In the face of adversity, "The Republic's Unseen Heroes" documentary paints a vivid portrait of resilience and determination. Aslı Erdoğan, Can Dündar, and these remarkable individuals are beacons of hope in a challenging landscape. Their unwavering commitment to democracy and human rights is truly inspiring. Thank you for shedding light on their stories and the plight of the Republic of Turkey.
That's true, and it is against the constitution of Turkey itself, which states that Turkish republic is a secular democratic regime governed by the rule of law
" The ship is sinking" for many people of Turkish origin like myself who have lived all or the majority of their lives abroad we do not understand the pain and suffering of those who have lived there and been through much hardship with many of the issues we as " Free" people live. As one who came when I was 2 years of age to Canada and has been back many times even to do military service, I still have a tough time understanding how it all doesn't work and why it doesn't all work. Sadly I don't believe that much will change for the better in the ways we would hope. The last election solidified the way the Gov has placed a hold on the people which says a lot about the depth of how frightened the Turkish people really are. Many will leave if they can, many will never go back. I would sadly tell Can Dundar to prepare his grave site in Germany because it will not change in his lifetime Im afraid.
. @@Karakulak1071 Interesting that a you believe what the truckers did was freedom? Blocking the streets and interfering with other people rights of living is not legal protests. Running your trucks day and night creating barricades in the middle of roads affecting others is not freedom.
Great documentary. I would like to hear more about social justice warriors, victims, and survivors of Turkey. Please make this a series. I'll watch them all.
Hi, thanks for expressing an interest in finding out more! Here are some videos that you might find interesting: "Osman Kavala: Imprisoned in Erdogan's Turkey" (ruclips.net/video/G_SvwkqZJAY/видео.html) and "Turkey: Erdoğan's political prisoners" (ruclips.net/video/BhsgyOGMs6o/видео.html). Best wishes.
It would be really interesting to know what European governments would do against terror supporters in the parliament and in the press. Would they just watch under the excuse ''this is a democratic country, of course terrorists deserve a voice in the parliament and in the press as well'' ? or would European countries raid and prosecute terrorism supporters. I was born and raised in Germany, have seen the double standard thousand times. It is really interesting to see how DW and other German and European media houses are manipulating facts to influence the public. I have been for many years myself in an opposition Party in Turkey and worked to defeat Erdogans government and I am a Alevi myself, I never supported Erdogan but I also never supported fake and/or manipulated western news about Turkey. Your target to get the 80s and 90s back and have Kurds agains turks alevi agains sunni will never happen again. We now have social media and free access to real news, what Europe and the USA has done in Turkey is never forgotten and we learned our lesson. Terrorists are terrorists and yes Turkey will continue jailing them, just like any other country would do.
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Turkish people were saying “ Erdogan doesn’t let to we celebrate republic 100th anniversary because of Palestinian.” They don’t think what did we achieve in 100 years. They focus celebration on only.
They’ve done some good ones. I think DW released a couple full-length documentaries within the last year. If you look up ‘rise of the far right’ or something like that you should find them
I see comments about extremism in Turkey, sorry but there are extremists and extremism in every single country in EU too. The thing is when turkish government took the power in Turkey they were supported by litterally every western country and even leftish turks. Back than this scenario in todays Turkey could only been a scenario, today it is the reality. I don’t think it is about islam though, it is about power, money, extremism, which can be dangerous in any country.
The answer to the title is NO. Not in their lifetime atleast. This is a deep seeded problem that will take many years to uproot. Unfortunately it's not just a political problem.
The EU often uses discourse on democracy and human rights to criticize Turkey, especially its counter-terrorism policies. However, we see that EU countries are approving, even supporting, Israel's severe violations of the Geneva Convention in its attacks on Gaza. The statement by the Israeli Defence Minister, giving the Israeli army free rein to do whatever they want, has not even been criticized by the EU. The EU has lost all its credibility on democracy and human rights during the bombing of Gaza. From now on, if you criticize Turkey on counter-terrorism, the response you will get from the Turks will be "go to hell."
Another truthful and boldly introduced documentary was shared by a respectful 🙏 ( DW) documentary channel. It was a great journalist orchestrated documentary about Turkish Islamic autocracy authoritative state. Turkish Republic democracy started vanishing gradually under former Islamic pressure of Raffah Islamic party ( Turkish islamic brotherhood)regimes, which started working to converting whole Turkish population to Islamic extremist population & a new Sultan followers. Turkish authoritative is working hard for organizing and founding the New Ottoman empire ,started through North Syria, North Iraq, invading to ward's southern Arabian sovereignty ..US practices double standard politician, 1-encouraging And supporting solidarity for the Islamic Turkish project against Shea (every where)and Russia 🇷🇺 by what means, US economic influences are continuously punishing Turkish economic activities to reducing Turkish ambitions speed ..
I thought this guy did an excellent follow up of Julian's Assange post release from the UK and especially liked the part where he brought the US soldier & the now grown child who was left for dead together to meet for the first time in 17 years was deserving of an applaud . It occurred to me to wonder if anyone has figured out that the Apache shooter called crazy horse one eight in the video might be the dead US sniper named Chris Kyle Perhaps how Chris Kyle came to die is not as it appears as far as the public knows or is being told ? The only thing not deserving of an applaud was the religious affiliation ornaments & so forth that no one needs to see period if you ask me ! Other than that I thought this guy's journalism video's after that were pure crap along with the female journalists he enlists who are clearly deranged and in need of a doctor's help and soon ! I think for women like that jail is a good thing !
You lost me when they started to talk about kurdistan which doesn't exist. DW a question for you: should we divide Germany by two sides again like in the soviet times? Or should we call Germany Austria or Russia? Because that's what this documentary does. Turkey is Turkey, there is no kurdistan in Turkey. We are not Iraq, Syria or another country.
I find it funny how the Kurds talk about the way the Turkish government treated them, while they acted like they didn't massacre the Armenians and the Assyrians and took their villages and lands in the name of the Ottoman state.
We as Kurds acknowledge the horrible events and atrocities made against the Armenians and it was sudenly wrong. But we as Kurds and Armeninans are suppresed in same matters never forget that.
That is Turkey, the real Turkey. Greeks, Armenians and any people that found themselves under Turkish rule can testify to that. It is hopeful that Westerners understand now the true nature of Turkey.
@@ziyauddindaya2851😂God has nothing to do with politics, politicians use the God for his perpuses!!! A man of religion you can manipulate very easy,a believer can believe everything,aliens, conspiracies .. Erdogan that is the second son of God etc.
I know Turkey pretty well. Overall, Turkish people still love Mustafa Kemal Atatürk but his ideals are not in line with a lot of things that have been happening in the country over the past 10-15 years. Just like the US, Turkey is regionally divided into conservative and progressive parts, which are worlds apart. For any country to stay healthy, a ruler needs to change every 4-10 years. I'm afraid things will get noticeably worse in this beautiful country if nothing changes politics wise.
"In fact i knew very little what was going on in turkey, i was ashamed" Still better a reaction than attacking those who have the currage to critique those in power. I am german and i never minded immigration. Turkish people work hard and have amazing food to say the least. We were in schools together and later in workplaces and usually that was never an issue. Still growing up when seeing groups of "them" aggressivly going against others or now at times on social media the way some try to suffocate a critical voice gives me pause on how compatible our two cultures really are. Erdogan has been a thorn in the side of the EU on a regular bases and with him turkey as a whole. Over decades turkey tried to align with europe and that i applaud, then that stopped. An application to the EU failed due to human rights violation, right? Erdogan instead went more towards a strongman image, an autocrat and again seemingly most turkish people seem to like that. Feeling strong through the postures of their leader and showing patriotism and nationalism, feeling pride as otherwise they may not have reasons for it maybe, i don't know. Still it all influenced my stances towards turkey and its people, now rather not wanting the turkish state to join the EU. That is thanks to Erdogan and his followers. I see the tragedy in that, when seeing intellectuals fleeing then to germany. That there are those who are close to our way of thinking here, but got their roots ripped out in turkey by the oppresive and not to be questioned nature of the majority and state in turkey. How is it we in germany accept religios organisations being sponsored by another state? Why should we accept people to have dual citizenship with more than one passport? Especially if the other nation does not share our values. Then again we now here in germany have the AFD getting stronger, how long till we see them doing unspeakable things should they gain real power? How long till then intellectuels and journalists are taking refuge in other nations? The AFD already had deathlists and yet the party was not fobidden, why? marvels Avangers: "someone give that woman a kitten"
People like this man love secular kemalist dictators at the expense of democratic freedoms and right to free speech and religious freedom. These people are happy when kurds were forced to give up their language and culture under secular turkish nationalism by previous kemalist dictators.
...... "truth" depends on who is telling....we are Living at a very strange generation(time) Generation(time) where the "Real truth" doesn't matter But Who is telling mattered....!
This is just one side of story which they are telling while the other side is we don't know I think Turkish people believe in democracy not scared by democracy
Contrary to popular belief, Turkey was never what you call “secular”. Despite the rigid stance the officials took regarding secularism, the public was mostly conservative Muslims who despised the Western lifestyle. That is a FACT.
What's public got to do with the secular state? Those are separate things. More than 70% of the people in US are Christians. I guess that makes US a non-secular Christian country.
what?! Turkiye is not SECULAR, it is by LAW, a Lalique country. It is by law more secular than any other European countries, excluding France. Nobody despise Western lifestyle. oh I can't educate you.
you shuld dub these documentaries: I can't listen to them while driving if they are all in turkish, or russian or whatever you have now stopped translating with dubs
Maybe because they chant antisemitic phrases at pro-Palestinian protests which are banned. And have gotten a 50 % increase in antisemitic crimes since 7/10.
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İn Turkish policy I just don't like their Israeli policy. We see Jewish people as our brothers and sisters. Only in this issue we don't agree with Ərdoğan as Turks. But his other actions are the best❤
Was there ever a democracy in Türkiye? And in Türkiye there is no strict religuous autokrati and will never be. This is nothing else than a big lie. I live in Türkiye since 7 years
A Democracy can never be a Republic and neither can a Republic ever be a Democracy. Big difference. Israel for example is a Republic ,it can never be a Democracy.
and the mouth piece of Turkish Erdogan government is talking about india and other countries , targeting specific issues to satisfy thier radical slamik interest
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Türkiye has never been a religious country. I currently live in Turkey. In my country, veiled women did not study. The biggest example of this is my friend's aunt, who was not accepted to school because she wore a headscarf, even though she was good at school, and many Turkish women with headscarves had to study abroad. Although Türkiye has always been on the side of oppressed countries, we have never been a religious country. We are Muslims, but there is Islamphobia in my country. 70 percent of my country is Ataturkist. When I look at other countries governed by sharia, I really respect Ataturk.
Lol, all Southern parts of Türkiyə was belong to Azerbaijani Turks till 1514 Chaldıran fight. They have taken those areas from Azerbaijani Turks, but not from Greeks. And we are brotherly states with each others and have solved this problem between us. You Greeks think yourself like as smth
Ζήτω η Ελλάδα 🇬🇷💙🇬🇷 Hellenic (Greek) people were pagan before being Christian most ancient countries were Pagans just the fact ! and it doesn't even matter what peoples religion was when it comes to the land🤷🏼♀️😂😂😂
@@TheBackpacker26 I've seen islamic extremist terrorism everywhere in the world, for my whole life. i've experienced it directly, lost many friends - almost everything evil in this world is a result of islamic extremism terrorism and jihad. Why do islamic people tolerate and allow this to come out of their countries and cultures? Clean up the barbaric behavior and the rest of the world will happily leave you alone !
twest and america is real reason on turkey becomic islamic and opresive like that they made erdogan president because of them all the coup happened in turkey they ar using both sides both islamic and secular unfortunately after turkey joined nato parallel state named gladio as in italy destroyed this country under american control unlike italy turkey is still in chaos and not independent
The legacy of Mr.Kemal Ataturk is facing hardships in The Secular Turkish Republic😢.Can't understand why majority of the countries are suffering with same problem and this is not a problem it's a disease spreading way too quickly.Something needs to done and more of such documentaries should be aired on televisions and people too need to understand and analyze a lot themselves.
Legacy of Ataturk, is definitely NOT to get funds from foreign countries and work against your own country. Modern leftist are waving US flags and work for imperialism. Are you kidding me?
There is just one wrong action in Turkish policy, and its their policy against Jewish people by doing unjustice against Israel. Hamas is a terrorist organisation and Erdogan doesnt accept this. Only this is his wrong side and exception from this, we support him in other issues as Turks. Erdogan is the best man
I disagree with you, Erdogan is an authoritarian which manipulate the people with religion, religion must be outside of politics it's two different branches. He began his political career like a friend of western countries and slowly, slowly he returns to authorisation. Erdogan of today has no respect to journalists,to political opponents and the freedom of speech. Literally he is a small Putin!!!
me as a Kosovan (Albanian ethnicity) and most of my people we support and sympathised with Turkish Secular democratic opposition , also Erdogan its not welcomed in Republic of Kosovo because he is an religious primitive destructive element . Cheers
The captive Germany, which was disgraced and defeated by the Americans, has been under American occupation for 78 years and is still under the occupation of 40,000 American soldiers. Germany is acting on the orders given by America to realize the 105-year-old Wilson principles, has recruited its devşirme recruits for the Cruaders from among the Turks, with the aim of balkanizing the Anatolia as was achieved by the Crusaders of WWI in the Balkans and the Middle East. The voice of Germany's this propaganda is an espionage activity, a Goebels type effort which is doomed to failure.
You Western people don't like Erdogan I know and you should be but fact is he is hero among muslim world very popular person you have to know it...... And I don't understand why you never done a documentary about Palestine ???
But he can't make slaves Arabs for nowdays again on the behalf of ottomans, they already ban you from everywhere, now you have two side west or east both routes is crucial..... Economy to culture , religion is not a big deal nowdays , it's a fraud in nowadays time, people only make you fool.. 😂 same condition of Iran and Saudi Arabia...culture of east, economy from West....??? People want both side to choose 😂
@@feenstra1174 you can't understand it and You'll never understand it I'm sure but if You're a Muslim then you must understand it.... But I understand why you Don't like him and you should bcuz You're not Muslim....
Why were Cevheri Guven and Ahmet Nesin not invited for this documentary? They are two of the most important journalists in Germany who had to leave Turkey due to similar reasons. Your discrimination still persists, Can Dundar.
Cevheri Guven & Ahmet Nesin then are/were not as indigenous as the persons that were mentioned; i.e. one can (relatively) easy justify the harm done to them by them working in/for Germany.
Wow,a great leader? What makes a man great leader? To put the journalist and political opponents in prison 😂? Do you remember Putin? He was a great leader in some people minds 😂 but he isn't now. To be evil and manipulate the people with lies, corruption and relion doesn't makes him a great leader. They are politics with law profile who made great things for their people without the great leaders 's glory.
In the face of adversity, "The Republic's Unseen Heroes" documentary paints a vivid portrait of resilience and determination. Aslı Erdoğan, Can Dündar, and these remarkable individuals are beacons of hope in a challenging landscape. Their unwavering commitment to democracy and human rights is truly inspiring. Thank you for shedding light on their stories and the plight of the Republic of Turkey.
Would like to see a DW documentary about German support to Israel's genocide of Palestinians.
Sorry to say in public but to me it doesn't seem right to mix politics with the religion
Don't feel sorry. Religion indeed shouldn't be involved with politics.
Theocracy is a danger to democracy and it's a way to manipulate people,Erdogan knows well.
That's true, and it is against the constitution of Turkey itself, which states that Turkish republic is a secular democratic regime governed by the rule of law
Religion should be a matter of imposed privacy like sexual act is.
Unfortunately turkey never got ride of religious extremists, and with democracy they only got more power, sad republic doomed to fail one day
ak parti is not extremist is even liberal
@@lokobingo5305if a party oppose some principles of the West is considered as extremist according to them
@3idontknow3 jailing political prisoners is extremist.
Just look at what the USA does to Europe and how the European countries’ leaders act. Yes, it is.
What does the USA do to Europe?
I'd say look what religion does to a country's government when it takes over.
" The ship is sinking" for many people of Turkish origin like myself who have lived all or the majority of their lives abroad we do not understand the pain and suffering of those who have lived there and been through much hardship with many of the issues we as " Free" people live. As one who came when I was 2 years of age to Canada and has been back many times even to do military service, I still have a tough time understanding how it all doesn't work and why it doesn't all work. Sadly I don't believe that much will change for the better in the ways we would hope. The last election solidified the way the Gov has placed a hold on the people which says a lot about the depth of how frightened the Turkish people really are. Many will leave if they can, many will never go back. I would sadly tell Can Dundar to prepare his grave site in Germany because it will not change in his lifetime Im afraid.
Ask the truckers, how's freedom in Canada?
. @@Karakulak1071 Interesting that a you believe what the truckers did was freedom? Blocking the streets and interfering with other people rights of living is not legal protests. Running your trucks day and night creating barricades in the middle of roads affecting others is not freedom.
A sad tale. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for watching!
Brave, amazing people. ❤
Thousands of government officials of free Turkey are in exile as well.. That needs to be documentary
Great documentary. I would like to hear more about social justice warriors, victims, and survivors of Turkey. Please make this a series. I'll watch them all.
Hi, thanks for expressing an interest in finding out more! Here are some videos that you might find interesting: "Osman Kavala: Imprisoned in Erdogan's Turkey" (ruclips.net/video/G_SvwkqZJAY/видео.html) and "Turkey: Erdoğan's political prisoners" (ruclips.net/video/BhsgyOGMs6o/видео.html). Best wishes.
@@DWDocumentary usa puppet west media.
@@DWDocumentary Erdogan❤️Atatürk🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
@@DWDocumentary Not even a single person from the 'other' side deserve a minute in your documentary ???
I went to Turkey, and I noticed that they’re very patriotic with the founder which I get it but the freedom of speech damn 😮
It would be really interesting to know what European governments would do against terror supporters in the parliament and in the press. Would they just watch under the excuse ''this is a democratic country, of course terrorists deserve a voice in the parliament and in the press as well'' ? or would European countries raid and prosecute terrorism supporters. I was born and raised in Germany, have seen the double standard thousand times. It is really interesting to see how DW and other German and European media houses are manipulating facts to influence the public. I have been for many years myself in an opposition Party in Turkey and worked to defeat Erdogans government and I am a Alevi myself, I never supported Erdogan but I also never supported fake and/or manipulated western news about Turkey. Your target to get the 80s and 90s back and have Kurds agains turks alevi agains sunni will never happen again. We now have social media and free access to real news, what Europe and the USA has done in Turkey is never forgotten and we learned our lesson. Terrorists are terrorists and yes Turkey will continue jailing them, just like any other country would do.
Thank you for being the voice of these people. Freedom of speech !
Çok etkıleyıcı ve sarsıcı. Çok teşekkür ederim Sayın Dündar.
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Religion and power,, Very dangerous.
like Evangelical and USA
Turkish people were saying “ Erdogan doesn’t let to we celebrate republic 100th anniversary because of Palestinian.”
They don’t think what did we achieve in 100 years. They focus celebration on only.
Quality ducomentary thanks DW
Do one on rise of Afd in Germany.
They’ve done some good ones. I think DW released a couple full-length documentaries within the last year. If you look up ‘rise of the far right’ or something like that you should find them
I see comments about extremism in Turkey, sorry but there are extremists and extremism in every single country in EU too. The thing is when turkish government took the power in Turkey they were supported by litterally every western country and even leftish turks. Back than this scenario in todays Turkey could only been a scenario, today it is the reality. I don’t think it is about islam though, it is about power, money, extremism, which can be dangerous in any country.
Thank you for the great documentary @DW
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
The answer to the title is NO. Not in their lifetime atleast. This is a deep seeded problem that will take many years to uproot. Unfortunately it's not just a political problem.
The EU often uses discourse on democracy and human rights to criticize Turkey, especially its counter-terrorism policies. However, we see that EU countries are approving, even supporting, Israel's severe violations of the Geneva Convention in its attacks on Gaza. The statement by the Israeli Defence Minister, giving the Israeli army free rein to do whatever they want, has not even been criticized by the EU. The EU has lost all its credibility on democracy and human rights during the bombing of Gaza. From now on, if you criticize Turkey on counter-terrorism, the response you will get from the Turks will be "go to hell."
Another truthful and boldly introduced documentary was shared by a respectful 🙏 ( DW) documentary channel. It was a great journalist orchestrated documentary about Turkish Islamic autocracy authoritative state. Turkish Republic democracy started vanishing gradually under former Islamic pressure of Raffah Islamic party ( Turkish islamic brotherhood)regimes, which started working to converting whole Turkish population to Islamic extremist population & a new Sultan followers. Turkish authoritative is working hard for organizing and founding the New Ottoman empire ,started through North Syria, North Iraq, invading to ward's southern Arabian sovereignty ..US practices double standard politician, 1-encouraging And supporting solidarity for the Islamic Turkish project against Shea (every where)and Russia 🇷🇺 by what means, US economic influences are continuously punishing Turkish economic activities to reducing Turkish ambitions speed ..
I heard that bayraktar dude talk about lost centuries and knew what Turkish mindset is all about. Recreating the ottoman empire which is impossible.
Same question needs to be asked for the whole western world at this point...
I thought this guy did an excellent follow up of Julian's Assange post release from the UK and especially liked the part where he brought the US soldier & the now grown child who was left for dead together to meet for the first time in 17 years was deserving of an applaud .
It occurred to me to wonder if anyone has figured out that the Apache shooter called crazy horse one eight in the video might be the dead US sniper named Chris Kyle
Perhaps how Chris Kyle came to die is not as it appears as far as the public knows or is being told ?
The only thing not deserving of an applaud was the religious affiliation ornaments & so forth that no one needs to see period if you ask me !
Other than that I thought this guy's journalism video's after that were pure crap along with the female journalists he enlists who are clearly deranged and in need of a doctor's help and soon !
I think for women like that jail is a good thing !
You lost me when they started to talk about kurdistan which doesn't exist. DW a question for you: should we divide Germany by two sides again like in the soviet times? Or should we call Germany Austria or Russia? Because that's what this documentary does. Turkey is Turkey, there is no kurdistan in Turkey. We are not Iraq, Syria or another country.
How can a region "not exist"?
Wow. Asli is a powerfull writer. Can anyone advise me which of her books to start with?
I find it funny how the Kurds talk about the way the Turkish government treated them, while they acted like they didn't massacre the Armenians and the Assyrians and took their villages and lands in the name of the Ottoman state.
We as Kurds acknowledge the horrible events and atrocities made against the Armenians and it was sudenly wrong. But we as Kurds and Armeninans are suppresed in same matters never forget that.
I don't think I will know Turkey is facing this issue if it were not me watching this documentary. Thank you.
That is Turkey, the real Turkey. Greeks, Armenians and any people that found themselves under Turkish rule can testify to that. It is hopeful that Westerners understand now the true nature of Turkey.
As an Armenian, I confirm it ...
lol, all losers are here!
@@knarikpetrosyan5642viva el pueblo libre de armenia!!🇦🇲💪
I think they have no chance. Erdogan has too much power.
Alhamdulillah
Erdogan has Allah s.w help
@@ziyauddindaya2851😂God has nothing to do with politics, politicians use the God for his perpuses!!!
A man of religion you can manipulate very easy,a believer can believe everything,aliens, conspiracies .. Erdogan that is the second son of God etc.
I know Turkey pretty well. Overall, Turkish people still love Mustafa Kemal Atatürk but his ideals are not in line with a lot of things that have been happening in the country over the past 10-15 years. Just like the US, Turkey is regionally divided into conservative and progressive parts, which are worlds apart. For any country to stay healthy, a ruler needs to change every 4-10 years. I'm afraid things will get noticeably worse in this beautiful country if nothing changes politics wise.
how ironic is that her family name is also Erdogan.
Not so ironic as that’s a surname too common in Turkey.
@@dogukan3564 i guess you dont get the irony here
"In fact i knew very little what was going on in turkey, i was ashamed"
Still better a reaction than attacking those who have the currage to critique those in power.
I am german and i never minded immigration. Turkish people work hard and have amazing food to say the least. We were in schools together and later in workplaces and usually that was never an issue. Still growing up when seeing groups of "them" aggressivly going against others or now at times on social media the way some try to suffocate a critical voice gives me pause on how compatible our two cultures really are. Erdogan has been a thorn in the side of the EU on a regular bases and with him turkey as a whole. Over decades turkey tried to align with europe and that i applaud, then that stopped. An application to the EU failed due to human rights violation, right? Erdogan instead went more towards a strongman image, an autocrat and again seemingly most turkish people seem to like that. Feeling strong through the postures of their leader and showing patriotism and nationalism, feeling pride as otherwise they may not have reasons for it maybe, i don't know. Still it all influenced my stances towards turkey and its people, now rather not wanting the turkish state to join the EU. That is thanks to Erdogan and his followers.
I see the tragedy in that, when seeing intellectuals fleeing then to germany. That there are those who are close to our way of thinking here, but got their roots ripped out in turkey by the oppresive and not to be questioned nature of the majority and state in turkey.
How is it we in germany accept religios organisations being sponsored by another state? Why should we accept people to have dual citizenship with more than one passport? Especially if the other nation does not share our values.
Then again we now here in germany have the AFD getting stronger, how long till we see them doing unspeakable things should they gain real power? How long till then intellectuels and journalists are taking refuge in other nations? The AFD already had deathlists and yet the party was not fobidden, why?
marvels Avangers: "someone give that woman a kitten"
democracy ? really? Not for a long time !!!
another propaganda from DW. independent journalism looks absolutely different.
before you talk about democracy in turkey better u talk about democracy in zionist apartheid country😂
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Very boring documentary on an interesting subject
People like this man love secular kemalist dictators at the expense of democratic freedoms and right to free speech and religious freedom. These people are happy when kurds were forced to give up their language and culture under secular turkish nationalism by previous kemalist dictators.
👉 ... " 🇹🇷 LOST 🇹🇷 " ... 👈
...... "truth" depends on who is telling....we are Living at a very strange generation(time)
Generation(time) where the "Real truth" doesn't matter But Who is telling mattered....!
This is just one side of story which they are telling while the other side is we don't know I think Turkish people believe in democracy not scared by democracy
this guy has never said anything constructive about Turkey, he rains on all our parades@@hirabatool5464
Contrary to popular belief, Turkey was never what you call “secular”. Despite the rigid stance the officials took regarding secularism, the public was mostly conservative Muslims who despised the Western lifestyle. That is a FACT.
What's public got to do with the secular state? Those are separate things.
More than 70% of the people in US are Christians. I guess that makes US a non-secular Christian country.
what?! Turkiye is not SECULAR, it is by LAW, a Lalique country. It is by law more secular than any other European countries, excluding France. Nobody despise Western lifestyle. oh I can't educate you.
@@ozzs3026 I used past tense which refers to 40 years back. Everything is different now
Erdogan the real Deal
you shuld dub these documentaries: I can't listen to them while driving if they are all in turkish, or russian or whatever you have now stopped translating with dubs
is Gaza were water is cut for 2 million people still salvageable?
And btw....you lucky you have Erdogan as president...in other more "civilized" countries...."mostly western"....you would be just another casualty 😅
Is democracy and freedom of expression still salvageable in Germany where pro-Palestinian protests are banned?
As they should be.
@@kimia1664very nice, you have freedom of speech but only some are free
Maybe because they chant antisemitic phrases at pro-Palestinian protests which are banned. And have gotten a 50 % increase in antisemitic crimes since 7/10.
Turkey is still a member of NATO.
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11:10 who is singing at the background
It is nothing but perception management by traitors.
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Can’t just listen because creator did in translate. :(
You had me rolling when they showed the LGBT while saying hope.😂😂
Your Human right Narrative are filled with Hypocrisy
Maybe DW can do one about whether German Democracy is rescuable when all the establishment like DW wants to ban AfD and tow the same talking points
How much of a neo-Nazi party is the German AfD? | DW News
Far-right AfD expects significant gains in upcoming Bavarian election | DW News
How should the other parties in Germany deal with the far-right AfD? | DW News
Very true.
You consider AfD to be a democratic party ?
@@klaudiagrob yes
İn Turkish policy I just don't like their Israeli policy. We see Jewish people as our brothers and sisters. Only in this issue we don't agree with Ərdoğan as Turks. But his other actions are the best❤
Sözde Ermeni soykırımını şikayet edeceğin en son merci herhalde Alman Televizyonu olmalıydı. 😂
This is Propagda
Was there ever a democracy in Türkiye?
And in Türkiye there is no strict religuous autokrati and will never be. This is nothing else than a big lie. I live in Türkiye since 7 years
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
It’s make me crying 😢 , hopefully one day , they will return hometown with freedom, peace ☮️✌🏼✌🏼
A Democracy can never be a Republic and neither can a Republic ever be a Democracy.
Big difference.
Israel for example is a Republic ,it can never be a Democracy.
Then how come every democracy index lists Israel as a democracy? Or plenty of other republics?
Op #Timber #Sycamore 😉 Op #Grey #Wolves 😉....... Interesting week ahead, will Suleman's bluff be called..
and the mouth piece of Turkish Erdogan government is talking about india and other countries , targeting specific issues to satisfy thier radical slamik interest
Wow, I really wish they would translate All of these episodes so I could listen while driving..
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The mind is in the head not in age!!!!
Türkiye has never been a religious country. I currently live in Turkey. In my country, veiled women did not study. The biggest example of this is my friend's aunt, who was not accepted to school because she wore a headscarf, even though she was good at school, and many Turkish women with headscarves had to study abroad. Although Türkiye has always been on the side of oppressed countries, we have never been a religious country. We are Muslims, but there is Islamphobia in my country. 70 percent of my country is Ataturkist. When I look at other countries governed by sharia, I really respect Ataturk.
YES IT IS.
Don't worry about it, we will prevail. 🇹🇷♥
Kevork Malikyan 😂😂😂😂
Propaganda thats it.
We love ardughan
Turkiye belongs to Greeks , Romans and used to be the headquarters of Christianity.
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Lol, all Southern parts of Türkiyə was belong to Azerbaijani Turks till 1514 Chaldıran fight. They have taken those areas from Azerbaijani Turks, but not from Greeks. And we are brotherly states with each others and have solved this problem between us. You Greeks think yourself like as smth
@@sercaneker8243 even romans were pagans if you don't know for that matter/ Greeks too when I say that
Ζήτω η Ελλάδα
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Hellenic (Greek) people were pagan before being Christian most ancient countries were Pagans just the fact ! and it doesn't even matter what peoples religion was when it comes to the land🤷🏼♀️😂😂😂
When you resdy come and get it!🖕
These guys are totally drifting to western value system instead of going towards our deen
That's propaganda. The problem, as usual, is islamic extremism.
@@TheBackpacker26 I've seen islamic extremist terrorism everywhere in the world, for my whole life. i've experienced it directly, lost many friends - almost everything evil in this world is a result of islamic extremism terrorism and jihad. Why do islamic people tolerate and allow this to come out of their countries and cultures? Clean up the barbaric behavior and the rest of the world will happily leave you alone !
Will individual freedom and liberty improve if Turkey becomes a member of the EU, or will the EU become more autocratic and repressive?
twest and america is real reason on turkey becomic islamic and opresive like that they made erdogan president because of them all the coup happened in turkey they ar using both sides both islamic and secular unfortunately after turkey joined nato parallel state named gladio as in italy destroyed this country under american control unlike italy turkey is still in chaos and not independent
Who is that man?
traitor
@st🤡👎ouellette
The legacy of Mr.Kemal Ataturk is facing hardships in The Secular Turkish Republic😢.Can't understand why majority of the countries are suffering with same problem and this is not a problem it's a disease spreading way too quickly.Something needs to done and more of such documentaries should be aired on televisions and people too need to understand and analyze a lot themselves.
Legacy of Ataturk, is definitely NOT to get funds from foreign countries and work against your own country. Modern leftist are waving US flags and work for imperialism. Are you kidding me?
There is just one wrong action in Turkish policy, and its their policy against Jewish people by doing unjustice against Israel. Hamas is a terrorist organisation and Erdogan doesnt accept this. Only this is his wrong side and exception from this, we support him in other issues as Turks. Erdogan is the best man
I disagree with you, Erdogan is an authoritarian which manipulate the people with religion, religion must be outside of politics it's two different branches.
He began his political career like a friend of western countries and slowly, slowly he returns to authorisation.
Erdogan of today has no respect to journalists,to political opponents and the freedom of speech.
Literally he is a small Putin!!!
me as a Kosovan (Albanian ethnicity) and most of my people we support and sympathised with Turkish Secular democratic opposition , also Erdogan its not welcomed in Republic of Kosovo because he is an religious primitive destructive element . Cheers
Hastir lan!
whyy ?@@ayronmeyden560
Propaganda documentaries are easy to produce, and easy to disseminate in the western countries, we know what you are all about
Anything can happen in Republic of Banana anytime!!!
The captive Germany, which was disgraced and defeated by the Americans, has been under American occupation for 78 years and is still under the occupation of 40,000 American soldiers. Germany is acting on the orders given by America to realize the 105-year-old Wilson principles, has recruited its devşirme recruits for the Cruaders from among the Turks, with the aim of balkanizing the Anatolia as was achieved by the Crusaders of WWI in the Balkans and the Middle East. The voice of Germany's this propaganda is an espionage activity, a Goebels type effort which is doomed to failure.
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moved to berlin a former naz! state 😂😂😂
Germany changed massively over the years, you would know if you actually knew anything. But you're just trying to distract.
You Western people don't like Erdogan I know and you should be but fact is he is hero among muslim world very popular person you have to know it...... And I don't understand why you never done a documentary about Palestine ???
A Hero???? Oh LMFAO for what what did he do that he's a Hero???🤷🏼♀️😳🤦🏼♀️😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@feenstra1174He is a hero because he has made his enemies afraid, so they spread propaganda about him like this video
@@NorthmennYou could say that about literally anything. Meaningless comment.
But he can't make slaves Arabs for nowdays again on the behalf of ottomans, they already ban you from everywhere, now you have two side west or east both routes is crucial..... Economy to culture , religion is not a big deal nowdays , it's a fraud in nowadays time, people only make you fool..
😂 same condition of Iran and Saudi Arabia...culture of east, economy from West....??? People want both side to choose 😂
@@feenstra1174 you can't understand it and You'll never understand it I'm sure but if You're a Muslim then you must understand it.... But I understand why you Don't like him and you should bcuz You're not Muslim....
Why were Cevheri Guven and Ahmet Nesin not invited for this documentary? They are two of the most important journalists in Germany who had to leave Turkey due to similar reasons. Your discrimination still persists, Can Dundar.
Turkey can do without journalist with anti Islamic tendancies
Cevheri Guven & Ahmet Nesin then are/were not as indigenous as the persons that were mentioned; i.e. one can (relatively) easy justify the harm done to them by them working in/for Germany.
And turkey wants to be member of EU😢😮😅😊😂 WTF!!!!
Umarim ve degildir.
Who care turkey!!!!
Long live Erdogan!
More sanctions more demogracy😊
Erdoğan is a great leader
Wow,a great leader?
What makes a man great leader?
To put the journalist and political opponents in prison 😂?
Do you remember Putin?
He was a great leader in some people minds 😂 but he isn't now.
To be evil and manipulate the people with lies, corruption and relion doesn't makes him a great leader.
They are politics with law profile who made great things for their people without the great leaders 's glory.
Western propaganda
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Heis the enemy of Turks and Islam ☪️ and Muslims he is not a Türk nor a Muslim.
Jonh boy you get food from germany go baark
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