Germany: Will you be with me in the war? Turkey: *flashback "First World War comes to mind"* United Kingdom: Can you help stop the Germans with us? Turkey: *flashback "Arab revolts, the War of Independence comes to mind"* Turkey: NO
@@billygreeky We've been calling it Istanbul for 100 years. Grow up. And I don't understand why you Greeks are offended by it. The name "Istanbul" also comes from Greek you know that right?
@@erenm.5592 The usual greeks crying about istanbul being turkish Europe doesn't have any claims on america, yet the citizens of greek keep crying about history
@@billygreeky I want to answer you with a song by "The Four Lads" *ISTANBUL (IS NOT CONSTANTINOPEL)* Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night Every gal in Constantinople Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople So if you've a date in Constantinople She'll be waiting in Istanbul Even old New York was once New Amsterdam Why they changed it I can't say People just liked it better that way So take me back to Constantinople No, you can't go back to Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks Istanbul (Istanbul) Istanbul (Istanbul) Even old New York was once New Amsterdam Why they changed it I can't say People just liked it better that way Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks So take me back to Constantinople No, you can't go back to Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks Istanbul!!
Also Turkey had good relations with Greece. Yep you read that correctly. Greece being invaded by Italy made Bulgaria interested in reclaiming lost territory in Macedonia, but Turkey pretty much warned Bulgaria it would intervene and halted Bulgaria's war effort before it started. Eventually when Germany was about to intervene in the Balkans, Turkey was left with little choice but to back down not wanting to provoke Germany. Yet, even the fact they at least tried to stop Bulgaria from attacking us was something. Goes to show that nation relations are ever changing and we can be brothers with the Turks, no matter what our past or our governments have to say about that
I'm a Turk and i had great friends from Greece. I really wanna see Greece with my own eyes one day. Beautiful country. Beautiful people. Much love from Turkey
@@udontknowmyname8714 I know great people from Turkey, too. I want to visit your country as well. Especially Istanbul and perhaps Cappadocia, too. Greetings brother
We Turks and Greeks, had been and are brothers, first and foremost for being neighbours for centuries Mike. No matter what the brainwashed says otherwise. The interests of other nations have hindered us to live in peace, but there were the instances, such as this one you mentioned, the brotherhood prevailed. And it shall again, but without those hard times. Peace, brother. Greetings from İstanbul.
Napoleon: Let's invade Russia! Winter: Lemme stop you right there Hitler: Let's invade Russia, don't pack Winter clothes, we'll be fine! Winter: *am I a joke to you?*
Winston Churchill: Turkey, you must absolutely help us! Turkey: weren’t you the guy twenty years ago who planned the Gallipoli campaign to invade our country?
@Dod o They almost erased Ottomans from the history. Have you ever checked the Treaty of Sevres? It aimed to drove out Turks from Anatolia where they lived and ruled for 1000 years. It still remains as a serious trauma in Turkish psyche. Caused huge distrust against others. A regular Turkish citizen to this day believes that other countries still wants to carve up the motherland if they had the chance. And it is sadly true in case of Greece, USA, Israel, Russia, and Europe etc.... Because they support separatist Kurdish communist partisans, which are terrorist organisations which caused the death of thousands of civilians for decades in Turkey. Also, the British was the spearhead of the anti-Turk propaganda machine which aimed to change the public opinion on Turks around the Europe. I read it in a Swedish report about the history of anti-Turkism in Europe.
In short, his actual wording is that if you win without resistance, then you have peak skill. Using intimidation with actual might is key to achieving this, but Turkey didn't have that opportunity per se.
Turkey's reasons for staying out of the war are completely sensible. Imagine that you're a a relatively minor Euro/Asian power still recovering from a destructive war against the European powers just twenty years earlier and literally a century of mismanagement under the Ottomans and later Young Turks. Your economy has been hit hard by the Great Depression, your military is still largely using technology from WWI and the 1920s, with few tanks, planes, anti-aircraft weapons, modern warships, and almost no industrial capacity to produce weaponry on a large scale. Then, add to that the shock of watching the destruction of Guernica by the Luftwaffe in Spain, the brutality of the Japanese invasion of China, the devastation brought on by Mussolini's invasion of Abyssinia. And this isn't even the main show. This is only a fraction of the power of the Axis powers. 1939 rolls around, and you awkwardly sit there and watch as Hitler invades Poland. And not just invades, he absolutely annihilates Poland, with the Wehrmacht destroying entire Polish divisions despite their spirited resistance, with the Luftwaffe wiping entire cities off the map, the refugees are fleeing, everything is on fire. And before you know it, the Nazis are now scorching their way through Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Yugoslavia, Greece. France, your main ally on continental Europe, and the biggest powers in the world is toppled in like a month by the Nazis. Do you seriously think you'll be doing your people ANY favors by joining the war just because Britain, a country who you're not even sure how much you really like, wants you to join? Best case scenario is that you are rapidly defeated and maybe liberated God knows when. And you're not even sure if that's a best case scenario, because while you may want Britain, France and potentially America to come kick the Nazis out, you know more than likely, it's the Soviets who'll "liberate" you. And you saw pretty clearly what Soviet "liberation" looks like in Eastern Poland and Finland. Even if, by some miracle you hold your own and make it to the end of the war, your economy is destroyed, your country has been bombed to shit, and for what? So you can get some holdings in the Middle East and Balkans that you didn't even really want? The cost benefit analysis simply did not favor war.
Excellent analysis and summary. Not even the majority of Turkish people today are capable of understanding the points you have made and some are still pining after the "missed opportunity" of grabbing back the Aegean islands, parts of the Balkans and Middle East. All sensible people know that they're enjoying a phantasy version of history as Turkey would very likely end up with considerable territorial loss, regardless of which major power would be the "liberator". In the case of Soviets bringing "liberation", it would probably be parts of Eastern Turkey and the Straits, and in the case of the Allies, southeastern parts, possibly the Aegean coast and naturally the Straits. The economic hardships suffered by Turkish people during WW2 years and still remembered by the old generation and very often blamed on the leaders of that period, would simply be nothing compared with the type of suffering either the Axis or the Soviet sides would inflict on the country, had Turkey joined the war willingly or otherwise.
@Lil Rob There is a thin line in being critical and dumb and you are currently doing the latter. Turkey joining the Axis would mean one more enemy to fight for the Allies and vice versa. For the Axis, Turkey meant easy access to Caucauses and the support of the Turkic people inside USSR as well as a route to the Mesopotamia which was oil rich. For the Allies, Turkey meant a buffer zone between the Axis and the Allied colonies, a new frontier which was barely protected by the Italians and led straight into the heart of the German warmachine. The ingenius politicians and the strategists of that era didn't ask for Turkish support just because they found the Turkish culture exotic and then 100 years later a guy named Lil Rob comes and says that Turkey would have made no difference in the light of professional views. Well done.
@Lil Rob As I've stated, there is a thin line between making a joke and sounding outright stupid. Your joke is making nobody laugh thereffore the only other reason for that statement to exist would be to either make a serious remark or just sound idiotic. Just do not apology to me, stand behind your words if you mean them.
@Broman You dangerously underestimate what it means to fight on another frontline. That would mean less Soviet focus on Germans and new defensive war for the Britain for the Axis while it means protection of the British middle east and the perfect place for the U.S. counterattack for the allies.
@Broman I typed and deleteed two paragraphs worth of words to explain you why Turkey could simply change the outcome but I noticed that I don't have time to spare for an uncultured swine who's arguement is nothing more than "no lmao"
*Turkey stays neutral, trades, earns a lot of money, gets a lot better with all of their companies and economy, doesnt even lose a single soldier or ammo, wins a world war.* Stonks📈
This title should be "How Turkey Pulled the Biggest Pro Gamer Move of 1945" Edit: I ain't checked this comment since I posted it and damn, this was just a joke, I don't know anything about this whole Turkey controversy and this was supposed to be non-political, so calm the hell down in the comments.
what? you mention the U.K ? literally 20 years ago(independent war) U.K attacked us and forced to others to attack our lands.They trick the Arabs to betray us.Europe was untrustable and will.
Actually we do have a problem with france and uk. They fucking tried to invade us in ww1 and they did for a 5 years. Thanks to mustapha kemal pasha we started an independence war and won it.
Same with Greece, they tried to stay neutral until our independence was threatened Also thank you guys for threatening Bulgaria when the Italians invaded that was a bro move
@@ihsanekin7777 video alt yazılarını aç ardından alt yazıların sağındaki ayarlardan otomatik çevire tıkla ve dil seç altlarda türkçe bu şekilde oluyor.
switzerland and turkey: stays neutral and wins a world war switzerland and turkey: finally a worthy opponent! our battle will be legendary! the battle: staring contest
@@frens_till_the_end well then dont try to kill turkish villagers or u get fucked by them. its easy if u start a war u dont have the right of the saying that its genocide
2:50 Makes me wonder if the US/UK would keep that promise, if the USSR did actually invade Turkey for some reason after Germany fell. The UK sure left Poland to fall after the Soviets invaded them.
Very simple Turkey never harmed Germans not 1 single civilian. Turkey saved many Jews as possible in ww2 and of course also before that time. Turks did well to stay out of war. Germans was not aiming to attack Turkey!
Im a Turk and this is true we saved all jews from hitler and he want that Turkey join the war but Turkey said no when Hitler take a ship with Turkey flag and attacked Russia and this not work
@@patrickhennig1332 We didn't give a fuck their pathetic war. We had different problems and we stayed neutral. And we declared war on Germany because It was a precondition to join U.N. So it is just for the sake of formality.
Germany: **on the brink of collapse** Turkey: **declares war on Germany** Germany: **collapses** Turkey: **wins ww2 without losing a single soldier** Also Turkey: Sometimes my genuis is...it can be frightening.
Switzerland: Hey bro are you gonna join the war? Turkey: Nah! I am not in mood today! Switzerland: Did you just join the war!! Turkey: I already won dude! Switzerland: wait a minute what the F...!
@@azertyklavyeyiqwertykullan1339 nah a typically turkish cultural gesture which expresses misbelieve, distrust, challenge, opposition or disobedience. nah occurs when someone puts his/her thumb between forefinger and middle finger and the nahhed fist is shown to the person at whom it is aimed. a more brutal version of the gesture exists, by creating a "slash" like sound after turning the nahhed fist with an immediate forward motion, in order that the nahhed wrist hits the other hand's palm. literally nah means "like the hell it is Hahahahahaha
He was saying ''You declare war on Germany we got your back with our armored units and Air force'' At Cairo Conference Churchill said this to İnönü next to Roosevelt. İnönü looked at Churchill and asked ''How many of your forces in Middle East protecting you from getting attacked by Germans right now?'' Churchill said ''10 Squadrons of Royal Air Force'' İnönü smiled and answered ''10 squadron of Royal Air Force protecting you right now but you promising me just 2 squadrons of your air force..'' Roosevelt listening them laughed and told Churchill ''He got you good Winston.'' After the Cairo Conference Roosevelt became pro-neutral on Turkey's stance.
@Adrian Shephard Yeah tell them to the anzacs. Im sure they have a "Hugeeee" love for britain and their "smart" policies. Bro churchill was worse than hitler. Even the british people feel bad and stand against churchill. He forced people to join the war against turkey. U can call this smart. Also Nazi's are calling hitler smart because he took the financial control from the jews. Very smart strategy huh!
@@yurichtube1162 Fachist. Whit what claim do you speak? Your race? We r in 21st century. Damn take ur racist and religious ideas and go back to middle age. Every citizen of Turkey is a Turkish, like every citizen of Germany is German and every citizen of İran is İranian. Do not dare to speak about discrimination. You, yourselves are dividing people by your race. Just fockin stop this early age idea!
Ismet inonu was a kurdish citizen of Turkey nevertheles he became president of turkey What can you say about most of turkish leaders has kurdish descandent. Is there racism?
@Rapstick turks are from the mongols, and iranians came from Europe. They should go to Mongolia/Europe and reclaim their real countries. The Kurds are exactly where they need to be.
@@nevize6660 my bad lol. take it easy. but argentina covering asses of thousands of nazis, at the same time seem like joining the allies was a slick move. they had good sense of humour for sure.
@Rick Stuifzand History changed a lot, in every country they talk from a different point of view. I don't like to give my opinion of what should have been done. Maybe under the circumstances, it would 've been better staying neutral. Maybe it could indeed like you said that Turks didn't have the balls after ww1 to fight for the innocent. Even though they would lose. But things that every country confirm, I give my opinion about. And this is such as this generous behavior of the people back then in Turkey.
@Rick 1974 war is war there is nothing like germans are bad or english are good, they are fighting for some reason (honour,econo my etc.) and turkey doesnt risk himself if there was no turkish interest. even the war continious hundred years
Post WW1: “Yo let’s break up the Ottoman Empire” Europe during WW2: “Hey Turkey, wanna help us out?” Turkey: “Sure, I’m not gonna send any troops tho 😏”
I love every one of your videos... but I just wanted to especially note how your attention to tiny details is truly impressive. There aren't too many non-Turks who would be aware that every government office would have a portrait of Ataturk on the wall.
@Musta Krackish " War is murder unless it is done to save your homeland." Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Why would you join a war that doesn't even your problem? To help Europeans?
That's the most perfect summary of the war in the East I've ever seen. "The Invasion went pretty well" "Then less well" "Then pretty badly" Put this with the images as gifs into schoolbooks!
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk literally definition of great man and legendary leader all around. Some humans really special. Win the war, Build democracy and modernized country, Give womans and everybody freedom of choice, like todays modern human rights. And make it all this 100 years ago! (Turkey among first nations for giving womans equal rights and freedom of choice). it's really impressive. What a founder!
Actually a little bit like Sweden that could have used the Napoleonic wars to retake Finland and once again rise to be a major power but instead seems to have decided that Napoleon was worse and sided with Russia insted of fighting it. The resulting peace treaty kept Sweden away from the world wars. Although there seems to be a lot of people that doesn't like it since we didn't get to suffer as much as they did. Before this long time of peace Sweden fought a lot of wars and we did help in kicking out Napoleon, we fought a corrupt catholic church so I think that maybe we had done our fair share of fighting.
Sounds like the Turks were some of the smartest players in the world. Little to contribute, little to gain, potentially a lot to lose, came out without suffering a German or Soviet invasion.
‘As you probably know, the invasion went really well, then less well, then pretty badly’ Bruh the war on the eastern front during ww2 from axis’ perspective summarised in one sentence.
“But as long as a nation's life is not endangered, war is a murder. " - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Fact: 9 months (nearly) after Atatürk’s death, the war that he predicted before he died started. Which was WW2. He was a great human being,leader,solider and a president. Rest In Peace Atatürk❤️
@@sheminn460 i wanted to swear you but you cant even understand the peace at home refferance. thanks to father of turks for he made the istiklal courts so we dealing less ignorants like you. you cant even able to understend his revolutions and your asses still burns after 100 years because of that. all beside i should talk like you comars understand: if you dont like it YALLAH ARABISTANA
@@fatiherik6646 I would think most of the contribution would go to the current government in that. If you use religion as a tool, you lose much more religious people than you would by Atheists.
My late grandfather always hated İnönü. Because he made them go trough a rough time. But I can't see another way out of this and for the country's well being, this was the best solution I can see.
Almost everyone in Turkey agrees that Inonu's best accomplishment was to keep Turkey out of WW2, regardless of whether they like or hate him. And he was involved in Turkish politics until 1970s
@@georgeevangel4292 you are either misinformed or just simply prefer to ignore facts. Disregarding your aspirations to stir up a comment fight, know that Ataturk was a mere lieutenant colonel during 1915. That means even if you consider events of 1915 an organized genocide against armenians, you can not argue that somehow AAtaturk played a role in it. That is all I wanted to say. This is youtube so I should not try to teach history to you on this platform. Go on and a have a nice day.
@@georgeevangel4292 you told that Ataturk slaughtered more than a million people living in Turkey. That is simply a lie. The first sentence on this coment cannot be proven in any shape or form so you are again either ignorant or manipulative. If I might choose your course of reasoning I might ask you what happened to Muslims living in the Balkans that amounted to more than a million before the Balkan Wars.
@@georgeevangel4292 If this is too difficult to understand for you, here is my argument again: Even if you consider the turkification of the anatolian peninsula through several(some really unfortunate) events a genocide, it had nothing to do with Ataturk. It is like blaming Holocaust on Kaiser Wilhelm II . So please know your facts and educate yourself. Goodbye!
@@cagatayaksu6549 OK OK It was your Young Turks but Turks just the same Attaturk did influence Hitler by persecuting Armenian,Greek, Assyrian and Arab Christians
I love that you went to trouble of putting a picture of Ataturk behind Inonu everytime he appeared. :D Also the comment section is humour at a gold level.
@@mlg_kaju2321 I didn't say anything about power. I said Turkey didn't take any land. Are you confused because I surely am, but not for the reasons you may be.
If I could, I would gladly give my life for him to come back to life, no joke.
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Great video! It would also be worth to mention that Hatay province (a French mandate) was returned back to Turkey in 1939 for Turkey to stay neutral and not to join Germany.
There is another reason that you missed out. An earthquake struck Turkey's eastern Erzincan Province at 1:57:23 a.m. on 27 December 1939 local time with a moment magnitude of 7.8. The earthquake was the most severe natural loss of life in Turkey in the 20th century, with 32,968 dead, and some 100,000 injured.
After war, someday a kid said to İsmet İnönü: "You left us as hungry." İsmet İnönü said: "Yes, I left you as hungry. But I did not leave you as fatherless." Some people blames Inonu (good friend of founder ataturk, 2nd president after he died) at that time and even now, but this is the best he can do. At 1938 founder Ataturk was dead. That also peaked the pressure. This vldeo is very very short version of the story. Regardless of we didn't fight, there was suffer.
@@mossfen583 dude, that kid in every presentation group also stands up at the last day with rest of the group. as a turkish person, i can say we did nothing (except giving asylum to some askhenazi people who could run away) and i'm proud of that. fighting in that war would be one of the stupidest thing in our history.
@@mossfen583 Nah as a Turkish person I wouldn't say we had the spirit to Declare war on Germany. We had no problem with them. It was merely about international pressure and it was only a political move that only stayed on paper ( Turkey did not participate in the war).
You could have added the part where Hitler offered the captured Aegean Islands and other lost lands of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans to İsmet İnönü in order to convince them to join the war.
Ismet inonu was an ottoman army officer just like ataturk and they saw all the shits happened in balkan wars, ww1 and independence war. So they knew exactly what they shouldnt do
why would the turkish government want to bring back an empire that had a carppy economy and just a bad country in itself? the technology sucked, industry was weak and took a long time to catch up with newer technologies
Hello A. Switzerland controlled several train tunnels that connected Germany and Italy, and were not shy about showing how they had rigged them to exploded the second they were attacked. B. Nazi sympathizers inside Switzerland were used as go betweens to import materials to the blockaded German economy
Thanks for Ismet Pasha's diplomatic skills. He is a great diplomat as well as a commander. Managing both sites and convince to not to join war is a big thing. After Ataturk dies he solve our last independent problems with not joining to WW2 fight. Respect Ismet Inonu.
he also sold out Azerbaijani political refugees and gave them away to Stalin to murder them Azerbaijani heavily dislikes Inönü + he is a disgrace to Mustafa Kemal's legacy
Please make videos about this Why people in Madagascar are related to present day Indonesian people? Why did Japan colonize Korea? How did Portugal colonize Macau? Why Sri Lanka isn't part of India? Why did Bangladesh separate itself from Pakistan? Why did British fail to colonize Nepal?
Japan colonized Korea because they wanted resources, Sri Lanka isn’t part of India for cultural differences, And the British never got Nepal because it was hard to conquer the mountainous land.
If ı have to say as a Turk, we had suffered heavy losses by fighting on many fronts in the ww1. Even though we saved our lands from occupation, we were under heavy debt because Germany lost. The country was not economically well. Besides, the ottoman was demolished and the new secular state had just been established(we are grateful to Atatürk). With such promlems in the country, the last thing we needed was another war. We would had no benefit in this.
"Topraklarımızı işgalden kurtarmamıza rağmen" Halep nerde? Musul, Kerkük Süleymaniye, Bağdat nerde? Hicaz, Lübnan Kudüs, Ürdün nerde? Batum nerde Türk olduğunu biliyorum bize okulda hep kurtuluş savaşının olağanüstü başarılı olduğunu anlatırlar ama kurtuluş savaşı dediğimiz şey Türk-Yunan savaşından başka bir şey değil. Doğu ve güney Anadoludaki toprakları kurtaranlar kuvayı milliye yani partizanlardı ve tabi kazım paşanın 15. Kolordusu. Demek istediğim, Topraklarımızı işgalden kurtaramadık ama Milletimizi berbat bir felakete sürüklenmekten kurtardık
@@Inedow_The_Source_of_Racism yeah maybe but luck really isnt something to rely on when the matters are such serious things, it would have most likely been terrible for us
Germany: Will you be with me in the war?
Turkey: *flashback "First World War comes to mind"*
United Kingdom: Can you help stop the Germans with us?
Turkey: *flashback "Arab revolts, the War of Independence comes to mind"*
Turkey: NO
This is probably the most accurate comment.
I imagine that NO with the bugs bunny meme xD
Turks were betrayed by Arabs and jew
they didn't want to come up against the Australians again who whipped their ass at Beersheba
@@garyp4374 I like Australia. They fought bravely and friendly in the Battle of Gallipoli, the last war of the gentlemen.
Germany : yo, Turkey, wanna join the great war with me?
Turkey : last time you said that, i almost lost Istanbul
Not only İstanbul, was almost entire of the country.
Clearly more then half
@@billygreeky We've been calling it Istanbul for 100 years. Grow up. And I don't understand why you Greeks are offended by it. The name "Istanbul" also comes from Greek you know that right?
@@erenm.5592 The usual greeks crying about istanbul being turkish
Europe doesn't have any claims on america, yet the citizens of greek keep crying about history
@@billygreeky
I want to answer you with a song by "The Four Lads"
*ISTANBUL (IS NOT CONSTANTINOPEL)*
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way
So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
Istanbul (Istanbul)
Istanbul (Istanbul)
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
Istanbul!!
Churchill: "If we send our forces to Gallipoli..."
Allies: *"Ah shit, here we go again"*
"We generally try to avoid high casualties. It makes the people upset during Breakfast."
This comment is so outrageously funny
I literally LOL'ed.
@@kayacenk4164 Of course! Because building a wall and committing genocide are exactly the same thing. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF?????????
Stop making fun of me it was just a mistake
Also Turkey had good relations with Greece. Yep you read that correctly. Greece being invaded by Italy made Bulgaria interested in reclaiming lost territory in Macedonia, but Turkey pretty much warned Bulgaria it would intervene and halted Bulgaria's war effort before it started. Eventually when Germany was about to intervene in the Balkans, Turkey was left with little choice but to back down not wanting to provoke Germany. Yet, even the fact they at least tried to stop Bulgaria from attacking us was something.
Goes to show that nation relations are ever changing and we can be brothers with the Turks, no matter what our past or our governments have to say about that
I'm a Turk and i had great friends from Greece. I really wanna see Greece with my own eyes one day. Beautiful country. Beautiful people. Much love from Turkey
@@udontknowmyname8714 I know great people from Turkey, too. I want to visit your country as well. Especially Istanbul and perhaps Cappadocia, too. Greetings brother
We Turks and Greeks, had been and are brothers, first and foremost for being neighbours for centuries Mike. No matter what the brainwashed says otherwise. The interests of other nations have hindered us to live in peace, but there were the instances, such as this one you mentioned, the brotherhood prevailed. And it shall again, but without those hard times.
Peace, brother.
Greetings from İstanbul.
Greeks and Turks are siblings who fight eachother non-stop but also knows how to protect eachother from bigger badder people.
@@CrawLBoss lol no. They are not
Switzerland : Bro check this out *Stays Neutral*
Turkey : Yooooooo I'll do the same but with winning the war
Halito - Akod ahahaha che cazzo 🤣🤣
and I'll spoil my country's economy as much as I fight
lmao
Amuricans be like
As Turkey we fought so hard to win the war. If we didnt intervene germans would enter moscow.
Turkey: Wins a war with staying natural.
Switzerland: *Wait what*
That's my tactic!
@Rizeli Caner İsviçrenin söylemesi gereken buydu onu yazdım
I m Turkey
@@Albedo-gm8ny Im turkey 'Ben türkiyeyim/Ben hindiyim' demek xd
eğer ben türküm demek istiyorsan 'Im turkish/Im from turkey' diyebilirsin
@@himawari._ haha
2:17-2:20 Three seconds is all it takes to describe German-Soviet War.
vaguely remember it from bill wurtz or something
One of the best history channels on UA-cam.
*W-I-N-T-E-R*
Napoleon: Let's invade Russia!
Winter: Lemme stop you right there
Hitler: Let's invade Russia, don't pack Winter clothes, we'll be fine!
Winter: *am I a joke to you?*
How propoganda catched people minds. Not german soviet, but axis + ss soldiers from almost all europe vs soviets.
Turkey declares war
5 minutes after:
Commander : Pasha we won
Pasha : yes
Switzerland : bruh
Not funny at first then i saw your nickname lol
@tgrplt No. Generals are still called as pasha in military and in ww2 ismet inönü called as ismet pasha
@@doom498 i dont think generals are called as pashas in Turkish army
@@johnmorgann Soldiers and other personals sometimes still says pasha to generals
@@doom498 I’m sure that they don’t call generals as pasha after 1923 Ataturk has banned the word pasha
Winston Churchill: Turkey, you must absolutely help us!
Turkey: weren’t you the guy twenty years ago who planned the Gallipoli campaign to invade our country?
@Dod o After England refused the Ottoman's request to join the Allies.
I wish we had stayed neutral anyway.
*_cries in Turkish_*
@Dod o they probs didnt want them as an ally since they were exploiting them for a century. Also cuz of islam
@Dod o they saved the ottomans from the russians numeorus times because they wanted to keep a weak ottoman empire that they could exploit.
@Dod o They almost erased Ottomans from the history. Have you ever checked the Treaty of Sevres? It aimed to drove out Turks from Anatolia where they lived and ruled for 1000 years. It still remains as a serious trauma in Turkish psyche. Caused huge distrust against others. A regular Turkish citizen to this day believes that other countries still wants to carve up the motherland if they had the chance. And it is sadly true in case of Greece, USA, Israel, Russia, and Europe etc.... Because they support separatist Kurdish communist partisans, which are terrorist organisations which caused the death of thousands of civilians for decades in Turkey.
Also, the British was the spearhead of the anti-Turk propaganda machine which aimed to change the public opinion on Turks around the Europe. I read it in a Swedish report about the history of anti-Turkism in Europe.
@@dogus972 Turks didn't live nor rule in Anatolia for a 1000 years though.
"To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the peak of skill. To win without fighting is the peak of skill." - Sun Tzu
Mustafa Kemal: WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!
Thx google search
@@Toyhub2345 You dumb
In short, his actual wording is that if you win without resistance, then you have peak skill. Using intimidation with actual might is key to achieving this, but Turkey didn't have that opportunity per se.
“I like Turks” - Sun Tzu
Art of war
Turkey's reasons for staying out of the war are completely sensible. Imagine that you're a a relatively minor Euro/Asian power still recovering from a destructive war against the European powers just twenty years earlier and literally a century of mismanagement under the Ottomans and later Young Turks. Your economy has been hit hard by the Great Depression, your military is still largely using technology from WWI and the 1920s, with few tanks, planes, anti-aircraft weapons, modern warships, and almost no industrial capacity to produce weaponry on a large scale.
Then, add to that the shock of watching the destruction of Guernica by the Luftwaffe in Spain, the brutality of the Japanese invasion of China, the devastation brought on by Mussolini's invasion of Abyssinia. And this isn't even the main show. This is only a fraction of the power of the Axis powers. 1939 rolls around, and you awkwardly sit there and watch as Hitler invades Poland. And not just invades, he absolutely annihilates Poland, with the Wehrmacht destroying entire Polish divisions despite their spirited resistance, with the Luftwaffe wiping entire cities off the map, the refugees are fleeing, everything is on fire. And before you know it, the Nazis are now scorching their way through Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Yugoslavia, Greece. France, your main ally on continental Europe, and the biggest powers in the world is toppled in like a month by the Nazis.
Do you seriously think you'll be doing your people ANY favors by joining the war just because Britain, a country who you're not even sure how much you really like, wants you to join? Best case scenario is that you are rapidly defeated and maybe liberated God knows when. And you're not even sure if that's a best case scenario, because while you may want Britain, France and potentially America to come kick the Nazis out, you know more than likely, it's the Soviets who'll "liberate" you. And you saw pretty clearly what Soviet "liberation" looks like in Eastern Poland and Finland. Even if, by some miracle you hold your own and make it to the end of the war, your economy is destroyed, your country has been bombed to shit, and for what? So you can get some holdings in the Middle East and Balkans that you didn't even really want?
The cost benefit analysis simply did not favor war.
Great post!
You have a ton of great points! Good job.
Well said Al Mamluke.
Excellent analysis and summary. Not even the majority of Turkish people today are capable of understanding the points you have made and some are still pining after the "missed opportunity" of grabbing back the Aegean islands, parts of the Balkans and Middle East. All sensible people know that they're enjoying a phantasy version of history as Turkey would very likely end up with considerable territorial loss, regardless of which major power would be the "liberator". In the case of Soviets bringing "liberation", it would probably be parts of Eastern Turkey and the Straits, and in the case of the Allies, southeastern parts, possibly the Aegean coast and naturally the Straits. The economic hardships suffered by Turkish people during WW2 years and still remembered by the old generation and very often blamed on the leaders of that period, would simply be nothing compared with the type of suffering either the Axis or the Soviet sides would inflict on the country, had Turkey joined the war willingly or otherwise.
This is a perfect reason why Turkey never joined the war
All of Europe: **is at war**
Turkey and Switzerland: *Popcorn*
Dont forget belgium... oh wait. Well netherla....oh wait. Finland...oh wait. Lichtenstien....oh wait...spain... oh wait.
Hahahahahhaha
@@davidtownsend6092 What about Luxembourg?
“Nope”
As a turk born and raised in switzerland this is pretty funny 😂
Don't forget sweden.
Germany: is losing
Türkiye: declares war
Germany: loses
Türkiye: *no need to thank me*
Fixed Turkey to Türkiye because international name change
@@Oussama-q4l ironic
@@Oussama-q4l that comment was 1 month ago tho
@@Oussama-q4l lol
Me every time in HOI4
But we all know if Panama didnt joined the war we all was speaking German
Other countries: Why you're not joining the war?
Turkey: "I missed the part where that's my problem"
War is profitable tho. If turkey fought, they would have earned much.
@Lil Rob There is a thin line in being critical and dumb and you are currently doing the latter. Turkey joining the Axis would mean one more enemy to fight for the Allies and vice versa. For the Axis, Turkey meant easy access to Caucauses and the support of the Turkic people inside USSR as well as a route to the Mesopotamia which was oil rich. For the Allies, Turkey meant a buffer zone between the Axis and the Allied colonies, a new frontier which was barely protected by the Italians and led straight into the heart of the German warmachine.
The ingenius politicians and the strategists of that era didn't ask for Turkish support just because they found the Turkish culture exotic and then 100 years later a guy named Lil Rob comes and says that Turkey would have made no difference in the light of professional views. Well done.
@Lil Rob As I've stated, there is a thin line between making a joke and sounding outright stupid. Your joke is making nobody laugh thereffore the only other reason for that statement to exist would be to either make a serious remark or just sound idiotic. Just do not apology to me, stand behind your words if you mean them.
@Broman You dangerously underestimate what it means to fight on another frontline. That would mean less Soviet focus on Germans and new defensive war for the Britain for the Axis while it means protection of the British middle east and the perfect place for the U.S. counterattack for the allies.
@Broman I typed and deleteed two paragraphs worth of words to explain you why Turkey could simply change the outcome but I noticed that I don't have time to spare for an uncultured swine who's arguement is nothing more than "no lmao"
*Turkey stays neutral, trades, earns a lot of money, gets a lot better with all of their companies and economy, doesnt even lose a single soldier or ammo, wins a world war.*
Stonks📈
But they spend all their money to military instead 5 year development plan
Not stonks
@@log-arasyldrm2419 D:
Actually economically, turkey is one of the most damaged in ww2
@@tiadalma_yeah, but still
There aint no point in trying to find sense in a meme eh?
@@aspacyboi2837 yed i just wanted to say np with your comment
Turkey: wins a war while staying neutral
Switzerland: wait is that legal ?
Natural 😂🤣🤣
Turkey: "I will make it legal."
The perfect example of "Having your cake and eating it too"
The key to ultimate warfare is neutrality. Let them kill each other off. So your the only one left and only have to mop up the left overs.
aynı espriyi 4 kere daha kopi peyst eyleyin daha komik olur.
Turkey: Switzerland can you send me the Homework?
Switzerland: Ok bro but change it a lil bit
The Homework:
German Ottoman Wtf is German Ottoman bro
@@i.k.9467 Its beautiful
Dadadsfssaddasaas
@@neverluckym8728 Sweden was part of the war so i think Switzerland is more appropriate
sweden copied switzerlands homework too btw(just selled iron to nazis)
This title should be "How Turkey Pulled the Biggest Pro Gamer Move of 1945"
Edit: I ain't checked this comment since I posted it and damn, this was just a joke, I don't know anything about this whole Turkey controversy and this was supposed to be non-political, so calm the hell down in the comments.
We did 360 no scope before it was cool man! lol
Or... How horrible the government in Turkey are to this day.!
@uh wot why do you have to ruin the comments section?
@@melihk1040 They have holy sites of Islam too
Jeff Moore i agree with you
Turkey didnt joint the war because it simply was not their problem. They had no problems with gemans but also no problems with France und UK.
no we hate everytimes france and uk only fact is in ww2 times we not ready to war.
We had problem with UK
we had problem with whole world.
what? you mention the U.K ? literally 20 years ago(independent war) U.K attacked us and forced to others to attack our lands.They trick the Arabs to betray us.Europe was untrustable and will.
Actually we do have a problem with france and uk. They fucking tried to invade us in ww1 and they did for a 5 years. Thanks to mustapha kemal pasha we started an independence war and won it.
Allies : Why aren't you joining the war ?
Turkey : **looks at the mess that Europe is** You see , we're not dumb.
Didnt work good the last time
A broken clock is right twice a day
@@Hotshot2k4 Shut up
@@maxpayne7459 Last time the leaders of Turkey were dumb.
Same with Greece, they tried to stay neutral until our independence was threatened
Also thank you guys for threatening Bulgaria when the Italians invaded that was a bro move
As a Turkish person, I must say that the comment section is full of gems of humour. And this video really is great.
dogan ab ben anlamiyim ingilicce ne diyon soylesene
@@ahmetyusufozbey8231 video çok güzel felan diyor işte boşver sen
@@ahmetyusufozbey8231 yorumlar cok komik fln diyo
Ahmet Yusuf ÖZBEY Türk biri olarak, yorumlar kısmının şakalarla dolu olduğunu söyleyebilirim Ve video çok güzel.
@@frkndl cümle o şekilde de doğru oluyor sadece orada vurgulamak istediği şey farklı oluyor ....
Germany: *dying*
Turkey: *declares war*
Germany: *dies*
Turkey: Looks like my job here is done
Zsushshshahs
ez win L
Man, I luv the way how we handled the situation.
I'd die for turkey
Whipe Of God
Go play some fortnite again and train for the war u fucking terminator
Turkey waits until the war is almost ended and declares war on the losing side.
SNEAK 100 STRATEGY 100
Actually everyone who joined the UN did that.
Kinda like the Italians Changing sides when Germany was losing
like italy
Cowardice +200
@@georgeevangel4292everyone changed side against Germany, to please the new lords of the world the USA.
Turkey: Im gonna do what's called a pro gamer move
World: Did you joined WW2?
Turkey: yesn’t.
Harika cevap bu videoyu Türkçe altyazılı nasıl izleriz bu arada
@@ihsanekin7777 video için hazırlanmış türkçe altyazı yok maalesef
@@ihsanekin7777 gerek yok knk. çok zor deil hebsini dinleyerek de anlarsın.
@@timucintarakc2281 ben are you cola nın bir tık üstü İngilizceye sahibim 😀
@@ihsanekin7777 video alt yazılarını aç ardından alt yazıların sağındaki ayarlardan otomatik çevire tıkla ve dil seç altlarda türkçe bu şekilde oluyor.
switzerland and turkey: stays neutral and wins a world war
switzerland and turkey: finally a worthy opponent!
our battle will be legendary!
the battle: staring contest
that would be lovely😂
"fUCK I BLINKED"
"HA WE WON"
I WAS DRINKING WATER WHEN I READ THIS THE WATER CAME UP FROM MY NOSE
@@avsin21savage kanka turksun de mi , bunu yaziyorsan sen bir turksun moruq , hahahaha , beklemiyordum sesli güldüm aw
@@talhabaz1599 türküm kanka MDMDÖFDÖCLEŞCÖSKMCWKC
@@avsin21savage tamam , seni seviyorum kanka
*_Germany: so we gud?_*
*_Turkey: ye_*
*_A few years later_*
*_Turkey: lol sike_*
Turkey is a back stabbing treacherous nation?
@@BadBoyBobby85 im sorry did you mean Italy ?
uh wot i see you under every comment bitching about Turkey what kind of butthurt are you?
@uh wot thousands of turkish soliders and world s second fastest groving economy is not nothing bro
XD
Turkey after declaring war then Germany surrenders:
"I am not the beginning"
"I am the end"
Turkey be like: "I'll win but never fight, That's the Art of War!"
Sabaton ha
Tabi olum
Sabaton'un sarkisi degil mi bu ?
II. Abdülhamid Han oğlum hadi uyan sabah oldu.
@@josephjoestar4633 sen uyu
"Unless a nation’s life faces peril, war is murder." -Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
So, was the Armenian Genocide, but that's neither here nor there.
@@frens_till_the_end armenian genocide is Ottoman empire's fault not the mustafa kemal
@@frens_till_the_end
Kemal had little to nothing to do with the Armenian Genocide if I‘m informed correctly
@@frens_till_the_end well then dont try to kill turkish villagers or u get fucked by them. its easy if u start a war u dont have the right of the saying that its genocide
2:50
Makes me wonder if the US/UK would keep that promise, if the USSR did actually invade Turkey for some reason after Germany fell. The UK sure left Poland to fall after the Soviets invaded them.
Very simple Turkey never harmed Germans not 1 single civilian.
Turkey saved many Jews as possible in ww2 and of course also before that time. Turks did well to stay out of war. Germans was not aiming to attack Turkey!
True
Im a Turk and this is true we saved all jews from hitler and he want that Turkey join the war but Turkey said no when Hitler take a ship with Turkey flag and attacked Russia and this not work
Conan Connatural Sorry but you are wrong,they were planning attack to Turkey but thanks to their defeats in stalingrad and Libya,it never happened.
@@ramboxd2475 Turkey didn't save all jews. You should check out Struma disaster.
@@serdarcite Of course not all, they took most of turkish jews and also foreign jews who consult to Turkish embassy.
Turkey declares war on germany.
germany litteraly surrenders the next day.
😂😂😂😂
ha ha
@@mertylmaz9549 It was like Turkey just wanted to be on the winner side. :D but at the end Turkey did shit lol
@@patrickhennig1332 We didn't give a fuck their pathetic war. We had different problems and we stayed neutral. And we declared war on Germany because It was a precondition to join U.N. So it is just for the sake of formality.
why you dont try that? cause no balls thats why
Germany: *About to die*
Turkey: *Declares war*
Germany: *Dies*
Turkey: *It ain’t much but it is honest work*
🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
🥒
cool stolen comment bro
we didnt said that? :D
stolen btw
Germany: **on the brink of collapse**
Turkey: **declares war on Germany**
Germany: **collapses**
Turkey: **wins ww2 without losing a single soldier**
Also Turkey: Sometimes my genuis is...it can be frightening.
jeremy clarkson ??
And without killing a single soldier either
THANKS TO İSMET İNÖNÜ
Turkey losed 23.000 soldier
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Soorry
Switzerland: Hey bro are you gonna join the war?
Turkey: Nah! I am not in mood today!
Switzerland: Did you just join the war!!
Turkey: I already won dude!
Switzerland: wait a minute what the F...!
Pog
Champ
Do you know what Nah means in turkish?
@@azertyklavyeyiqwertykullan1339 nah a typically turkish cultural gesture which expresses misbelieve, distrust, challenge, opposition or disobedience. nah occurs when someone puts his/her thumb between forefinger and middle finger and the nahhed fist is shown to the person at whom it is aimed.
a more brutal version of the gesture exists, by creating a "slash" like sound after turning the nahhed fist with an immediate forward motion, in order that the nahhed wrist hits the other hand's palm.
literally nah means "like the hell it is
Hahahahahaha
@@vi8946 impressive
Churchill has a thing for landing armies in Turkey doesn't he?
He was saying ''You declare war on Germany we got your back with our armored units and Air force''
At Cairo Conference Churchill said this to İnönü next to Roosevelt. İnönü looked at Churchill and asked ''How many of your forces in Middle East protecting you from getting attacked by Germans right now?'' Churchill said ''10 Squadrons of Royal Air Force'' İnönü smiled and answered ''10 squadron of Royal Air Force protecting you right now but you promising me just 2 squadrons of your air force..'' Roosevelt listening them laughed and told Churchill ''He got you good Winston.'' After the Cairo Conference Roosevelt became pro-neutral on Turkey's stance.
He probably have a lot of "RETAKE CONSTANTINOPLE" within him.
@@mr.tobacco1708 is this a true story?
@@Cehilizm Aynı olayı babam da bana anlatırdı eskiden, doğru olabilir.
@Adrian Shephard Yeah tell them to the anzacs. Im sure they have a "Hugeeee" love for britain and their "smart" policies. Bro churchill was worse than hitler. Even the british people feel bad and stand against churchill. He forced people to join the war against turkey. U can call this smart. Also Nazi's are calling hitler smart because he took the financial control from the jews. Very smart strategy huh!
Turkey: I'm gonna do what called a Pro Gamer Move.
"I left you breadless but not farherless" -Ismet Inonu
@@yurichtube1162 Fachist. Whit what claim do you speak? Your race? We r in 21st century. Damn take ur racist and religious ideas and go back to middle age. Every citizen of Turkey is a Turkish, like every citizen of Germany is German and every citizen of İran is İranian. Do not dare to speak about discrimination. You, yourselves are dividing people by your race. Just fockin stop this early age idea!
How the hell topic came to that?!
Ismet inonu was a kurdish citizen of Turkey nevertheles he became president of turkey
What can you say about most of turkish leaders has kurdish descandent. Is there racism?
@Rapstick low iq imbecile, Kurds are from the ancient mesepotamia. We are the original inhabitants of the middle east.
@Rapstick turks are from the mongols, and iranians came from Europe. They should go to Mongolia/Europe and reclaim their real countries. The Kurds are exactly where they need to be.
germany: is losing
finland, turkey, and argentina: *declare war*, WE WON
Yeah you think you would have won without Argentina? Think again.
@@nevize6660 yeah, without all the ranked nazi officials migrating into argentina, the war was lost for allies. wtf r u talking about lol.
@@sickturret3587 it was a joke, because they werent a power to Take on either side, SOME sense of humor is good to have, like at least a LITTLE.
@@nevize6660 my bad lol. take it easy. but argentina covering asses of thousands of nazis, at the same time seem like joining the allies was a slick move. they had good sense of humour for sure.
@@nevize6660 lol
Allies and Axis to Turkey: Join the war.
Turkey: I am the war
😂😂😂😂👍🏻
Indeed
Şey gibi bu , “YAR BEN BELANIN TA KENDİSİYİM”
Biri su videoyu çevirsin ya
?!?
So turkey, did you take part in ww2?
Turkey: yesn't
EDIT: By staying neutral Turkey also managed to save Jews.
Tarik Hacialiogullari yes thats true
Humantıy 100
@Rick Stuifzand History changed a lot, in every country they talk from a different point of view. I don't like to give my opinion of what should have been done. Maybe under the circumstances, it would 've been better staying neutral. Maybe it could indeed like you said that Turks didn't have the balls after ww1 to fight for the innocent.
Even though they would lose.
But things that every country confirm, I give my opinion about. And this is such as this generous behavior of the people back then in Turkey.
@Rick 1974 war is war there is nothing like germans are bad or english are good, they are fighting for some reason (honour,econo my etc.) and turkey doesnt risk himself if there was no turkish interest. even the war continious hundred years
Tarik Hacialiogullari they dident, nobody ever said that turkey saved jews.
@@xdgamer2765 turkey saved jews scientist search in wiki after we can discusse how many of them rescued
Allies & Axis; Join the war bro
Turkey; Sneak 100, Speech 100
Allies & Axis; Soo what were we doing here?
Germany: loses
Turkey: i’m about to do what’s called a pro gamer move
Post WW1: “Yo let’s break up the Ottoman Empire”
Europe during WW2: “Hey Turkey, wanna help us out?”
Turkey: “Sure, I’m not gonna send any troops tho 😏”
Based Chad Turkey 🦃
WW2:Happens
🇹🇷Turkey🇹🇷: *grabs popcorn*
GenCool and takes Jews (In ww2 Turkey take almost all Jews in France )
Turkey grabs popcorn with Switzerland xd
say it for switzerland
Lmao
haha :D
*ww2 starts* Switzerland and Turkey: yeah is big show time *grabs popcorn*
Turkeys popcorn was empty at the end so they dicieded to join the war
I love every one of your videos... but I just wanted to especially note how your attention to tiny details is truly impressive. There aren't too many non-Turks who would be aware that every government office would have a portrait of Ataturk on the wall.
*Reads tittle*
BECAUSE THEY WERE SMART
@Musta Krackish " War is murder unless it is done to save your homeland." Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
Why would you join a war that doesn't even your problem? To help Europeans?
@@OyuncuMert1 Exactly , Europeans have never liked Turkey anyway .
@Musta Krackish That's called strategy...
True fact
@Musta Krackish this word said by you a bad kid
Question: Why didnt Turkey join WW2?
Turkey: Why would I?
bu ne saçma video lan
savaşmadığımız için bizi eleştirmişler birde cahil insanlar
They alredy fightededededed with 5 WHOLE army's
@@Nah...Imactually OMG dio man what r u doing here
@@35ysf35 Adam nerede kötülemiş?
@@Nah...Imactually WRYYYYYY
That's the most perfect summary of the war in the East I've ever seen.
"The Invasion went pretty well"
"Then less well"
"Then pretty badly"
Put this with the images as gifs into schoolbooks!
watched the video 5 times just to laugh at that part. gets me every time.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk literally definition of great man and legendary leader all around. Some humans really special. Win the war, Build democracy and modernized country, Give womans and everybody freedom of choice, like todays modern human rights. And make it all this 100 years ago! (Turkey among first nations for giving womans equal rights and freedom of choice). it's really impressive. What a founder!
thats why he will always stay in our hearts
Yet someone who is clearly the opposite of Atatürk is the president right now
Actually a little bit like Sweden that could have used the Napoleonic wars to retake Finland and once again rise to be a major power but instead seems to have decided that Napoleon was worse and sided with Russia insted of fighting it. The resulting peace treaty kept Sweden away from the world wars. Although there seems to be a lot of people that doesn't like it since we didn't get to suffer as much as they did. Before this long time of peace Sweden fought a lot of wars and we did help in kicking out Napoleon, we fought a corrupt catholic church so I think that maybe we had done our fair share of fighting.
"Gave women freedom of choice."
He banned women from wearing Hijab and those who didn't comply were arrested.
@@timurthegreat1991 Actually, he didn't ban the headscarf, he just discouraged the wearing of it in public
Savaşmak için sebeb gerekir savaşmamak için değil “milletin varlığı tehlikeye girmedikçe savaş cinayettir”
Yorumlarda Türk arıyordum
@@tolgacinar7762 herkes türk lan zaten, sadece yabancı dılde yazıyorlar
@@tahakayrakocabas7712 isimlere bakmadım
@@tahakayrakocabas7712 isimleri de zaten türkse bile ing yapıyor kimisi
türkçe öğren sen öncelikle "Sebeb" değil "Sebep"
Sounds like the Turks were some of the smartest players in the world. Little to contribute, little to gain, potentially a lot to lose, came out without suffering a German or Soviet invasion.
We were.
Yes we were and now a pickle seller rules us
If entire europe(except for some countries) werent our enemy we could have been stronger
Turks were powerful long ago but now we are fucking idiots with current generations, nothing more.
@@FirstLast-rf2zv suçu şimdi ki nesile atacağına onu yetiştirenlere at.
‘As you probably know, the invasion went really well, then less well, then pretty badly’ Bruh the war on the eastern front during ww2 from axis’ perspective summarised in one sentence.
About sums it up.
that line is from oversimplified i think
Honestly you make by far the best most entertaining/funniest and still informational historical content thank you very much ive enjoyed it greatly
So you're saying Germany surrendered shortly after Turkey joined the war? That can't be a coincidence.
They saw what happened to the Armenians
Bullshit, Germany surrendered in 7 of May 1945, because Ghuck Norris was borned in 6 of May 1945.
German soldier in 1945 Berlin:
"Hey Franz, you hear something?"
"What in ze name of der Fuhrer is that?"
*CEDDIN DEDDEN INTENSIFIES*
But it also might be because of the Soviets in Berlin and raping every woman in sight. But yeah, it was the Turkey thing.
@@ΜάνοςΚαλατζής-ε4σ you know grammar bud.
Germany was all gangsta until the might of turkey declared war on them in 1945
Yes
ThomasTurner69 Exactly
Soldier: Sir Soviets are about to take Berlin.
Hitler: Not a problem lol.
Soldier: But Turkey joined too !
Hitler : oh crup.
And then the Turks invaded
Henning Gu that came in the 50s
Very interesting. I always wondered why Turkey did not join the war. But it makes a lot of sense and they made a wise choice in the long game.
took a beating in WW1 and waited to see how it would go
“But as long as a nation's life is not endangered, war is a murder. " - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Fact: 9 months (nearly) after Atatürk’s death, the war that he predicted before he died started. Which was WW2.
He was a great human being,leader,solider and a president. Rest In Peace Atatürk❤️
Peace at home, peace in the world. 👏
Canim atam
He was an idiot
He finished the ottoman empire
And death in a war is called martyrdom which millions of people wish to get for their country
italy: does not fight but still wins
Turkey: WRITE THAT DOWN!!! WRITE THAT DOWN!!
yep...1917 italy and 1945 turkey
@@kingkong2415 lol italy in ww1 fought against germany and austria and won
Italy fought on both tbh
Well someone is crying in this here
"peace at home, peace at world." mustafa kemal ataturk
@@sheminn460 i wanted to swear you but you cant even understand the peace at home refferance. thanks to father of turks for he made the istiklal courts so we dealing less ignorants like you. you cant even able to understend his revolutions and your asses still burns after 100 years because of that. all beside i should talk like you comars understand: if you dont like it YALLAH ARABISTANA
@AH03 youre right but im enough with this bullshit
Because of ataturk, the turks are not religieus anymore
peach at home,bitches at world :)
@@fatiherik6646 I would think most of the contribution would go to the current government in that. If you use religion as a tool, you lose much more religious people than you would by Atheists.
Switzerland: Nobody dare to touch us and we will always stay neutral
Turkey: *I won a war by stay neutral*
My late grandfather always hated İnönü. Because he made them go trough a rough time. But I can't see another way out of this and for the country's well being, this was the best solution I can see.
Deden polonyayı görse İsmet Paşaya derviş gözüyle bakardı herhalde
@@futboltime12 mükemmel yorum
Ne dervişi peygamber ilan ederlerdi paşayı@@futboltime12
Turkey: Yea this is big brain time.
@@efelsss ♿♿♿♿
@@efelsss ow erdoğan is going away from this brain
@@efelsss nevermind him
@@uzaynazisi8279 ey Hi PorTea
@@anarsistdevletci hi it is such a moment
I wasn't expecting this but pleased. Teşekkürler!
@@iamtheballerr jxjdkxbskxbs
Munax Tamam anarşist kurye
Germany : loses war Turkey : This is where the fun begins
Your name and your meme lmao
Name checks out
These videos are great for catching up on areas of history one has never read about - as well as polishing up on areas that one thinks one knows.
*WW2 Happens*
Switzerland and Turkey: *woah this is pretty epic*
Also Switzerland and Turkey: Lets sit and watch, it'll be fun
@@val141_ we dont have gun
we dont have money
we dont have food,ammo,moral,and we lost empire...
@@nevermisscc i know, thats why we actually didnt join the war
Almost everyone in Turkey agrees that Inonu's best accomplishment was to keep Turkey out of WW2, regardless of whether they like or hate him.
And he was involved in Turkish politics until 1970s
Ionou Had a secret agreement with NAZIs Still wanted to see how things turned out.Supplied Chromium to Hitler he could not get anywhere else
George Evangel Yeah, right.. It was so secret that nobody but only you know about it.
@@demirg I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person
@@georgeevangel4292 what secret agreement?
@@gumdeo that which is so secret that only he knows about it!
Ataturk portrait on the wall is an amazing touch. Nice one keep up the good work!
@@georgeevangel4292 you are either misinformed or just simply prefer to ignore facts. Disregarding your aspirations to stir up a comment fight, know that Ataturk was a mere lieutenant colonel during 1915. That means even if you consider events of 1915 an organized genocide against armenians, you can not argue that somehow AAtaturk played a role in it. That is all I wanted to say. This is youtube so I should not try to teach history to you on this platform. Go on and a have a nice day.
@@cagatayaksu6549 Please explain to me why today Turkey is 98% Muslim and before the 1920s Christians numbered 20%
@@georgeevangel4292 you told that Ataturk slaughtered more than a million people living in Turkey. That is simply a lie. The first sentence on this coment cannot be proven in any shape or form so you are again either ignorant or manipulative. If I might choose your course of reasoning I might ask you what happened to Muslims living in the Balkans that amounted to more than a million before the Balkan Wars.
@@georgeevangel4292 If this is too difficult to understand for you, here is my argument again: Even if you consider the turkification of the anatolian peninsula through several(some really unfortunate) events a genocide, it had nothing to do with Ataturk. It is like blaming Holocaust on Kaiser Wilhelm II
. So please know your facts and educate yourself. Goodbye!
@@cagatayaksu6549 OK OK It was your Young Turks but Turks just the same Attaturk did influence Hitler by persecuting Armenian,Greek, Assyrian and Arab Christians
I love that you went to trouble of putting a picture of Ataturk behind Inonu everytime he appeared. :D Also the comment section is humour at a gold level.
Winning side: *exists*
Turkey: *It’s free real estate.*
Except Turkey didn't take any land.....
He fixed realetion ships
@@PANZERFAUST90 no need for land i mean it is 20th century. Land doesn't mean power
@@mlg_kaju2321 I didn't say anything about power. I said Turkey didn't take any land. Are you confused because I surely am, but not for the reasons you may be.
Some american problems...
Turkey, "One must be stupid to do the same mistake again."
Germany, "We have an Adolf."
erdogan
@@extremeneturk4055 Ne alaka reis
@@extremeneturk4055 i think u cant speak english or u hate mustafa kemal atatürk
@@extremeneturk4055 do you have an idea about English? Or you hate the Atatürk?
@@yagmurcuarifefendi1871 yo calm down do you wanna get prisoned
I liked when the other countries came to turkey after 1938, mustafa kemal's picture was on the wall
He is still on our walls :)
@@Quanthalamor and in our hearts
@@ardagumus4991 And nobody can take him out from our hearths
@@Quanthalamor and he will forever be
If I could, I would gladly give my life for him to come back to life, no joke.
Great video! It would also be worth to mention that Hatay province (a French mandate) was returned back to Turkey in 1939 for Turkey to stay neutral and not to join Germany.
When you win a world war without losing a single soldier....
Thats turkey.
Turkey lost their 20.000 soldier during ww2
@@BomboloaCat nope they Didint lost a single soldier
@@daonzziras5417 during ww2 they lost their soldier because of sicknes
@@daonzziras5417 oh also ı am from turkey
@@BomboloaCat Türk müsün la
Ataturk sailing on the map of Turkey had me in bits. :D
That is İsmet İnönü, I believe.
Good old Kemalizm days
@@berkovy Bad days
Frontiersman Funny
Bits please
German: Hey Bruh Second Chance?
Turkey: Hell No!
There is another reason that you missed out. An earthquake struck Turkey's eastern Erzincan Province at 1:57:23 a.m. on 27 December 1939 local time with a moment magnitude of 7.8. The earthquake was the most severe natural loss of life in Turkey in the 20th century, with 32,968 dead, and some 100,000 injured.
Germany : *dying*
Turkey : SUPRISE
Germany : ah s*t here we go again
After war, someday a kid said to İsmet İnönü: "You left us as hungry."
İsmet İnönü said: "Yes, I left you as hungry. But I did not leave you as fatherless."
Some people blames Inonu (good friend of founder ataturk, 2nd president after he died) at that time and even now, but this is the best he can do. At 1938 founder Ataturk was dead. That also peaked the pressure. This vldeo is very very short version of the story. Regardless of we didn't fight, there was suffer.
I agree
Indeed, I respect İsmet Pasha very much because of the fact that he handled WWII like that
Switzerland: Best option is to stay neutral
Turkey: You sure bro?
Turkey: Stays natural with declaring war on german reich.
Switzerland: Wait thats illegal
It’s like that kid who does almost nothing in the group and present a part of it and still gets an A
What? No man they did do something! They even declared war on Germany. Yea, they were a tad bit late but at least they got the spirit.
@@mossfen583 dude, that kid in every presentation group also stands up at the last day with rest of the group. as a turkish person, i can say we did nothing (except giving asylum to some askhenazi people who could run away) and i'm proud of that. fighting in that war would be one of the stupidest thing in our history.
@@mossfen583 Nah as a Turkish person I wouldn't say we had the spirit to Declare war on Germany. We had no problem with them. It was merely about international pressure and it was only a political move that only stayed on paper ( Turkey did not participate in the war).
Me: What a nice day to watch something fun.
UA-cam recommendations: Learn your history!!!
You learn yours!
Why didn't Turkey join ww2?
*Laughs in HoI4*
I will send you a video that why Rosevelt wanted Turkey to stay neutral :)
turkey can invade 2 countries at the same time at 1939-40. I usually invade greece at 1938 its too easy to beat greeks :d
Turkey is one the most powerful countries in HoI4 (when you play it true its hard)
Turkey can easily beat 4 out of 6 neighbour countries
İ love the detail mustafa kemal atatürk’s picture on the wall ❤️
1:11 when the 2 kids that think they are bullies fight and you are in between 🇬🇷
greek moment
Actually Turkey helped Greece during Nazi occupation and gave food and supplies to civilians.
Also Greek moment
Any plans on doing a video on Turkey's involvement in the Korean War on the side of the Republic of Korea?
You could have added the part where Hitler offered the captured Aegean Islands and other lost lands of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans to İsmet İnönü in order to convince them to join the war.
You missed the whole dismantling of the Ottoman Empire after WW1. The memories of that would have weighed heavily on the minds of Turkey's leaders.
Ismet inonu was an ottoman army officer just like ataturk and they saw all the shits happened in balkan wars, ww1 and independence war. So they knew exactly what they shouldnt do
why would the turkish government want to bring back an empire that had a carppy economy and just a bad country in itself? the technology sucked, industry was weak and took a long time to catch up with newer technologies
I like how İnönü stressfully gazes his eyes between the allies and axis leaders. That really sums up what we went through
I can give you a simple answer to the title...
Because they lost a whole god damn empire in the first one
This one is the best comment.
True
The History Critic Guy True
German also lost their empire, did not stop them to start another war
Kurnia Erfan the Germans started WW2 to build an empire
Turkey; Don't make much noise while fighting. we're disturbed, bro
How Switzerland stayed neutral all time during WW2??
Aleksandar Vil more importantly, how did Liechtenstein stay neutral
@@andrewbachman698 Yeah that makes even less sense than Switzerland, if only for geographic reasons.
You'd think Germany would have gone after Switzerland, it was a key Nazi policy to unite all German-speaking people.
Hello A. Switzerland controlled several train tunnels that connected Germany and Italy, and were not shy about showing how they had rigged them to exploded the second they were attacked.
B. Nazi sympathizers inside Switzerland were used as go betweens to import materials to the blockaded German economy
Not really neutral, they aided the Germans during the war.
Thanks for Ismet Pasha's diplomatic skills. He is a great diplomat as well as a commander. Managing both sites and convince to not to join war is a big thing. After Ataturk dies he solve our last independent problems with not joining to WW2 fight. Respect Ismet Inonu.
He refused einsteins offer
he also sold out Azerbaijani political refugees and gave them away to Stalin to murder them
Azerbaijani heavily dislikes Inönü + he is a disgrace to Mustafa Kemal's legacy
“Aw crap! If we don’t do something in the war we won’t matter post war”
*Joins war a week before it ends*
Perfection -Turkey
Please make videos about this
Why people in Madagascar are related to present day Indonesian people?
Why did Japan colonize Korea?
How did Portugal colonize Macau?
Why Sri Lanka isn't part of India?
Why did Bangladesh separate itself from Pakistan?
Why did British fail to colonize Nepal?
A video on Japan ruling Korea receives my vote.
The answer for so many of these is "Money"
@@johnanth that is only part of the answer, but financial gain is important.
Japan colonized Korea because they wanted resources, Sri Lanka isn’t part of India for cultural differences, And the British never got Nepal because it was hard to conquer the mountainous land.
Kainediyan and the Nepal fighters where overpowering them
If ı have to say as a Turk, we had suffered heavy losses by fighting on many fronts in the ww1. Even though we saved our lands from occupation, we were under heavy debt because Germany lost. The country was not economically well. Besides, the ottoman was demolished and the new secular state had just been established(we are grateful to Atatürk). With such promlems in the country, the last thing we needed was another war. We would had no benefit in this.
"Topraklarımızı işgalden kurtarmamıza rağmen" Halep nerde? Musul, Kerkük Süleymaniye, Bağdat nerde? Hicaz, Lübnan Kudüs, Ürdün nerde? Batum nerde Türk olduğunu biliyorum bize okulda hep kurtuluş savaşının olağanüstü başarılı olduğunu anlatırlar ama kurtuluş savaşı dediğimiz şey Türk-Yunan savaşından başka bir şey değil. Doğu ve güney Anadoludaki toprakları kurtaranlar kuvayı milliye yani partizanlardı ve tabi kazım paşanın 15. Kolordusu. Demek istediğim, Topraklarımızı işgalden kurtaramadık ama Milletimizi berbat bir felakete sürüklenmekten kurtardık
We might have gotten some profits if we got really really really really lucky
@@Inedow_The_Source_of_Racism yeah maybe but luck really isnt something to rely on when the matters are such serious things, it would have most likely been terrible for us
@@jinyuexiner Fortune favors the brave!
It makes me happy how people are watching these that are not only Turkish. I really appreciate everyone for youre comments as an Turkish person. 🤗
Viva our Turkish Faterland.
Na zdorovie!
*gotyalamaknasilbirduygu
@@susa8401 götolmaknasılbirduygu
@@susa8401 beyinsizolmaknasilbirduygu?
Before Atatürk passed away, he foresaw this war, he stated on to be in peace. Still we have this motto: " peace at home, peace at world "