PKK | Turkey's Neverending War?

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  • @JamesKerLindsay
    @JamesKerLindsay  2 місяці тому +87

    This is a topic I have wanted to cover since I started the channel. I have talked around the topic a few times, but I have never in fact done a video on the PKK insurgency in Turkey. So, what do you think? Can there ever be a solution? And what would it look like? Is some form of autonomy out of the question? Or do you think that Turkey can in fact defeat the PKK by military means. Let me know your thoughts below.
    Also, you may have noticed the new thumbnail design. :-) I have been working on changing this. I really hope you like it. I think it looks distinct and yet serious.

    • @VladTevez
      @VladTevez 2 місяці тому +1

      Another reason why we can't trust Turkey. And shame to the UN and the international community who remain silent to the turkish ethnic cleansing of Kurds in Syria

    • @FlamingBasketballClub
      @FlamingBasketballClub 2 місяці тому +4

      The thumbnail picture is cleaner than Nutrogena.
      😭😭😭

    • @Austine1452
      @Austine1452 2 місяці тому +3

      Turkey wiped out 2 million Armenians and have schools and streets named after the ring leaders till today, while denying it. what do you think!?

    • @Austine1452
      @Austine1452 2 місяці тому +19

      there are no Armenians in karabakh today turkey was involved in that, there are no Greeks in North Cyprus turkey did that, there are no Greeks in Constantinople and Asia minor, turkey did that. There are no Armenians in eastern Anatolia aka the Armenian Highlands, the Turks engineered that. a leopard don't change its spots.

    • @pompacitokmakci
      @pompacitokmakci 2 місяці тому +4

      @@Austine1452 The Kurds deceived the Turks through their religion. Otherwise, they would not exist today.

  • @recepdurgut8676
    @recepdurgut8676 2 місяці тому +192

    Hello, Mr Lindsay,
    Can you prepare a content about the relationship between the YPG and the PKK and the US support for the YPG?

    • @JamesKerLindsay
      @JamesKerLindsay  2 місяці тому +28

      @@recepdurgut8676 Thanks. I will look into this. I did a video on the YPG already.

    • @tunaninhayati
      @tunaninhayati 2 місяці тому +27

      @@JamesKerLindsay Please tell this racist fascist Türkiye, what was the result of the torture, oppression and massacres you have been doing to the Kurds for a hundred years?

    • @berkanbayram5811
      @berkanbayram5811 2 місяці тому +87

      @@tunaninhayati If we Turks were racist, Kurds would not be able to live in very developed cities like Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Antalya, but Kurds can live in any city they want. If Turks were fascists, Kurds could only study in some universities in Turkey, but Kurds can study in all universities like Turks. If Turks were fascists, Kurds would pay more taxes, but they pay the same taxes as Turks. If Turks were fascists, they would not be able to benefit from the same laws in courts, but they can be tried with the same laws as Turks. Kurds can also be civil servants, businessmen like Turks, and academics like Turks.

    • @RN_1230-t6x
      @RN_1230-t6x 2 місяці тому

      Dünyada bir başka milletin dilini yasaklayan ve aşağılayan bir devlet var mı, Türkiye' nin dışında?? Kürdlerin dilini yasaklamak, Kültürlerini yasaklamak, Tarihlerinin yazımını yasaklamak, Kürdlerin toprakları üzerinde devletini kurmak ve buna itiraz edenleri terörist ilan edip toplu öldürmeler : ( Şex Sait direnişinde; Ağrı direnişinde; Zilan direnişinde; Dersim direnişinde). Son PKK direnişinden sonraki Diyarbakır Cezaevinde yapılan işkenceler ve bok yedirme olaylarını geçiyorum bile.. Kürd millet haklarından bahseden herkese hayatı cehenneme çeviren Türkiye Cumhuriyeti mi faşist değil?? Bu komik bir söylem olur. İnsan haklarıyla insan olur, karnının doymasıyla değil. İnsanları mide eksenli düşünmeye yöneltip insanın onurlu yaşamı tercih etmesini aşağılamak da faşistlerin yaptığı bir yönlendirme tarzıdır.

    • @tunaninhayati
      @tunaninhayati 2 місяці тому

      @@berkanbayram5811 vergiymiş Allaha yemin ederim eğerki rengimiz belli siyahi olsaydı görürdik sizi nasılsa sesin kesildi sizin dostluğunuz kardeşliğiniz BEN KÜRDÜM DİYENE KADAR Amerika da avrupada sizden bin kat iyidir s

  • @DersimKurda
    @DersimKurda 2 місяці тому +283

    Turkey’s Kurdish issue is much broader than the PKK. The PKK was founded in 1979, yet Kurds faced numerous massacres long before that date. The Kurdish language was banned then as well, and the existence of a Kurdish people was denied even before the PKK. Today, there are 25-30 million Kurds in Turkey. However, the Kurdish language and identity are still denied by the state. There are no services in Kurdish anywhere. Six months ago, a cafe offering services in Kurdish was raided, and its owner was detained. He is still under house arrest. Millions of Kurdish children are forced into a Turkish-only education. Kurdish is my mother tongue, and I couldn’t communicate with my teacher until third grade, which put me three years behind. Kurds are only taught Turkish history, Turkish literature, and Turkish culture. In one case, an elderly Kurdish woman who didn’t know Turkish was denied treatment at a hospital and sent away.
    Despite all this, Turkey interferes with Kurds outside its borders, collaborating with governments in other countries to oppress Kurds. This is deeply unjust.

    • @Scalpaslan
      @Scalpaslan 2 місяці тому +102

      Your life is a lie. Facts There are at most 12 million Kurds. More than half of them speak only Turkish. There is no homogeneous Kurdish population even in the southeast. There are also Arabs, Zazas and Turks. At least half of the Kurds do not support PKK terrorism. In other words, autonomy beyond imagination is not possible. The issue of independence is a comedy that can never be realized anyway. I have visited many countries in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Africa. There is no other organization in the world that is programmed only for violence and harm. Kurdishness and terror have harmed and will harm the Kurds the most. You do not have the capacity to understand this. However, the Turkish state wants to solve the problem before all people are harmed.

    • @SamsonTsokina
      @SamsonTsokina 2 місяці тому +2

      @@DersimKurda cowen boshim

    • @bir_cumle
      @bir_cumle 2 місяці тому +41

      Why don't you say that speaking Turkish is prohibited in that cafe? And you should say that there is PKK propaganda. It was closed due to provocation. You need to stop making fools of people and acting like Lenin.

    • @R2d2..
      @R2d2.. 2 місяці тому +47

      ⁠​⁠@@Scalpaslan more than half of Kurds speak only Turkish, because our ancestors were forced to speak Turkish only. Our language was forbidden. You evil liar.
      And to tell someone from DERSIM that he has no right for land an identity bc Turks didn’t allow their languages, is insane

    • @ahmedcoban8184
      @ahmedcoban8184 2 місяці тому +8

      ​​@@R2d2.. Was language never banned? Can you tell me when it was banned? Could you explain in which periods it was prohibited?

  • @dariuslankarian3282
    @dariuslankarian3282 2 місяці тому +10

    Fun fact, Muammar Gaddafi supported the idea of Kurdish state openly and did send funds to some Kurdish groups.

  • @samusa9966
    @samusa9966 2 місяці тому +191

    Seeing armed groups like the PKK or Y.. roaming the mountains raises questions about who's supplying their weapons and ideas. If an armed group were openly on U.S. soil, our government wouldn't tolerate it for a second. It’s hard not to wonder about the double standard. Thank God the Turkish military is stepping in-if this were happening in the U.S., regular people would gladly take matters into their own hands.

    • @complexaltruist
      @complexaltruist 2 місяці тому

      Don't repress minorities and this wouldn't happen

    • @belisarius2776
      @belisarius2776 2 місяці тому +18

      We have armed groups in the US. Lots of them

    • @BatuhanPoyraz
      @BatuhanPoyraz 2 місяці тому

      @@belisarius2776 but are they openly raiding little countryside schools and killing teachers like they do in turkey?

    • @User-he6zd
      @User-he6zd 2 місяці тому

      Google 'American militias threaten FEMA workers'

    • @gbg975
      @gbg975 2 місяці тому

      @@belisarius2776do they bomb the areas open to public ? Nope

  • @omer_kobi9711
    @omer_kobi9711 2 місяці тому +53

    As a Kurd who don’t support pkk, I believe turkey will never can support Kurdish issue, fascism is deep in the bones of Turkey’s state, education, and culture, for many decades Kurds have been dehumanized, many of my friends in Iraq and Syria are originally from north Kurdistan and they fled dersim and those who stayed got massacred by Turks, the problem is Turks are still talking about it as a national pride, how a Kurd can be proud citizen of the state that celebrate killing Kurds?
    How a Kurd can live with a pride while in school they won’t teach his/her children Kurdish language? And they are forced to say (How happy is the one who says I am a Turk), while pkk have no real solution for this problems, turkey itself also don’t have any solution, erdogan simply can’t erase 100 years of systematic racism and fascism

    • @gravkocher5677
      @gravkocher5677 2 місяці тому +4

      😢and most of Kurdish in North don't speak Kurdish were they used to create Kurdish Language, grammar and literature but now they're speaking Kurdish and don't asked for freedom as do in the past. We Kurdish are different even our ethnic we are Arian while Turkey are Moghol

    • @rambleroodle2369
      @rambleroodle2369 2 місяці тому +1

      ok there is a long stuff that is wrong here. "fled from syria to dersim and massacred"? any source? not biased one please. Turks are talking about pride because of the immigrant problems. Kurdish "problem" was caused by the separatists that want to break Turkey from inside apart. Which in the time "How happy is the one who says im Turk." Is NOT FORCED (idk how you got that) it is a saying if you live in Turkey and love the country you can say that. No one forces you to say so and if you dont feel like one, you dont. Nothing more. I have a kurdish friend (i can give his dc if u want) that loves turkey more than the kurds because of the stuff people like you and PKK do.
      Btw you live in Turkey. Why do you expect to have a kurdish language as a lesson there? You can speak it with your people no one gives a shit. People at the black sea region speak Laz but they dont want it to be a lesson. What makes you special? Killing innocent people at the terror strikes across Turkey?

    • @diklomat1
      @diklomat1 2 місяці тому +4

      As a non asimilated Kurdish we don’t accept you as a Kurdish already. You don’t need to write here I’m a Kurdish because you are not. You think, talk , act , and hate Kurdish who doesn’t accept asimilation like a Turkish, so you are Turkish.

    • @omer_kobi9711
      @omer_kobi9711 2 місяці тому +1

      @@rambleroodle2369
      What makes a Turkish kid so special to study In Turkish? What that Turkish kid has, but the Kurd lacks?
      What you mean any source? You literally massacred all the population then you changed the name of dersim city! And people that i know who coming from those who survived the massacre are my close friends.
      And that great friend of yours who puts turkishness above its on identity can speak Kurdish? How many books he read about his own history and culture in Kurdish language?

    • @mehmetcam558
      @mehmetcam558 29 днів тому

      Tatava yapmayın gücünüz yetiyorsa kurun devletinizi , bize kimse devlet ikram etmedi 1071 de bizansın zulmünden türk bu toprklara girince rahata erdiniz bunu hatırlatırım

  • @mahmutolcay1748
    @mahmutolcay1748 2 місяці тому +18

    The problem is that turkey doesn't want to peace with Kurds but assimilate them which means totally occupation of Kurdistan. If turkey is polite we can split harmless with a referendum under the other guarantee states. If we Kurds gain our national rights then the pkk would solve itself and there is no problem more. Yes it's just that simple!

    • @Pgkkkms82882
      @Pgkkkms82882 Місяць тому

      @@mahmutolcay1748 You are occupying our land. There is no peace because you constantly alienate yourself from us. Stop blaming us because you're trying to establish another state on our land

    • @Öylesine-u2y
      @Öylesine-u2y 23 дні тому +2

      🤡

  • @MichaelPinto
    @MichaelPinto 2 місяці тому +2

    Thanks!

  • @costaskarseras7876
    @costaskarseras7876 2 місяці тому +140

    Why is President Erdogan is not offering a two-state solution to the 22 million Kurdish people? To end the decades-long conflict and stop relying on military force to achieve “peace and tranquillity”, just as he claims prevails in Cyprus.

    • @dirtyyarenblacc9985
      @dirtyyarenblacc9985 2 місяці тому +50

      Most of the Kurdish people are Sunni-Muslim. They support AKP and Erdogan.

    • @KevinGACMk
      @KevinGACMk 2 місяці тому +38

      @@dirtyyarenblacc9985 Hi dirty… pro Kurdish party had % 13 votes for the last election. Compare the Kurdish population to the voters this makes up nearly 15 million.
      Get the army, police and pro state forces out of Kurdistan for an independent elections I bet % 99 of Kurds will vote for themselves
      Good morning !

    • @osman7876
      @osman7876 2 місяці тому +28

      @@KevinGACMk Which election? They have %5.70 + %0.55 last local election. And last parlamentary election they have %9 votes.

    • @KevinGACMk
      @KevinGACMk 2 місяці тому

      @@osman7876 Nearly ten thousands of the pro- Kurdish party leaders, members and activists behind the bars. Akp stole the half of the votes to keep Kurds controlled. I bet an independent election will bring the Kurds to the power as a ruling party

    • @Rade-h5l
      @Rade-h5l 2 місяці тому +11

      Ridiculous thing to write. Cyprus conflict and kurdish question is 2 totally different problems. First of all Cyprus is greek/turkish by ethnicity and those 2 ethnicities are enemies with different faith. Both have their own country. Greeks are genocide nation they did genocide on the slavic and albanian minorities. Why would turks in Cyprus trust a Greek and why would a greek trust a turk that did a genocide on armenians?
      U are literally saying turkey to stop existing as we know it cuz u want Cyprus to be Greek 2nd state.

  • @Ata99882
    @Ata99882 2 місяці тому +51

    There's no need for such fancy lies. Just openly say that you don't want Turks in Anatolia. Explain how you want to divide Turkey into four parts: Pontus in the Black Sea, Greece in the Aegean, Armenia in the East, and Kurds in the South. For those who don’t understand, the real intent is in the map at 2:34.

    • @ATHLDN
      @ATHLDN 2 місяці тому +24

      Turkey's woes are their own doing. It's an aggressive country that refuses to get along with its neighbours. No need for crocodile tears

    • @Ata99882
      @Ata99882 2 місяці тому

      @@ATHLDN There are no tears. Westerners just dont know that there arent enough population for their goals. Just like Ermenians in WW1.

    • @adidoki
      @adidoki 2 місяці тому

      @@ATHLDN Iraq invades Iran and Kuwait, is still allowed to exist, Syria bombs its own citizens to oblivion and leads to like 10 million refugees they are allowed to exist. Israel levels entire cities but is allowed to exist. Russia eradicated the history of crimean tatars, chechens and so many more invaded Georgia and Ukraine in the last 15 years but is allowed to exist. But Turkey is the aggressive one? We tried being kind during the 2000s with the zero problems with neighbours policy but it didn´t work.

    • @elif6577
      @elif6577 2 місяці тому +21

      @@ATHLDNwhat makes Turkey an aggressive country? Defending its border and responding to terroristic attacks is not being aggressive, it is any countries responsibility. Don’t you support territorial integrity and how else we can ensure it?

    • @theusareview7960
      @theusareview7960 2 місяці тому +5

      @@elif6577 why ur old man keeps crying about gaza then?🤣

  • @JesseBernard
    @JesseBernard 2 місяці тому +80

    Hello Professor, this might be unrelated but it sound that you caught a cold. If so then I hope you get well soon and thanks for a great video plus that thumbnail though

    • @JamesKerLindsay
      @JamesKerLindsay  2 місяці тому +49

      Thanks so much. I was struggling with a really nasty bug all week. Feeling better today, though. :-)

    • @Zaza.Kurdo1
      @Zaza.Kurdo1 2 місяці тому +1

      @@JamesKerLindsay dear Professor Lindsay. 40 years have been Inspesting Situation, conflick and war between turkish state and kurds, have collected 1.000s of Videos, pictures, news links, proofs... some of them i have forwarded the the UN, the EU, some state governments. All i have as PDF, so that easy to take a look and be informed more with details. If you would like, could send them by email or by and other way you prefer.

    • @Berkunv
      @Berkunv 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@Zaza.Kurdo1 if there is a war between Turkish state and Kurds, why do approximately 50% of Kurds vote for 20 years for the governing party and Erdogan, and most of other 50% voted for the biggest opposition party CHP in last general election?

  • @Alex_Plante
    @Alex_Plante 2 місяці тому +97

    If Turkey wants to be a Turkish nation-state, then the boundaries of the country should reflect the geographical distribution of ethnic Turks, which means they should withdraw from areas where Kurds and other minorities are locally in the majority. If, on the other hand, Turkey wants to be a civil state that treats all its citizens equally, then they should make Kurdish and other minority languages official, along with Turkish, and allow areas where minorities have sufficient numbers to justify it, to have their own schools, hospitals and social institutions that work in the their language. It should be one or the other.

    • @luiscluzano2436
      @luiscluzano2436 2 місяці тому

      Turquiye need to stop the iraky genocide. Stop Apartheid. Childrens are dying. Cease fire now.

    • @thingexplainer
      @thingexplainer 2 місяці тому +21

      There is no such thing as an ethnic "Turk". Everyone born in Turkey is a Turk.

    • @erloriel
      @erloriel 2 місяці тому +32

      @@thingexplainer Then why is Berlin famous for its second and third generation "Turks" that have a German passport, but can speak German about as well as your average Chinese farmer.

    • @Rade-h5l
      @Rade-h5l 2 місяці тому +23

      Turks are ethnic group. All people born in Turkey are turkish by nationality but not ethnic Turks

    • @michha6145
      @michha6145 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@thingexplainer no they are not turkish! Infact 97-98 % of people is not of turkik or central asian origon

  • @irisfiamma
    @irisfiamma 2 місяці тому +19

    The Republic of Turkey was founded in 1923, not in 1924!

    • @JamesKerLindsay
      @JamesKerLindsay  2 місяці тому +6

      Thanks. Both are right. The republicans was declared in 1923. The constitution establishing the Republic was put in place in 1924.

    • @gossiptimexoxo
      @gossiptimexoxo 2 місяці тому +1

      23 April 1923

    • @SAMI19951
      @SAMI19951 2 місяці тому +9

      @@gossiptimexoxo türkiye 29 ekim 1923 kuruldu

  • @InannaBOY
    @InannaBOY 2 місяці тому +23

    I am a neutral Kurd, I have always been against oppression and wars, but the Kurds have survived because of the revolutions,
    When Kurdistan was divided like a cake into four states, they thought they would destroy the Kurds either physically or assimilate,They recorded most of our history, words, culture, food and art in their own names and our voice did not reach the world, For example, Turkish coffee was known as Kurdish coffee in European markets last century, When Kurdistan was divided like a cake into four states, they thought they would destroy the Kurds either physically or assimilate,They recorded most of our history, words, culture, food and art in their own names and our voice did not reach the world, For example, Turkish coffee was known as Kurdish coffee in European markets last century.

    • @ahmedcoban8184
      @ahmedcoban8184 2 місяці тому +4

      Türkiye'deki bir kürt kuzey Iraktaki ile kürtçe anlaşamıyor. Sonra ikisi de İran'dakini anlamıyor. Bunları bilmiyor olamazsın. 😂
      Kürtler ayrı mı kaldı? Kuzey Irak'ı geei alacaz merak etme. ❤❤❤

    • @FeruzZiyozoda
      @FeruzZiyozoda 2 місяці тому +3

      I totally agree with you! We Tajik in Uzbekistan the same history! I think all of the turks like this! "PANTURKIZM THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD"

    • @ahmedcoban8184
      @ahmedcoban8184 2 місяці тому

      @@FeruzZiyozoda Özbekistan'da tacik yok. Muhtemelen asimile olup Tacik olmuşsundur vakti zamanında. Çünkü Tacikistan'ın bile yarısı kendini Tacik sanan Özbek iken senin de durumun aynıdır.

    • @EnginAtik
      @EnginAtik 2 місяці тому +1

      Kurdish coffee is menengiç, coffee made with roasted terebinth fruit. Turkish coffee is made from roasted coffee fruit.

    • @reconscout2238
      @reconscout2238 Місяць тому +1

      Kurdistan was never divided because it never existed you kurds are not native to East Anatolia in any way shape and form

  • @metalhayalc
    @metalhayalc 2 місяці тому +59

    As a Kurd from Turkey who immigrated from Iraq, I would like to say something. I think I know both sides (Turks and Kurds) very well.
    Anatolia (Turkey) has the highest Kurdish population in the world even though it is not historically Kurdish territory. This is due to the high birth rate and the Kurdish immigrants from Iraq, Iran and Syria, especially those who fled the war. People from the countries of the region (especially Iranians, Arabs and Kurds) come to Turkey for “freedom tourism”, they come to Turkey to breathe (concerts, some beer, Mediterranean vacation with clean beaches, tolerance) and go back home. If you look at the map and at Turkey's neighbors, you will see what a great success they have had, and I say this as a Kurd who lived through the war, the Turks should not be treated unfairly.
    The Turks lost their empire very fast and even Anatolia, the core of the empire, was occupied. The Turks established their new state as a republic. I also don't expect a European to understand how big a revolution it was to abolish the caliphate. Europeans don't know about the Islamic Kurdish uprisings that started after the revolutions and the introduction of secularism (my grandfather may have supported these uprisings lol). Turks are still traumatized by this.
    Back to the original topic;
    - As the video explains, the PKK was founded in the 70s. As a Leninist separatist organization targeting a NATO country during the Cold War. Öcalan stayed in Syria for a long time, again as explained in the video.
    - I will not go into the massacres of civilians by the PKK, but I must say that it is not a good picture in the minds of Turks.
    - Towards the early 2000s the PKK started to weaken and Abdullah Öcalan declared that they did not want to establish a separate Kurdish state (which was not possible anyway). He said that Kurds were discriminated against (I think he was right) and that they wanted more freedom.
    - With Öcalan arrested and the PKK on the verge of collapse, the Turkish state launched the “Peace Process and Democratization” program. State television began broadcasting in Kurdish and municipal courses were opened to teach the Kurdish language.
    - Kurdish education is not banned in Turkey, and anyone can learn the language if they wish.
    - The DEM party, the political arm of the PKK, has been authorized by the Turkish state as the representative of the Kurds (the organization itself, not the state, elected its leaders and they have held democratic elections) and is now in parliament. Party members have even served as presidents of the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
    - The DEM party's most recent vote total is 2.5 million (I remind you of the claim that the population of Turkey is 90 million and the Kurdish population is 30 million).
    - Since Turkey was founded (1923) there has been “constitutional equal citizenship”. Everyone is an equal citizen regardless of race, religion, sect and cannot be discriminated against. (I know this is controversial but it shows a 100 year constitutional tradition and a Turkish vision that is not even present in most European countries)
    So what is the problem today?
    The US started arming the YPG in Syria against Russia and Iran (I assure you, not against ISIS as you were told. ISIS was like a flock of sheep, they are just vile people who can attack civilians, I saw them). There are former Kurdish separatists in the YPG and they started to influence the DEM party in Turkey. A wing within the group, relying on the US and the power in Syria, started targeting Turkey and started radicalizing the Kurds in Turkey. This went to such an extent that they blackmailed the mayors with money and at gunpoint to hire their militants and planted bombs in the newly built sidewalks (new sidewalks with bombs underneath, ready to be used in a possible civil war O_O) (I don't need to mention that the mayors were forced to smuggle drugs and gasoline etc., because these are the main source of income for the Kurds in Syria).
    The Turks were furious when these events unfolded. In the next elections the current government lost the elections, but in order to stay in power it made a deal with the Turkish nationalists in the country and formed a new government. From that point on there was only one goal, to destroy all separatists at home and abroad.
    In other words, the Kurdish separatist team within the YPG, which has received US and Israeli support to be a shield against Iran and Russia in Syria, has started to influence Turkey, but Turkey wants to destroy all the separatists in this proxy force that is influencing its country. America, on the other hand, doesn't want to destroy this strong team within the YPG because there is no other force it can replace it with, and at the same time it is trying to reassure Turkey. A great balancing act is needed.
    At times the US allows Turkey to destroy the separatists in the YPG, but at the same time the US is telling Turkey not to go so far as to target the leaders.
    I want to reiterate that out of about 20 million Kurds in Turkey, only 10% support the DEM Party, the political arm of the PKK. The number of separatists within DEM is smaller but represents the strongest foreign-backed team.
    The Turkish nationalist team, which has recently become a partner in power, demanded that Abdullah Öcalan be released from prison and allowed to say that there was no need to establish a separate Kurdish state within Turkey, and chaos ensued. The day after the speech, PKK/YPG members from Syria killed five civilians.
    The debate that had been going on for years flared up again. What do the Kurds want? What do Turks want? Will there be a civil war? Can Turkey, with its economic crisis, with millions of refugees, with Iran, Iraq and Syria as neighbors, with the longest coastline in the Black Sea (Russia-Ukraine war), with the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits and with problems in the Mediterranean, under these conditions, can it build a country like Norway and Sweden?

    • @gabor6259
      @gabor6259 2 місяці тому +19

      Thank you for this. Finally someone who's giving INFORMATION.

    • @sarpsays
      @sarpsays 2 місяці тому

      If only more people could read and understand what you wrote. These polarized tools just jump into this story now and draw a non-existing parallel to Palestine-Israel. As if this is some freedom fighting occupation.

    • @netalllf2329
      @netalllf2329 2 місяці тому

      @@gabor6259 he's lying about being kurdish he's spreading turkish propaganda

    • @bayatekmekjohn7445
      @bayatekmekjohn7445 2 місяці тому +14

      @@KurdyKurdistan. which part of it do you think was false?

    • @quzunarqozi5171
      @quzunarqozi5171 2 місяці тому +12

      @@bayatekmekjohn7445it is a turk masquerqding as a kurd🤣🤣

  • @mikenogozones
    @mikenogozones 2 місяці тому +20

    As someone who has filmed in Erbil, Duhok and Zakho; thanks for covering this topic. I do support Kurdish independence but in a peaceful and political manner.

  • @Yasir-r5l
    @Yasir-r5l 2 місяці тому +178

    Hello Mr. Lindsay, first of all, I think you shot the video yesterday because PKK claimed responsibility for the attack. I am a police officer on duty in Turkey and I have been to the southeast many times and rest assured, almost eighty percent of the Kurds do not want division or anything like that, since public support has been cut off, PKK is at the point of extinction, at least in Turkey, but primarily in America. It seems impossible (our ally is America 😅) it is supplying incredible amounts of weapons to the PKK and the YPG, and the Kurds are well represented here, even in our parliament, or rather the PKK is represented. Such propaganda is not allowed in any country in the world, especially in the West. As an international relations expert, you know this, that is the bottom line. The separatist Kurds' concern is not autonomy or establishing a state, you mentioned cultural rights, no Kurds have any prohibitions on this issue, unfortunately your information is superficial.

    • @alexisgateley230
      @alexisgateley230 2 місяці тому +60

      State propaganda speaking

    • @sudanateo4893
      @sudanateo4893 2 місяці тому

      @@alexisgateley230 PKK has claimed the responsibility, that part is assured

    • @youryoutubeyoda
      @youryoutubeyoda 2 місяці тому +1

      @@alexisgateley230 idiot actually believes that we have state propaganda like china

    • @onyxabier4502
      @onyxabier4502 2 місяці тому +15

      @@alexisgateley230 It's always entertaining to read döner kebap experts lol . Dont know about the percentage but the officer is right.

    • @powasjington4262
      @powasjington4262 2 місяці тому +16

      That’s what I was thinking when I saw this. It seems like most Kurds that live in Turkey would rather be part of Turkey, but I did meet some people who hate Turkey or said that they were part of the PKK even though they were born there, but seemed irrational to me. Doesn’t seem to be a very strong movement in Turkey at least like it was before. Seems like most Turks respect Kurds but maybe Kurds would like to have a more prominent role of their culture in Turkey.

  • @lusterinspring
    @lusterinspring 2 місяці тому +11

    0:09 armed insurgents? Do you not know the difference between terrorism and insurgency or is it just an effort to avoid using the word terrorism?

    • @lusterinspring
      @lusterinspring 2 місяці тому +1

      I was thinking so naive of you and your video. Maps, discourse… Nice kurdish propaganda… try out. Garbage. Do not lose time watching the video if you are seeking something informative and objective.

  • @michaelthomas5433
    @michaelthomas5433 2 місяці тому +6

    Türkiye certainly supports Turkish minorities in other countries, even militarily, such as Cyprus. And while it may seem reasonable for Türkiye to do so, it is also very hypocritical in its treatment of minorities inside its own borders such as the Kurdish people. Turkification started by the The Young Turks continues.

  • @semihengin6051
    @semihengin6051 2 місяці тому +40

    Thank you for the great content as always, Professor and get well soon! Just a fun fact to sum it up: All political parties in the Turkish parliament, including the ultra-nationalist MHP and the left-kurdish DEM, are calling for Abdullah Öcalan to be released from prison, brought to the parliament, and allowed to deliver a speech promoting peace to end PKK terrorism in the country. This proposal has garnered widespread support from all parties, each making strong statements in favor. Just a few days later, as President Erdogan flies to Kazan, Russia, for the BRICS meeting, a PKK-affiliated group called DHKP-C suddenly carries out a terrorist attack on a Turkish aerospace company based in Kazan, Ankara. Seems like the terrorists are not really interested in the rights of the Kurds.

    • @JamesKerLindsay
      @JamesKerLindsay  2 місяці тому +10

      Thanks so much, on both counts! It was very telling that this occurred right after the comments about possible release. Unfortunately, in these situations, there will always be hardline spoilers and rejectionists. The key is whether those who want a settlement can push beyond these tactics. Let's hope.

    • @KevinGACMk
      @KevinGACMk 2 місяці тому +17

      @@semihengin6051 Misleading information will never help neither Kurds nor Turkish government. Turkish state’s aggression against Kurds is not only within the borders but also regional. Turkey organized, armed and trained Islamic terrorism what destroyed the towns and villages, killed 25 thousands Kurdish fighters including civilians. Every single household suffered from Turkish occupation since the very beginning of the ultra- nationalist Turkish Republic establishment. The philosophy of Turkish nationalism based on “ one culture, one religion, one language, one flag…ect” Middle East is a cosmopolitan geography that has been around since ancient times. Turkey calling for peace to end insurgency but on the other hand launching domestic and regional military operations against Kurds every day. Just yesterday 36 civilians were arrested for being Kurds but nothing else. Turkey became an open air torture, de- humanization, murdering prison for the last 50 years. Turkish army has been launching air strikes in Iraq and Syria targeting schools, hospitals, electricity even water supply facilities for the last three days while calling PKK to end the conflict. Turkish state is under the deep state control and never had full- pure intentions to recognize the full existence of the Kurdish people.

    • @y.9704
      @y.9704 2 місяці тому +20

      ​@@KevinGACMkYou, the state and government of Türkiye. I think you are confusing it with the state of Israel.

    • @KevinGACMk
      @KevinGACMk 2 місяці тому +2

      @@y.9704 what is your problem with the state of Israel rather than being enemy to them just because they are not Muslim. There are 57 Muslim countries from Africa to m. East hate Israel. What sort of civilization hate others just because they are different from us !

    • @childishbrownie
      @childishbrownie 2 місяці тому +11

      ​@@KevinGACMk you will hardly make people, especially the professor, believe in your false misguided information on this platform.
      We moved far past the radical Turkish nationalism, they may certainly be groups pushing that ideology but it won't affect our government's aim for a diverse multi ethnic Nation.
      We have nearly 200 Kurdish descent ministers in the parliament, secretary of the state in Kurdish descent as well.

  • @emreicilensu4467
    @emreicilensu4467 2 місяці тому +74

    you are serving this information with missing parts of the whole story. It sounds like that why the partition of Turkiye didn't came in act after WW1 was because of the western world mistake! Why don't you mention that president Turgut Özal was kurdish?! You are bringing this problem up as like it is a ethnic problem, it is a regional problem. What about that in the Turkish parliament pkk has is political party which is DEM Parti. and and and. Very manipulative what you are saying.

    • @cia5649
      @cia5649 2 місяці тому +3

      DEM is not a the pkk? the problem is ethnich especially since kurdish isnt even allowed to be taught. back when the pkk first started kurdish were completly banned

  • @dennisalbert6115
    @dennisalbert6115 2 місяці тому +4

    PKK are all over middle east, do they want to take land from all those countries? Would have made sense if they were dealing with one country but to want to become independent from different, unique nations is madness

  • @dmc7890
    @dmc7890 2 місяці тому +15

    With all due respect. This isn't a 40 year long war. This is a 100 year war. A war of existence for kurds

  • @efebuzkir
    @efebuzkir 2 місяці тому +81

    Hey, how can you talk about PKK and "forget" to mention the terrorism that comes in the package.
    I also would like to ask you if you think ISIS militants were also ethnic nationalistic freedom fighters according to your perspective?
    Everyone knows that the west would like to see a divided and weaker Turkey but no one wants to handle the issues Turkey handles for the west...
    Turkey keeps the issues of middles away from the west, keeps the refugees in. Takes the economic impact.
    How do you think Europe would do with that many conflicts right next to its border if Turkey weakend and fell?
    Like, what do you guys want? To be able to control Turkey? Wanna try to make refugees of 90m people? Wanna push them back somewhere else?
    Also PKK is a communist organization in nature, who do you think would have an easier time controlling this hyphotetical state?
    Do you think this landlocked state would be able survive by itself?
    How much money and time would it take for this state to industrilize to be able to handle manufacturing needs of the EU?
    You all are weird man very weird.

    • @abeeceedee1842
      @abeeceedee1842 2 місяці тому +13

      @@efebuzkir an independent Kurdistan can co-exist peacefully with Turkey and other countries. It can exist just like any other country and bring no problems to anyone.

    • @mausegetlit363
      @mausegetlit363 2 місяці тому +21

      The only weird one is you, equating a fascist islamic terrorist group to an armed independence movement is crazy. Your state turkey is literally occupying multiple kurdish cities across northern syria.

    • @Leiwanderer
      @Leiwanderer 2 місяці тому

      Everyone knows the West wants Turkey to be weak? Well, I don't know that. Would you be kind enough to tell me who in the West wants this and why?

    • @efebuzkir
      @efebuzkir 2 місяці тому +6

      @@abeeceedee1842 Maybe in a perfect world where the land and the resources are unlimited for everyone and you don't need a chunk of someone else's land.

    • @ciyaresh2070
      @ciyaresh2070 2 місяці тому +12

      lol Turks and their "Everyone ought to get to us." mentality. Turkey also arms and trains various militia groups. Its just geopolitics, everyone does it against everyone, for strategic interests. The proposed "Kurdistan" doesn't encompass all of Turkey's borders, if anything, it covers the "problematic" areas that you guys seem to be complaining about all the time. East Turkey is full of Kurds and is underdeveloped. There have been some good incentives towards Kurds and Kurdish rights but the fact that Kurdish language was banned throughout 80s and 90s and that there were so many mysterious deaths around Kurdish population, you would expect them to retaliate. Even nowadays social media platforms like Instagram are full of posts mocking Kurds or denying their existence and language. Its been decades of suffering on both sides and yet some of you still claim there isn't a Kurdish problem.

  • @Crazyboy37854
    @Crazyboy37854 2 місяці тому +7

    LONG LİVE FREE KURDİSRAN AND KURDS✌🏻🇹🇯

  • @MaximilianOOO491
    @MaximilianOOO491 2 місяці тому +50

    Give the Kurds their own state of Kurdistan

    • @tevfikkemaloglu8119
      @tevfikkemaloglu8119 2 місяці тому +45

      You can give them land from your country.

    • @stelvis1984ify
      @stelvis1984ify 2 місяці тому +2

      There is not much land left in my country since Turkey illegally occupies 40% of it.

    • @rossini-ck9fw
      @rossini-ck9fw 2 місяці тому +6

      dream on hewal 😂😂

    • @rossini-ck9fw
      @rossini-ck9fw 2 місяці тому +9

      @@stelvis1984ify if greek gangs didnt murder turks in cyprus then we wouldnt have captured the 40% of the island. so, your fault bro.

    • @stelvis1984ify
      @stelvis1984ify 2 місяці тому +1

      @rossini-ck9fw thanks for admitting that the Kurdish people deserve their own nation-state within the southeast of Turkey.

  • @constantius4654
    @constantius4654 2 місяці тому +8

    What right does Turkey have to rule over the Kurdish nation who are a completely different people? The more that the Islamist minded Erdogan turns away from the West, the more the West should support an independent Kurdish state - which likely would make a better ally of the West than Erdogan's Turkey would ever be.

    • @smart6787
      @smart6787 2 місяці тому +7

      What right have the French to govern the Algerians in the country? Or Spain? We are talking about lands that have been under Turkish rule since the 11th century. Before that, the Persian and Roman Empires.

    • @mahmutolcay1748
      @mahmutolcay1748 2 місяці тому

      Turkey is occupier in Kurdistan and Kurds must be independent and free! ☀️🕊️

    • @smart6787
      @smart6787 2 місяці тому +1

      @@mahmutolcay1748 You can check the archives of dozens of countries. This region was the land of the Persians, Romans (Byzantines), Seljuks (Turks), Ottomans (Turjs) and the Republic of Turkey (Turks). It hosted many cultures before the Persians, like the Sumerians. And the Sumerians did not have a single ethnic identity. Before, nations around the world were not as clear as they are now. So go on your way, my ignorant friend.

  • @yasarerdisasmaz8383
    @yasarerdisasmaz8383 2 місяці тому +22

    Missing info , where is the USA in this case specially after Iraq war

  • @CezeriElKurdi
    @CezeriElKurdi 2 місяці тому +30

    No Kurdish person supports violence. However, Kurds have faced persecution for over a century. In Turkey, tens of thousands of Kurds were killed in places like Dersim, Zilan, and Koçgiri. Similarly, in Syria and Iraq, they faced genocide through the use of weapons of mass destruction in Halabja. There are nearly 30 million Kurds in Turkey, yet we cannot even receive services in Kurdish at hospitals. Kurds lack the right to education in their mother tongue. In schools, you won’t find a single sentence about Kurds, Kurdish history, or Kurdish literature. This is pure assimilation. In the past, nearly 17,000 Kurds were killed in unsolved murders. In Diyarbakir prison, Kurds were subjected to torture considered crimes against humanity. Female Kurdish prisoners faced brutal abuses, including electric shocks to their genitals and the use of batons.
    While all this discrimination persists, Turkey also works tirelessly to prevent nearly 15 million Kurds in the Rojava region of Syria and in Iraqi Kurdistan from gaining any kind of status. Meanwhile, Turkey has taken control of half of Cyprus for the 200,000 Turks living there and demands a state for them. If this is not hypocrisy, then what is?

    • @AlphaW121
      @AlphaW121 2 місяці тому +6

      "we cannot even receive services in Kurdish at hospitals." LOL after reading this, I don't need to read the rest of the article. I have lots of Kurdish friend but they can reach Hospitals free like me and we are equal at the law and everywhere we are not problem with Kurdish peoples. Yes you cannot get services with Kurdish language because the official language is Turkish for example look at Iran there is one official language "Persian" but in Iran theres too many Azeri and Kurds people living.

    • @CezeriElKurdi
      @CezeriElKurdi 2 місяці тому +7

      @@AlphaW121 Kurdish people are not refugees. They have been living in Mesopotamia since the very beginning of history (a large part of Turkey is part of Mesopotamia). Why is the language of 30 million Kurds not an official language? Why do you not see it sufficient for the 200,000 Turks in Cyprus to have Turkish as their official language, while you want to establish a state for them there? Why do you seize half of the land? Why do you claim that there is oppression in China's Uighur region despite Uighur being the official language there? Do other nations have rights, but Kurds do not? Just last month, in Siirt, an elderly Kurdish woman was unable to be treated because the doctor wrote in her file, "Could not be treated due to not knowing Turkish," and sent her home. Siirt is a city with a 90% Kurdish population.

    • @CezeriElKurdi
      @CezeriElKurdi 2 місяці тому +7

      @@AlphaW121 There was an earthquake in Turkey. Significant destruction occurred in three Kurdish cities. A special call center was established for the earthquake, and they provided service in nine languages, but Turkey disregarded Kurdish. The Kurds have no more rights in their own land than a refugee.

    • @MohammedAli-hl4mr
      @MohammedAli-hl4mr 2 місяці тому +5

      @@AlphaW121so you have kurdish friends but believe they don't deserve equality

    • @CezeriElKurdi
      @CezeriElKurdi 2 місяці тому +2

      @@AlphaW121 Look, this news is from yesterday. This decision was made by Turkish courts. Kurds cannot even speak to God in their own language in Turkey. The news is as follows:
      Prison Sentences for Those Giving Sermons in Kurdish:
      In a case opened against members of DİAYDER for delivering sermons and speeches in Kurdish, 12 people were sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison, while 4 others received sentences of 7 years and 6 months.

  • @KevinGACMk
    @KevinGACMk 2 місяці тому +32

    The unsolved Kurdish question in the M.East is not only destabilizing the region but also causing more conflicts day by day. The brutal regimes tried every single war crimes against Kurds but never achieved any success. Democratic- peaceful solution might have worked better than any military intervention but the regional states never had full intention of taking action on this matter by negotiating with Kurdish political dynamics. In the past, few attempts have failed as mainly Turkey imposed their own political agenda rather than compromising and cooperating with Kurdish forces demands. The reforms on the paper never had constitutional power to grant security for future; therefore practiced against the Kurds in their own country. The military solution is not a choice neither in our modern human history nor in the future
    Kind regards.

    • @luiscluzano2436
      @luiscluzano2436 2 місяці тому

      Turquiye need to stop the iraky genocide. Stop Apartheid. Childrens are dying. Cease fire now.

    • @jackholler3572
      @jackholler3572 2 місяці тому

      "Kurdish forces" 😂. More like terror organization with ridiculous and false claims used by many powers such as US europe russia iran syria... Right now west is using it and thats why they try to romenticise straight terror meanwhile they allow israel to literally obligarate a country full of people. Talking about hypocrisy 😂😂

    • @DJAD_Kaan
      @DJAD_Kaan 2 місяці тому

      umm, there was a period where kurdistan was a defacto reality, it had a parliament, and its flag was recognized and raised in many official meetings including in Ankara, so its head of state was recognized, its army was recognized and given rights to pass through multiple provinces of Turkiye. head of PKK was recognized by the Turkish Gov and they held peace negotiations in secret for years. what happened? as far as we can see, all these opportunities were used to enrich certain leaders and commanders, solidify their position, getting armed more, and planning for further hostilities. the parliament was kept on hold, not functioning, not even technically allowed to gather; and i dont remember any social and economical development for their people were pursued.

  • @adamski-l5w
    @adamski-l5w 2 місяці тому +4

    Thank you for the video Professor. Judging by your voice I suspect you are battling a bug. I hope you get better soon.

    • @luiscluzano2436
      @luiscluzano2436 2 місяці тому

      Turquiye need to stop the iraky genocide. Stop Apartheid. Childrens are dying. Cease fire now.

  • @burakkarakus6700
    @burakkarakus6700 2 місяці тому +5

    Why westerners try to understand an issue only the way they see it? This video is so out of touch on the real issue.

  • @awesomestrawberry1348
    @awesomestrawberry1348 2 місяці тому +6

    Hello Professor Ker-Lindsay, I would like to share my perspective on the general situation and challenges in Türkiye. Growing up on the western side of Türkiye, I was unaware of my Kurdish identity for much of my childhood. Although my parents are fluent in Kurdish, they never spoke it directly to me or taught me any words. They avoided it because, even today, the word "Kurd" or anything related to Kurdish identity isn’t always perceived positively. Many Kurdish people, including those like me who are ethnically Kurdish, feel hesitant to openly identify as Kurdish. There’s a fear of alienation or negative reactions from society, as well as potential backlash from ultra-nationalist Turkish groups.
    In the past, Kurdish language and culture were officially restricted in Türkiye. Listening to Kurdish music, reading in Kurdish, or expressing Kurdish cultural identity was forbidden. People had to either remain invisible or identify as Turkish. As a result, many Kurdish families were forced to abandon their language and culture. This has had a lasting impact: today, I am unable to speak Kurdish, the language of my ancestors, and I feel the loss deeply.
    While overt restrictions on Kurdish expression may have lessened, assimilation continues in more subtle ways. Although speaking Kurdish is legally allowed, there is still a sense of discrimination. For example, in 2015, after the Syrian war led to a large influx of refugees into Türkiye, Syrian families were allowed to open businesses displaying signs in Arabic in many cities. However, despite being indigenous to Anatolia, Kurdish people are still not able to display Kurdish-language signs openly. If this isn’t discrimination and hostility, I’m not sure what is.
    Another example is how the government changes village, district, and city names that are of Kurdish origin. Imagine a region with a Kurdish name that has been used for hundreds of years, recognized by generations of Kurdish people. Yet, simply because of its Kurdish roots, the government renames it, erasing a piece of cultural heritage. This has happened in many places across Türkiye.
    Similarly, in school, I never learned anything about Kurdish history, or even saw the word "Kurd" in government-issued history textbooks. It was as if Kurdish people had no historical presence in Türkiye, despite the fact that Kurds have lived in Anatolia long before Turkish settlement.
    These factors have created a sense of inferiority among some Kurdish families, especially those who migrated to western cities like Istanbul, Izmir, and Ankara. Many chose not to pass on Kurdish language and traditions to their children to help them fit in and avoid stigma. I am one of those children. Although the situation has improved in some ways, the pressure to assimilate remains.
    Finally, I notice that many Turkish people are quick to justify these policies and attitudes without fully listening to the opposition. They often seem unwilling to be open to different perspectives, which creates a climate of close-mindedness. Unfortunately, this attitude diminishes the rich diversity of Türkiye, a country with immense cultural treasures that should be celebrated rather than suppressed.Thank you for reading my thoughts and reflections. @JamesKerLindsay

  • @LuisAlvaro558
    @LuisAlvaro558 2 місяці тому

    Great video, thank you!

  • @VladTevez
    @VladTevez 2 місяці тому +37

    Professor got a cold! Get well soon!

    • @JamesKerLindsay
      @JamesKerLindsay  2 місяці тому +14

      Thanks so much! :-) It was a really unpleasant one. Feeling better today, finally!

    • @eliassolomou980
      @eliassolomou980 2 місяці тому +3

      ​@@JamesKerLindsayJames, you're in cyprus mate. Zivania koumpare :)
      You'll feel better and happier than all the covid shots you've ever had.
      Get well soon.

    • @paxdriver
      @paxdriver 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@JamesKerLindsayI'm the idiot who just assumed you got a new microphone 😅 not very intuitive, but glad you're feeling better my man, thanks again for all your great work.

  • @bilaltasci7759
    @bilaltasci7759 29 днів тому +1

    Bilgiler için tşkler

  • @behindthecrime21
    @behindthecrime21 2 місяці тому +4

    Great video😻 plus your new thumbnail style is incredible! I was shocked at first it made me watch this video instantly and comment also.

  • @asam691
    @asam691 2 місяці тому +2

    Hello Professor, thank you for the informative video; although unrelated, I think it would also be good to mention that the Turkey-PKK conflict negatively impacted Arab and Assyrian communities living in southeastern Turkey as well. Especially for the Assyrians, the conflict was a considerable factor in their drastic population decrease from Mardin, and continued conflict against the PKK by Turkey in northern Iraq has caused Assyrian villages to be bombed even as of this past July.

  • @mhamadabdul1503
    @mhamadabdul1503 2 місяці тому +15

    Would you please do a report about 25 million people who have been under oppression for one century beccause west gave their land to mongol turkish ?

    • @thebozkir
      @thebozkir 2 місяці тому

      An ignorant comment. First of all, Turks are not Mongols. The Second West did not give land to Turkey. Türkiye took it. You are obviously an enemy of Turks, but fear is of no use to death.

    • @cavitayhan8913
      @cavitayhan8913 2 місяці тому

      Bize kimse toprak falan vermedi. Yalan ağzınıza yuva yapmış

  • @caferpeksen9334
    @caferpeksen9334 2 місяці тому +1

    There is a dangerous gamble for my country. Turkey attempted peace talks with the PKK from 2013 to 2015, but they did not end well. If Turkey grants any autonomy to its eastern lands, sooner or later, the country may divide. Many Kurds living in major cities like Istanbul may find it difficult to live their daily lives. This seems to have been planned in advance, and now almost every party in Turkey is beginning to discuss peace talks. My fear is that this could lead to civil war.

  • @AthanasiosJapan
    @AthanasiosJapan 2 місяці тому +12

    Greece, which was under Turkish occupation, managed to get independence after War for Independence.
    Serbia, which was under Turkish occupation, managed to get independence after War for Independence.
    Romania, which was under Turkish occupation, managed to get independence after War for Independence.
    Bulgaria, which was under Turkish occupation, managed to get independence after War for Independence.
    Egypt, which was under Turkish occupation, managed to get independence after War for Independence.
    Do you see a pattern here?

    • @salihkaradere7278
      @salihkaradere7278 2 місяці тому +1

      Hangi bağımsıslık savaşı?

    • @barsozturk8172
      @barsozturk8172 2 місяці тому +5

      Its clear that u dont even know what "empire" means

    • @qwaeszrdxtfcgvbqwaeszrdxtf5733
      @qwaeszrdxtfcgvbqwaeszrdxtf5733 Місяць тому

      Then they started fighting each other. Just look at what happened to araps who revolted against turks.

  • @halit6407
    @halit6407 2 місяці тому +45

    AKP give them a fair chance. What they did? While peace process going PKK stocked immense amount of weapons and ammunition and use peace process to get more powerful. Result ? 1000 Turkish soldier martyred in Hendek Operation. There is no kurdish problem in Turkey, there is a terror problem and the terror inside Turkey nearly over.
    About federation, we saw the results in balkans. Have you ever heard of Turkish genocide in balkans where millions of people killed ? Exactly. Anglosaxons and their two faced politics never seems to amaze us.

    • @yakov95000
      @yakov95000 2 місяці тому +14

      Turks accuse others with hypocrisy is peak irony…

    • @CezeriElKurdi
      @CezeriElKurdi 2 місяці тому +17

      No Kurdish person supports violence. However, Kurds have faced persecution for over a century. In Turkey, tens of thousands of Kurds were killed in places like Dersim, Zilan, and Koçgiri. Similarly, in Syria and Iraq, they faced genocide through the use of weapons of mass destruction. There are nearly 30 million Kurds in Turkey, yet we cannot even receive services in Kurdish at hospitals. Kurds lack the right to education in their mother tongue. In schools, you won’t find a single sentence about Kurds, Kurdish history, or Kurdish literature. This is pure assimilation. In the past, nearly 17,000 Kurds were killed in unsolved murders. In Diyarbakir prison, Kurds were subjected to torture considered crimes against humanity. Female Kurdish prisoners faced brutal abuses, including electric shocks to their genitals and the use of batons.
      While all this discrimination persists, Turkey also works tirelessly to prevent nearly 15 million Kurds in the Rojava region of Syria and in Iraqi Kurdistan from gaining any kind of status. Meanwhile, Turkey has taken control of half of Cyprus for the 200,000 Turks living there and demands a state for them. If this is not hypocrisy, then what is?

    • @CezeriElKurdi
      @CezeriElKurdi 2 місяці тому +8

      Who has Turkey given an air defense system to? On the contrary, Turkey bombs Rojava daily with drones. Kurds in Rojava are pleading with Assad and Russia to gain some form of status. Yet, Turkey has taken control of half of Cyprus for 300,000 Turks, most of whom moved there later, and insists on a state for them. Isn’t this hypocrisy? In Turkey, millions of Kurds cannot even receive medical treatment in their own language. They lack the right to education in their mother tongue. Around 17,000 Kurds were executed in unsolved murders, with no accountability.
      What more is needed for the Kurdish issue to be recognized in Turkey? The constitution denies the Kurdish language and Kurdish identity. When a Kurdish representative speaks a few words in Kurdish in parliament, their microphone is turned off, and what they say is recorded as an "unknown language."

    • @adidoki
      @adidoki 2 місяці тому +10

      @@CezeriElKurdi The country is called Türkiye, it´s official and only governmental language is turkish. You can speak kurdish at home or the localized governmental level, but if you come to the parliament, YOU CANNOT SPEAK A LANGUAGE which isn´t official. Millions speak spanish in the USA, many mexicans are in the Senate, but they won´t go out and speak spanish for the fun of it.

    • @CezeriElKurdi
      @CezeriElKurdi 2 місяці тому +6

      @@adidoki Then why is China’s Xinjiang region autonomous? Why is Uyghur an official language and the language of instruction there? Why do you not only demand language rights for 200,000 Turks in Cyprus but also seek a state for them? How do you explain this hypocrisy? Kurds existed in this region long before Turkified Balkan immigrants like you-and even before Turks themselves. You can’t impose your own rules, call it “Turkey,” and deny the rights of 30 million Kurds. Even you have acknowledged the oppression faced by Kurds here. Thank you.
      Note: The Central Asian genetic heritage (Turkic + Mongolian genes) in Turkey is only 7%. In such a country, no one should impose only Turkish identity and the Turkish language on everyone.

  • @rahimbahramzadeh2332
    @rahimbahramzadeh2332 2 місяці тому +5

    Ausführlich, objektiv und faktenbasiert. Vielen Dank❤

  • @eliseleonard3477
    @eliseleonard3477 Місяць тому

    Prof K-L, would you consider doing a video on Syria? It’s so complicated that it would probably have to be a long one. It’s so confusing to understand who the various rebel groups are, why the outside countries are interested, how the Assad family has been able to stay in power, and whether any of them really consider Syrian civilians for whom life seems to have been pretty miserable for decades now.

  • @siphomogale779
    @siphomogale779 2 місяці тому +8

    Thank you prof for an other educational program

  • @elyesa13
    @elyesa13 2 місяці тому +5

    I deeply respect your work. Yet, these two „armed insurgents“ took a random taxi and killed the driver, drove to Turkish Aerospace and opened fire at random civilians in front of the facility. Your word of choice in this case, which does not include „terror“ is remarkably offensive and upsetting for turkish people.

    • @tkendirli
      @tkendirli 2 місяці тому +1

      He is a agent of distruction. they have tried it 100 years before. Just call him as he is.

    • @BrorealeK
      @BrorealeK 2 місяці тому

      Your government butchers civilians every day. Stop with the crocodile tears.

  • @Tozkoparan69
    @Tozkoparan69 Місяць тому +5

    VAR OLSUN TÜRK MİLLETİ 🇹🇷🇦🇿🇺🇿🇰🇬🇰🇿🇭🇺🇹🇲 VARLIĞIMIZ TÜRK VARLIĞINA ARMAĞAN OLSUN 💪😎🤘

  • @samuray6157
    @samuray6157 Місяць тому +1

    For Turkiye its not conflict , its just training for Turkish army .

  • @benb.9235
    @benb.9235 2 місяці тому +46

    Even autonomy is a utopic nationalist fantasy of the Kurds.
    In the southeast are not only Kurds living, millions of ethnic Turks are also living there.
    Furthermore some millions of ethnic Arabs and new syrian habitants plus different other ethnic goups.
    And none of them wants to live under kurdish rule. Why giving away only for Kurds, when the country is for everyone?

    • @Noman22410
      @Noman22410 2 місяці тому +1

      Lay quite

    • @tinytank6642
      @tinytank6642 2 місяці тому +10

      “The Turkish state is a utopic nationalist fantasy of the Turks. In Anatolia, there are not only Turks living there, millions of ethnic Kurds, Armenian, Greeks, Circassians and more. And none of them want to be under Turkish rule. Why give the land to the Turks while it’s for everyone?”
      You seem to misunderstand what autonomy is. You seem to think it means Kurdish ultra nationalism.

    • @benb.9235
      @benb.9235 2 місяці тому +2

      @@tinytank6642 If there is anybody unhappy in Turkiye how it is ... Turkiye is a free country, feel free to go. Bye-bye & good luck!. Turkiye has enough habitants.

    • @nanxwarcilqeten589
      @nanxwarcilqeten589 2 місяці тому

      Nothing else only independence

    • @ravenmusic6392
      @ravenmusic6392 2 місяці тому +4

      ​@@benb.9235 According to the 2024 freedom house report Turkey is not a free country

  • @axmedazeez
    @axmedazeez 2 місяці тому +16

    As a Kurd, I am always happy when you make content revolving around Kurdistan! I have to say that a lot of it is very accurate. Would love if you were to delve a little deeper into Kurdish factions’ regional loyalties and corruption on the Kurdish leadership scale. There’s a reason there’s a huge Kurdish disunity and inability to achieve independence!

    • @atk61yld
      @atk61yld 2 місяці тому +11

      @@axmedazeez Probably there never be an independece for the uprising Kurds. The funny part is you guys never asked for independence you just started to kill civilians to displace them and gain control over empty villages.

    • @lifewithjackson220
      @lifewithjackson220 2 місяці тому +1

      Accurate how? You must be coming from Syria and have no idea what its like in Turkey.

    • @atk61yld
      @atk61yld 2 місяці тому +3

      @@lifewithjackson220 As a Turk i never saw Kurds asking for independence in the TBMM.

    • @berkekadircelik6282
      @berkekadircelik6282 2 місяці тому

      ​​@@lifewithjackson220Or might be from the Iraqi Kurdístan region.
      Still, they probably don't know how it is in Turkey

    • @justaguytryingtosurvive
      @justaguytryingtosurvive 2 місяці тому

      @@atk61yld Sheikh Said rebellion?
      Ararat rebellion?
      Dersim rebellion?
      Kurdish peace process in 2013?
      Koçgiri rebellion?
      Treaty of Sèvres?
      HDP?
      all these movements started as peace negotiations that the turkish government crushed.
      here's a small list of some genocides committed by the turks against the kurds and the number of casualties:
      Dersim Massacre: 400000 deaths (turkish sources say max 7000)
      Zilan Massacre: 15000 deaths (turkish sources say max 5000)
      Sheikh Said Rebellion Aftermath: 20000 (turkish sources say max 15000)
      Village Destruction Campaigns and Forced Evacuations: 4,000 Kurdish villages were destroyed and 3 million kurds were forcebly displaced, unknown numbers of casualties but it's estimated that it was between half a million to a million deaths (turkish cources say no casualties)
      and i could go on and on for a very long time but this is just what i'm gonna give for now, if this is not enough of a reason for kurds to ask for independence, i don't know what is

  • @prazbhat
    @prazbhat 2 місяці тому +1

    Turkey creates or supports destabilisation in Iraq, Syria, Armenia even promotes Kashmiri separatism in India and Uyghurs in China. This are the reasons that they lack regional support in this issue. Turkey needs to be pragmatic rather than having high-handedness with regional powers and neighbours.

  • @justinwolf7490
    @justinwolf7490 2 місяці тому +3

    The Kurds need their own country maybe if Syria becomes democratic they could expand from old Kurdistan. A friendly EU Syrian Kurd country would not be good for Iran Russia. They would try to stop it. Something has to be done for stability though.

  • @HAAMPE19
    @HAAMPE19 29 днів тому +1

    Goodmorning brother James
    How is family bro?

  • @raman9021
    @raman9021 2 місяці тому +3

    Thanks for the video professor....um a kurd from rojava(the Kurdish region in North of syria)....turkey is fighting anything Kurdish they are bombing civil infrastructure like Oil Station , electric Station and a lot more....

  • @54032Zepol
    @54032Zepol 2 місяці тому +10

    Why is Turkiye occupying Syria?

    • @Κώστας-τ9μ
      @Κώστας-τ9μ 2 місяці тому +5

      Really , why ?
      Why is still occupies the half of Cyprus ?

    • @MertKocGt
      @MertKocGt 2 місяці тому

      Because Syria could not control it PKK was attacking from the border. It was not even under Esads control.

  • @skyblader
    @skyblader 2 місяці тому +34

    Amazing, you talked about the Pkk for almost 14 minutes and never said that they were a terrorist organization :)
    By the way the PKK already claimed responsibility for the latest terrosizt attack.

    • @prakashkr2214
      @prakashkr2214 2 місяці тому

      First learn English language.. Terrorist organization r those that target civilians, they target military and govt facilities, they don't target ordinary civilian..

  • @benjaminTolis
    @benjaminTolis 2 місяці тому

    Great video. Get well!

  • @NAZ10708
    @NAZ10708 2 місяці тому +5

    Free Kurdistan! They are the indigenous people of the biggest part of anatolia and ancient Mesopotamia. It has always been our homeland. Turkey build their state on our land. They can do whatever they want but Kurdistan will always be. They can name it whatever they like. Kurds are more than 80 million btw and also the Kurdistan map is not correct. Turkey just exists for 100 years they are not indigenous to that land. Kurds faced a lot of genocides but they are still here. They even did genocide on our history, deleted everything and changed all stories. Ataturk was a big terrorist now following by erdogan, the biggest terrorist in the middle east! Unfortunately you don’t t know a lot about the Kurds. You watched and listen to much Turkish media I guess. Probably brainwashed by them.. unfortunately..

  • @s.ronaghy7905
    @s.ronaghy7905 2 місяці тому +22

    Near 40 m Kurds without STATE....Unbeliveable!!!!!

    • @maskinisten019
      @maskinisten019 2 місяці тому +2

      🤣

    • @Ha15679
      @Ha15679 2 місяці тому +9

      Kurds are Iranian people so actually they do have a country, in fact they have two Iran and Tajikistan all are from the same population

    • @ea4163hotjzukki
      @ea4163hotjzukki 2 місяці тому +2

      Es gibt weltweit nur 20 Millionen Kurden

    • @ΕυαγγελοςΑγγελος-ρ6ζ
      @ΕυαγγελοςΑγγελος-ρ6ζ 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@Ha15679KURDISTAN KURDISTAN KURDISTAN 🇹🇯❤️💛💚

    • @omer_kobi9711
      @omer_kobi9711 2 місяці тому +2

      @@Ha15679
      Persia is not a country for Kurds, just look at the executions statistics that conducted by Persia (Iran), Kurds are only 10% of Iran yet half the number of those who get executed, we are the of zagros not Persia (iran)

  • @hiranumer3410
    @hiranumer3410 2 місяці тому +3

    Kurds want freedom and independence, so until we have our own independent state, we won't call anything else a "solution".

  • @InannaBOY
    @InannaBOY 2 місяці тому +1

    After World War I, the map of the Middle East was divided and we (Kurds) became victims. Kurdistan was divided into four parts like a cake,Since then, these four states have tried every way to disappear the Kurds and surrender the Kurds, genocide, chemical weapons, banning the Kurdish language and name, banning Kurdish memory, dance and literature,But they did not succeed, Until they destroyed one Kurdish revolution, another revolution would be created from another place.

  • @hasanaslan3845
    @hasanaslan3845 2 місяці тому +18

    Unfortunately, we are negotiating with the wrong people. We all know that the PKK is owned by some western states, especially the USA. Negotiating with Öcalan does not change anything.

    • @axmedazeez
      @axmedazeez 2 місяці тому +2

      They’re labeled a terrorist organization by the US and the EU. And the only reason the west remotely supported Rojava’s Kurdish factions (YPG/SDF) is because the war against ISIS necessitated it. Now we can argue about whether it is a just label or not (one man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter), but I think that there are big opportunities coming soon, and that Kurds from all factions all around Kurdistan should take advantage of what’s coming!

    • @hasanaslan3845
      @hasanaslan3845 2 місяці тому

      @@axmedazeez Who founded ISIS? Trump said it clearly. They needed something to be able to do freely in the region. They do whatever they want. They take the place they want. What's the deal? ISIS. The funny thing is that they control the vast majority of oil points in Syria.

  • @divinejusticefeelsgood
    @divinejusticefeelsgood 2 місяці тому +2

    Is this guy a professor or is he using this term rhetorically?

  • @kavi661
    @kavi661 2 місяці тому +43

    When Saddam used chemical weapons, Türkiye accepted thousands of Kurdish refugees. Just like in Syria. Türkiye has never committed a war crime against the Kurds (considering that Israel destroyed the cities...). Kurds have equal citizenship rights here, even if the world does not want to believe it :)

    • @darkrieshunter6670
      @darkrieshunter6670 2 місяці тому +22

      lol you are making the exact same argument that Israeli do.

    • @upendo.3570
      @upendo.3570 2 місяці тому +13

      ​@@darkrieshunter6670 exactly these people hypocrisy.

    • @jackholler3572
      @jackholler3572 2 місяці тому +7

      ​@@darkrieshunter6670 Argument is not backed in case of israel. But Turkish argument is backed. It is obviously does not attack civillians or destroy cities...

    • @samankucher5117
      @samankucher5117 2 місяці тому

      my parents were amongst the kurds that took refuge in Turkey they told us turks treated kurds like animals and they only survived because kurds in Turkey helped them respite being poor themselves.
      i grow up watching news and documentaries about the anfal genocide saddam did ill never forget the seen where a tukish janderma border gard beats up a old kurdish lady than stomp on her head .
      the un told Turkey to stop ethnically cleansing kurds in north syria a year ago it seems old habits die hard . "we kurds only bave mountains as friends and we only have victory as our destiny because we have no thing chose " is a kurdish saying the "we have no other choice " is important because there indeed is no other choice.

    • @kavi661
      @kavi661 2 місяці тому +6

      @@darkrieshunter6670 Bro, you can't understand what I mean unless you come and live in Turkey. On your television, Kurds and Turks are shown as enemies, but the situation is very different. There are 15 million Kurds living in Turkey, and they have their own political parties, dozens of members of parliament, and even the minister of foreign affairs and the minister of economy are Kurds. To make a long story short, Turkey's hostility is not towards the Kurds. PKK trained and armed by our Nato partners

  • @vbilgutay1
    @vbilgutay1 22 дні тому +1

    There are over 3,000 ethnic groups in the world and less than 200 nation states in the UN. How many of these 2,800 stateless ethnic groups should have their own nation state? I think a more realistic goal would be to ensure that all citizens of a nation have equal and full citizenship rights. My view is that Turkey needs to relax its restrictions on Kurdish-Turks and allow them to better express their cultural heritage without limitations. That said, Turkey has the right and responsibility to protect its cohesiveness and territorial integrity. PKK supporters should know by now that Turks will pay any price, be it in treasure or blood, to maintain Turkey’s territorial integrity. I’m also a US citizen of Turkish origin and can tell you that minorities here face similar issues to the ones highlighted by some of the commenters. For starters, I’d much rather be a Kurdish-Turk in Turkey than an African-American man here in the US. Do you have any idea what would happen to African Americans if they started an armed secessionist rebellion? Look up what we did to the Native Americans. By the way, English is the language used in the US (schools, etc.), but immigrants from Germany and their decedents make up the largest ethnic group in the US, you don’t see them taking up arms. There's even talk to make English the official language of the county, primarily to keep in check and expedite the assimilation of the growing Hispanic population.
    There were also some comments about Ataturk’s saying: "How glad he who says I’m a Turk". Firstly, I should point out that Ataturk (which literally translates into “fatherturk” and was given to him by the Turkish National Assembly) was a blond man with blue eyes, how many ethnic Turks from Central Asia would fit that description? But more importantly, he used the word “says” not “is”; in essence to be a Turk in Turkey all you have to do is say you are a Turk and embrace the responsibilities and privileges that come with it.

    • @JamesKerLindsay
      @JamesKerLindsay  22 дні тому

      Thanks so much. This was a really great comment. I appreciate it enormously. You touch on many important points. But as someone who comes from a diverse country (and is actually of mixed English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish ancestry), I’ve never understood this obsession that some other countries have with territorial unity at all costs. I have absolutely no problem with Irish unification. If that’s what the people of Northern Ireland want, then so be it. The same with Scottish independence. And Wales. I hope they would stay in the Union, but it is their choice. I wouldn’t dream of removing that choice from them. Political unions should be based on consent and shared benefits, not coercion. I always remember discussing this with Turkish people who had a real issue with Kurdish being an official language in Kurdish areas and being used in government offices. They couldn’t accept this. But in Britain this is exactly what happens with Welsh. I know that the key difference is that Turkey doesn’t in fact have a formally identified Kurdish region and so people would say it’s not the same as Britain, I would say not having such an area is probably part of the whole problem. And if, one day, it wanted to break away, then so be it. Wish them well and have a good relationship.

    • @vbilgutay1
      @vbilgutay1 20 днів тому

      @@JamesKerLindsay Prof. Ker-Lindsay, I thought I had posted this reply the other day however, since it's not on display I figure I must have made some kind of error, so here it is again. Regards
      Prof. Ker-Lindsay, your comments reminded me of an English friend who once told me that the only upside of Brexit was that it might entice the Scotts to leave the Union. It was obviously in jest but reinforces your sentiments. I’m not a political scientist but follow Dr. John Mearsheimer and agree with him that the international system is anarchic. As such it behooves nation states to accumulate as much power as they can to protect their interests and thus maximize their citizens well being. Turkiye, unlike UK and other “first world” nations, has not yet achieved that level of economic wealth or security. It’s also relevant to note that Turkiye finds itself in a very dangerous neighborhood and knows that the “west” is not a natural ally. Turks remember that the Treaty of Sevres was a virtual death sentence for Turkish nationhood and more recently EU’s treatment of Turkiye’s aspirations to join the club made clear that not much has changed since then. Given this background, Turks are obsessed (some may say paranoid) with building a strong and powerful nation that can resist the threats they see all around them. A critical element of which is keeping its territorial unity and having a cohesive population.
      However, I think this desire to preserve political and territorial unity at all costs is not unique to Turks. I think the horrific American civil war offers another example, the South left the union and fought to preserve slavery, the North, on the other hand, fought primarily to preserve the union. Lincoln would have gladly accepted the South keeping its slavery tradition (with certain provisions) if they had agreed to remain in the union. I guess I could also offer China and its very risky efforts to reunite with Taiwan as a more current example.
      Prof. Ker-Lindsay, hope I made a reasonable argument for my case. I would also like to request if you can do a video about US intentions in NE Syria. I know the stated objective was to militarily “degrade and destroy” ISIS, but as far as I can tell it’s been a number of years since this objective has been achieved. At this point I’m a bit suspicious that there's an opaque agenda, among other things I’m wondering if US wants to use YPG/PKK to form a puppet Kurdish statelet. I can see this as being a win-win scenario for both parties. If not for something big like this, why would the US be jeopardizing its relations with a major NATO ally?

  • @FlamingBasketballClub
    @FlamingBasketballClub 2 місяці тому +14

    Please do a video on the nature of state sanctioned violence.

    • @luiscluzano2436
      @luiscluzano2436 2 місяці тому

      Turquiye need to stop the iraky genocide. Stop Apartheid. Childrens are dying. Cease fire now.

  • @jackali5014
    @jackali5014 2 місяці тому +12

    Love Kurdistan

    • @R2d2..
      @R2d2.. 2 місяці тому +2

  • @HavalPuko
    @HavalPuko 2 місяці тому +8

    Many Kurds are not Muslims, there are many other religions in Kurdistan! And those religions are ancient Kurds religions such like Azdayi, Zierdeştî, Elewî, Yarsanî, Kakayî …etc.

  • @echarts3710
    @echarts3710 2 місяці тому

    12:00 Important to mention that the nationalist leader in question is Devlet Bahçeli, who is the former enemy and now political ally of Erdoğan.
    Coming from Turkish perspective: Almost every political party in Turkey (beside DEM Parti and few others) are against any rapprochement with Öcalan and PKK, which I also agree. But the disagreement is over how this problem should be resolved and the scale of it. Meanwhile, the arguments of Turkish Kurds are more about socio-cultural rights rather than territory.
    There are no discussions regarding independence and few over federation or autonomy, since there are also Kurds living in western Turkey and Istanbul. However, the problems they often cite are which primary language should be used in education and the removal of elected mayors in eastern Turkey.

  • @MartinMartinm
    @MartinMartinm 2 місяці тому +3

    Loving the channel, professor. Great video.

  • @mutav2166
    @mutav2166 2 місяці тому +7

    FREE KURDISTAN

  • @quantumbrain3161
    @quantumbrain3161 2 місяці тому +1

    thanks for nice video. Which camera and microphone and video editor program do you use?

    • @JamesKerLindsay
      @JamesKerLindsay  2 місяці тому

      Thanks a lot. I have steadily upgraded my equipment over the years. I now use a Sony FX3 camera and a Sennheiser MKH50 microphone. (About the very best set up one could ever hope for at this level, and probably overkill. 😀) I use Final Cut Pro for my editing.

  • @achmedaan
    @achmedaan 2 місяці тому +26

    It's hard to feel empathy for the Turkish position when the only demand from Kurds is a greater degree of autonomy as part of the Turkish state. I think attacks targeting actors related to the state is understandable when a country is absolutely unwilling to hold a referendum on the future status of a territory.

    • @DiabloXTU
      @DiabloXTU 2 місяці тому +14

      It's not about autonomy. First, they want federal kurdish areas in the countries, than they will merge as an independent kurdish state.

    • @eceerpek8149
      @eceerpek8149 2 місяці тому

      Well what an ignorance when elementary and middle school teachers were captured and tortured…
      What an ignorance when innocent children were captured and brain washed by PKK and used as a suicide bomber
      What an ignorance when there is thousands of mothers who were calling back their kids to come to their home
      What an ignorance when innocent lives has been put out to danger to destabilize Turkiye with a strong support of US and Russian weapon industry…
      What an ignorance when the same thing happened in Donbass all west was completely against it…
      It has never been the problem of empathy on Turkish Government side. It was the sources outside of the region that supported this “autonomy” demand
      What an ignorance when you simply think in a place were middle east a referandum will solve problem
      And again what an ignorance to say that when an innocent hard working mother tried to collect her anniversary flower and shot down by terrorists
      One last ignorance of you, it’s not a problem of Kurdish vs. Turkish, it’s a problem of terrorism from PKK. It’s PKK vs. Turkiye.
      Level up!

    • @luiscluzano2436
      @luiscluzano2436 2 місяці тому

      Turquiye need to stop the iraky genocide. Stop Apartheid. Childrens are dying. Cease fire now.

    • @andin3720
      @andin3720 2 місяці тому +3

      @@DiabloXTUKind of like Palestinian are asking.

    • @luiscluzano2436
      @luiscluzano2436 2 місяці тому

      @hakanozaslan9571 Turquiye need to stop the iraky genocide. Stop Apartheid. Childrens are dying. Cease fire now.

  • @User99007
    @User99007 2 місяці тому +1

    Well done, Mr. Ker-Lindsay! You know enough of the history of this conflict . We as readers- or any educated reader, would be surprised to hear someone denying the fact that KurdIsh people are living on their own historical lands in today's "Turkey, Iraq, North-Eastern Syria and Western Iran." That is the problem; the republic of " Turkiye" is a Turkish state.. and IT doesn't recognize the Kurds as a distinct ethnicity or minority, therefore, everyone living on that land is called: a "Turk"- wheather they like it or not, i.e. Mountain Turks (a nickname for aboriginal Kurds).. and others are treated as Turks.. Some may say : 'that is good enough!'.. but that is not the point. As we all can see, names like " Turkiye", "Mountain Turks".. reflect the psychology of the Turkish state's denial " in word and action." Kurdish people are local people on their native homelands for thousands of years; they are not outsiders. They have the same rights, as other ethinc communities- to all the privileges and distinct national acknowledgement.
    In order to solve a problem, any problem, one needs to recognize that there is a problem, otherwise the problem stays as is. Denying the existence of a problem does not constitute its NON-existence.
    Any prolonged unfair treatment of others, may produce a reaction. Justice needs to be served first. We hope that the future is going to be better for all.

  • @EmirKATIRCI
    @EmirKATIRCI 2 місяці тому +39

    The amount of gaslighting and misinformation in this piece and the comments is eye watering.
    1) Kurds doesn't have thousands of years history nor they were anywhere in Anatolia. If they were someone please explain to me why they are not mentioned anywhere in Anna Komnene's Alexiad as a local power or nation? She even talks about Celtic warriors but no mention of Kurds. Alexiad is recognized by all historians as an accurate representation of the political situation and powers at and around the time of 12th century in Anatolia and around Byzantine Empire. Somehow all the sources they use to make-up their fake history they are always mentioned in different names. Yet Turks are always mentioned as Turks. I wonder why is that? Do you know why?
    2) Kurds in Anatolia, Northern Syria and Northern Iraq and Iran have always been used by UK, France, USA, Russia and Israel to destabilize the area for their own political gains. Efforts to cause insurgency against the Ottoman Empire by British, French and Russians are well documented. And they caused a lot of problems to the new Republic of Türkiye.
    3)If Turks and Türkiye was racists against the Kurds why did we let the Kurds that run away from Saddam Hussein in between 1988 to 1992? We gave shelter to the Kurds like we are doing to Syrians? How racist are we to save them? Mean while in Iraq so called Kurdish territories have a lot of Turkmen (Turks) that have been living there since the Byzantine empire. They were also tortured and killed by Saddam. Cities such as Mosul, Kirkuk are Turkish cities and these regions were Turkish. Yet Kurds now a days claims it all by the help of USA because the are is rich in petrol. If this area wasn't recognized as a Turkish area why the British accepted to pay the Republic of Türkiye the proceeds from these areas for 100 years in the Treaty of Lausanne? Why they didn't refuse Turks and pay the Kurds if they were the realm power?
    4) In the Turkish Constitution it's said that anyone that's tied to Republic of Türkiye with the ties of citizenship is called a Turk "Türk Devletine vatandaşlık bağı ile bağlı olan herkes Türk'tür.". Like when you become a citizen of USA you become an American or Canadian or French or German or English or Greek or Indian whatever... Somehow nobody talks about these countries I've mentioned but they hypocritically blame Türkiye for calling it's citizens Türk/Turk and it's racist and oppressive. Also neither Turkish constitution nor laws that does any racial, religious or language discrimination. If we were doing discrimination how come so many of the politicians and the direct representative of the PKK/YPG called DEM party would still be in Turkish Parliament? Since the foundation of Republic if Türkiye there have been ministers, prime minister, parliament members, municipal and loval governors, judges, lawyers whatever you can think of from Kurdish ethnicity like ethnic Turks or any other ethnicity that's a citizen of Türkiye.
    5)PKK/YPG/Whatever they call themselves has been used as a check on Turkish power in the area by adversaries of Türkiye. This issue has nothing to do with independence or Kurdish freedom. When PKK started its armed terrorism around 1983 and attacking villages, extorting locals etc... Public's opinion and government's policies and approach changed over the years. If you expect Republic of Türkiye to bow down to the demands of terrorists you so call "freedom fighters" why did the west fought against ISIS? Why they didn't accept their demands? Hypocrisy all over again. But one thing is clear when it's about Turkish people Turks are always to blame right? I know there will be many Armenian, Greeks and racists that hate Turks will comment under mine with their own made-up stories and histories. I don't care they know what I'm saying is true.
    6) PKK/YPG doesn't just want freedom. They want to be able to freely control and govern their state and also want to have a say in Turkish state. Because they believe they have the right to all of Turkish State and lands. But somehow professors such as yourself never talks about that issue do you? Did I say hypocrite?
    7) I as a Türk am going to fight until the day I give my life for my country. Because they are terrorists. You won't negotiate with terrorists you exterminate them!

    • @samankucher5117
      @samankucher5117 2 місяці тому +1

      everyone look thats☝🏼 the official state propaganda of the turkish government against kurds . now you all see why there will never be peace in the middle East because of people like this one and there governments that brainwash them .

    • @bugrasevinc9696
      @bugrasevinc9696 2 місяці тому +5

      Thank you for the excellent explanation of your side of the situation.

    • @ciyaresh2070
      @ciyaresh2070 2 місяці тому +18

      Writing long paragraphs mean nothing if your first sentence is wrong. You say Turks are not racist but you are straight up denying existence of Kurds lol. Denying existance of an ethnic group and their language is racism 101. Kurds are mentioned so many times in the ottoman archives. Your own Sultans used the word Kurd and Kurdistan in their decrees. Kurd's were a big help for Ottomans during the Otto-Safavid wars, especially in 1514. You also talk about Kurdish political parties in Turkey but you don't mention how its irrelevant to have them since you confiscate their winnings anyway. Kurdish party wins local elections in eastern Turkey and you just take it away from them claiming the winner is a "terrorist". If that was the case why would you allow him run for elections in first place? if he is indeed a terrorist why wouldn't you let Kurds to chose another mayor instead of just assigning yourself that isn't from the Kurdish party? you cannot do such actions and call yourself a democratic country.

    • @EmirKATIRCI
      @EmirKATIRCI 2 місяці тому +13

      @@ciyaresh2070 I like how you jump on without really reading what's been written by me and zero sources to support your claims. Trying to get me into your straw man fallacy where you make up your own point and argue about it while omitting the fact that I'm directly addressing the claim that is made by the professor in the video where he says Kurds have a history that stretches to thousands of years. I openly put 2 sources one from 12th century called the Alexiad which shows the political situation and powers in play in and around Anatolia and Byzantine Empire. Which says nothing about Kurds. Second was Treaty of Lausanne from 1923. If the Kurdish people was very prominent as this so called biased professor claims why did the parties to the Treaty of Lausanne accepted to pay the proceeds of the area to the Turks when these PKK/YPG terrorists and their allies claims these were Kurdish lands? Why they didn't say no to the Turks and pay to Kurds? Because they don't have a history that goes back to thousands of years and they don't have the right to those lands. It's all made up by the Treaty of Sèvres at the end of the WWI. Now using those made up claims they demand lands from Turks.
      As for your democracy claims it seems you have delusional understanding of what democracy means. PKK/YPG representatives DEM party is not sorry that these terrorists attacks continue, they don't accept these terrorist attack as terror and they don't accept this terrorists organization as terrorists. They just attacked civilians a day ago. And they want to be taken seriously while holding political power. The current political leaders of Türkiye is betraying the Turkish people and the country by letting these people enter into political race without them dissolving the terrorists organization armed conflict. What happened between IRA and England? What happened between ETA and Spain? Did they let them have any political party in their parliament without dissolving the terrorists organization? No. You're again being nothing but a hypocrite and say this is democracy. If this is democracy where you let terrorists do whatever they want and demand lands and freedom and you let their political party continue to be than I don't want to have such democracy. No democratic principal is going to make me accept that these people have a right to demand anything while supporting terrorism and terrorists. Good luck with your delusions.

    • @ciyaresh2070
      @ciyaresh2070 2 місяці тому +6

      ​@@EmirKATIRCI Yes, I didn't read rest of your text because you are nitpicking certain events and pretend rest doesn't exist. Since you want me to answer your claims, which I will shortly, can you also reply to my claims about Kurds being mentioned in the Ottoman archives? What about your famous seyethanem? What about Selim 1 granting Kurds tax and military exemption because of their help in Battle of Chaldiran in 1514? What about Selim sah-name? What about "Sharafnameh" by Sharaf Khan Bidlisi, written in 1597?
      The Treaty of Lausanne was influenced by the geopolitical interests of the time, particularly the desire of the Allied powers to stabilize the region and prevent further conflict. The Kurds were not given a voice in these negotiations, and their claims were largely ignored.
      As for your "The Alexiad" source.It's focused mainly on Byzantine court affairs and military campaigns. Just because Kurds weren't mentioned doesn't mean they weren't present; they simply might not have been relevant to the specific events Anna Komnene detailed.
      Anna Komnene wrote about areas of primary Byzantine interest. The absence of mention doesn't equate to non-existence, especially if those areas weren't the Kurds' primary regions.
      Absence in one source doesn't negate existence. Many cultures and peoples weren't recorded in every historical document but existed nonetheless. But i have already given you many sources in the first paragraph.

  • @yusufc1826
    @yusufc1826 2 місяці тому

    There is an important point in the latest events: There seem to be a split inside PKK. They now have warlords in the border mountains that have been operating for decades. Their chief used to be Ocalan, before prisoned. Even after prisonment, he continued ruling the actions of PKK via cryptic messages and letters from inside. However it's been 20 years since he's been in prison now and there have been recent cases in critical and controversial situations that the warlords defied the decisions of Ocalan; acting on their own opinion instead. People read the latest attack as an opposition to a peace effort. My opinion here; since they've been living in the mountains, in a constant battle mentality for decades, they cannot ever think of an end to the violence. So they sabotage any effort.

  • @glycerin3179
    @glycerin3179 2 місяці тому +34

    I am a Turk not living in Turkiye but i occasianally talk with people from there. And i personally don't think there is a kurdish problem, the kurds are considered equal to others and they can study, work, govern. Legally there is no discrimination against them. By the way kurds already have autonomy and rights, kurds can get elected and represent their people and there are already so many in the parliament and also as mayors. They can speak their langage, but just not in the places like school, work and that is normal because turkish is the official langage of the country.
    Note : there is a kurdish party called DEM, (it was HDP before) and they're voted only by kurds, but a part of the turkish population doesn't like them because they instrumentalize this kurdish problem and they have relations with pkk (the terrorist group that wants to build k*rdistan)

    • @AL-grhvc
      @AL-grhvc 2 місяці тому +2

      obviously one does not need to be a professor to know these facts. 👍👏👏

    • @MateoMPM
      @MateoMPM 2 місяці тому +15

      You do understand that's exactly the same argument Israel uses right ? So I guess it's okay

    • @AL-grhvc
      @AL-grhvc 2 місяці тому +11

      @@MateoMPM except israel bombs and massacres palestinians for decades now. The comment above has nothing to do with what israel does by the way.

    • @OzKi-b9y
      @OzKi-b9y 2 місяці тому

      Why do you turks think your propaganda works. Same misinformation on all posts relating to Kurdish redentist movements.
      The worse thing to happen to Kurdistan is the Turkish occupation.
      Stop trying to trick people.

    • @dirtyyarenblacc9985
      @dirtyyarenblacc9985 2 місяці тому +3

      ​@@MateoMPMUntil the last election, Kurdish majority provinces, vote depot for Erdogan but He assigned governor for municipalities which voted for opposition and being antipathetic since 2015. It attitudeabout Firstly, gain to vote for next election because of lack of popularity, Secondly open to new front agains Iran to support Israel aren't be suprised, before Hammas Attack, Israel's most third Export to country is Turkey. Althogh Davos Crisis Erdogan never cut Trade relations with Israel, Erdogan most supporter of Israel in this political of atmosphere in Turkey. Isral must be keep in Erdogan with power.

  • @ismaciilcabdillahiyuusuf2650
    @ismaciilcabdillahiyuusuf2650 2 місяці тому

    The World with peace, unity, integrity and love,, watching from berbera somaliland republic,,

  • @kangmoabel
    @kangmoabel 2 місяці тому +40

    Kurdistan should be a country 🙏🙏

    • @AL-grhvc
      @AL-grhvc 2 місяці тому +2

      too late.

    • @umut7034
      @umut7034 2 місяці тому +7

      Only if all Kurds are to leave Turkey after the division of the country. Is that a possibility? Surely not. So what's the point then if not all the Kurds are to live in newly established Kurdistan?
      Most of the Kurdish population currently live out of so called Kurdistan region

    • @AL-grhvc
      @AL-grhvc 2 місяці тому +2

      @@umut7034 the dimwits who make these comments forget that only in İstanbul, let alone southeast Türkiye, 2 million kurds live. So they must be suggesting the deportation of these people to so-called kurdistan 😅

    • @pompacitokmakci
      @pompacitokmakci 2 місяці тому +6

      Kirds are not even an ethnicity, nothing is uniting kirds neither language(they speak mutually unintelligible languages) nor history.

    • @umut7034
      @umut7034 2 місяці тому +1

      @@AL-grhvc yup, you're right. That's actually why It's impossible to divide the country into two separate parts.

  • @Bbbbb-e
    @Bbbbb-e 2 місяці тому

    There may be mistakes in some policies, but as stated in the video, Kurdish names were allowed, the ban on broadcasting in Kurdish was lifted, and now there are a few Kurdish TV channels on TV that I can easily find. There are also Kurdish language and literature departments in universities. The Europeans, who are looking for the only problem in us, are not aware of what the PKK is doing to us.

  • @KonradAdenauerJr
    @KonradAdenauerJr 2 місяці тому +16

    "Kurds have no friends," goes a fatalistic, but perceptive Kurdish proverb.

    • @osmanisildak2448
      @osmanisildak2448 2 місяці тому +7

      Kurds are literally belong the same ethnic group of Iranians and Armenians, it appears they all have problems with getting along with others

    • @KevinGACMk
      @KevinGACMk 2 місяці тому +7

      @@KonradAdenauerJr we have some friends as the international community realized the reality and recognized the real story of this tragedy. The only problem is we are a nation that our leaders, politicians, philosophers are either get killed or jailed for life time. Our intellectual power going through genocide year by year. Nearly one million Kurds massacred for the last few decades.

    • @childishbrownie
      @childishbrownie 2 місяці тому

      ​@@adamblackwell524 Wikipedia ya göre kurdler iranilar etnik gurubundan geliyor. Eski Türkler Kıpçak Kırgızlar neden Kürtçe konusuyolar ?

    • @agaperion
      @agaperion 2 місяці тому +11

      I heard it's "The Kurds' only friend is the mountains."

    • @KevinGACMk
      @KevinGACMk 2 місяці тому +4

      @@agaperion this is a historic say “ there is no friends but mountains “
      This is because of being massacred 29 times but none of the international powers or community really cared about us.
      There were no schools in the region in Turkish at that time.
      Kurds are not allowed to have education in their mother tongue so old generations upraised against Ottaman and Turkish Republic but failed. New generations are more educated, having their political resistance worldwide

  • @WorldTravelerCooking
    @WorldTravelerCooking 2 місяці тому

    I think the conflict between Turkey and the US over de facto independence for Kurds in Iraq and Syria and their reactions to the PKK is exactly why Turkey is so closely tied to Russia as a regional national security partner.

    • @tinytank6642
      @tinytank6642 2 місяці тому

      Turkey is not ‘closely tied’ with Russia at all

    • @WorldTravelerCooking
      @WorldTravelerCooking 2 місяці тому

      @@tinytank6642 They have started coordinating more and more in Syria.

  • @Jompabompa
    @Jompabompa 2 місяці тому +30

    Love how Turks whine about what Israel is doing when Turkey does the same against the Kurds.

    • @user-nk5qf4nm5p
      @user-nk5qf4nm5p 2 місяці тому +4

      says a jew.

    • @umut7034
      @umut7034 2 місяці тому +12

      How many Arab presidents did Israel have? Or Prime minister?
      Nope, it's not a similar case. Please fact check first

    • @AL-grhvc
      @AL-grhvc 2 місяці тому +4

      ignorance at its best 👏👏

    • @childishbrownie
      @childishbrownie 2 місяці тому

      We don't bomb hospitals, schools, or rescue camps.

    • @childishbrownie
      @childishbrownie 2 місяці тому +4

      ​@@umut7034 yes, Turgut Özalan, our 7th president with Kurdish descent.

  • @OnlineKurdish
    @OnlineKurdish 2 місяці тому

    The Kurds inhabit a much larger geographical area, but in your map, they are shown in a very small region. Please use the correct map on the thumbnail of your video, as the current one inaccurately represents the Kurdish population and area

  • @AliHassan-hb1bn
    @AliHassan-hb1bn 2 місяці тому +13

    Britain must give up all foreign territories too and stop medling.

    • @stephenchappell7512
      @stephenchappell7512 Місяць тому

      Already has done apart from a scattering of islands too small for independence

  • @Laaracansever
    @Laaracansever 2 місяці тому +1

    There may be a hope for a complete ceasefire. One of the most prominent reasons if that is US’s aim to focus on Asia-Pacific instead of the Middle-East. We all know that US is an ally of Kurdish guerrillas in the region. The shift of US’s foreign policy will leave Kurdish separatists groups more vulnerable. That’s why they will be more eager to make a deal which ls more favorable for the Republic of Türkiye with Turkish government. Also, YPG is losing Russia’s support because Russia is tired due to the war in Ukraine. That’s why I believe that there is a hope. However, Turkish government cannot succeed if the deal will be done with only Öcalan. Öcalan has been kept in prison for almost 25 years and his influence on Kurdish separatists groups is now questionable. A lot has changed in 25 years, there are many fractions which have different views on the issue in different countries concerning Kurdish independence movement. So, even if the peace is possible, I think that it can be possible within the borders of Türkiye and threats coming from Iraq and Syria will continue to affect the country.

  • @Todd.B
    @Todd.B 2 місяці тому +5

    The new thumbnail looks great. Hopefully, plays better with the algorithm. Yellow is an eye catcher as people scroll through the algorithm, but not too much yellow. As far as a resolution to this situation, I don't see it happening as with most middle eastern conflicts. The only solution is a 2 state one and that idea is never very popular.

    • @JamesKerLindsay
      @JamesKerLindsay  2 місяці тому +3

      Thanks so much, Todd. I really appreciate the feedback. I had wanted to do this for ages. I just needed to find the right designer who got what I wanted to do and could work with me. (Not easy! 😀) By the way, I’m going to try to write a members community post over the next few days. Lots of updates to give you all!

  • @KurdeRojava-tu9cl-n6c
    @KurdeRojava-tu9cl-n6c 2 місяці тому

    2:02 This is not true, the population of Kurds is much more than 30-35 million today. The 35 million in question is only the Kurdish population in the North, namely Turkey. The real Kurdish population is more than 70 million.

  • @turkkahvesi07
    @turkkahvesi07 2 місяці тому +4

    In Türkiye there are Zaza and Kurmanc people, and Mitterrand's children who have been designed and labeled as Kurds by the West. The West kept the exiled Armenians in the mountains and those people married to two or three women and they were told to have as many children as they can because the West would establish a country for them in the future. Girls of 12/13 years of age were abducted and married older men by force ( I knew one of them who went through such a situation and had run away leaving two kids behind). One man had three wives and more than twenty kids. They were all fed by the West in the mountains. The West did not let Türkiye to invest in the area so the people had migrated to big cities. Those designed and labeled as Kurds were placed in the area. Today, in Türkiye when someone says "I'm a Kurd" he/she is the Kurdoid produced in the Zagros laborataries .

    • @JohnDoe10350
      @JohnDoe10350 2 місяці тому

      You're insane.

    • @turkkahvesi07
      @turkkahvesi07 2 місяці тому

      @@JohnDoe10350 the truth hurts!

    • @ozgurtaskiran3616
      @ozgurtaskiran3616 2 місяці тому

      Fooling yourself 😂

    • @turkkahvesi07
      @turkkahvesi07 2 місяці тому

      @@ozgurtaskiran3616 I am not fooled by others like you!✌️

    • @ozgurtaskiran3616
      @ozgurtaskiran3616 2 місяці тому

      @@turkkahvesi07 Kurds been fooled by the westerners over 100 years we know that also Turkish government fooled us same time we know that either I like to you know we know we been fooling that’s why we never give up I’ll let you know that

  • @ricelaker
    @ricelaker 2 місяці тому

    I was stationed near Diyarbakir, the largest Kurdish city in the majority Kurdish area of Turkey in 1981 to 1982.Turkey was under martial law then. Sometimes we were not allowed off base when there was word of probable PKK activity.

  • @selyil
    @selyil 2 місяці тому +3

    Öcalan left Syria in 1998 not in 1988.

    • @JamesKerLindsay
      @JamesKerLindsay  2 місяці тому +1

      Thanks. I know. I misspoke. Sorry. (I was dealing with a very heavy cold.)

    • @selyil
      @selyil 2 місяці тому

      I hope you feel better now professor!

  • @nicolascharlier3183
    @nicolascharlier3183 2 місяці тому

    Hello from France! The Treaty of Sèvres is pronounced "Sevr" ( with terrible French 'r' I know), with 'e' here like 'ea' in "bear" in English, and not "zebra" at all. I'm myself History teacher in France and I liked your work.

  • @diyarozer3465
    @diyarozer3465 2 місяці тому +14

    Yaşasın bağımsız Kürdistan

    • @ahskal8592
      @ahskal8592 2 місяці тому +6

      Hiçbirinizin canı türkiyenin toprak bütünlüğünden daha önemli değil.
      Bil istedim.

    • @diyarozer3465
      @diyarozer3465 2 місяці тому

      @@ahskal8592 ne dedi ne dedi

    • @ahskal8592
      @ahskal8592 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@diyarozer3465
      Toprağımızı nasıl bir hassasiyet ile koruduğumuz tarihi sicilimizde mevcuttur.
      100 sene Toprağımıza tasallut eden bir başka milleti nasıl aradan çıkardığımızı duymuşsunuzdur.
      100 sene öncemizden kat ve kat güçlüyüz.

    • @diyarozer3465
      @diyarozer3465 2 місяці тому +1

      @@ahskal8592 tabii duydum katliam soykırım yalan dolan cinayetler işkenceler hapis zindanlar hepsini de biliyoruz daha dün Rojava da sivil katledildi biz dünya farkındayız kimseye yalvararak hak istemedik yaşasın Kürt Kürt dili ve Kürdistan

    • @aliklc1970
      @aliklc1970 2 місяці тому +1

      Armenia in fact

  • @talatguneyli13
    @talatguneyli13 2 місяці тому +1

    No government can give autonomy in Turkey even it wants to , other than that they have all the rights. This conflict will keep on going as long as the west keeps supporting the PKK even if they call it a terror group and those are the so called allies of Turkey !

  • @berkleystreetcapital3588
    @berkleystreetcapital3588 2 місяці тому +9

    Can you make a video on civil rights movement by black panthers in usa and segregation which was looking for Black homeland in usa.

  • @aze1392
    @aze1392 Місяць тому

    The issue is The "Anglo-saxons" gave words to armenians and kurds to establish their country if they will fight against the Ottomans during WW1. Then the same idea was popular among Russian Tsardom Governors, they tried to do the same with them. Everything in the middle-east is about Destroying Ottoman empire. It continiued with Soviets helping establish PKK and KCK in the late 70's.
    Turkey still having the same problems with kurdish terror organisation (pkk) from 80's and armenian terror organisation (asala) from the same time! Do not close your eyes to the reality.
    THERE IS NO POLITICAL PARTIES BEHIND PKK OR ASALA. THERE IS TERROR ORGANISATIONS BEHIND THEIR PARTIES (PKK) (PYD) (YPG) (ASALA) (TASHNAKSUTYUN) (HINCHAK) and etc.

  • @wilhelmheinzerling5341
    @wilhelmheinzerling5341 2 місяці тому +24

    The West should stand with the Kurds

    • @darkrieshunter6670
      @darkrieshunter6670 2 місяці тому +9

      Terrorism bad ok?

    • @yasarsincar956
      @yasarsincar956 2 місяці тому

      @@darkrieshunter6670 kim terör hangi terör bi halkin dilini kulturunu iradesini ülkesini şgal eden kim yeterince derinlikli bi video acıklama olmamiştır selamlar

    • @luiscluzano2436
      @luiscluzano2436 2 місяці тому

      Turquiye need to stop the iraky genocide. Stop Apartheid. Childrens are dying. Cease fire now.

    • @jackholler3572
      @jackholler3572 2 місяці тому +2

      They do and they support terrorism but Turkey is not palestine. 😂

    • @luiscluzano2436
      @luiscluzano2436 2 місяці тому

      @@jackholler3572 Turquiye need to stop the iraky genocide. Stop Apartheid. Childrens are dying. Cease fire now.

  • @saffetkalender3868
    @saffetkalender3868 2 місяці тому +1

    Thank you for covering such a key and complex subject of the conflict between Turkish State and the PKK. Your narrative missed a lot of crucial elements that would turn the meaning on its head. You didn’t want to mention about the foreign hands like US, UK and France would like to keep dispute going, using this conflict as a leverage to obtain political upper hand and help Israel as the the ally to expand in the area to safeguard the interest of the west. Türkiye is no longer a server to take orders from the west and prioritize the interest of the west over its own people. Besides, only about 10% of the Kurdish population in Türkiye support the PKK which is due to the tribal culture. If you check out the Kurdish areas in Türkiye, you will see these areas are almost as developed ad the west.

    • @tinytank6642
      @tinytank6642 2 місяці тому

      Hah, as developed as the west? Where’d you get that. Ankara refuses to give a dime to Kurdish provinces

  • @Vellupellu
    @Vellupellu 2 місяці тому +14

    Turkey has bad history with minorities, the genocides were a result of widespread ethnic autonomy weakening the Ottoman empire. Also with every concession the government's negotiation position weakens, since rights and privileges are hard to revoke without major backlash.

  • @GotterVibez
    @GotterVibez 2 місяці тому

    But why dont turkey never request nato allies help in this fight? This being an attack on nato territory

    • @tinytank6642
      @tinytank6642 2 місяці тому

      They do. CIA and other intelligence agencies help MiT. But even Turks are wary of American and European involvement.