Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "Turkey is the Wildcard of NATO" video.

@mrblackmamba117 Like another said: they're central Asian peoples. And in fact the ottomans were an invading force which eventually made Anatolia their home and saw themselves as the successors to the Roman state (the original name was the "Rûm"), who at that point had already conquered through Iran and took up cultural characteristics. Also look up the Seljuks. Turkic history is quite long and in real terms some of the only ones to admit they're foreigners who made a new home where they currently are. Btw Xinjiang is "East Turkistan" where they're primarily Turkic peoples
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@Serkanbah Much like the Prussians who then united Germany
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@tezcanuyank3446 Yeah and frankly one of the few ones left in the world and in a region where you're surrounded by no others. Once the Americans pull back and shift internally again, Turkiye absolutely has a shot at remaking the ottoman empire
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@nesrin demirhan In order: Mostly yes, mostly yes (though most of those were reciprocated), no, and kind of. In any case... whataboutism means really nothing, and I didn't use it as a mark against the civilization or people either. It's just a matter of fact. The point in bringing it up, was that the person I was responding to was asking about the Hittite civilization, and I was saying no. It was simply to say that the Turks are largely a warrior culture and the way they got to Anatolia is reflective of that. Not to mention, I don't believe there is a population of modern humans where they are now that weren't the product of some sort of violent migration that replaced the previous population.
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@nesrin demirhan As far as I know, they're today primarily Turkic with definite cultural influences of the previous ones (like I said they considered themselves the successors of the Roman empire in ottoman times), but genetically as far as I know it was primarily a population replacement.
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@Asker Eh... there MAY have been a previous Turkic population in Anatolia beforehand, roughly 4000 years ago. But it was very small. The seljuks also did not go to Anatolia because of the Mongols. That may have been the reason they left central Asia, but it's not the reason they're in Anatolia. For North America and Oceania, native populations died at rates incredibly high due to disease leaving a mostly empty continent. For South Africa, that was the Dutch not the British. The British certainly had the largest empire of all time, but what does it even matter? Especially since so much of it was just Africa (a continent mostly in the Iron age and cut off from the world) and India (mostly ruled through local elites in many instances).
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