Comments by "Fredrik Dunge" (@DaDunge) on "Geopolitics of Turkey in Europe" video.

  1. I doubt it Turkey is not weak and Russia is not the Soviet union. Weaker enemies than Turkey have resisted Russia sucessfully. That said Turkey would be in for an uphill battle.
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  2. Ahmo Therese a huge diffrence between digging out resistance fighters out of a mountain range. Another entirely to take major population centres with good infrastructure.
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  3. Bulgaria and Serbia perhaps but Croatia Bosnia and Slovenia would never turn to Russia, they may have bad experiences of being under Turkish rule but their most recent bad experiences are of being under Serbian rule which is effectively what Russia would ensure. I would say the west Balkan countries are much more likely to turn to Italy or France for support than to Russia. Perhaps even Germany.
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  4. It's actually a lot more complicated than that. Loads of different empires have ruled that area over the millennia and every one of them has deposited their minorities in their wake. Carving the middle East up into homogenous nation states to way we did Europe is a mistake. Look at all the suffering such pursuits led to in Europe.
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  5. Taking Anatolia may prove hard the mountainous terrain would allow the Turks to keep fighting for decades. In the same way that the Turks themselves have never been able to fully break the Kurds. But taking all major population centres would not be that difficult. That said taking those natural boundaries wouldn't change that. Turkey would be a lot better of defending the territory it does have than annexing unruly territories beyond its current borders which would just stretch their limited forces even thinner.
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  6. Saint Joseph Oh certain it if were talking the neighbours but Turkey have a lot of coast which means that countries far further away could likely attack them.
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  7. Those would be great objectives if you were planning to wage ww1. But war has changed in the last century. Hitler proved that static defences are virtually useless when the enemy has tanks and bombers. Gallipoli may have been impossible to take in 1915 but in 2017 the defences on the shore would be annihilated by aircraft from aircraft carriers paratroopers would have made outer ring defences pointless. While Turkey guarded besarabia and the iron gates their enemies would simply have airdropped their forces unto the Bulgarian plain. Taking and holding land which would be rebellious for natural boundaries of questionable use would be foolish.
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  8. erdal0 Ever heard of the Berlin airbridge?
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  9. Eh Turkey "invaded" Cyprus because Greece was trying to annex it.
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  10. Imperator Gr that is again very much oversimplifying the situation.
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