Comments by "Arthas Menethil" (@arthas640) on "Neo-Ottomanism: Turkey’s Dream of Power" video.

@memezmemez5176 more like the opposite, Turkey tried to play the east and west off eachother just like they did as the Ottomans, only instead of playing China and India in the west off Europe in the west it was the Soviets and Americans. The Ottomans used to spread rumors about Asia, Ike claiming that cinnamon was so expensive because it had to be harvest from nests of birds so large they killed horses when in reality it was just tree bark and they did something similar by exaggerating how rare some Scandinavian and Russian pelts were when selling to China. The Ottomans became an empire by being the world's middle man, tacking massive markups to Asian produced goods going east and European goods going east and doing the same with African goods going east or west. Their greed in this regard was why Europe gave up on the Ottomans and decided it was easier sailing all the way around the globe to buy straight from Asia. The Turkish sphere of the Cuban missile crisis happened for much the same reason. They didn't want to have communism "given" to them like eastern Europe so they agreed to keep the west out of the black sea. They still needed western aid, western money, and western guarantees of independence so they joined NATO and agreed to host nukes since many countries thought nukes would guarantee no one invaded you. This is precisely why China and North Korea demanded Soviet nukes and why Cuba agreed to host them and asked for control of those nukes. You also failed to bring up the Bay of Pigs, the Soviet invasion of Hungary, or the Berlin Crises which all motivated both the American and Soviet sides to brinksmanship. Turkey tried to play the middle man and play both sides off eachother in the cold war, same as they did during their ottoman days. People don't usually like hegemonic powers trying to rule them and they don't like middlemen. The fact that Turkey loves to interfere on other countries business and are keen to sell weapons to anyone who will pay and selling those weapons cheaply so they can be affordable to authoritarian countries doesn't help either, people didn't like it when the Europeans did that same thing in their african colonial history either. Few outside Turkey are likely to want neo Ottomanism.
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@jeremiahblake3949 they also claim Cyprus and occupy half the country in a standoff with the greeks and west, and they claim a unique control over the black sea, exporting the west and Russia to keep a balance of power
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@firasajoury7813 when exactly was Turkey colonized and had tens of millions of their people die during colonization? I'll admit to not being an expert on Turkish history but the only genocides I'm aware of in turkey were by turks against greeks, Armenians, and Kurds. Turkey was briefly occupied after ww1 but kicked out the Europeans and declared that their new state was unrelated to the Ottomans do they wouldn't need to face an issues relating to those genocides. As for genocides outside of Turkey and not related to the turks that's outside of the subjects discussed which are Turkish relations with Europe and Turkish relations to their neighbors, especially fellow turkic peoples and turkeys relationship with some of their former colonies. If you want to rant about unrelated European colonial history there are tons of videos on YouTube abou that including some that touch on that on this channel
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