Comments by "Toot My Kazoo" (@g1u2y345) on "Johnny Harris" channel.

  1. I wish you went into more detail as to what changed. Why did they suddenly try to go east. The fall of Constantinople is why, and the closing of trade that followed.
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  2.  @Pats4lyfe  Coming from a Turk? Istanbul pogrom, and Armenian, Assyrian, Pontic-Greek genocide, the burning of Smyrna, the current oppression of the Kurds. This was just the past 100 years, but there was also the centuries of gradual cleansing & conversion of the Greek population in Anatolia, which they used to be the majority of..
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  3.  @ItsMeHammie  Someone has to be the world’s police, and I’d rather it not be China or Russia.
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  4.  @ItsMeHammie  What’s the disagreement? If the US isn’t the strongest by a massive margin, China and Russia could easily compete. What’s the solution to this? Just let them enforce their will on the world?
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  5.  @yalcnbey5834  You are Turkish, try not to be biased. The Ottomans did have a policy of assimilation, especially in the later period of the empire. The Jizya, and jannisary system were some methods of assimilation. Understand that western Anatolia, and eastern Thrace didn’t become Turkish by magic. Many assimilated in the Balkans as well but migrated to Anatolia following the Balkan wars
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  6.  @Founderschannel123  Turks were in Central Asia 1000 years ago. The Turks didn't fully control Anatolia until a bit more than 550 or so years ago. The island of Cyprus was even more isolated.. also in 1970 the island was only 17% Turkish, 80% Greek.
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  7.  @kamilyelim8929  Cyprus was over 80% Greek before the invasion. Look at the genetics of mainland Turkey man.. the highest Turkish DNA percentage region (Bodrum & Marmaris) was only an average of 19.75% ethnically Turkish. Whats the other 80%?
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  8.  @yalcnbey5834  Also if you look into the Arab revolts and the reasons they wanted independence from the Ottomans, you will see discrimination against non-Turks as one of the primary reasons.
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  9.  @paulsetti9484  Cyprus was settled by people from the Peloponnese. They were Greek. Although there were quite a bit of Phoenician settlers as well who became hellenized.
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  10.  @alperalazraki  that's because you are looking at it from a biased incomplete perspective. The deal was rejected because it was unfair and gave too much power to the government in Turkey. It also would allow Turkey to station its army in Cyprus indefinitely. That is not reunification, it is occupation.
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  11.  @bengiyardimli1925  those people who "cannot travel freely" aren't Cypriot citizens. They came from mainland Turkey. Turkish Cypriots with a legitimate Cypriot passport can travel freely. Tell me why, still to this day, Greeks who lost their homes and all their belonging are still not allowed to collect their things? Go watch part 1 of this series, he shows an example of this. Turkish Cypriots from the beginning were always able to go back and collect their things but not the other way around?
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  12.  @B1GuD0G  According to the Turks none of those things happened. I wonder why they are on the grey list next to Pakistan. You should also mention how during the Istanbul Pogrom (Massacre) 20 years before the invasion of Cyprus they were chanting "Cyprus is Turkish". This was before any attacks were done on Turkish Cypriots. Theyve been wanting that island for a very long time. It has nothing to do with Turks on the island..
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  13.  @KayraR  Turks in Greece are fine, look at Western Thrace. Turks there have continued to exist peacefully unlike the Greeks in Turkey. If Cyprus were to ever unite with Greece, Turkish Cypriots would be fine just like the Turks in Western Thrace are. Now if Cyprus were ever to become part of Turkey, im sure the Greeks there would be erased just as they were in Istanbul and the two islands.
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  14.  @TheWorldHasGoneNuts  this comment here gives an interesting perspective on what nationalism does to a person's mind. Your mind is so desperate to explain the things you see in a way that fits your narrative. This is called 'confirmation bias'. This rampant nationalism is a plague in Turkey and people like Erdogan are to blame.
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  15.  @bengiyardimli1925  Cypriots were not okay with that. Let me teach you some history.. EOKA was first formed to fight off the British.. not the Turks. They only became hostile to Turks after the Istanbul Pogrom. I'm not justifying what they did as two wrongs doesn't make a right but come on..
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  16.  @maazkalim  there are many many good reasons why it isn't recognized, just as the annexation of Crimea is not recognized. Everyone knows it exists, but to officially recognize it would legitimize what Turkey did as well as make it easier for other countries to do the same thing in the future. It also would cause a major diplomatic issue with all parties involved if it were to be recognized. By leaving it unrecognized leaves the door open for future negotiation. Also Cyprus has plenty of reasons to be hostile to Turkey, you know this. If Google maps didn't show Turkish citizens a map with the TRNC on it, Google maps would get banned in Turkey. Just as if in China, they didn't show Chinese citizens a map which includes Taiwan, Google maps would be banned. To have a separate version of the maps for these disputed territories just makes all parties happy, which is what a business should do..
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  17.  @bengiyardimli1925  "You cannot teach me anything" Truer words were never said 🤣
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  18.  @askosefamerve  Only the Turks think the burning of Smyrna was done by Greeks, the rest of the world does not follow Turkish propaganda. Try thinking for yourself once and awhile. Kurdish discrimination was around since the founding of Turkey.. there were several massacres of Kurds in the early 1900s. The oppression continues to this day.
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  19.  @alitiner9967  the island was over 80% Greek at the time of the invasion. It's important to remember what happened in Istanbul 20 or so years before the issues with Cyprus. Look up the Istanbul Pogrom as I am sure they don't teach you about it in schools. Istanbul had over 200,000 Greeks before this, and as a result of it, they all left. It's understandable for Greeks to hold some long term resentment towards Turks after this. Why didn't Greece intervene to protect the minorities? Should it have?
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  20.  @alitiner9967  do you know what they were chanting during the pogrom? They were chanting "Cyprus is Turkish". This obviously all happened before any violence was committed against Turkish Cypriots. These two incidents are not unrelated, rather a response to the Greek massacre in Istanbul. 'Pogrom' means massacre btw. The Istanbul pogrom was spearheaded by a Turkish organization "Cyprus is Turkish" (CTA). By what right did the Turks have to do this? Once again, Cyprus was over 80% Greek at the time so by what right was Cyprus Turkish? Based on all this, you don't think Turkey was just waiting for the right moment to invade Cyprus? There was this huge movement pushing to do exactly that growing in the country for over 20 years.
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  21.  @maazkalim  You cannot convince a nationalist. That's just the way it is. You are stuck on your opinions and nothing will ever change them.
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  22.  @TT12993  "arrived before the Turks" is putting it lightly.. Greeks from the Peloponnese first settled there in 1200 BC. Theyve been there continuously for over 3000 years. Of course they have a much stronger connection to Cyprus than the Turks.
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  23.  @phantom-xb6wv  look at the science behind it. Both Greek and Turkish Cypriots are genetically identical, DNA studies have been done. So the conclusion you can come to from that is the Turkish Cypriots on the island are simply Turkified Greeks, similar to what happened in Crete. Greeks settled there 3000 years ago so it's safe to say, they are the natives.
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  24.  @maazkalim  uhh I think you got one of them "reading comprehension" issues.
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  25.  @MSFSFreeware  I don't deny what happened to the Turks on the island, I never had. You first went from "no Greeks were kicked out from the north" to giving exact numbers. You ignored my entire nations based around nationalities argument, and refuse to consider that 80% of the population of the island wanted union with Greece as they were Greeks. The Greek regime in charge at the time was terrible and nobody is disagreeing with that. You mentioned the distance of the island as if that should mean anything in this discussion, I think it shows the basis of your argument around the island.. the island is close therefore it belongs to Turkey?? If the island was 80% Turkish and 17% Greek instead I am SURE you would be arguing that the island should unite with Turkey. You are the one biased here, I am not even Greek.. why are there no Greeks left in Turkey? Yet in Greece, Turks are a thriving minority in Western Thrace.
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  26. Turkey won't allow that to happen. Turkey offers unfair deals to the government of Cyprus. All of the reunification plans gives the Turkish government most of the power there. Try not to biased okay? Look at how the Turks treated the Greeks of Istanbul, have you heard of the Istanbul Pogrom? Terrible thing. Now there are no Greeks left in Turkey. Yet in Greece, Turks are a growing and thriving minority. The Turkish government is at fault here.
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  27.  @HAlagoz1  That isn't true. Many nations over the years have conquered and ruled over it, but the population there has been Greek for thousands of years. Just like modern day Greece, it was ruled over by the ottomans but they didn't forcibly convert them and they retained their Greek culture and identity. Or are you trying to say that the people there are part Venetian and British too? It is only in recent years that the Turks are forcibly making all their lands Turkish only. Colonization didn't happen in those times.
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  28. It is widely known that Turks are actually only between 0% and 20% genetically Turkic. There was a study done in 2018 which shows average Turkic percentage per region.
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  29.  @alitiner9967  okay do more research on the Istanbul pogrom. There are photos of it, you can see banners with "Cyprus is Turkish" on it. As well as reports about what they were chanting. The fake news created a nationalist backlash there, which is why they were chanting what they did. My point was that Turkey and Turkish people wanted that island for decades, long before any violence in Cyprus. The violence merely gave them an excuse to do what they wanted, and the current occupation of the island is proof of this.
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  30.  @maazkalim  Are you from India? Side note: You seem to watch this channel's videos just in order to spread hate on them. I don't think I've seen a single positive comment from you on any of his videos, yet you comment a lot. Let me make a guess here.. you are an Indian nationalist and Johnny made a video at one point which wasn't too positive about India, and ever since, you watch his videos just to hate them?
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  31. And here I thought colonialism was long dead.. guess not. Remember that Turkish people didn't even make up 20% of the population. Now Northern Cyprus is full of Turks mostly imported from the Turkish mainland. If that is not colonialism I don't know what is
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  32.  @HAlagoz1  Cypriot shows up separate from the Greeks of Greece. Cypriots remained pretty isolated from the rest of the Greeks for quite some time now, but the dna is still Greek. If anatolian Greek was still a thing, that DNA would likely match up with it. The vast majority of Turks in Cyprus were originally Greeks who eventually assimilated to Turkish culture. That was pre Cyprus split though since Turkey has been importing settlers from mainland Turkey into Northern Cyprus
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  33. Discovering in the sense that these lands were unknown to pretty much the rest of the world.
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  34.  @Sahtoovi  If you mention any of the things going on in Palestine, youtube can censor you. It's particularly because of the words you use, not because of the topic.
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  35.  @yotsura2109  The Turks colonized Anatolia before the Europeans made it to the Americas..
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  36. You should have mentioned the Istanbul Pogrom which was very related to this issue. During the massacre they were chanting "Cyprus is Turkish" 20 years before the eventual invasion of Cyprus. This was before any violence was committed against the Turks on the island. Turkey has been wanting this island for decades and found a nice excuse to eventually attempt to take it.
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  37. Nothing will be done about it, it seems. Just as nothing will be done to the Turkish colonists in North Cyprus, the Israeli colonists in Palestine, the Azerbaijani colonists in Armenia and the Chinese colonists in Tibet and East Turkestan. It is the way the world works now it seems.
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  38.  @maazkalim  ageism? So you really are the 5 year old in the picture? Wow.. that explains a lot.
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  39. That's because it is overseas Turkish land. It being an "independent country" is a facade.
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  40. That treaty does not expire. There is no secret agreements made in that treaty like the nationalists like to claim. Literally nothing changes for Turkey in 2023. Erdogan might push for something though based on these false claims.
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  41. There are 3 more videos in this series. Why does nobody cover the attrocities Turkey committed? The Armenian genocide, the Istanbul Pogrom, the Constantinople massacre, there are plenty, yet nobody knows much about any of them.
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  42. Northern Cyprus is not a country. It is just occupied by Turkey. If they had invaded the entire island of Cyprus it would not be independent. It would just be a part of Turkey. It's totally different to Taiwan which are the natives of the island, unlike Turks which are not native to Cyprus
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  43. Trading with the Ottomans for 500 years? Are you sure you're not thinking of the Byzantines/Romans?
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  44. As it always has been
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  45. Relevance? You're talking like the Kurds are refugees.. They lived in that land long before the Turks did.
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  46. He did.. It’s like you didn’t watch the intro of the video and are just commenting because your god Trump was criticized..
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  47.  @abdisamadhirsi6864  Not true at all. Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots are genetically identical. This is due to assimilation on the island from when it used to be ruled by the Ottomans. Imported Turks are not Cypriots and feel a closer connection to Turkey than to Cyprus.
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  48. "White privilege"? What? Most people wouldn't consider Greeks white even. Turkish people heavily mixed with the Greeks who used to live in Anatolia. Greeks and Turks are practically the same race.
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  49. Interesting that an invader and occupier of a region is somehow considered a martyr..
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  50.  @arolemaprarath6615  Anatolia is where much of Christianity originated from. It is the Turks who made it Muslim, not the Arabs. The Turks became Muslim when they were still in Central Asia.
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