Comments by "Ggoddkkiller" (@ggoddkkiller1342) on "Why Turkey’s Expanding Military Footprint is Unstoppable" video.

  1. This was mostly quite funny but still i have to mention few huge mistakes as it looks like they are misunderstood or just propaganda: 1- Erodgan's Ottoman love has nothing to do with expansionism, Turkey doesn't have any claims at all past our current borders even if we actually have a right to claim. I bet most of you have no idea but Turkey actually can claim Mosul as it was ceded to British Iraq with conditions which were violated in recent decades. But we will never claim Mosul or anywhere else as Turkey might look small on world map while in reality it is second largest country in Europe so we don't need more lands and especially more problems those lands would bring especially if those lands are so destabilized.. 2- So ''Ottoman love'' isn't about international politics rather it is about domestic politics. In the west there is this perception about Turkish war of independence that ''Turkish nationalists'' won but in reality we call them Turkish revolutionaries not nationalists simply because there were all kind of political factions in it. Nationalists, liberals, islamists, communists you name it, while nationalsits + liberals + communists were the majority coalition in the parliament so they did mostly what they wanted and there were many arguments even during first years of Turkey. This was also the reason why soviet union saw the new government as a possible ally and heavily supported them during the war. After war was over the reform era began and islamists were again mostly ignored, Ataturk himself tried to include them into government not once rather twice as he didn't want an one sided solution but his attempts failed because the government couldn't function anymore because of never ending arguments. After him the left coalition took it further and began suppresing islamist-right wing even with coups sometimes. So Turkish right wing always felt they weren't listened and part of this new Turkey while erdogan represents their lost voice, at least acting like he does and all those Ottoman propaganda to claim that. 3- Turkey didn't support any side in Syria until late 2015, 4 years after the war began! And it changed because first isis then syrian government began attacking Turkmen cities like Azaz so Turkey began arming Turkmen groups against both of them. Russian plane was also shot down because it was targeting Turkmen groups in Azaz after crisis both Russians and assadists had to stop targeting Turkmens. Later in 2016 Turkey began supporting FSA who aren't jihadists and began establishing security corridor through entire Syrian border. Currently there are over 5 million mostly displaced Syrians are living in this corridor and HTS controlled Idlib not according to Turkey rather according to UN! And vast majority of those people don't want to live under assad's rule which means if assadists capture those territories most of them will run into Turkey and become refugees further increasing already 3.5 million Syrian refugees inside Turkey. We can not allow such a thing to happen so Turkey will keep occupying northern Syria until Syrians are convinced to return government areas if it ever happens ofc as assadists killed hundreds of thousands civilians in the war. Turkey entered Idlib according to Astana agreement signed by Turkey and Russia YEARS before assadists were even close to the region. In 2020 assadists could defeat indeed jihadist HTS and push into Idlib close to Turkish checkpoints but Turkey forced them to stop as there are 4 million displaced Syrians in Idlib. There was even a small scale conflict as russia/assadists attacked a Turkish base and killed many soldiers as a retaliation Turkey launched an operation and killed several thousand of assadists mostly with drones. After SNA was established from FSA ofc Turkmen groups became also a part of SNA but they aren't majority rather SNA is majority Arab. 4- 12 million Kurdish people out of Turkey's 18 million Kurdish minority live in WESTERN Turkey not eastern Turkey. And the biggest Kurdish city in the world is not Diyarbakır, Sanandaj or Erbil rather it is İstanbul with 3 million Kurdish population! So it is completely false Turkey has been always at a war with it's Kurdish minority, vast majority of us live peacefully and do not want any separation, in fact there are over 4 million marriages between us! Also because of this unity vast majority of Kurdish people in western Turkey do not teach their children Kurdish anymore and Kurdish speaking population has been decreasing exactly same as Wales, Scotland, Catalonia etc. But ofc Kurdish ultranationalists see this unity as the end of their nation began ''an independence war'' as marxists first with soviet funding. After soviet union collapsed and their funding was gone, they started using drug trafficking to finance them and it is still their main income trafficking mostly heroin from Afghanistan to Europe. But ofc they are also mercenaries to hire, they even fought for Iran between 1994-1997 during Kurdish civil war while they began American mercenaries after 2003, first under umbrella of PUK peshmerga (PUK and US made a deal to cooperate in the region, while PUK is 100% legitimate Kurdish forces but they also often used PKK terrorists in their ranks as they were in an alliance with them until recent years) while later as YPG/SDF. There are around 2000 PKK terrorists in YPG ranks and even their commander Mazloum Kobani is actually a known PKK terrorists, just search his name you will see. But don't worry our western ''allies'' made sure he is a retired terrorist now rather ''a hero of democracy''... 5- First of all Azerbaijanis and us don't only have Turkic ties, we were literally same people in the past called SELJUKS! Seljuk empire controlled a massive area from Iran to Caucasus and Anatolia so as a result some Seljuk Turks settled into Anatolia, some into Caucasus, some into Iran. In time we established different countries and became slightly different nations, we are exactly like Germans and Austrians, we are basicly same people but have different countries. And Turkey was always supporting Azerbaijan even a hundred years ago! You have no idea but russian empire only surrendered to Germans in the west while kept fighting against Ottoman in the east during WW1. So Ottoman organized a massive counteroffensive to save Azerbaijanis from russian occupation in 1918, everybody knew the war was over and Ottoman lost but still they couldn't abandon Azerbaijanis! It was extremely successful they could push russians as far as Dagestan and completely cleared Caucasus from any entente forces so that's how all Caucasus countries could declare their independence from Russian empire in 1918. Ottoman surrendered only few weeks later and soldiers were called back then russians invaded Caucasus again in 1920 as Bolsheviks this time but still even not yet established Turkey couldn't abandon Azerbaijanis so there was serious arguments to include Azerbaijan to Kuvâ-yi Milliye (Cores of Turkish republic) which would mean there was going to be a war between Soviets and Turkey almost 100%. But Turkish war of independence was still ongoing on the other side Russian civil war was still ongoing so both sides decided to fix the issue diplomatically. Treaty of Kars was signed in 1921 which ceded many territories to both Turkey and Azerbaijan and Soviets recognized both independence and borders of all Caucasus countries and their borders are exactly same as 1921 today expect Armenian invasion of Azerbaijan ofc. Armenian majority Karabakh is only 7% of Azerbaijan while Armenia invaded 20% of Azerbaijan literally three times larger area and displaced over 800,000 Azerbaijanis! If anybody could imagine we would let such injustice to slide you just have no idea who we are. With our support Azerbaijan liberated it's territories and the region returned to it's lawful 1921 status but it is not enough, invading 20% of a country and illegally occupying it for 30 years while causing insane damage to both people and the land requires Armenia to pay reparations! If they don't pay reparations Azerbaijan will invade 20% of Armenia and occupy it for 30 years exactly same as they did.. 6- We would never ever use isil fighters simply because half of them are French citizens and we do not trust Frenchmen!! You westerners are very quick to accuse Turkey for supporting, using isil etc while we are the only foreign force which fought against them with it's own forces not proxies and there are literally tens of thousands westerners in isil but ofc they are just brainwashed innocent people, right? RIGHT??.. 7- Turkey becoming an empire only because wicked kings, princes and dictators hate Turkey is just so moronic claim, let me ask you a simple question which Muslim countries are pro-Turkish? Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Algeria, Tunisia, Libyan people elected UN recognized GNA, Qatar, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan etc, what those countries share with each others?? Pretty much all of them are Republics and have some kind of democracy! While only kingdom which is pro-Turkish is Qatar simply because all other arabic kings, princes, dictators etc see Turkey as a threat because their own people rather Turkish rule than theirs!! This doesn't make Turkey an enemy, doesn't make Turkey trying to establish an empire rather it only makes them incapable leaders. While the west supports those kings, princes, dictators etc despite all of their atrocities simply because they very well know any people elected government would be pro-Turkish further increasing Turkish influence in the region.
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