Azerbaijan is a banan republic dominated by Turkish raising empire - Reason is clear Azaris are shia and pan turkism destroyed all shia mosques in Republic azerbaijan and build 100s of sunni muslem mosque in Shia azeri country - and same time under Karabaq conflict turkey was totally passive with invaider Armaniansso please stop became house animal for pan turkism - and save Azeris culture and land!
I haven't read the book but the book is written by Turk, hmmm.
don't read it.
It is about time the Kurds had their own nation.
So? They could fuck off from Turkish lands and can build their own nation.
There are 5 million Turks in Germany, is it about the time that German Turks have their own country too?
Ali Budak no, they can go back to turkey.
kurdish lands aren't turkish, the kurds are the native people of the region.
Ali Budak The Germans decide, it is their country.
Well yeah, you can say the same about America as you can about Turkey, should the Turkish get out of Byzantium and go back to Turkmenistan?
No, because they both conquered it centuries ago and both have their own people living there.
Yes but the people there are not Turkish, they are Kurds, it is already a kurdish country and land they just don't have a government yet.
Why fight a war for lands that don't belong to your people? Why not just let the Kurdish rule themselves.
MrJarth Why Germans decide? Why? They are migrated, they conquered those lands just as we.
No we don't go back to Turkmenistan because we conquered Anatolia.
No USA don't go back to Britain because they conquered the Americas.
Whether people are Turkish or not, those lands are Turkish. You don't care who is living in, when you assigning a government.
In Berlin, there is a place called Kreuzberg, includes many Turks and few Germans. Even the street signs are Turkish, there are Turkish restaurants and plazas everywhere. But Kreuzberg belongs to Germany, not the Turks who live in Kreuzberg.
Belonging is a matter of government not the people. If Kurds want to establish a government, they can freely go to Iraq or Syria or what the hell they want to live.
Do you think those lands have been given to us free? No. We fought and conquered.
When Germans give Kreuzberg to Turks (which is ridicilous), when Americans give Americas to the native american, when French give some land to Algerians in France, when half of London given to immigrants who is non British, I will give my land to Kurds. Okay?
Ali Budak Because the Germans are the native people and they own their country.
German conquered the land from who? Neanderthals?
HA no they can't Iraq or Syria won't let that happen :)
Also they are conveniently under the control of ISIS. I wonder who benefits from that? hmmm
What you asking for is a full rebellious war then with so they can brake away.
There is no other Kurdish country they can go and live in, like the Turks who are living in Germany. All these other groups have their own country, the Kurds don't.
You continue the conflict by not allowing them to rule themselves.
The Armenians rule themselves, they are not Turkish or even Islamic.
If you took over their country there would be only conflict.
So there is no point to rule over them.
hahaha,,, funny video .........
why
I feel that Turkey should become an Islamic Republic, forget the Ottoman Path. Become an Islamic Republic, it would be more revolutionary.
Welcome back!