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  • @erenwelch435
    @erenwelch435 Рік тому +359

    As a Turk, I love Greek people, culture and cuisine. Being from the southwest, our cuisine and culture overlaps a lot

    • @oreszteszpaciatzisz435
      @oreszteszpaciatzisz435 Рік тому +76

      As as a Greek person I love Turkish people. It is all manufactured, and the only people to blame are the politicians. Greece and Turkey should be allies as we will have common interests in the not so far future. Hopefully it will happen.

    • @paulosxelikogiannhs6469
      @paulosxelikogiannhs6469 Рік тому +45

      I'm from Greece and you are a brother from another mother in my eyes I hope you are well.

    • @Toshiro_Mifune
      @Toshiro_Mifune Рік тому +22

      ok shut up you guys will make me cry, now i want some rose flavored lokum.
      we love you too, it's sad we are powerless and let others command our will.

    • @ferred3056
      @ferred3056 Рік тому +1

      The problem here is that politics control us in school like your books I saw a lot of fake things
      Now we don't have lied in our history but we showed some disrespect of your disrespect in the history book of the 6th grade in the lesson
      «Greece under the Turks»

    • @user-tu8oh1cq2g
      @user-tu8oh1cq2g Рік тому +15

      As a Greek I've been to Turkiye 3 times and always felt at home and at ease, something that didn't happen in other European countries I visited and these countries don't even supposedly "hate" us lol. This whole conflict is totally made up, the people on both sides are really chill and friendly with each-other and do visit regularly. Our food is mostly the same, especially on Turkiye's west coast and many traditions too.
      We still love you guys and praying for peace and unity!

  • @thenorthkoreanwifier2075
    @thenorthkoreanwifier2075 Рік тому +240

    Spicy? Absolutely, though not as spicy as the Balkans can be. Like Kosovo or all of the war crimes that happened during the downfall of Yugoslavia.

    • @DavidMarkovic646
      @DavidMarkovic646 Рік тому +9

      Yea like other countries didnt do war crimes just serbia😒

    • @thenorthkoreanwifier2075
      @thenorthkoreanwifier2075 Рік тому +19

      @@DavidMarkovic646 oh no, several did and still do.

    • @dimitriosdrossidis9633
      @dimitriosdrossidis9633 Рік тому +20

      @@DavidMarkovic646 bruh, that's not what they mean, serbia is just the Poster-child for war crimes, but the Balkans is just varrying degree of evilness at any given moment when it comes to cruelty and war crimes.

    • @pixie7349
      @pixie7349 Рік тому +21

      Otto von Bismarck knew the balkans were going to be up to some atrocities back in 1888😂
      “One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.”

    • @tsumugikotobuki0131
      @tsumugikotobuki0131 Рік тому +18

      @@dimitriosdrossidis9633 Even though Serbia is well known for war crimes due to the Bosnian War, I'd say Turkey (Armenian and Pontic Genocides) and Croatia (Serbian Genocide) did a lot worse.

  • @taylan7094
    @taylan7094 Рік тому +281

    I love Greeks as a Turk. I hope we, as both sides learn to separate politics from people one day.

    • @Hioloi
      @Hioloi Рік тому

      Greeks will never love you no matter how much you brown-nose them.

    • @taylan7094
      @taylan7094 Рік тому +1

      ​@@Hioloi I don't give a fuck about what you think, I had several Greek friends and they were all cool people. Same with almost everyone I met in Greece.

    • @mrgreek7221
      @mrgreek7221 Рік тому +10

      Cmon dude... 50/100 at least of Turks dreaming a new era of ottoman empire again... And those word's in UA-cam isn't strange..
      We come one night
      Athens will be Turkish city
      Greek islands too.
      So even you trying save it we don't bite
      I can trust a snake but never a turk

    • @taylan7094
      @taylan7094 Рік тому

      ​@@mrgreek7221 What? %50? Trust me we don't give a damn about Greek soil. We have much important problems to deal with such as economy, refugees or getting rid of Erdoğan. Your problem has nothing to do with Turkey but Erdoğan. He knows the upcoming election will be hard for him this time so he needs these sweet sweet votes from his ultra-nationalistic voters, thus his threats to Greece. It's all about words. If you seriously think at least %50 of Turks are lusting over Greek soil, you are as brain dead and delusional as Erdoğan followers my friend.

    • @mrgreek7221
      @mrgreek7221 Рік тому

      @@taylan7094 im not blind.. i watch every Turkish comments from Turkish sites here about Greece and i can say only your comment was peaceful. The others was like i said.. So yes i believe it.. erdogan not win elections without take votes.. if you know what i mean??

  • @Doekekk2828kdkd
    @Doekekk2828kdkd Рік тому +201

    The map in 7:45 is wrong. The Lesbos island is Greek. Be carefully with Turkish maps…

    • @mariakatopodi8131
      @mariakatopodi8131 Рік тому +6

      Exactly!! As historian maps flying around here and there addressing people to their majority don't really know much about what is true and what not can be dangerous and misleading!

    • @henryaybaz7409
      @henryaybaz7409 Рік тому +1

      Turkish Altim Islands under Greek occupation.

    • @SteliosE92
      @SteliosE92 Рік тому

      @@henryaybaz7409 under greek occupation only for the last 4000 years 🤡

    • @henryaybaz7409
      @henryaybaz7409 Рік тому

      @@SteliosE92 Since Balkan wars, isn't it?

    • @SteliosE92
      @SteliosE92 Рік тому

      @@henryaybaz7409 lesbos in particular has archaelogical evidence of greek presence since 1000BC. Thats continuous greek presence for 3000 years now.

  • @giannism1371
    @giannism1371 Рік тому +69

    One more thing about the Paris peace agreement regarding the Dodecanese is that everyone seems to forget that TURKEY IS NOT PART OF IT. Literally, this treaty was signed between the allies (including Greece) and Italy. NOT TURKEY. Therefore Turkey as a third party does not have the legal right to call upon the treaty. The only country that can do that is Italy and they don't seem to give a fuck.

    • @henryaybaz7409
      @henryaybaz7409 Рік тому

      If you want a war bring it on, Turks go to war like how they go to wedding.

    • @giannism1371
      @giannism1371 Рік тому

      @@henryaybaz7409 haha of course the 50 year old man from Turkey wishes for war. He's not gonna fight in it anyways. Hey pops let me tell you something: No one wishes for war (other than you apparently). The fact that your country doesn't understand that not signing a treaty makes it impossible for it to call upon it makes you the aggressor. Not Greece

    • @henryaybaz7409
      @henryaybaz7409 Рік тому +7

      @@giannism1371 Your actions and your words are claiming two different things. What makes you think Turks wants to give up an inch of soil or drop of water? You are changing the status quo to your favor. What makes you think the others will go silent? Do you honestly thing anyone in Turkey will agree with your claims except for PKK terrorists?

    • @giannism1371
      @giannism1371 Рік тому +15

      @@henryaybaz7409 so you are saying that we (Greece) are taking something (soil or water) from you (Turkey). Tell me please what exactly is that already belongs to you and we are claiming it. Because last time I checked, you are the ones claiming a number of our islands, islands on which Greeks are living on for centuries. On the other side the only thing we are claiming is territorial waters that under the law of the sea (which you haven't signed by the way but that doesn't seem to bother you when talking about the Paris treaty) we are entitled to. And as it stands today, the part of the sea we are claiming is not even Turkish. It's international waters. So please enlighten me: which part of your soil or water are we claiming?

    • @henryaybaz7409
      @henryaybaz7409 Рік тому +4

      @@giannism1371 On the Islands that you have done ethnic cleansing. Islets that are not giving to anyone on the Lausanne. Like Kardak. And those international waters that you want to claim is in the expense of Turkey not China, US or some other country. Sea and Law treaty says sit down and find an equitable solution with affected sides. Not the increase your waters bilaterally and get hostile with your neighbor. Turkey has as much right as Greece has on the international waters in the Islands sea.

  • @ossie1129
    @ossie1129 Рік тому +49

    We don't hate each other! At least the people don't. We're loving neighbours.
    I'm from Turkish descent originally and found Greeks are always friendly and nice. Been to Greece on vacation and people were always so hospitable and good.
    It's politics that wants them to hate each other for their own profit.

    • @someonethatlikesyou7713
      @someonethatlikesyou7713 Рік тому +8

      hello I'm greek an I appreciate your respect too us and we also do! sadly our governments don't say the same. I hope in the next elections (of turkey and later greece) the governments will finally have good relationships and do not mess with the people that don't even want any conflict in this islands! :)

    • @joshithegreat5303
      @joshithegreat5303 Рік тому

      I dont know exactly but it doesnt help that many brainwashed turks still deny the genocides or mass killings they did against every non turk. Its even worse when you factor in the thing that the turks are not indigenous to anatolia.

    • @__-oq8gz
      @__-oq8gz Рік тому +4

      I have family on Chios. The Islanders and the Turks across the water have no issues. They depend on each other quite a bit economically

    • @johnchrys5716
      @johnchrys5716 Рік тому +1

      @@__-oq8gz Same with Kastelorizo the Turks say they miss the Greeks who used to visit them to sit and drink a coffee and buy fresh produce etc.. The two do not hate each other but quite the opposite.

    • @VergiliosSpatulas
      @VergiliosSpatulas Рік тому +1

      X to doubt on that one.

  • @icantthinkausername1136
    @icantthinkausername1136 Рік тому +15

    During the imia crisis in 1996 the greek and turkish armies almost clashed on those two uninhabited rocks. turkish special forces landed on the east island meanwhile a greek helicopter was flying around and it mysteriously crashed and the crew of 3 men died, nobody knows still how it crashed, some say it was because of bad weather, some say it was a malfunction while others say the turks shot it down

    • @arisdelis1
      @arisdelis1 Рік тому +3

      The Greek Military Helicopter after identifying Turkish Soldiers on Imia, was shot down by Turkish troops...the 3 bodies of Greek Soldiers aboard were later recovered. The chopper was then recovered and dumped further out in the Aegean, no investigation or analysis....cover-up
      To hush up any witnesses the
      Turkish commandos " all disappeared " and mysteriously passed away in Turkey....even to this day the Greek Govt refuses to recover the chopper and investigate.......

    • @berilsevvalbekret772
      @berilsevvalbekret772 Рік тому

      ​@@arisdelis1honestly...neither country don't know. To this day 😅

  • @Tsekalare
    @Tsekalare 4 місяці тому +4

    You dont need 11 min to explain that conflict, just a sentence: 400 years living in captivity under Pisslam, getting independence in 1821 and on top of that, a 100 later, from 1914 till 1924, a decade of genocide. Almost forgot, have i mentioned Cyprus?

    • @Raymond_Legrasse
      @Raymond_Legrasse 3 місяці тому +2

      Pisslam?! Ώ ρε φίλε, γάμησες!😂👍🏻💯

  • @panos96pap
    @panos96pap Рік тому +5

    turks cant face reality , we are the most peaceful country ever , from ancient times , our army is defensive turkeys is offensive , and for the turks in the comment section . we are not brothers and never will be , long live orthodox christianity

    • @OneTwo_1028
      @OneTwo_1028 13 днів тому

      Yeah, as a Turk, we are definitely not brothers with the griks. I don't know why those Turks and some griks in the comments say that we are brothers. Yaşasın Türkiye Cumhuriyeti!

  • @Ismail-Ibrahim841
    @Ismail-Ibrahim841 Рік тому +65

    Eh, I would say the rivalry and animosity doesn't just come from the Ottomans annexing Greece, it also stems from that Turkic tribes over a series of several campaigns (going back all the way to the Seljuks in the 11th century) systematically kicked out the Greeks out of Anatolia and it's subsequent Turkification.

    • @ozlembaytur7426
      @ozlembaytur7426 Рік тому

      evet biz gelmeseydik latinler bütün ortadokslardan kömür yapardı. bunuda hesaba kat

    • @ArdaSReal
      @ArdaSReal Рік тому +27

      I mean yeah but Anatolia was never completely Greek to begin with it was Anatolian. That culture and language was completely wiped out with hellenazation tho

    • @Hypogeal-Foundation
      @Hypogeal-Foundation Рік тому +10

      @@ArdaSReal blame the romans but i guess the byzantines were greek romans....

    • @alpertunga6792
      @alpertunga6792 Рік тому +14

      The owners of Anatolia have changed for thousands of years. Hittites > Ionian > Persia > Rome > Turks (last owners)

    • @Zeyede_Seyum
      @Zeyede_Seyum Рік тому +4

      @@ArdaSReal what about the Armenians? They’re native to eastern Anatolia and they weren’t hellenized.

  • @aliencdh7541
    @aliencdh7541 Рік тому +53

    love your content! your channel is currently my favorite history channel on youtube, so I'd like to suggest the topic of moldova and transnistria, which is something many people aren't really aware of

    • @lordsiomai
      @lordsiomai Рік тому

      Isn't that the region that wants to join Russia?

    • @MastemaJack
      @MastemaJack Рік тому

      @S I O M A I from what I can remember, Moldova has always wanted independence. I think, could be wrong, they fought to not be apart of Russia at one point in time. Again I could be wrong and hope someone can confirm.

    • @aliencdh7541
      @aliencdh7541 Рік тому +2

      @@lordsiomai on the contrary. its population is primarily romanian speaking, and romania has been trying to obtain a reunification, but that's not possible due to political pressure from russia

    • @lordsiomai
      @lordsiomai Рік тому

      @@aliencdh7541 i mean doesn't transnistria want to be part of russian again? forgive me if I'm mistaken
      Also, moldovans are also romanians? damn that's so cool. I never knew that. thank you!

    • @aliencdh7541
      @aliencdh7541 Рік тому +2

      @@lordsiomai transistria is only separate due to a large presence of soviet armament that's still there. technically, it's the last member of the soviet union afaik

  • @JediMasterEzio
    @JediMasterEzio Рік тому +64

    This is a very intelligent and insightful young man. I'm a new viewer and subscriber, and I really enjoy your takes on history. Entertaining and educational. Keep up the great work! We need more history and science communicators out here!

  • @anastasiabutton
    @anastasiabutton Рік тому +84

    I've been to Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus (including the North Turkish area) for university and long-term travels. Part of my time in the areas was living in an apartment on the border of the Green Zone in Cyprus - that was a whole experience in itself.
    As a non-citizen of these areas, I've heard from all sides and from many generations of people living in city centers and some rural. It's a complex issue, for sure, and all of them hate the idea that they are being divided because of their leaders who cannot find non-confrontational solutions.
    I hope I get to see a deep friendship being built between these states within my lifetime rather than tension or potential militant action.

    • @mortache
      @mortache Рік тому +12

      The common people speak in such way because they can't directly control or profit from such situations. Put any of them in a position of power and they will be just as opportunistic and ruthless

    • @anastasiabutton
      @anastasiabutton Рік тому +6

      @bastiat4855 All true. To clarify, I was speaking of the complexity of the long-standing history of Turkey and Greece. Cyprus is pretty self-explanatory as a land-grab move. Cyprus is the more modern example of many in history that Turkey and Greece have had conflict, mostly governmental.

    • @mortache
      @mortache Рік тому +5

      @bastiat Greeks "stole" that land in the first place lol. Everything is settled with violence. Mount up or sit down

    • @alpertunga6792
      @alpertunga6792 Рік тому +12

      @bastiat 'The Turks took the Anatolian lands from the Greeks 1000 years ago' This is true. However, the Greeks stole from the Hittites, the real owners of Anatolia, 2000 years ago.

    • @angelb.823
      @angelb.823 Рік тому +10

      @@alpertunga6792 Hittites were living in the vast reaches of eastern Anatolia, where no Greek settlement was found or established. Also, also, they were basically extinct during the Achaemenian (Persian) rule in Anatolia, centuries before Alexander would begin his campaign against the Persians. If you want to blame someone for ownership, blame the Iranians/Persians by that logic.
      Anatolia, like the Middle East, was a hodge podge for power grab between neighboring people (Hittites, Assyrians, Persians, etc.) They was no clear indication whether Anatolia could have been the ethno-state for these people, since they have been conquered by others (including Persians). Only the Greek (and probably the Armenian as well) settlements from the coasts of Anatolia could be considered as living indication that people from Antiquity were still remaining in Anatolia, at least before the Greek genocide and the population exchange.

  • @cuneytcigdem3747
    @cuneytcigdem3747 4 місяці тому +3

    I am a Turk and we love all of people in the world.Of course we love Greek people so much.That is only politic!!! Others can not finish Turkish-Greek friendship! Best regards all of Greek friends! ❤🇹🇷🇬🇷💙

  • @MetaSynForYourSoul
    @MetaSynForYourSoul Рік тому +46

    I have an idea for you: a series called Flashpoints. Basically, it goes over areas where conflicts are likely to begin in the future and the historical and/or present day aspects of why there's conflict to begin with.

    • @MastemaJack
      @MastemaJack Рік тому +3

      I like that idea a lot. It's a great one. For me, that's why I love to learn about history. You can only understand why things are the way they are if you understand history.

    • @MetaSynForYourSoul
      @MetaSynForYourSoul Рік тому +2

      @@MastemaJack I believe that too. Gotta know where you came from to know where you're going and how to choose another path if needed.

    • @MastemaJack
      @MastemaJack Рік тому +2

      @MetaSynForYourSoul people will complain about something and I tell them why it's like that. Then they act like I'm some kind of a**hole.

    • @MetaSynForYourSoul
      @MetaSynForYourSoul Рік тому +1

      @@MastemaJack yeah I know what you mean.

  • @panayotisdamianakis3658
    @panayotisdamianakis3658 Рік тому +20

    That was pretty informative and unbiased. Thank you 👍🏼

  • @thanosandnobill3789
    @thanosandnobill3789 Рік тому +37

    I don't want to be cynical. But, in my life, I have met many friendly and cool Turkish people that are also open-minded, don't like Turkish government authoritarianism, enjoy traveling, and even like greek music and greek food. Then suddenly many of them proceed and tell me out of the blue how greek people are greedy that have all the islands of the Aegean sea and that we must give back to Turkey some of them. Nationalism is so high in Turkey that even centrists there could be considered super nationalists by European standards.

    • @didemguse2027
      @didemguse2027 Рік тому +9

      We don't want an island from you. However, we felt threatened when we started to pile heavy weapons and soldiers on your islands, which are very close to us and which we can reach by swimming. Interestingly, Turks see Greece as a threat, and Greece sees Turks as a threat. Perhaps these two peoples are incited against each other. Maybe the scenario is different.

    • @AlLaST0I2
      @AlLaST0I2 Рік тому +6

      @@didemguse2027 So, Superpower Turkey of 80 million people with such a formidable military, the heir to the great Ottomans, feels threatened by a small defensive force scattered on some islands. 😆 Yeah right!!

    • @AlLaST0I2
      @AlLaST0I2 Рік тому

      @@cenktuneygok8986 First of all, don't confuse a country with a nation. Greece might be a small country, but as a nation, it is one of the most important in world history, unlike your warmongering tribes that offered nothing else to the world than slaughters, war and totalitarianism. Second, I see that ww1 was such a traumatic experience for the Turks who have become completely paranoid and still believe in world conspiracies that seek to eliminate them. Do you really believe that Greece wants to grab land from you? From what I see the opposite happens, when your top officials claim Greek lands openly and shamelessly in public speeches. We have the right to defend our lands from aggressive expansionist bullies like your current administration, and we will certainly not let our islands to fall an easy prey. Stop swallowing your government propaganda and come join us in the 21 century.

    • @henryaybaz7409
      @henryaybaz7409 Рік тому

      Why do you think the Turks wants to give up their rights in the Islands Sea? Except for PKK terrorists nobody wants to give up an inch of soil or water in Turkey.

    • @didemguse2027
      @didemguse2027 Рік тому +2

      @AlLaSTOl2 Just because it's a minor threat doesn't change the fact that it's still a threat. Terrorists on the Syrian border are also a minor threat, but for our security, we should care about all of them.

  • @pouri528
    @pouri528 Рік тому +7

    Very lackluster analysis
    Turkey mainly hates Greece for:
    -Massacres of Turkish people in the Greek war of independence, the greco Turkish war of 1923 and communal violence in Cyprus that led to what we have today.
    Turkey finds it unfair how an international un law allows Greece to control the vast majority of the Aegean, stopping it's expansion into the open ocean.
    Greece mainly hates Turkey for:
    -400 years of brutal occupation and cultural assimilation into an Islamic sultanate, delaying the arrival of enlightenment ideas to the country.
    -The genocide of Greeks in Asia Minor starting in 1914.
    -The Turkish invasion of Cyprus
    -The constant fear of invasion from Turkey, should Greece practice it's territorial rights in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean.
    -The laws and pogroms Turkey took on in order to completely wipe even the Greeks that survived the genocide and that were exempt from the 1923 population exchange in Anatolia, a land they lived on for almost 3000 years

    • @henryaybaz7409
      @henryaybaz7409 Рік тому

      Ethnic cleansing in Crete, Moria, Selanik. 300k buildings s razed in 1922 in west Anatolia along with Genocide to population. Greeks even disrespected the death. What to they want from people death centuries ago? Hostilities and massacres in the Cyprus against Turkish Cypriots. Maximalist claims of Greeks in Islands Sea and Eastern Mediterranean. They want to claim international waters solely for their selves.

  • @__-oq8gz
    @__-oq8gz Рік тому +40

    You missed a key point. In the Lausanne treaty, article 13, Turkey is supposed to respect Greek airspace
    (2) Greek military aircraft will be forbidden to fly over the territory of the Anatolian coast. Reciprocally, the Turkish Government will forbid their military aircraft to fly over the said islands
    As Turkey has violated this repeatedly, Greece is there justified in arming its islands

    • @merketarif126
      @merketarif126 Рік тому +2

      yes, 6 miles and not 10 miles.

    • @chriskalogrias926
      @chriskalogrias926 Рік тому +2

      @@merketarif126 12, what are you gonna do about it?

    • @yusufs1878
      @yusufs1878 Рік тому +3

      @@chriskalogrias926 Try us. We have been waiting for that declaration.

    • @chriskalogrias926
      @chriskalogrias926 Рік тому

      @@yusufs1878 you will see that we have a difference. We don't just talk, we do.

    • @yusufs1878
      @yusufs1878 Рік тому +2

      @@chriskalogrias926 I am still waiting for the declaration.

  • @Tasos04252
    @Tasos04252 Рік тому +5

    The truth is that it’s not just Greece that has to deal with the troubles of the Turkish Republic, it’s also Turkeys neighbors like Syria, Armenia, Iraq, Libya, and Bulgaria.

  • @stelios5314
    @stelios5314 Рік тому +10

    A thing to note: Turkey hasnt signed the Paris Peace Treaty of 1947, therefore, complaining about the demilitarization status is not their right. That's up to countries that did signed it (eg Italy)

    • @jupiterbirlesikgezegenleri9884
      @jupiterbirlesikgezegenleri9884 Рік тому

      Lmao

    • @stelios5314
      @stelios5314 Рік тому +2

      @@jupiterbirlesikgezegenleri9884 What's funny about what I wrote?

    • @jupiterbirlesikgezegenleri9884
      @jupiterbirlesikgezegenleri9884 Рік тому

      @@stelios5314 im just laughing at your wrong statement. Treaties dont work like that

    • @stelios5314
      @stelios5314 Рік тому +4

      @@jupiterbirlesikgezegenleri9884 They do work like that. My comment is refering to the Dodecaneese islands. And there is a law of the UN that says exactly this (about the countries that sign treaties) (I cant recall the exact article right now). I didnt just imagined that.

  •  Рік тому +28

    I don't think Greeks and Turks hate each other. It's about goverments and politics. A lot of Greek and Turkish people won't support any war against each other. I hope our goverments will find a common ground in the future.

    • @td003
      @td003 Рік тому +3

      Actually every Greek and Turk would defend their homes to the last breath so even if they don't support the war the will send each other to their God

    •  Рік тому +1

      @@td003 in defensive manners it's true

    • @markospap92
      @markospap92 Рік тому +1

      That's so true. Young people know that they have nothing to separate. What happened in the past isn't in our control today. Having constant tensions for political reasons doesn't mean that Greeks hate Turks and vice versa!

    • @VergiliosSpatulas
      @VergiliosSpatulas Рік тому +1

      @@td003 Small difference being Constantinople and Smyrni aren't Turkish homes since 2.5k years ago where the natives settled in, until they were genocided somewhat recently from that shithead Kemal.

    • @AAA-tc6li
      @AAA-tc6li Рік тому

      @@markospap92 σώπα ρε φίλε που μιλάς λες και είσαι εκπρόσωπος τον Ελλήνων, ε λοιπόν εσένα μπορεί να μη σε πειράζει η γενοκτονία ή το ότι δημιούργησαν τα κράτη τους υποδουλώνοντας Ελληνικά εδάφη, το ότι μετέτρεψαν την Αγιά Σοφιά σε τζαμί, το ότι λένε ψέμματα από την αρχή μέχρι και σήμερα. Αλλά υπάρχουν Έλληνες με εθνική συνείδηση όπως πριν την επανάσταση που η Ελλάς ήταν αυτόνομη από την Αθήνα και μέχρι την Λαμία. Αν επικρατούσε η νοοτροπία η δική σου η Ελλάδα θα ήταν μέχρι την Λαμία και σήμερα, αλλά επειδή υπήρξαν λεβέντες Έλληνες και όχι δειλοί ηττοπαθείς ελληνόφωνοι όπως σήμερα, απελευθερώσαμε μεγάλα κομμάτια της αιώνιας γης μας και πάντα με αίμα και πάντα με αγώνες. Δεν χύθηκε το αίμα μας για να έρχεται ο κάθε ρομαντικός σήμερα και να λέει δεν τρέχει τίποτα. Φωτιά και τσεκούρι.

  • @davidlegrice4207
    @davidlegrice4207 Рік тому +10

    Turkey has no right to expect Greece to abide by the treaty of Lausanne considering the number of times that they violated it themselves in order to ethncly cleanse their remaining Greek population.

    • @gumusfatih
      @gumusfatih Рік тому

      Greek and Turkish sovereignty is determined with the Treaty of Lausanne. If both countries does not recognise the treaty so this means they do not recognise their sovereignty. So Turkey have right to claim the islands are belong to Turkey. You mean this.

    • @AKRITAS365
      @AKRITAS365 Рік тому

      ​@@gumusfatihThat's your interpretation illiterate turkomongol!
      The treaties are written to be respected and abide by their rules just like any rule of law.
      Otherwise there will be consequences which means
      the countries that signed it will turn against ypu either by military or diplomatic means.

  • @razorian100
    @razorian100 Рік тому +5

    As a Greek, I actually worked with Turks here (worked in the same enviroment) and they were all awesome.

  • @mariosathens1
    @mariosathens1 Рік тому +17

    Turkey was not even invited to Paris Treaty, it is not a signatory power, so it doesn't have a say over the Greek Dodecanese islands and their military status.
    As for the Nothern Aegean islands close to the Bosporus Straits, their military status changed with Montreux Treaty, which allowed Turkey to militarize the Straits. For the Foreigners who wrote Laussane Treaty, the Straits and the Greek islands close to them was a "package".
    Greece wouldn't have a reason to militarize the Aegean islands if Turkey (which calls 132 of them as occupied-Greek) wasn't building its huge 4th Army a few miles away from the alleged "occupied Greek" islands..
    UN Charter says all countries have the right to Defensive forces, and so does Greece,

    • @albaniankebabshopowner
      @albaniankebabshopowner Рік тому +1

      you have no right to genocide us and invade us again :)

    • @user-en6be3cw8l
      @user-en6be3cw8l Рік тому

      @@albaniankebabshopowner You dont have the right to kill 1.5 million armenians too but you did. Expecting a response like: propaganda brainwashing noyhing happened

    • @albaniankebabshopowner
      @albaniankebabshopowner Рік тому +2

      @@kristaps5296 ok then can you explain the greek occupation of the islands and İzmir ww1 and turkish genocide by greece ?

    • @albaniankebabshopowner
      @albaniankebabshopowner Рік тому +1

      @@user-en6be3cw8l classic greek trick of mentioning something else to cry about because how weak your argument really is and no its not propaganda the numbers are indeed false plus you didnt mention the turks that were slaughtered by the hands of the armenians and by doing that they would deserve it and at the time we were starving too not only them and millons of turks dead of hunger at the end of the day its greco-armenian propaganda against the turkic race and it all didnt happen

    • @user-en6be3cw8l
      @user-en6be3cw8l Рік тому +7

      @@albaniankebabshopowner turks were slain by armenian gangs buddy. Those deserved a punishment but pretty sure those gangs didnt have a population of 1.5 million. Also can you explain to me what happened to 1.5 m people on ottoman armenia. Where did they go? If you check the demographics and population of those areas you can see that armenian population got extremely low but 1.2-1.5 million armenians just dissapear. Nothing in the population of russian armenia georgia and azeirbaijan not even russia itself. Where did they go they just dissapeared

  • @binbiwashere8739
    @binbiwashere8739 Рік тому +11

    Thanks you for the good video ! Another idea can be the rivalry between China and Japan, for old History, or US/Russia for more recent time.

  • @depreciatingasset
    @depreciatingasset Рік тому +4

    It is ridiculous to go back 2000years. Turks moved to Anatolia in 1100s. Greeks were byzantine rome

    • @japonbalg9644
      @japonbalg9644 Місяць тому

      Türkler 1071 de anadoludaydılar. Selçuklu yıkılınca Osmanlı’yı kurdular

  • @garretglick299
    @garretglick299 Рік тому +8

    I watched this video while I looked up and had a conversation about if hooters or Maid Cafes opened up first. Hooters opened first in 1983 and the first commercial Cosplay restaurant, which is the genre that a maid cafe is in, didn’t open until 1999 and the first Maid Café didn’t open until 2001

    • @kragxciv2794
      @kragxciv2794 Рік тому +2

      very interesting, thank you for this insightful knowledge. i love you

  • @redofdeathGR
    @redofdeathGR Рік тому +4

    Thanks so much for this! Great narrative and pretty unbiased! Keep it up!

    • @Momonosuke321
      @Momonosuke321 2 місяці тому

      wtf unbiased? the guy claiming that two nations hating each other? how that can be unbiased?

  • @jameszawislak436
    @jameszawislak436 Рік тому +8

    Really liked this. A super fascinating also potentially tragic piece of history

  • @papertoyss
    @papertoyss Рік тому +2

    With Turkey assembling on its Aegean coast the largest army in the Mediterranean basin, in furthermore an *agressive formation,* and with this country having already invaded and still occupying lands in *three* neighbouring countries (Cyprus, Syria, Iraq), the rational thing to say is that according to the United Nations charter what is under direct threat has every the right to defence, and this *stands above any Treaty.*
    _"...Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations..."_

  • @giannismallios1808
    @giannismallios1808 2 дні тому

    Why?
    Greeks: We want Izmir and North Cyprus.
    Turks: We want the islands.

  • @Sizeofabigbitch
    @Sizeofabigbitch Рік тому +9

    Badass of history idea: Bayard Rustin.
    General coverage: Khmer Rouge, the Tamil kings, and various African empires.

    • @pxpq
      @pxpq Рік тому

      I know the civil rights movement seems like a big thing for the people living in the U.S, but in reality he was just a guy and there are really no sub-saharan african kingdoms that's worth talking about, northern african kingdoms are cool tho...

  • @nickmarkopoulos2720
    @nickmarkopoulos2720 Рік тому +12

    Not tryin to be an ass, just cause I think you’re the type of guy who likes to know pronunciations.
    Chios is spoken as ‘he-os’
    Love the vid!

    • @rfkwouldvebeenaok1008
      @rfkwouldvebeenaok1008 Рік тому

      Hey Roman take back your city already. Hagia Sophia calls for the return of ρωμαϊκός!

    • @CouchTomato87
      @CouchTomato87 Рік тому +1

      @bastiat It's not really silent. Ch is like the German ch, the throaty "kh," which can sometimes sound like a harshly pronounced "h"

    • @CouchTomato87
      @CouchTomato87 Рік тому

      @bastiat We don't have silent C's in English. We pronounce Greek ch like "k."

    • @mariosbardis4831
      @mariosbardis4831 Рік тому

      @bastiat nah, ch is the latinisation of the voiceless velar fricative (basically a strong english h) which is the letter χ in greek alphabet. Its not really a silent c.

    • @indrast5203
      @indrast5203 Рік тому

      @@CouchTomato87
      Ch is the English representation of the Greek letter " Χ ,χ " it makes an H
      sound like in the word House although it goes a tiny bit towards a
      C sound like in the word Cat
      It's really complicated because of Ancient Greek.

  • @alperylmaz9518
    @alperylmaz9518 Рік тому +2

    1st time after so long, a video which is way more objective. Thanks for that

  • @TheSmeg73
    @TheSmeg73 Рік тому +2

    From the left side you have a peaceful European country that never threat no one ….. and don’t forget ….. the first European civilization …. On the right side you have a country that instead of history has a criminal record ….. ask Armenians , Kurds , Cypriots and Greeks ….
    Greece has borders …. If the Turks wants to come , they are welcome ….. they are going to face their NEMESIS

  • @ntonisa6636
    @ntonisa6636 Рік тому +6

    Overall better job than most of the "why GR - TR hate each other" vids (which I've noticed there are many out there recently) which typically explain nothing except repeat stereotypes about "ancient enemies" who just can't help it... though not perfect but better than most attempts I've seen. Turkey btw had actually declared 12 nautical miles of territorial sea in all its southern, northern and sea of Marmara coasts (so everywhere it suited them) already in the 60s (so even before the UNCLOS update made it legal to do so in the 80s) . Also the map of "greek claims" you used at 7:29 is from turkish state propaganda network TRT, meant to showcase “Greek maximalism” thus is not official but a propaganda map containing purposeful errors and omissions. Finally of all those islands you showed only the Dodecanese islands which were ceded by Italy to Greece after WW2 are explicitly referred as demilitarized, but the treaty that stipulates that doesn't include Turkey at all among its signatories, thus Turkey's frequent claims about the “rights” it derive from it are also very dubious.

  • @imma3knee
    @imma3knee Рік тому +4

    I don't remember when I subbed, but aparently I'm subbed to this channel.

  • @vbilgutay1
    @vbilgutay1 2 місяці тому +1

    My grand father (who was Turkish and married to my Greek grand mother) use to say that Turks are Muslim Greeks and that Greeks are Christian Turks.

  • @dusuncediyalog1505
    @dusuncediyalog1505 Рік тому +2

    We want to inform us about the Armenian, Greek , Assyrian genocide .... from 1896 - 1922 and the Kurdish genocide until today !!

  • @georgios_5342
    @georgios_5342 Рік тому +5

    7:38 mind you, these are not just Greek claims, every country in the world except Turkey recognizes this

    • @henryaybaz7409
      @henryaybaz7409 Рік тому

      What is every other county, South Cyprus?

    • @japonbalg9644
      @japonbalg9644 Місяць тому

      Sence bu haksızlık değil mi? İsterseniz Karadeniz’i de alın. Hatta Atlantik okyanusu da alın.

  • @MojoBonzo
    @MojoBonzo Рік тому +4

    why do turkey and greece hate each other? ok let me explain. it was the year of our lord 1071...

    • @korkukokusu8311
      @korkukokusu8311 Рік тому

      1071 ? Lol . As a turk, i dont remember 1000 years ago.

    • @nickname1969
      @nickname1969 Рік тому +1

      @@korkukokusu8311 he means the war of malazgirit. The war that allows turks to take anatolia

    • @MojoBonzo
      @MojoBonzo Рік тому

      @@korkukokusu8311 its a joke mate

    • @korkukokusu8311
      @korkukokusu8311 Рік тому

      @@MojoBonzo oh

  • @mrt4282
    @mrt4282 Рік тому +14

    Last time Greece demilitarized an island at the request of turkey was Cyprus in 1967. It removed a brigade meant to protect the island in case of a turkish invasion.
    What happened? Turkey grabbed the chance and invaded the island of Cyprus occupying it ever since.
    Now they ask the same for the Aegean islands after they have already positioned an army next to them which (according to their own words) boasts the strongest amphibian assault units in the area.
    Make your own conclusions...

    • @crazydave1
      @crazydave1 Рік тому

      They're our islands

    • @chriskalogrias926
      @chriskalogrias926 Рік тому +2

      @@crazydave1 And then you woke up boy

    • @eneseren25
      @eneseren25 Рік тому

      Then why did turkey wait 7 years for the invasion?

    • @cafio0
      @cafio0 Рік тому +1

      oh yeah just leave out the context of eoka killing Turks and the coup that wanted to annex Cyprus to Greece

  • @richardsantosgarcia8972
    @richardsantosgarcia8972 Рік тому +16

    One aspect that always haunts me in regards to the hatred festered as a consequence of the greco-turkish war (post WWI) is one that is often times overlooked. You see, in their misguided attempts at ensuring ethnically pure states, both Greece and Turkey would swap vast amounts of populations that would be forcibly uprooted from the land they had been living in for generations and being sent to live on a new artificial country they had no connection to. This resulting of course, in greeks that had previously lived in Anatolia facing discrimination for being seen as too "turkish" by mainland greeks and viceversa for the turks. Those people were left in a figurative no man's land, utterly sickening stuff.
    Time Ghost History's team has an excellent video on this very topic.

    • @__-oq8gz
      @__-oq8gz Рік тому +5

      There were more Greeks in Asia Minor sent to Greece than Turks in Greece sent to Asia Minor. Also this occurred after several genocides (Pontic & Thracian)

    • @sigmaentrepreneur5018
      @sigmaentrepreneur5018 Рік тому +14

      @@__-oq8gz Because of genocide happened in Morea where Greeks killed Albanians and Turks living in Southern Greece not even going to mention first balkan wars which forced most of the Turkish population out of balkans

    • @sigmaentrepreneur5018
      @sigmaentrepreneur5018 Рік тому +7

      @@kristaps5296 ah yes this is that part of the Greco-Turkish online argument
      🏊‍♂️🏊‍♂️

    • @SpartanLeonidas1821
      @SpartanLeonidas1821 Рік тому

      @@sigmaentrepreneur5018
      🤿🦃🤿 Seitan Vapor 👍

    • @sigmaentrepreneur5018
      @sigmaentrepreneur5018 11 місяців тому

      @@secretname4190 no no its billions +we launched the asteroid which made dinos extinct we are bad törks we will kidnop yor chöldren HOHO

  • @MIGBMWLOVER
    @MIGBMWLOVER Рік тому +46

    As a Greek I have to say that although the animosity goes wayyy back Turkey these days is trying to undo the Lausanne treaty that sets its current boarders because the Aegean sea and Syria is full of resources that they want to exploit for themselves. Plus they threaten Greece with missile attacks these days. the people of Greece live peacefully with the Muslim minority and immigrants in our country. The political system in Greece is too coward to start a war without the nato or eu consenting anyway.

    • @__-oq8gz
      @__-oq8gz Рік тому +1

      Greece is set up for defense, not offense. It will never strike first. It can only conduct retaliatory strikes and defend its territory. Hopefully Turkey realizes they have a lesser advantage over Greece than Russia had over Ukraine.

    • @rfkwouldvebeenaok1008
      @rfkwouldvebeenaok1008 Рік тому +1

      Go take back your city ρωμαϊκός! Turks didn't build Constantinople, and they certainly have no right to continue to hold it. Hagia Sophia calls.

    • @aegeanharrier6648
      @aegeanharrier6648 Рік тому +1

      Same for Turkey. The EU money is cruical for Erdogan. Funny, its extreamly easy to just found a company in both nations that would supply both nations. We may not get the full resources but also not heat and arguments in IR. Syria is not focused on resources but a much older claim but I see we can very essly work togeth with Assad so why all the aggressivness

    • @jmgonzales7701
      @jmgonzales7701 Рік тому +1

      but isnt turkey nato as well? they need to fix their problems fast since russia is expanding, nato needs all the help they can get.

    • @nickname1969
      @nickname1969 Рік тому +7

      But Greece is also militarizing the Egean islands that are way too close to Turkey's cities and to the treaty of Lausanne it's forbidden to militerize these islands. So if your neighbor country but missiles to an Island that is literally in front of your 3rd biggest city what would you do?.

  • @obabas80
    @obabas80 Рік тому +7

    Poor Greeks. They get to live next to these bar-bars. They've been dealing with these hordes for thousands of years and it's a marvel they're still around today.

  • @spottiercamp8183
    @spottiercamp8183 6 місяців тому +1

    The history behind turkey and Greece is nothing short of amazing

  • @georgios_5342
    @georgios_5342 Рік тому +13

    4:10 one issue you forgot is Turkey's backstabbing to Greece during the Second World War (even though there was a mutual defense pact against the Nazis) and also the eradication of the Greek community of Constantinople, Imbros and Tenedos in the 50s, when Greece was recovering from its civil war. This happened in clear violation of the Lausanne Treaty, whereas Greece never reciprocated by purging its own Muslim minority. In fact, while you blamed both sides for "ethnic cleansing" in Anatolia, we all know that Turkey did the bulk of the murders, seeing as regions that were even majority Greek were entirely cleansed, whereas no Turks were killed or injured for example on mainland Greece, away from the warzone. If Greece wanted to reciprocate or exact revenge on the Turks, it could have easily done it to the hundreds of thousands of Balkan Turks during or after the war. But of course, none of this ever happened.

    • @adidoki
      @adidoki Рік тому

      Greeks killed all or sent all Turks on Crete, Rhodes, Selanik etc. way before the turks did anything

  • @yiannchrst
    @yiannchrst Рік тому +3

    One of your maps is wrong, somewhere near the middle of the video. Mytilene is Greek.

  • @manolisbach2380
    @manolisbach2380 Рік тому +5

    Greece has multiple times asked turkey to solve this matter in a court whichever court of turkish liking but turkey refused.

    • @verscarii3238
      @verscarii3238 Рік тому +1

      Bold of the Greeks to assume they could read.

  • @jimfish5981
    @jimfish5981 11 місяців тому +2

    The older I get, I just see the world as a game of Sid Meier's Civilization...

  • @georgebethanis3188
    @georgebethanis3188 Рік тому +1

    Greeks and Turks have been very very very bitter enemies for about 1000 years.
    - Greeks mainly accuse Turks for the fall of Byzantium and their glorious capital Constantinople. Greeks were wiped out politically and culturally for almost half millenia because of this.
    - Turks mainly dislike Greeks because when they achieved independence in 1821, the Greeks were one of the key factors for the downfall of the Ottoman Empire. Plus in the 1920s they launched a massive invasion in Anatolia which came really close wiping out the Turks from the political map.
    Nowdays a rivalrly still exists at a political level. Nevertheless ordinary people from both sides are starting to get very tired of it.

  • @thehistorical5928
    @thehistorical5928 Рік тому +7

    Hey could you do a video on repeating crossbows and why they were replaced by guns?

  • @jimmygaris7196
    @jimmygaris7196 Рік тому +14

    The Treaty of Lausanne , doesn’t say for the islands to be demilitarized, it says not to have naval bases and barricades, Greece doesn’t have both of those on the islands , you can read the whole treaty in English at the Greek foreign ministry website , also the Treaty of Lausanne say’s everything outside 3 nautical mile of the turkeys coast belongs to Greece, case is closed 100 years ago .!

    • @Darkgnome
      @Darkgnome Рік тому +2

      The full version of the sentence is this “islands and islets Iying within three miles of the coast are included within the frontier of the coastal State.” (article 6) However, the islands belong to Greece are namely counted. So Greece has no ownership on the islands other than those were counted and are the aggressive invaders.

    • @jimmygaris7196
      @jimmygaris7196 Рік тому +6

      @@Darkgnome first able we Greeks been here for over 5 thousand years with recorded history, we are not aggressors , we liberate what’s ours from the Mongol occupation, ( and we are not done yet ) second the treaty does say any thing 3 miles out of the Ionian coast belongs to Greece, as of using the islands instead of this islands, we both type in English but we think on different languages, i haven’t learned barbaric yet

    • @pandaren_brewmaster
      @pandaren_brewmaster Рік тому +1

      @@jimmygaris7196 Diplomacy doesn't work that way. You need +90 IQ to understand that. So don't bother yourself further with these things.

    • @lukoskulo2583
      @lukoskulo2583 Рік тому +2

      @@Darkgnome article 12 clearly defines the islands as Greek

    • @manolisbach2380
      @manolisbach2380 Рік тому +1

      @@Darkgnome hahahaha the treaty is being read and analyzing by worldwide known lawyers and it pretty clear no one questions the islands ownership not even turkey ,turkish goverment says that if you militirize them then we have a right which is funny but still not even the turkish goverment says that those islands arent greek ,stop being silly :)

  • @Kimmerios-l5u
    @Kimmerios-l5u Рік тому +2

    Actually the last vestige of the greek speaking Byzantine Empire was the Empire Of Trepizond in Northeastern Asia Minor.

  • @rajulislam4687
    @rajulislam4687 Рік тому +2

    Love this channel I find it very educational on many interesting topics of history well done Stakui and thank you for teaching us

  • @thegreekguy1124
    @thegreekguy1124 Рік тому +15

    7:36 the map is wrong. It even shows the Greek island of Lesbos,the biggest and most populated in its province,within Turkish control

  • @thegreekguy1124
    @thegreekguy1124 Рік тому +12

    The Dodecanese islands were NOT included in the Lausanne treaty,thus not demilitarized by any means. As for the rest of the islands?It was agreed that they would be able to only have national guard units. The treaty also affects Turkey since it was agreed the the islands of Imbros and Tenedos(who's population was nearly 100% Greek)would be autonomous,with their own police schools etc. Which Turkey is disregarding even to this day while there have been instances of ethic clanging in the islands as well as a policy of Turkofization which is completely against the treaty of Lausanne

  • @nikicfb
    @nikicfb 15 днів тому

    You know what’s funny? “Dodecanese” means “twelve islands”
    The history guy practically said “twelveislands islands” and it’s funny

  • @EllasEllinon
    @EllasEllinon Рік тому +4

    also calling Nationalism the struggle to get rid of conquering invaders that had the whole Balkan region enslaved for 400 years, that's a first..

  • @spirosgreek1171
    @spirosgreek1171 Рік тому +7

    As a greek, thank you for this video, explains a lot of stuff and the viewpoint of both countries. I have been to Turkey recently, and I loved my time there. The sites, the food and the people were all amazing. Despite the geopolitical rivalry, I'm glad that both peoples are for the most part so hospitable and friendly towards one another

  • @governorhampton911
    @governorhampton911 Рік тому +41

    I may only be 1/4 Greek but if there’s war then I will go fight for greece

    • @jmgonzales7701
      @jmgonzales7701 Рік тому

      are you from greece?

    • @mirak8417
      @mirak8417 Рік тому

      That's honourable man bad 😔 i don't think half Greek's would be allowed to fight you know it might get the country you live in trouble, if Turkey attacks only those who have gone to vacation are are called back

    • @jabbayt7271
      @jabbayt7271 Рік тому +10

      You have to be 18 to serve, and if Greece did go to war, Turkey could draft more troops then the entire population of Greece.

    • @ozlembaytur7426
      @ozlembaytur7426 Рік тому

      come fight with us, we are waiting, we will make a shaman totem from your skeleton, we will send it to your mother, she will look at it as a gift and remember you

    • @pixytorres7117
      @pixytorres7117 Рік тому +4

      @@jabbayt7271 "You have to be 18 to serve" Not when there is all out war, these rules are so dumb, when someone is attacking you everyone is at war regardless the age your fighting for your survival.

  • @thescarecrow2710
    @thescarecrow2710 7 місяців тому +2

    I mean they did invade cyprus and still haven't returned it...

  • @victorythroughharmony11
    @victorythroughharmony11 Місяць тому +1

    Im Turkish and I dont have any problem with any Greek people who dont have a problem with me.
    I grew up in London with one of my good friends who was Greek.

    • @thelunatiK
      @thelunatiK Місяць тому

      Shawarma

    • @user-tg3oo8wy8k
      @user-tg3oo8wy8k 29 днів тому

      I tried a shawarma and it was good but i love our greek gyro

    • @thelunatiK
      @thelunatiK 29 днів тому

      @@user-tg3oo8wy8k Hell yeah Gyro is best
      (Haven’t tried yet)

  • @Charlie-eq3dj
    @Charlie-eq3dj Рік тому +15

    People must be aware that the Turkic people that came and invaded Anatolia where millions of Greeks and Armenians lived and is now Turkey is that the Turkic people are not from the region. They came from Asia and occupied not only Anatolia but the Balkans, the Levant, Egypt and other territories. So it was natural that when the Ottoman empire was dismantled that the people who lived under Ottoman rule rightfully regained their lands back. Unfortunately for the Greeks and Armenians, the decendents of those Turkic peoples, the Turkish people decided to occupy the historical lands of the Greeks and Armenians. The Turkish people today that inhabit Turkey are laying claim to lands that were never Turkic, only occupied and controlled by them. Add to the fact that there is more Greek, Armenian and Kurdish land inside of what is now called Turkey than outside, you can understand why so much anger and resentment exists towards the idea of a Turkish state. The Ottoman empire never truly went away, it just shrunk in size and deported or killed anyone who wasn't a Muslim. That is the fundamental problem between Turks and basically anyone who lives next to them.

    • @Alena4historyy
      @Alena4historyy Рік тому

      There is a thing called war you know. If you lost war you lost territory. If you really Love YOUR territory you Must protect it

    • @Charlie-eq3dj
      @Charlie-eq3dj Рік тому +2

      @@Alena4historyy They did protect it. But if you kill all the soldiers who died protecting it. It doesn't make it yours. It just means you occupy it. The Greek and Armenian people are native to that land. The people who occupy it today are not.

    • @Alena4historyy
      @Alena4historyy Рік тому

      @@Charlie-eq3dj you know there is a thing called war. And in the war people die Just know

    • @Charlie-eq3dj
      @Charlie-eq3dj Рік тому +2

      @@Alena4historyy Declaring war on a nation and killing people who do not want to go to war is a crime. And then taking their land because you killed all the men and there is nobody to stop you is another crime. Eventually crimes catch up to people and nations too.

    • @Charlie-eq3dj
      @Charlie-eq3dj Рік тому +1

      @@Alena4historyy And also, just because a nation loses a war, doesn't mean it gets to lose it's land, it's women, it's history to the winning army and be expelled from their homes forever. Because God forbid, the occupying people then lose a war many generations later. Will the winning army have mercy on the occupiers the way the invaders did not have mercy on the native people?

  • @panpan7817
    @panpan7817 Рік тому +1

    As a Greek i don't have any problem with Turks. Fight the rich, not each other!

  • @strassboom2612
    @strassboom2612 Рік тому

    Came for the goatse-looking thumbnail, stayed for the history! Keep up the good work!

  • @DeTofuKing
    @DeTofuKing Рік тому +25

    As a Greek-American, thank you for covering this.

    • @Petreski447
      @Petreski447 Рік тому

      As a Greek, decide what you are Greek or American!

    • @anotheryoutuberperson38
      @anotheryoutuberperson38 7 місяців тому

      @@Petreski447 They are an American with Greek ancestry. Just like how I am an American with Turkish ancestry.

  • @billpetrak
    @billpetrak Рік тому +27

    2:28 You are wrong! The Despotate of Moria was not the only one. There was the Despotate of Epirus, the Empire of Trebizond, the Principality of Theodoro and others.

    • @bumin6451
      @bumin6451 Рік тому +5

      Not greek. They’re pontic. Back in those days anything other than mainland greece was considered it’s own culture. it was after WW1 that greece created this national identity.

    • @axeltenveils6816
      @axeltenveils6816 Рік тому +18

      @@bumin6451 Except Pontic Greeks had a Greek identity, which is why the Ottomans and then later early Turkey tried to wipe them out. Trying to say they hadn't had a Greek identity already by the late 1800s is either lack of knowledge or propaganda. Just look at their own writings for their identity. Like hell, they even tried several times to appeal to Venizelos to be united with Greece.

    • @bumin6451
      @bumin6451 Рік тому +6

      ​@@axeltenveils6816 when did venizelos live? So you get the point that greek national identity formed much later than the 15th and 16th century. Also early Turkey and the Young turks of the Ottomans are two different entities. Trying to put them all into one "Turkish agenda" is ignorant and just a lack of immense knowledge about that time. Yes, there have been massacres done by the young turks but stating that the early Turkish republic of Atatürk is to be blamed is just putting the blame of a greek invasion on the turks. Let's not forget that after all it was the greek army that invaded Anatolia to which a natural response was a counter offensive by the Turkish rebels(not ottoman government). so here is a question similar to the Pontic situation, What happened to the turks in the balkans after the Balkan wars? Were they "peacefully" send back to Anatolia? We all know that the answer is NO but you can't say that the greeks or bulgarians weren't rightfully taking their lands back. Try to look at these events from both perspectives.

    • @axeltenveils6816
      @axeltenveils6816 Рік тому

      @@bumin6451 ...what the fuck is this rant? Did I pretend that ethnic cleansings did not happen? If so tell me where. And please, both the Ottoman Empire, and the Young-Turks took measures in wiping out the populations of Christians in the Pontic area.
      I'm specifically talking about the measures taken by Ottoman AND Turkish governments in the late 19th-early 20th century, as well as the propaganda that there weren't Greeks in Pontus, trying to minimise the quite vibrant and economically important population of Pontic Greeks in the area. Saying there weren't Greeks there in that era is a talking point of people trying to minimise ethnic cleansing.
      And damn I'd be happy to talk about how the era all around sucked, and how Muslim populations were just as harmed, but we have absolutely no evidence that something of that scale and with that level of organisation was made by the other Balkan countries. If you want whataboutism I can go about the 1950s in Constantinople and the pogrom, the constant laws of the Turkish Republic targeting Christians.
      I could go about how my family was ousted from their village by Turkish partisans that burned it to the ground, and how even (generally) impartial sources agree with it.
      But that's not really a discussion worth making here.
      What you call Greek invasion, had absolutely nothing to do with what happened in Pontus. Or with Armenia. The Young Turk/Early Turkish republic cleansing of minorities is the successor to a similar Ottoman one, with many of the heads being of the same social circles if not the same people. Knowing that does not mean I lack knowledge of the era, I've in fact done research on that era as part of university studies.
      Am I gonna blame modern Turkish citizens of those massacres? Not really no.
      Am I going to excuse similar massacres? Fuck no.
      But the whole Pontic thing is a talking point of Genocide deniers. So no, I'm not going to leave it.

    • @axeltenveils6816
      @axeltenveils6816 Рік тому +7

      @@bumin6451 And because I'm not finished speaking, already not even decades later than the conquest of Constantinople we have recognition of the Greek-speaking Christian communities by the Sultans, because they were recongised as exceptional miners, and thus were protected from the beys, and from any other depredation, directly being a "feudal holding" of the Sultan, Communities that were rather vibrant, and started to spread out throughout Anatolia due to their capabilities as miners. And we can trace that through the metropolis of Gümüşhane, and how widespread the parishes answering to it were. By the 19th century with now the presence of the Great Powers in the Black Sea, those same communities became further rich, building their own schools, highschools, etc. Which concerned the Ottoman leadership who had started considering Turkification by then.
      So no it wasn't a product of WW1, or the campaign of Anatolia, or breaking apart of the Ottoman empire, by the time of Venizelos those communities were already well established, even having their own leadership, arts, literature, etc.

  • @anestiskaragiannis7391
    @anestiskaragiannis7391 Рік тому +2

    No hate, friends 👍🏼

  • @nichpelvk9329
    @nichpelvk9329 3 місяці тому +2

    Conflict started when Constantinople fell

  • @kagtkalem7115
    @kagtkalem7115 Рік тому +32

    Ç is pronounced as Ch and Ş is pronounced as Sh. Other than that very detailed and accurate analysis. Good job.

    • @HaveFunTakingCrack
      @HaveFunTakingCrack Рік тому +1

      as a Greek I want to ask a turk something. So you really think we want to attack turkey? or do you think turkey is going to try to take Greek islands?

    • @Vanlost
      @Vanlost Рік тому +1

      ​@@HaveFunTakingCrack We think it is not fair to have all the gas in the Aegean and Mediterrenean. Nobody would accept it when you have the longest coastline. But you extend the country's borders wholly until the coast of Turkey because you have some rocks? This is the main reason and no sane country will accept that. Everyboud would laugh at it.

    • @spellplague
      @spellplague Рік тому +1

      @@Vanlost Cmon even the name "Aegean" is ancient Greek. It is Traditionally that Greece is a sea country, why you just dont accept it and want more and more sea? When it comes to gas to be honest i agree that both countries should make a deal and extract it together and share the profits

    • @Vanlost
      @Vanlost Рік тому

      @@spellplague we dont care about the islands or the sea but we dont want to be left out from the gas when every country gets something one way or another.

    • @iskambillordu
      @iskambillordu Рік тому

      @@spellplague states does not run their politics based on the name of the region. turks have names for some greek cities that have turkic origin. does that mean those cities. are turkish? no,obviously. tradition does not mean anything among countries. if it did,turks should claim lands of hungary,romania,egyptand many more since all of them were ottoman lands at some points.

  • @ntonismpelias8267
    @ntonismpelias8267 Рік тому +42

    As a Greek it's really horrible to see 2 countries that have so much in common culturally (even though it might seem like the opposite at first) be in such conflict with one another just because of corrupt politicians and nationalists.

    • @__-oq8gz
      @__-oq8gz Рік тому +13

      As a half Greek, when it comes to DNA, the Turks are more Greek than me!

    • @rfkwouldvebeenaok1008
      @rfkwouldvebeenaok1008 Рік тому

      Brothers, friends, ρωμαϊκός! You must take back your city! Hagia Sophia calls! I'll also pretend as a Greek you didn't just say the two are similar. Not sure what kind of Orthodox Christian you are. Probably not one at all if your young. These young Greeks have no idea about their own culture and history. When I say Roman they all think Caesar and not Constantine. These young Greeks would prefer assimilation and total destruction of our ancestral ways over being proud of who they are and their country.

    • @Jason0000
      @Jason0000 Рік тому

      Για να στο πω απλα εισε και πολυ μαλακας που εχουμε και κοινα, το μονο κοινο ειναι οτι θελλουμε να αλληλοσκοτοθουμε

    • @ntonismpelias8267
      @ntonismpelias8267 Рік тому

      @@Jason0000 αδερφέ άνθρωποι σαν και εσένα είναι ο λόγος που σκοτωνομαστε άμα συνέχεια το σκέφτεσαι έτσι

    • @billysgeo
      @billysgeo Рік тому +1

      You do realize that most of that “cultural similarity” you speak of comes from 400 years of occupation and slavery from the Turks.

  • @gokberk5389
    @gokberk5389 Рік тому +2

    thanks for the video from Turkey

  • @antoniossymeonakis5706
    @antoniossymeonakis5706 Рік тому +1

    according to Lausanne treaty Turkeys can not fly over the Greek airspace and Greek Islands but Turkey every day, many times per day violates the Lausanne treaty. I am not sure if you ignore the truth or make cheap propaganda against Greece.

  • @0panos0
    @0panos0 Рік тому +14

    The Lesvos island is not a Turkish territory .Fix the map (07:39)

  • @KonigGustavAdolph
    @KonigGustavAdolph Рік тому +13

    Little known fact:
    The ethnic cleansing (though it was actually based on religion not ethnicity) was sanctioned and championed by The League of Nations.

    • @snowdrop9810
      @snowdrop9810 Рік тому

      Leauge of garbage, good to know. Though I'm assuming only the ethnic cleansing of muslims was championed by the leauge of nations which was essentially just pure christian

    • @hasancosar9781
      @hasancosar9781 Рік тому +4

      BTW it was suggested by Greeks.

    • @korkukokusu8311
      @korkukokusu8311 Рік тому +2

      It was greek govrements idea

    • @arisdelis1
      @arisdelis1 Рік тому

      @@hasancosar9781 it was the policy of the Young Turks and Kemal by lessons from Germany to convert or exterminate ALL Non Muslim inhabitants of ANATOLIA.....ie Armenian/Pontian/Assyrian Genocides

  • @funfff
    @funfff Рік тому +1

    Iam a Greek and I love the Turkısh people. Both our people are tortured by our politicians.

  • @92MojoJojo
    @92MojoJojo 7 місяців тому +2

    Even when one tries to take an equal approach to the matter you simply can't because Turkish expansionism and its nostalgia for empire creeps in. At 7:29 you show a map made by Turkey that shows the Greek island of Lesbos as Turkish territory. How can you expect Greece not to take precautions in order to protect its territory against an aggressive neighbour, especially when that neighbour has aggressed upon and invaded multiples surrounding countries in the past decades.

  • @georgios_5342
    @georgios_5342 Рік тому +5

    This video has many inaccuracies that seem to follow a common trend of lining up with Turkish propaganda. But I guess it wasn't on purpose, you might have just been misinformed.

  • @pmaragoudakis
    @pmaragoudakis Рік тому +4

    Well, Turkey having a few genocides in its belt does fuel the surrounding peoples hatred. After the Greek independence war Greece did try to unite all lands that were populated by Greeks. Turkey also had such an expansive period after its defeat in ww1. Putting all that aside, during 1930-1933 both countries signed agreements for friendship, settling retaliation claims and general communicating all issues. This period ended all claims from the Greek part who entered a new, modern foreign policy. Greece even supported Turkey's UN submission back then. Turkey on the other hand sooner or later returned to old habits by suppressing minorities, occupying parts of other countries and publicly announcing visions of reestablishing the power it had as the Ottoman empire...

    • @Himes5564
      @Himes5564 Рік тому

      We Turks have never committed genocide in our 2200-year glorious history.

    • @pmaragoudakis
      @pmaragoudakis Рік тому

      @@Himes5564 ua-cam.com/video/F9pvnvx6fk4/v-deo.html

    • @Himes5564
      @Himes5564 Рік тому

      @@pmaragoudakis If you do events such as the 1821 Tripolice massacre, the bloody Christmas massacre in Cyprus, the Crete massacre, the massacres during the occupation of Anatolia, we will respond to you.we are proud and crazy people, we will respond if we are innocently massacred, just like the Armenians were expelled after their massacres against the Turks in Anatolia, it's all a matter of impulse and reaction, you started all the events first

    • @pmaragoudakis
      @pmaragoudakis Рік тому +1

      @@Himes5564 It's good that you admit the genocide, even trying to justify it as most Turks don't

    • @Himes5564
      @Himes5564 Рік тому

      @@pmaragoudakis I think you misunderstood because of the translation, what I want to say is that we did not kill any innocent people for pleasure, on the contrary, we were killed and we responded, we could not stand like a sacrificial sheep.

  • @keremgurman6926
    @keremgurman6926 Рік тому +1

    Very well explained. Thanks.

  • @vasilisgorgogiannis5517
    @vasilisgorgogiannis5517 Рік тому +1

    Let me tell u historicaly about our relations: up until the 15th century the Ottoman Turcs conquered (the Byzantine- Greek empire) us and added us to their empire. We tried many times to make a revolution but they killed the revolts. Only in 1821 the relovution was successful. Well we had an agreement not to have armies in these islands but when the neighbour leader Erdogahn says that we want half the Aegean and they already tried to grab all of Cyprus... What do u want from us island conquests in easy mode? No ofc our retribution if u try to grab our islands will be swift and brutal!

  • @rfkwouldvebeenaok1008
    @rfkwouldvebeenaok1008 Рік тому +3

    Heyo good vid, but one thing I wanted to point out was you said Morea fell in 1460, but Eprius made it to 1479.

  • @tahiregemenbahceci2739
    @tahiregemenbahceci2739 Рік тому +5

    as a Turkish person Thanks for the objective and accurate infos

    • @thecaptainseye
      @thecaptainseye Рік тому +1

      As a Greek, you can see how it’s dishonest for the Turkish government to consider that it has the legal right to militarize its coasts with considerable force, but to also claim that Greeks are still bound not to do it?

    • @nightcore1054
      @nightcore1054 Рік тому

      @@thecaptainseye coasts and islands two different things. Turkey let the islands to greece with a condition. the condition in the treaty was do not militarise the islands. Greece agreed it and didnt militarise for a while. And now start to militarising them.

    • @thecaptainseye
      @thecaptainseye Рік тому +2

      @@nightcore1054 What, don’t islands have coasts? Are they not Greek land? I don’t get you. What is the cutoff point for you to consider any land mass a shore and not an island? Crete is huge and you still consider it to produce no EEZ.
      As for the militarization, it’s explained in the video. Greece’s position is that the agreement not to militarise islands was predicated upon the condition that Turkey wouldn’t militarise their coasts. Thatks why Greece signed that in the first place. As the Montreaux Convention allowed Turkey to militarise the shores, Greece did the same with the islands. You can’t have it both ways. Besides, despite what you may hear on the news (don’t really know what they tell you there, but my European friends tell me Turkish media are extremely tightly controlled by Erdogan), Greece did this in response to Turkey, whereas Turkey acted first by militarising its shores. It seems naive to me that Turkey would think it’s free to develop military forces capable of seizing entire islands but expect no action in return. Trust is also a problem. We have no guarantee that this military force won’t be used to leverage negotiations on matters that are currently not under negotiation.
      I would be more lenient to Turkey’s positions if the government didn’t do blatantly dishonest stuff like drawing maritime borders OVER LAND (i.e. Crete) with Libya. What stops them from drawing maritime borders with Italy then? Not recognizing that islands produce an EEZ like they don’t even exist is also dishonest.
      On a more ethical and less political level, claiming rights to the Aegean sea is also dishonest. Turkey is a huge country with multiple sources of both natural resources and income. Greece is a lot smaller and with less natural resources and depends on the Aegean sea as tourism on these islands is a huge source of income for a lot if not most Greeks. Splitting the Aegean not only turns Turkey into a dangerous superpower but also minimizes Greece’s economic and military power. If the situation were reversed would you do the same? Would you think it fair? I know governments don’t care about “fairness” in this sense, as all they care about is expanding their influence. But the people shouldn’t support this.

    • @nightcore1054
      @nightcore1054 Рік тому

      @@thecaptainseye actually, turkey's coast militarization was response to greece's island militarization according to my sources . I dont follow news, news paper or other traditional media things(idk what turkey's or greece's traditional media says cuz as u know traditional medias always controlling by the governments and good at manipulating people). Im just surfing in the internet and as i see some eu sources claim the thing u said and neutral sources claim the thing i said. eu sources probably manipulative so i trusted in neutral sources. And u probably believed that what some eu sources said.

    • @nightcore1054
      @nightcore1054 Рік тому

      @@thecaptainseye Also turning turkey into a superpower is not a bad thing if u dont want to claim any territory of turkey. As you know turkey is kind of bridge between asia and europe, if turkey became a superpower it will be better for both sides(asia and europe[cuz turkey's roadways ,security, tunnels etc will be better and u will get what u want faster, cheaper and more secure from other continent.])

  • @georgios_5342
    @georgios_5342 Рік тому +2

    7:27 why is there a problem? Aren't the islands Greek? Shouldn't Turkey be satisfied that it conquered half of Greece already? Why don't they keep the land they got, and Greece keeps its seas?

  • @armagantanir335
    @armagantanir335 6 місяців тому +1

    I never hated Greeks, actually I believed that they are one of the closest cultures to us. However, this does not mean that we do not have a problem, 12 miles is serious problem for us because some islands are very close to us. This will never accepted by Us, not because of pride, just because of it is not rational, it means we can not even able to use our cost for swimming.

    • @user-go7hl3xr1w
      @user-go7hl3xr1w 4 місяці тому

      ΝΌΜΙΜΟ ΔΙΚΑΊΩΜΑ ΟΠΩΣ ΌΛΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΥΠΟΛΟΊΠΩΝ ΧΩΡΏΝ. ΚΑΙ ΓΙΑ ΕΜΑΣ ΔΕΝ ΕΊΝΑΙ ΕΎΚΟΛΟ ΝΑ ΞΕΧΆΣΟΥΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΓΕΝΟΚΤΟΝΊΑ ΤΟΥ 1922 ΠΟΥ Ο ΣΦΑΖΕΤΕ ΓΥΝΑΙΚΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΙΔΙΆ ΣΤΗΝ ΣΜΎΡΝΗ.

    • @hamlet557
      @hamlet557 2 місяці тому

      Can you explain with simple words how you won't be able to swim?
      If the island is closer to Turkey than 12 miles, that means that it will stay THE SAME as it is now.
      What did you imagine?

  • @kevinkibble8342
    @kevinkibble8342 Рік тому +9

    I went to Crete one year, and within about five minutes of meeting the hotel owner on the first night, he started talking about how the Turks kept his grandfather prisoner.

    • @jupiterbirlesikgezegenleri9884
      @jupiterbirlesikgezegenleri9884 Рік тому +5

      Ah yea crete... They killed all the muslims in crete sad right?

    • @john8036
      @john8036 Рік тому +3

      @@jupiterbirlesikgezegenleri9884 there was no muslims in crete

    • @stathiperdikaris7293
      @stathiperdikaris7293 Рік тому +6

      ​@John all the Cretans that converted to Islam left Crete during the population exchange between Greece and turkey in the 1920's. Most of them were settled in the izmir area and consider themselves to be Cretans to this day.

    • @stathiperdikaris7293
      @stathiperdikaris7293 Рік тому +3

      @JÜPİTER birleşik gezegenleri as I stated before, the Muslims in Crete were locals that left the island during the population exchange between Greece and turkey

  • @philipmccrevis3678
    @philipmccrevis3678 Рік тому +5

    Most peaceful dispute in the Balkans

    • @chriskalogrias926
      @chriskalogrias926 Рік тому

      Those ticking bombs are the most destructive ones. We have been really patient.

    • @Toshiro_Mifune
      @Toshiro_Mifune Рік тому

      @@chriskalogrias926 and that should remain so. as far as we don't start anything, they can't cross, and the allies will be forced to join the defender. we're not patient, we're wining the long game.

    • @chriskalogrias926
      @chriskalogrias926 Рік тому

      @@Toshiro_Mifune Yes, I understand. I'm just being sceptical, if that's the right course of action, when the one is buying and the other is producing. It's a double cutting knife.

    • @Toshiro_Mifune
      @Toshiro_Mifune Рік тому

      @@chriskalogrias926 produce? lmao, yeah a drone maybe....

  • @peterga3658
    @peterga3658 Рік тому +2

    this prob with the islands you might think its something Greece trying to push to be near ""Turkey land"" to keep the waters etc but thats not truth you cn read about the Mikra Asia war and the genocide that happen there from the turkish side .

  • @sterneis1
    @sterneis1 19 днів тому +1

    l am Turkish. We dont hate each other. l like Greek people. We are neighbours. Rivalary maybe. Hate not! 🇹🇷🇬🇷🇹🇷🇬🇷

    • @argyrisdanalatos
      @argyrisdanalatos 4 дні тому

      Αν μιλήσουμε περισσότερο οι σοβαροί άνθρωποι κι από τις δύο μεριές, θα πάνε καλύτερα τα πράγματα για τα παιδιά μας.

  • @georgeretsides4293
    @georgeretsides4293 Рік тому +5

    Considering that Turkey has disputes like these with all of its neighbours we can understand who is the problem. Cannot stand Turkish imperialism.

    • @eneseren25
      @eneseren25 Рік тому

      With georgien azarbajan and iran their are no problems. With iraq their are sometimes problems with the Turkish airstrikes but their allowed by the iraq government.

    • @Hioloi
      @Hioloi Рік тому

      Greeks are stereotypically characterized as hairy gays, while turks are Asian Chads. Stop being jealous and be honest. Liar.

  • @dardell2001
    @dardell2001 Рік тому +6

    Erdoğan made it clear and even started to make territorial claims on Greek islands several years ago. It was at this time that he began to move Turkey closer to Russia

  • @issith7340
    @issith7340 Рік тому +1

    No treaty says that dodecanyse are to be demilitarised.!! Lawsane treaty also say’s about greek populations of imvros, tenesos and Istanbul. Turkey already violated the later, the next day of the treaty.

  • @Hippie_King15
    @Hippie_King15 Рік тому +1

    Random comment for one of the UA-camrs that I always like.

  • @ElizaBeth-ng3pu
    @ElizaBeth-ng3pu Рік тому +5

    This is not a rivalry… But I would be fascinated to hear more about the Viking Thing.

    • @pxpq
      @pxpq Рік тому +3

      What is it then?

    • @ElizaBeth-ng3pu
      @ElizaBeth-ng3pu Рік тому

      @@pxpq Viking Thing was their yearly gathering to judge cases, trade, see friends and generally party… but the structure and culture involved is really interesting

    • @ntalikerman1
      @ntalikerman1 Рік тому

      @@ElizaBeth-ng3pu What pxpq is trying to say is that if this is not a rivalry what is it?
      We are in the brink of war.

    • @pxpq
      @pxpq Рік тому

      @@ElizaBeth-ng3pu no i mean what is it if not a rivalry?

    • @ElizaBeth-ng3pu
      @ElizaBeth-ng3pu Рік тому

      @@pxpq OH! Wait. Cross communication.
      In the video, he said something to the effect of: if you want to hear about other rivalries, comment down below… My response meant: the subject that I am going to suggest, is not a rivalry, but I would be interested in learning about…
      I did not mean to infer that the hostilities that are happening between Pakistan and India was not a rivalry. That is sure what it looked like tho’

  • @vasilisantonopoulos9326
    @vasilisantonopoulos9326 Рік тому +3

    Suspiciously oversimplified presentation leading to the deception that there is a conflict where both sides have valid points, which obviously is in favor of the offender. Historically the accuracy is only based on the dates where the actual states of Hellas or Turkey have been established with their current names almost completely ignoring that we are not talking about states only but nations that have thousands years of history even in the case of Turkey. On the actual facts of the current issues you seem to focus on the status of the islands based on the treaty of Lausagne. For one thing the islands of Eastern Aegean were not "given" to Hellas by the treaty, but they were rather liberated by the Greek Navy ten years earlier along with Imvros and Tenedos right of the straits. So if you want to use the expression islands given, you should use it for those islands that were under Hellenic control at that time and were given to Turkey by the treaty. As for the rest of the islands ( Dodecanysa excluded), only their status was defined. These fall under two categories , those in the north and those in the middle of the Aegean. Originally in the treaty the status was prohibiting fortification and naval bases, but clearly stated the existence of sufficient military presence of garrison to offer the necessary defense. Later in 1936 in the treatyunder Turkey"s request the status of the islands ot North Aegean changed without any clauses, as at that time Turkey wanted to militarize the straits and was only too happy if Hellas did the same. As for the Dodecanysa it is not a matter between Hellas and Turkey, since the islands were returned to Hellas by Italy by the treaty of Paris in 1947 as part of retribution for the WWII , where Hellas was on the winning side, Italy on the loosing and Turkey was absent from the treaty, as she was absent from the war. Overstating also the distance of the islands from the Ionian coast, is just ridiculous as this is case for all borders land or maritime, all over the world. One side belongs to one state , the other to the other state and each have the right to do as they please irrespective of the distance between them. The argument becomes even more ridiculous if you look at Thrace where there is the largest military concentration in Europe on both sides, and there only a medium sized river between them. You completely "forgot" to mention that the side, that clearly violated the treaty is Turkey, refusing to follow the terms for the islands of Imvros and Tenedos, and expelling at least twice the Greek occupants of Instanbul ( Their number was 150000 at that time, and less than 5000 now)The twelve miles that Turkey disputes, is a right given to Hellas under the international law, in this case Turkey is at least questionable on two fronts. First Turkey has defined its maritime borders in the Black sea based on the UNCLOS treaty but refuses to do the same with Hellas in the Aegean, and the second is that Turkey has issued a casus beli if Hellas exercises its legal rights. If you have done your homework, you would have seen that even the threat of war is illegal under the UN constitution. As for Cyprus I see that you neglected to say that the Turkish invasion was condemned by the UN, and the almost 50 years occupation was also condemned several times with constant request for the withdrawal of the illegal forces. You have also "neglected " to mention the fact that Turkey illegally signed a maritime agreement with Libya over the Hellenic islands, that Turkey illegally proceeded on research and drilling in Cypriot maritime space, and wanted to do the same in the Hellenic side. That Turkey organized a state directed invasion of 50000 illegal refugees in 1920, and continues to do the same in smaller numbers on daily basis. That Turkey not only violates the Hellenic airspace on daily basis, but also overpasses the islands themselves. That Turkey not only said that they will do what needs to be done, but Erdogan himself threatened to come one night like the coward he is , and promised to send ballistic missiles to bomb Athens. Overall very poor effort, almost on the brink of propaganda...

  • @Cafe1981
    @Cafe1981 4 дні тому

    If anyone is willing to pay attention, the comments from both Turks and Greeks suggest there isn't actual hatred to speak of. I wish third and fourth parties (UK, USA) would respect that fact and let us neighbors figure out what kind of relationship we want to build moving forward. You don't get to tell us how we feel about our Greek brothers and vice versa.

  • @papadstavros
    @papadstavros Рік тому +1

    Well idk about the turks but for the greeks its 🌌generational trauma from the genocides🌌

  • @giannisfragos722
    @giannisfragos722 Рік тому +6

    Love your content and your channel can you talk about Greece or the Balkans during the cold war as it is an interesting topic especially in a place like the Balkans