Video really isn't about the Turkey. It's about how they were used like a fiddle throughout many countries. Harris' focus on here is the US, his own country.
I am a Kurd from what is called Iran. born in Iraq and grow up in the Iraqi Kurdistan. Half of my family lives in Iranian Kurdistan and the other half in Iraq. In iraq they call me Iranian and in Iran they call me Iraqi. I have never had a passport or Citizenship. When my grandfather was sick and dying, i was not allowed to cross the borders and meet him, i never meet him throughout my live. I call out people around the world to read and learn about all the other genocides and ethnic cleansing by those mentioned countries. And thank you for making the video. Sayad,
@eranhaim9913 People in Israel have been through what we are going through, and we expect them to support or understand us. But I have not seen any actions from them personally. Knowing I might be worng
@@sayadyosefi2660 our government are too scared to anger Erdogan who is already preparing and saying things against us. I think the right thing to do as Israel is to defeat Assad and Iran and help the Kurds get their country back
crazy how much the US has used the kurds without ever really helping them E: stay in school kids. otherwise you'll end up as a 35 year old telling people you don't understand the necessity of repaying debts made in blood or the importance of upholding your reputation as a trustworthy person in the comment section of a TH-cam video you couldn't finish
Don't hate the player hate the game. I can link dosens of links of muslim conquests of how their ethnic cleansing are causing problems until this day. If you think Europe was doing a singleplayer playthrough of colonies, conquest or slavery then you are delusional
“We were told that we were going to be attacked, but it was too late, and the notice was too short. All of a sudden, we heard the sound of bombs dropping all over the town. People started coughing, tears streaming from their eyes, and all I could think about was running. I grabbed my brother’s hand and ran as fast as I could, struggling to survive as people were dropping dead. I was getting weaker and weaker, but for the sake of my younger brothers, I had to pull through and just keep running. We survived the attack and stayed in a cave for a week without food or water. I had to go back to the town to search for something to eat or drinking water, but when I returned, I found a ghost town, filled with thousands of dead bodies lying on the ground, among them my relatives and neighbors.” This is the story of my mother during the Halabja chemical attack as she tried to survive the chaos. She and many others posed no threat to anyone, and all that we Kurds have ever wanted is to own the lands where we have lived for thousands of years, before anyone else claimed it as their homeland. This is just one story, but there are thousands more as we have endured many other genocides. Where is the justice in this?
It's crazy that anticolonial movements in Palestine have massive support in these countries, yet they have their own version of the Palestinians they are oppressing themselves. Edit: Replies prove my point. Tons of hypocrites replying to this comment saying 'it's different' but then using the exact same arguments as the Israelis. "freedom! civil rights! (Just not in my backyard!)"
The Kurds never had a state in this region and no one here owes them one they themselves migrated to west asia later. Israel was founded after WW2 when Palestinians were already living there. The situation is not comparable in the least. If you care about this so much then why don't you talk about the Zazas,Yezidis and Assyrians who think Kurds stole their lands? Armenians also accuse them. See how messy this gets? It is not as simple as "Uhh just give them independence!". Turkey is the only country and moderator that keeps the peace in their part and prevents them going for eachother's throats and that's a fact.
@@soundwave2481I think you legitimately could not have made it more obvious that you are a Turk. Which is especially funny, because all Oghuz turks (except maybe the Turkmens) stole the land they consider their ancestral home. 1000 years ago, there were no turks in Turkey, no Azeris in Azerbaijan, etc. They stole all of that land. And considering how the government of Turkey treats Kurds and Greeks in their country, and how both the Turkish and Azerbaijani governments opress what little remains of their country's Armenian populations, seems like not much has changed.
There is a province called Kurdistan in both Iran and iraq, but there has never been any country called Kurdistan and never will be, not from my soil(Iran)
@@marwansa7293 boy, you've been trying to do that for 2500 years. Don't make me laugh. There's no place called east kurdistan, never has been, never will be
@@ibrahimm.6803humans came from Africa, humans established in sumaria, built by slaves making them the first to practice slavery. Thatd mean Africans are the chosen ones because they were created first…
I am a Kurd. There are so many stories of the Kurds to be told. We have suffered a lot more than what's said.. here is a very little part of our history which is full of blood, tears and pain : the regime of Baas al Iraqi ( which is Sadam Hussein's party ) did: 1. Every single day people went missing and got tortured and killed by there soldiers. 2. They did "Anfal" which was taking thousands of people away to deserts and burry them ALIVE among which were children, women and old people! 3. They did many chemical attacks to many places in Kurdistan the most brutal one was the the chemical attack on Halabja in which more than 5 thousand people died immediately and more than 10 thousand people got injured ( some died and many are suffering till this day) and many families lost their children which to this day they have no been found.. I am from Halabja ( that exact city) even after all these years on March 16 which is the date of the attack, there missing children ( which are not children anymore) are not found. The Anfal is not even considered as Genocide ! There are many other things to be told . The only reason of those people's deaths is that they are KURD and nothing else..!
Kurds were used against Armenians in the genocide. Ca. 100 years later, the grudge is mostly resolved. Öcalan has personally made major steps to reconcile and normalize Kurdish-Armenian relations, despite being jailed. The SDF has an Armenian battalion. The same progress has been ongoing with other minorities, like the Assyrians (who suffered genocide themselves at the hand of Turkey, and were promised a state, partly overlapping with the proposed Kurdistan, which has been a source of conflict). There are Assyrian battalions in the SDF. Most of this reconciliation and alliance building is done at the command of a jailed leader, Öcalan.
Kurds have been living in that region thousands of years before the first Turk or Arab tribe ever migrated there. If anyone deserved to have their own state, it's the Kurds. Even though as an Iranian I believe Kurds are one of the most ancient Iranic peoples and it would have been better if they were part of Iran today, as we are one people, just different ethnicities
I am a Kurd born and living in Turkey. I have Turkish friends and neighbors. Every race or society what ever you call it includes bad and good ones. I have met with some Turks who accept me more than some Kurds. My family and I have never experienced any discrimination from anyone other than some Kurds who blame us because not being a terrorist and a murderer.
Batı nın amacı Orta Doğu devletlerini üç veya beşe bölmek. Doğal olarak Kürtleri veya diğer etnik grupları kullanırlar. Maalesef Kürtler bu oyuna geldiler, ben Kürtlere hep şunu derim ABD çekildiğinde ve Kürtler Türklerle, Araplarla ve Farslarla baş başa kaldığında ne yapacaksınız?
@@kilic958 Batının amacı hem petrol hem de savaş çıkartıp silah satmak. Terörist örgütler yaratıp savaş çıkartıp hem o örgütlere hem de devletlere silah satarak milyarlarca dolar kazanıyorlar. Özgürlük vs. onların umurlarında değil!
@@kilic958batının amacı büyük İsrail devletini kurmak son zamanlarda gördüğümüz gibi İsrail topraklarını büyütmek için koca bir topluluğu kadın çocuk demeden yok etti ve sırada buradaki Kürtleri kışkırtıp isyan çıkarıp karıştırmak sonunda Kürtlerin saldırıları ile zayıflayan Kürtleri ve o bölgedeki ülkeleri daha basit şekilde bastirabilir
@@b4rz074 we are IRANIC not iranian these two are very different afghans tajiks are also iranic too but they have their own country the modern country iran doesn’t have any thing to do with us
im kurdish and i proud of that we are very strong and we believe that one day we get independent the Turkish leaders and her government don't let we speaking kurdish if you speak you will be death and the same us in Iran but we never give up and never stop we have besst culture and food and.beautiful clothes and oldest native search in Internet and you will see ..just searching for and see it saddam and attaturk and khumaine and moree they canttt stop us ...and never ever ;bizhe kurdistan;
Thanks for this video. I’m sure several hours could be spent on this, but for an introduction to the country and region, I appreciate the concise yet detailed approach. If anyone recommends a next level in depth resource, I’d be open to hearing.
Either by laws or politics, Kurdish movement has no legal description. People who live in a certain region cannot have self-determination right without Terra Nulius happening. According to international law, secessionist movements forbidden. So, you cannot claim there is a state terror. Because the central movement is illegal and who supports it basically secessionist. The man who created this video is entirely ignorant. Turkish government is sovereign in the region. Without consent of sovereign, any claim of anyone is unvalid. You can say Turks trying assimilate you. Kurds living under West's economy. Almost all economic production of whole country is created in the West. Without west, there is no difference between Lebanon and Southern Turkey. Without the Western Turkey, ya guys would end up as like syria or iraq since you guys dont have enough strength to protect yourselves from USA and Russia's games too. Iran can atleast prevent those, but we saw what would happen if a country couldnt prevent them and here iran and iraq.
there's more suffering that didn't covers by this video but i can say it is very accurate and clearly shows your hard work on this matter ,thanks for your precious work.
This is historically so inaccurate, you mention the border between Turkey and Iran was drawn by European forces but that border hasn't been changed since 1639
So? When they split the ottoman empire, they cut the map according to their interests, not according to national or religious lines. Kurdistan should have been free.
@@Sandouras do you have capacity to understand whats written? border have not changed for 400 years. ototmans defeated only 100 years ago. nobody split and draw that border.
PKK has killed 30,000 people in Turkey since 1984. Teachers, students, babies, workers, civil servant, civil servant. You may see it this way from the West, but the Turkish people experienced a lot of pain. Do your research immediately, Kurds can enter the parliament in Turkey, become prime ministers, generals and civil servants. They live as fully equal citizens in Turkey. What would happen if they did what PKK did in the USA or England?
@@PATISLAV oh yeah Human Rights Bill work just with iraq and arab + The Kurds, but of Iranian origin, used to bring their livestock to the land of Iraq because it was fertile. How did their land become? The Assyrians inhabited it thousands of years before them.
@@mastermosa3853 I don't understand what you are trying to say. Any peaceful effort to self determinate is backed by this. Any violant effort to put such activity down is illegal from the point of view of international law and in such case, non-terrorist ways of violent resistance against such a dictatorship is also legitimate in my opinion. There were few examples in history, if you would bother.
@@PATISLAV I tell you, the draft human rights law only works with the Arabs. There are many countries in the world, including China, Europe, and even America, that are trying to secede, and no one cares about them, but when there is a group that does not own the land that is trying to secede from an Arab country, we see the draft human rights law working.
@@PATISLAV They have their own government in northern Iraq and they are extremely corrupt. Money is sent to them, even billions, much more than the government of Northern Kurdistan in Iraq produces. However, their citizens go out to demonstrations every now and then because their government does not give them their salaries.
Trump abandoning the most effective force actively fighting against ISIS while claiming he personally defeated ISIS is definitely the weirdest case of stolen valor I can think of in recent memory.
For more historical context with Turkey and Mustafa Kemal, the Kurds in fact supported him because at the time they were very religious and were duped into fighting for 'Islam' (the remnants of the ottoman caliphate) against the Christian Europeans when in reality they fought for a secular Turkish nation-state. So once they realized they had been tricked, they began rebelling against Turkey from the 1930s onwards. They missed out on a great deal to have their own country, had they worked together with the British+French and Armenians, so they dug themselves into a deep hole.
Kurds are applauded for fighting to defend their people, clearly distinct as an ethnic group, but I bet Johnny wouldn't like native Europeans doing the same to defend their land from invaders, huh?
The area you describe and outline was originally part of Persia--modern day Iran--going back THOUSANDS OF YEARS! THEN, western imperialism messed up the map lines of the region. Then the Ottoman Empire impinged on the territory of the shrinking Persian empire. In that span of time, going back thousands of years, Kurds have been a subset, a nomadic peoples who were understood and accepted to be transient. And in the last 120 years, in the midst of western imperialism, and drawing lines on paper that take no account of the impact of those lines on land, in the effort to further diminish the long established nations of the region--#1, Persia/Iran; #2, The Ottoman Empire/Turkey--western imperialists are trying to further diminish the strength and capacity of ancient powers in a region that is literally a world away from us and totally out of our jurisdiction. If you believe so much in the rights of the Kurds to have a nation, then you will support with equal fervor the disintegration of the USA into 50 individual nation-states, or even worst, thousands of tiny city states.
@@infostar8177 no, I don't read Turkish history, lmfao, are you gonna claim now almost every Iranian Dynasty is Kurdish like an average Kurdish nationalist? 😂
after seeing this video, the first thing in my mind that I was understand what is happening in middle east that people say its just a conflict. but the reality its very complex and its related to anything, such as between saddam husain and kurds, turks and pkk, Iran and kurds, syria and kurds, that the reality its have a same problem like in my country Indonesia. which is OPM in Papua island is wanting their freedom in their land, but the government and I especially not agree with that. BUT, in this kurds case somehow I support kurds to fight for freedom over their land and get their own country, which is this is same like the conflict in Papua that I don't support and agree and its opposite with the kurds case that I don't. (pardon me if my English is bad pal, cause I'm still learning)
Very good Video, but the Map is not very accurate. As an example, Almost the entire West of Lake Urmia in Iran is Kurdish, with some small pockets of Azeris, and in Syria it is missing the Afrin province, in which Kurds ruled autonomously since the 16. Century.
afrin province is now mostly arab but the kurds after they were kicked out moved to a area called tall rafat and ming . unfortunately Turkey ethnically cleansed afrian and kicked over 300.000 kurds out of afrain .
It is not the first time that the West has tried to divide our country, or even the entire region, and use some small elements as a knife. They always have and will always do this. As a country, and even as the entire Middle East, our states and nations need to be smart. For example, Kurds need to know this. When the West divides the Turks, the situation of the Kurds in the West will be worse than in Palestine. They need to be able to perceive this. Free cheese is in a mousetrap.
We Turks wont be divided. Also even if they wanted to do it by force it wouldnt be easy. Turkiye isnt a weak country. Look, Russia couldnt conquer ukraine.
@senerber We are not Ukraine, and the US is not Russia. If the US turns its back on Turkey, we would have to seek an alliance with Russia, China and Iran as the whole of NATO and the west would side with the US. We would effectively become the next Iran.
Despite other three conutries, Kurds loving whithin iranian border has been significant and essential part of iran since the day that Iran has been known asal a country ( 2500 years ago). Many lands are taken ir lost by different leaders but the current borders has always been there. Being an ethnic group does not justify asking for independen state however having equal right and a respecful living condition is drfinitely a must for evey person. Unfortunately iranian regime opresses every body and kurds are also among them. We are all fighting for freedom but this does not necessitily mean spling our coutry to several ethnic groups.
well , there has never been a country called kurdistan , kurds are an ancient iranian ethnicity , but despite all that , there has never been a kurdistan
turks vs history kurdistan has historically existed please read read no turg history books because turks literally remove the name “kurd” when talking about animal breeds living in kurdish areas
@BLUEKOI11037 There was no 😂 Iran fought the Ottomans in the East, not "Kurdistan", closest thing were the Zand, but they weren't Kurdish nationalists, they were loyal to Iran, like almost all Iranian Kurds 😂😂😂😂😂
@@DhhSbsh-i3n if kurdistan doesn’t exist,why is turkey and iraq bxmbing their “own” cities? how do kurds even exist? i am telling you your education system is filled with lies and propaganda
I've been interested in history for years, and I've watched many history-related videos, but I've never seen anything worse or funnier than this. This is not a joke; there were parts of the video that made me laugh a lot. They even misplaced the map of the Ottoman Empire, which has been known for centuries. The video contains neither sources nor accurate information. To gain real information about the Kurds, don't rely on the channel of an ignorant transatlantic American who sees everything through rose-colored glasses and wants all the world's conflicts to end in their favor. Instead, look at sources in Kurdish, Turkish, Persian, and Arabic.
It seemed a lost opportunity to not carve out part of Iraq for Kurds. That land had oil and Iraqi's wouldn't agree. It's a sad story because the Kurds were clearly on the side of the US in the fight against ISIS, more so than Iraqi's who dropped weapons and ran away.
Our friends are the mountains. We trust no one but the mountains. We have been betrayed too much and it has taught us that our friends are not people but mountains.
Objection: * The Republic of Turkey has never had an issue with Kurdish citizenship or other minorities. When the Turkish Republic was established, the aim was to create a unified nation where everyone living on this land was considered Turkish, regardless of their ancestry, religion, or other differences. It was intended to be similar to the concept of American citizenship, where all citizens are regarded as equal members of the nation. * Why is Turkey always represented by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk? He passed away in 1938, and many significant events have occurred since then. It's smells like black propaganda against M.K Atatürk.
1 thats why the official language is turkish a ethnolinguistic term and thats why kurdish was banned to write and speak in america anyone could speak anything it doesnt even have a official language 2 Mustafa Kemal Ataturk made turkey so ofc hes gonna represent turkey its like nelson mandela representing south africa he also and you refrence all these events yet those were all anti kurd except for the unbanning of the language but its still being enforced slightly
@@superidol7353 in Turkey you can speak any language rn. It was banned before by a military regime which didn't last long. And besides just before that regime started to rule the country, there was a kurdish terr*r!st party(which is even US and EU recongizes as a terr*r!st organization named PKK) was actively doing what they knows to do, you understand, I hope. In our counsil there are lots of kurds which are mostly separatists(who are in DEM party.The rest are loyal to their counrty) in the counsil as well. Does any separatist supporter presenting anyone in your counsil?
In Turkey, a landowner or company can easily deny you a house or a job if they find out that you are Kurdish or speak Kurdish. I lived there as a child back in 2008. My family had to lie about our heritage because it's considered a taboo. You treat us like second class citizens and then complain about being oppressed. 🖕
it is a subjective map, mostly based on linguistics. and historical actions to determine the borders. The same map used by terrorists to call a kurdish intifada which has no end or cause. there are also widespread turkmen in those regions. lors and arabs. The idea of kurdistan is a schizophrenic fever dream made by a dude who stole the idea from the people he has needless guerilla warfare with. its disgusting how many bright people died at the hands of a lost cause.
@@Berkin62 those maps are right except for khuzestan and parts of armenia mostly turkmens are even more a minority than kurds are lors are kurds if someone says something else it is to weaken the kurds not to empower the lors yes no one should agree with pkk it has done lots of things and is one of the many reasons why kurdistan is not a recognized nation
Most of the Kurds in Armenian are Yazidis and they usually don't consider themselves as Kurds and don't get along with other Kurds because of different religion. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds_in_Armenia and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazidis#Identity
ISIS killed whole villages of the men and boys. They kidnapped the Yazidis girls and women, then sold them as slave wives, raped them and forced them to have children. Some got beaten and some got killed. The Yazidis are an unique ethnic and religious minority, and have been mistreated throughout history by most of the other ethnic and religious groups in the region. The Yazidis men and women that escaped the ISIS attacks, have relentlessly organised groups to locate the missing girls and women. They have fearlessly fought to free their families from the torture and slavery of the horrible ISIS. Some of the victims were very brave and succeeded in escaping by themselves. Their stories are truly tragic and inspiring at the same time. A strong heroic people ❤💪🙏
Because there are no kurds in the current borders of Armenia, there are some Assyrians and Yazidis, no kurds. Armenians are not too fond of kurds because they were active participants in the Armenian genocide, and kurds also occupy Western Armenian territory and are now trying to claim it as theirs.
I really enjoyed this video. The animations are well done and you explained the matter perfectly especially for people who are not quite familiar with the kurdish question yet. But hopefully now they are! Keep up your great work 🎉❤
@@EliasRoyWhy would they like a terror propaganda ? Many civillians in those countries are killed and syrians are displaced and their lands occupied by US and kurdish terrorists.
The question is when Iran had its first election in 1953 and a prime minister was chosen, He was basically assasinated by hard liners financed and provided for and trained by the British and American Intelligence agencies, then they instated Reza Pehlavi because he agreed to grant them both the control of Iran's Oil fields which the prime minister was in the process of nationalisation. Why did the Americans and British then did not "carve out" the Kurdish Area? I mean No issues blaming Khomeini, however, that too should be mentioned. Again in the case of Iraq, Saddam Hussein was basically helped by the Americans as a buffer and counter the Iranians, and secure Iraqi oil. Why does the US have to be involved in everything when they are 4-5k miles away?
so many lies I can't even keep track! Pahlavi government was already in place, Reza pahlavi was the constitutional Monarch and there WERE elections held since the "Mashrote" or constitution revolution had succeeded and the national assembly had existed. Mosssadegh was brought to power by support of the Shah at first to fight British petroleum hold on our oil but soon he began a coup against the government and he lost. separatists whether kurds or Azeris had been receiving support from the soviets since 1946 when they left Iran and those who were seeking to annex our soil in north west had actually taken land from the local kurdish and Azeri and lur iranians and unconstitutional! so they entered a war and lost. Also Iran is NOT a new country in fact the only nation that never had it's borders drawn by a british or french in 1800's.
@@erfanmirzaei3100 Thank you for the additional Information. I do not know if you are negating what I have said, and stating my statements as lies? Nevertheless, thank you for providing me with new information. The Information which I have provided above about Reza and Mossadegh is from my reading, From a book by Stephen Kinzer. After re-instating the monarch a Trade consortium of 1954 was put in place which stopped the nationalisation of oil fields and gave control of them to the British and Americans. Since then the Shah brought about great infrastructural and educational developments, although the prime resources i.e oil was being lost to private companies. To bypass that he brought about the 1973 sale and purchase agreement. The ridiculousness of this all is that Ayatullah was living in Turkey and then France before the coup. He was flown there in Air france and he was the time magzine person of the year 1979.
MKA never undermined any minority living in Turkiye. They all had the same rights as Turks. What you are saying is just random words combined. Not a script. I’m from the Middle East and it’s insane hard to understand politics here if you are outside. You probably need to be a world known historian from outside to understand our politics here. You need the opinions of locals, local news, the history of it and many more. Yet you are here talking nonsense about this whole ordeal. But what I’m saying doesn’t mean I hate Kurds. Most of Turks actually love our Kurdish brothers and vise versa. Don’t spread misinformation.
MKA took away education from Muslim majority Turks. Scarfed women weren’t allowed to go to uni. He did great things, but he was not a saint. Don’t idolise him
Öyle mi peki neden tüm dünyanın doğu Türkistan'daki soykırımı görmesini istiyorsunuz bu bir çelişki değil mi ben bir kürt olarak yazdığın her şeyin sahte yalan ve yanlış olduğunu söylüyorum
The only misinformation that's being spread is your word salad about Turkey liking Kurds and Kurdistan. Newsflash, Turkey doesn't, and has been extremely discriminatory against Kurds and other minorities.
Its funny how the turks claim to be kurds in the comment section then they end it with "kurdistan and kurds dont exist". You know you are on the wrong side when you have to lie about yourself to prove a point
whole bunch of false information. Kurds have same rights as Turks in Turkiye. We even had Kurdish Presidents like Turgut Özal etc. Kurdish language is not forbidden, there is even government operated Kurdish TV Channels...
As a Kurd from eastern Kurdistan, I ask all Kurdish brothers and sisters in other parts of Kurdistan to preserve their language and learn their history. Please never be fooled by the propaganda of the occupying countries. We are only Kurdistanian. Be strong, let's unite because freedom is near. 🙏 2+2=1✌️bijî kurdistan❤️☀️💚
What a political nonsense video! Great illustration. Whoever funds these videos, the same people trying to create an unstable region there for a long time. Everybody in Turkey, including the Turkish people and Kurdish people we used to coexist together regarding our differences. In the last 20-25 years, they have made some progress on their goal. Like I said the goal is to create unstable region so some can profit from. All the historical events happened in the region, it’s been backed by US and/or British governments. If I was someone watching this video without actually knowing how it’s like, what actually happened for all these years, I would definitely feel bad about what happened to the Kurdish people but it’s not the Kurds or the Turks or the other nationalities together but the problem is PKK (now YPG) as stated in the video is a terrorist organization. They bombed the train stations, public areas, they burned down the forests in Türkiye. They kidnapped Kurds and separated them from their parents in their young age. Of course Türkiye doesn’t want another country next to their border or as for some people’s wet dreams also including part of Türkiye. There are of course a lot of problems that needs to be talked and solved by Turkish people. (That’s what we call everybody who lives in Türkiye no matter what nationality they are) but it got to the point the people who were supposed to defend the Kurds in Türkiye, they also became political figures and had sayings supporting PKK and getting funded by this terrorist organization and governments. We all know what happened all the historic figures that backed by US government. One day you are an ally, the other day you are either insurgent or a terrorist. We don’t know who gets what behind the closed doors, you think you are fighting for a cause but you are actually fighting so some can make bunch of money off of you, that’s all it is. There are also a lot of lies in this video hidden with the historical facts. The reason why US and other countries involved in Iraq war was an uncontrollable, mentally unstable Saddam and the chemical mass weapons which was found a lie after the war ended. Someone said Turks are not going to like this video.. Of course they won’t because we know there are people who are trying to create conflict between people who lived together for hundreds of years. Republic of Türkiye is not against the Kurds. As Turkish people and like any other nations, we are against the people with bad intentions. As a Turk, I was born and grew up in the Aegean region, the town that my grandparents live had more Kurds than Turks and I had bunch of Kurdish friends that I even shared my food with. Those are not the Kurds that have a problem with Türkiye. They love the country that they live in as everybody in Türkiye. Everybody has to have their opinion but don’t fall for these tricks. Again fuck the media that releases bunch of lies. They all controlled by people with power
One of the reasons why the imperalists (France and Britain) didnt make a Kurdistan like they made Syria, Iraq and Jordan and so on, is because they were afraid of the conservative and pracitising Kurdish Muslims who would held the uprise and keeping for an Ottoman Empire opposite of secular Kemal Ataturk and his likewise secular politicians who were against Ottoman, Kurds and Islamic influence. The Kurds were some of the most loyal Muslims who oppossed secularism and the imperalists didnt like this fact.. they afraid of a new Islamic empire in middle of Mesopotamia after the Ottoman fall
04:07 Hey Johnny, I don't know if you simply made a typo or used an incorrect source, but the Dersim operation started in 1937, and what is referred to as the massacre happened in 1938.
So much misinformation there, you are telling the story without either deep research on each involved country and its views, or without even knowing what you re doing. You mapped Armenis as a part where kurds are, I am giving you my word as an Armenian there is no Kurd living in Armenia, and there has never ever been any bombing on Armenia (Specifically the part you showed in your video, it is near the capital city of Yerevan and if there was bombing from Turkey that would be huge incident). So, please recheck the information given, and look closely at every dot before publishing these maps
The Russians main motivation was helping the Arab nationalists and other factions fighting Al Qaeda and ISIS and are in Syria on behalf of the government. They too do not care about the Kurds and have nothing to gain from attacking or using them.
I am a Kurdish living in Turkiye. Please do not skip mentioning that Kurdish terrorist PKK killed more than 40,000 people in Turkiye including their own people Kurds. Your claims are all wrong about Kurds living in Turkiye.
Across the world there are many many many countries that were never independent states, or had a history of owning their own country, but, they are today independent countries.. so why not Kurds?under the current situation Kurds don’t really have an option to decide their own future, as its always decided by either the Iraqi, Syrian, Iranian or Turkish government.
Kurds are the indigenous people of these lands. They can establish a state whenever they want. Turks are an invading tribe that came to Anatolia later.
@@YusufGever there is no such thing as Kurds, people are mixed, if you are a kurd do a DNA test and you will see, all tribes have invaded lands in the past, according to your analogy kurds where there ever since planet earth was created, which is quite stupid, the so called "kurds" also migrated from central-south Asia to todays Iraq, so check your facts first.
@@blackvirus9 What you say about Kurds is a complete lie. They were always in the Middle East. Kurds have many J2 blood groups. J2 blood group is found in Anatolian natives. This shows that the Kurds did not come from anywhere and were always in Anatolia.
I am a fan of your videos for years Johnny. But there are many mistakes and misleading information in this video. Not only in details, there are giant mistakes. Clear, very apparent mistakes. I still want to believe in your honesty but it gets hard with these type of misleading videos. We all know that we can use the same story and change what the audience gonna believe in by just shaping our words. This video doesn't do this only, but also sharing wrong information very clearly to the people who knows, but the average people won't know. It's just sad.
Turks are not gonna like this video.
Ong 💀
didn't even care
Video really isn't about the Turkey. It's about how they were used like a fiddle throughout many countries. Harris' focus on here is the US, his own country.
@@ardaneseli2235Constantinople
Hasanabi
the U.S. has to be the prime example of, pretending to care and then never actually care.
Except when it's Israel. Then they'll REALLY care. Even more so than their own citizens
ABD için Kürtler sadece kullanışlı bir araç
youll notice that with any superpower nation or even large nation in general
yeah fr, america only cares about what helps them, they know they have more power than most countries and that they “control” basically everything
How did the US pretend to care about the Kurds?
I am a Kurd from what is called Iran. born in Iraq and grow up in the Iraqi Kurdistan. Half of my family lives in Iranian Kurdistan and the other half in Iraq. In iraq they call me Iranian and in Iran they call me Iraqi. I have never had a passport or Citizenship. When my grandfather was sick and dying, i was not allowed to cross the borders and meet him, i never meet him throughout my live.
I call out people around the world to read and learn about all the other genocides and ethnic cleansing by those mentioned countries.
And thank you for making the video.
Sayad,
Israel supports the Kurdish cause
@eranhaim9913
People in Israel have been through what we are going through, and we expect them to support or understand us. But I have not seen any actions from them personally.
Knowing I might be worng
@@Eran_HaimFor their own gain yes. They don’t actually care 😂😂 If they could invade for our oil they would 😂
@@sayadyosefi2660 our government are too scared to anger Erdogan who is already preparing and saying things against us. I think the right thing to do as Israel is to defeat Assad and Iran and help the Kurds get their country back
@@Eran_Haim we both need a friend in that region
“Your ancestors enemy will not be your ally” this is a famous line we say to ourselves
Historical Assyrian lands were not Kurdistan!
Dijmine bavu kala nabe doste lava
@@Tornout-e7i Assyrians were invaders not inhabitants they were like todays Turks .. Assyrians true land was middle and south of Iraq
@@EhmedSemsedin Kurds are invaders. Assyrians have been living here for more than 4000 years !! You have no identity longer than middle ages!
I'm surprised they don't use this in American history. Black history at that. Sense they want to create so much hate and division lately.
crazy how much the US has used the kurds without ever really helping them
E: stay in school kids. otherwise you'll end up as a 35 year old telling people you don't understand the necessity of repaying debts made in blood or the importance of upholding your reputation as a trustworthy person in the comment section of a TH-cam video you couldn't finish
Welcome to the real world
They are still helping and arming them secretly how do you think the syrian democratic fighters got new weapons?
not their fucking job ,is it ?
Maybe kurds should try not to be gullible.
😢
I think this question should have been asked. Why are Europeans drawing map borders for places they have nothing to do with.
Because they won the war.
Don't hate the player hate the game. I can link dosens of links of muslim conquests of how their ethnic cleansing are causing problems until this day. If you think Europe was doing a singleplayer playthrough of colonies, conquest or slavery then you are delusional
@watup3494Well said
Obviously, you are an enemy of the Kurds
@@N4TE_94 Because white imperialism.
“We were told that we were going to be attacked, but it was too late, and the notice was too short. All of a sudden, we heard the sound of bombs dropping all over the town. People started coughing, tears streaming from their eyes, and all I could think about was running. I grabbed my brother’s hand and ran as fast as I could, struggling to survive as people were dropping dead. I was getting weaker and weaker, but for the sake of my younger brothers, I had to pull through and just keep running. We survived the attack and stayed in a cave for a week without food or water. I had to go back to the town to search for something to eat or drinking water, but when I returned, I found a ghost town, filled with thousands of dead bodies lying on the ground, among them my relatives and neighbors.”
This is the story of my mother during the Halabja chemical attack as she tried to survive the chaos. She and many others posed no threat to anyone, and all that we Kurds have ever wanted is to own the lands where we have lived for thousands of years, before anyone else claimed it as their homeland. This is just one story, but there are thousands more as we have endured many other genocides.
Where is the justice in this?
So sorry 😢... so sad. Whatever I say or feel ...I can't describe the pain that you all are going through. 💔. Love n light to all God creations . ❤❤❤😢
you lived thousands of years? cool strory... you haven't had a genuine state in history. we, turks, will continue to rule you.
Kurdistán
@@buraktemizel-oe7xmwtf dude it is not even about you
@@buraktemizel-oe7xm there is no honor in that
Everyone whining about the Palestinians but no one says shit about the kurds.
Real
It's crazy that anticolonial movements in Palestine have massive support in these countries, yet they have their own version of the Palestinians they are oppressing themselves.
Edit: Replies prove my point. Tons of hypocrites replying to this comment saying 'it's different' but then using the exact same arguments as the Israelis. "freedom! civil rights! (Just not in my backyard!)"
The Kurds never had a state in this region and no one here owes them one they themselves migrated to west asia later. Israel was founded after WW2 when Palestinians were already living there. The situation is not comparable in the least. If you care about this so much then why don't you talk about the Zazas,Yezidis and Assyrians who think Kurds stole their lands? Armenians also accuse them. See how messy this gets? It is not as simple as "Uhh just give them independence!". Turkey is the only country and moderator that keeps the peace in their part and prevents them going for eachother's throats and that's a fact.
@@soundwave2481 Palestine has never been it's own country either, so I don't really understand what's your argument.
@@soundwave2481 they seem to be dropping a hell of a lot of bombs for a moderator and peace maker lmao
@@soundwave2481can you show me when there was a Palestinian state? Oh wait
@@soundwave2481I think you legitimately could not have made it more obvious that you are a Turk. Which is especially funny, because all Oghuz turks (except maybe the Turkmens) stole the land they consider their ancestral home. 1000 years ago, there were no turks in Turkey, no Azeris in Azerbaijan, etc. They stole all of that land. And considering how the government of Turkey treats Kurds and Greeks in their country, and how both the Turkish and Azerbaijani governments opress what little remains of their country's Armenian populations, seems like not much has changed.
My barber is Kurdish and when I asked him where he comes from he says “Kurdistan”. That’s the only answer he gives.
There is a province called Kurdistan in both Iran and iraq, but there has never been any country called Kurdistan and never will be, not from my soil(Iran)
@@bobakbobak2588
سنٲسس دولة کوردستان علی انفکم
@@marwansa7293 boy, you've been trying to do that for 2500 years. Don't make me laugh. There's no place called east kurdistan, never has been, never will be
@@marwansa7293 there has NEVER been and NEVER will be a kurdistan country
Nice answer. He is from occupied Kurdistan.
When thieves try to claim your house, they will call you "terrorists" for defending yourself
WTF DOES THAT MEAN
@@ibrahimm.6803chosen people of god ? Where in the bible Quran or Torah is this in ?
@@ibrahimm.6803 that doesn't mean anything ... Like wtf being an old civilisation doesn't make you the chosen one
@@ibrahimm.6803… wth r u talking about.
@@ibrahimm.6803humans came from Africa, humans established in sumaria, built by slaves making them the first to practice slavery. Thatd mean Africans are the chosen ones because they were created first…
The Kurds have no friends, no friends but the mountains.
Kurds have a country and that is Iran.
@@Blaidd1298 land is kurdistan
No friends but the mountains.
True vallah 😢😢
@@DÊPE_23 Bzhi Kurdistan , Bruxi Stamkaran
God is in the wilderness.
And the bombs to terrorize touristic areas
@@ikramyagdran4492I'm sure you're talking about Turkey, right? Syria? Iraq?
Are there kurds watching this video ?
@@Khulasatul-alkulaasah yep
@@thephoenix4363yes✌🏼
Yep
yes
Yes, but the amount of miss information is insane
Kurds: It sucks being split by different powers.
Poland: Been there.
Except the United States actually hold their promises for the Polish.
@@Turkishfella by leaving them to the soviets for close to 50 years?
Kazakhs also
I am a Kurd. There are so many stories of the Kurds to be told. We have suffered a lot more than what's said.. here is a very little part of our history which is full of blood, tears and pain : the regime of Baas al Iraqi ( which is Sadam Hussein's party ) did: 1. Every single day people went missing and got tortured and killed by there soldiers.
2. They did "Anfal" which was taking thousands of people away to deserts and burry them ALIVE among which were children, women and old people!
3. They did many chemical attacks to many places in Kurdistan the most brutal one was the the chemical attack on Halabja in which more than 5 thousand people died immediately and more than 10 thousand people got injured ( some died and many are suffering till this day) and many families lost their children which to this day they have no been found.. I am from Halabja ( that exact city) even after all these years on March 16 which is the date of the attack, there missing children ( which are not children anymore) are not found.
The Anfal is not even considered as Genocide !
There are many other things to be told .
The only reason of those people's deaths is that they are KURD and nothing else..!
Turkish state denying Kurds citizenship? Dude wtf? Which planet are you living in? We have citizenship
How can you be a citizen of a place that doesn’t exist
how old are you?
@@altaycani Turkey doesn't exist ?
Probally in the past
Kurds were used against Armenians in the genocide. Ca. 100 years later, the grudge is mostly resolved. Öcalan has personally made major steps to reconcile and normalize Kurdish-Armenian relations, despite being jailed. The SDF has an Armenian battalion. The same progress has been ongoing with other minorities, like the Assyrians (who suffered genocide themselves at the hand of Turkey, and were promised a state, partly overlapping with the proposed Kurdistan, which has been a source of conflict). There are Assyrian battalions in the SDF. Most of this reconciliation and alliance building is done at the command of a jailed leader, Öcalan.
Kurds have been living in that region thousands of years before the first Turk or Arab tribe ever migrated there. If anyone deserved to have their own state, it's the Kurds. Even though as an Iranian I believe Kurds are one of the most ancient Iranic peoples and it would have been better if they were part of Iran today, as we are one people, just different ethnicities
Your history knowledge about Turkey is totally wrong!
@@HalukTatar he is typical western. What to expect.
Perhaps you are brainwashed by your falsely presented history in your country to favor it's achievements.
hocam sen yapma bari :). "Türkiye" lütfen.
haklısın hocam
abi standart AntiTürkist işte ne bekliyon
I am a Kurd born and living in Turkey. I have Turkish friends and neighbors. Every race or society what ever you call it includes bad and good ones. I have met with some Turks who accept me more than some Kurds. My family and I have never experienced any discrimination from anyone other than some Kurds who blame us because not being a terrorist and a murderer.
Batı nın amacı Orta Doğu devletlerini üç veya beşe bölmek. Doğal olarak Kürtleri veya diğer etnik grupları kullanırlar. Maalesef Kürtler bu oyuna geldiler, ben Kürtlere hep şunu derim ABD çekildiğinde ve Kürtler Türklerle, Araplarla ve Farslarla baş başa kaldığında ne yapacaksınız?
@@kilic958 Batının amacı hem petrol hem de savaş çıkartıp silah satmak. Terörist örgütler yaratıp savaş çıkartıp hem o örgütlere hem de devletlere silah satarak milyarlarca dolar kazanıyorlar. Özgürlük vs. onların umurlarında değil!
@@kilic958Türklerle Araplarla ve farslarla başbaşa kaldığımızda asıl siz ne yapacaksınız onu o gün göreceğiz
😂
@@kilic958batının amacı büyük İsrail devletini kurmak son zamanlarda gördüğümüz gibi İsrail topraklarını büyütmek için koca bir topluluğu kadın çocuk demeden yok etti ve sırada buradaki Kürtleri kışkırtıp isyan çıkarıp karıştırmak sonunda Kürtlerin saldırıları ile zayıflayan Kürtleri ve o bölgedeki ülkeleri daha basit şekilde bastirabilir
As an Iranian Kurd this was very painful to watch
we are not iranian please stop calling ur self this we have nothing to do with modern iran
@@hann5240all of the Kurds have İrani origin. That's what you're.
@@hann5240 alright then, leave my country and find a place to live, cause you'll never take any land from Iran, NEVER
@@b4rz074 we are IRANIC not iranian these two are very different afghans tajiks are also iranic too but they have their own country the modern country iran doesn’t have any thing to do with us
@@hann5240 we are Iranian, sell your country or your family if you want but we will always stay IRANIAN
Thank you Harris, as a Kurdish person who lives in Kurdistan, we really appreciate your video. And hope someday we achieve our dreams. ❤
im kurdish and i proud of that we are very strong and we believe that one day we get independent the Turkish leaders and her government don't let we speaking kurdish if you speak you will be death and the same us in Iran but we never give up and never stop we have besst culture and food and.beautiful clothes and oldest native search in Internet and you will see ..just searching for and see it saddam and attaturk and khumaine and moree they canttt stop us ...and never ever ;bizhe kurdistan;
Never ever bra ❤
As an Albanian i feel very bad for kurdish people. Everyone was unfair to them and they were loyal.
❤️💛💚 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
Fr 🗿
❤️💛💚🇦🇱🤜🏿🇹🇷🇮🇷
Both the Albanians and the Kurds have been generally quite friendly to the Jews/Israelis.
My barber is Kurdish. Dawood
All the Kurdish i know i get along really well. Funny and Easy to get on with. Love for the Kurdish brothers 🫡 🇦🇱
Omg.. Finally a Video about my country Kurdistan ❤💛💚
If you are a Kord, you are country is Iran and you are an Iranian, stop falling for Iran-zamins enemies conspiracies.
Thanks for this video. I’m sure several hours could be spent on this, but for an introduction to the country and region, I appreciate the concise yet detailed approach. If anyone recommends a next level in depth resource, I’d be open to hearing.
No friends but the mountains
Not really. Kurds consider themselves as part of the Aryan race, and tthey are supported and beloved in Europe by their Aryan brothers
@@cigdemylmaz1532spam atma
@@cigdemylmaz1532 Europeans arent Aryans. Iranians and North Indians are.
Independence & Prosperity for Kurds and #Kurdistan.
Ağla la ağla git günlüğüne yaz la
As a kurd thank you to you show other people how we live in Kurdistan we are have 4 enemie. Iran Iraq turkiey Suriye we not happy long live Kurdistan
Either by laws or politics, Kurdish movement has no legal description. People who live in a certain region cannot have self-determination right without Terra Nulius happening. According to international law, secessionist movements forbidden. So, you cannot claim there is a state terror. Because the central movement is illegal and who supports it basically secessionist. The man who created this video is entirely ignorant. Turkish government is sovereign in the region. Without consent of sovereign, any claim of anyone is unvalid. You can say Turks trying assimilate you. Kurds living under West's economy. Almost all economic production of whole country is created in the West. Without west, there is no difference between Lebanon and Southern Turkey.
Without the Western Turkey, ya guys would end up as like syria or iraq since you guys dont have enough strength to protect yourselves from USA and Russia's games too.
Iran can atleast prevent those, but we saw what would happen if a country couldnt prevent them and here iran and iraq.
you guys were not even country to begin with
did you ever watch the video?
there's more suffering that didn't covers by this video but i can say it is very accurate and clearly shows your hard work on this matter ,thanks for your precious work.
Thank you for lying
9:20 the chemical the saddam uesed killed almost 50,000-180,000 kurds,and also he buried a lot of people alive (mostly kids and women)
This is historically so inaccurate, you mention the border between Turkey and Iran was drawn by European forces but that border hasn't been changed since 1639
You don’t understand he has to make white people look bad in every video somehow.
So? When they split the ottoman empire, they cut the map according to their interests, not according to national or religious lines. Kurdistan should have been free.
@@Sandouras who cut the map according to whose interest ? Southeast border of Turkey was drawn with war not on paper
@@Sandouras A failed school project can not be free
@@Sandouras do you have capacity to understand whats written? border have not changed for 400 years. ototmans defeated only 100 years ago. nobody split and draw that border.
I never knew about this...
thank you
haha zırva :)
hahahaha ağlaa
Nazi tirko shows his hate
Aptallar haritanız bile yok bide ağla diyor
@@NUMENORLUDEMIRCI ağla oe
@@senpaii7478 jaajajajajaj sizin pacavranızda sarı renk yokmu. Size çok yakışır
Kurds fought incredibly good against isis.
Tbh it wasn't worth it they only did for their ppl and the country never thanked nor anythn to save most of the area
@@demo1636 But now they control the most valuable cities in syria.
PKK has killed 30,000 people in Turkey since 1984. Teachers, students, babies, workers,
civil servant, civil servant. You may see it this way from the West, but the Turkish people experienced a lot of pain. Do your research immediately, Kurds can enter the parliament in Turkey, become prime ministers, generals and civil servants. They live as fully equal citizens in Turkey. What would happen if they did what PKK did in the USA or England?
My brother our history isn't all about PKK
Turkish propaganda at its best.
@@HH-ff3ooyour history? alright homie
@@alitetik319 our
@@a.a.8515ne alaka
The actual map is much bigger than the shown one. Long live Kurdistan.
If you want to give a state to all the peoples and nationalities in the world, there will be 5000 thousand countries.
So what? Read the bill of human rights.
@@PATISLAV oh yeah Human Rights Bill work just with iraq and arab + The Kurds, but of Iranian origin, used to bring their livestock to the land of Iraq because it was fertile. How did their land become? The Assyrians inhabited it thousands of years before them.
@@mastermosa3853 I don't understand what you are trying to say. Any peaceful effort to self determinate is backed by this. Any violant effort to put such activity down is illegal from the point of view of international law and in such case, non-terrorist ways of violent resistance against such a dictatorship is also legitimate in my opinion. There were few examples in history, if you would bother.
@@PATISLAV I tell you, the draft human rights law only works with the Arabs. There are many countries in the world, including China, Europe, and even America, that are trying to secede, and no one cares about them, but when there is a group that does not own the land that is trying to secede from an Arab country, we see the draft human rights law working.
@@PATISLAV They have their own government in northern Iraq and they are extremely corrupt. Money is sent to them, even billions, much more than the government of Northern Kurdistan in Iraq produces. However, their citizens go out to demonstrations every now and then because their government does not give them their salaries.
Trump abandoning the most effective force actively fighting against ISIS while claiming he personally defeated ISIS is definitely the weirdest case of stolen valor I can think of in recent memory.
he abandoned a bunch of terrorist that were used a simple meat shields against ISIS lol. ISIS was defeated with airstrikes
Trump deleted ISIS he didn’t need the Kurds this comment is weak af.
@@quvy338 what a stupid take
Herkes herşeyi biliyor nedense IŞİD in İsrail'e herhangi bir saldırısı yok hep müslümanları öldürdü
Trump only love money
For more historical context with Turkey and Mustafa Kemal, the Kurds in fact supported him because at the time they were very religious and were duped into fighting for 'Islam' (the remnants of the ottoman caliphate) against the Christian Europeans when in reality they fought for a secular Turkish nation-state. So once they realized they had been tricked, they began rebelling against Turkey from the 1930s onwards. They missed out on a great deal to have their own country, had they worked together with the British+French and Armenians, so they dug themselves into a deep hole.
Kurds are applauded for fighting to defend their people, clearly distinct as an ethnic group, but I bet Johnny wouldn't like native Europeans doing the same to defend their land from invaders, huh?
The area you describe and outline was originally part of Persia--modern day Iran--going back THOUSANDS OF YEARS! THEN, western imperialism messed up the map lines of the region. Then the Ottoman Empire impinged on the territory of the shrinking Persian empire. In that span of time, going back thousands of years, Kurds have been a subset, a nomadic peoples who were understood and accepted to be transient. And in the last 120 years, in the midst of western imperialism, and drawing lines on paper that take no account of the impact of those lines on land, in the effort to further diminish the long established nations of the region--#1, Persia/Iran; #2, The Ottoman Empire/Turkey--western imperialists are trying to further diminish the strength and capacity of ancient powers in a region that is literally a world away from us and totally out of our jurisdiction. If you believe so much in the rights of the Kurds to have a nation, then you will support with equal fervor the disintegration of the USA into 50 individual nation-states, or even worst, thousands of tiny city states.
You just described the future of the USA perfectly.
Thanks for your video and not back away from the truths..
this vid made me feel sad for the Kurds...
i‘m sad for the turks. they lost 50k people against them 😢
@@eren3390found the Turkish bot
@@eren3390most of those 50k were Kurds anyways.
@@PIXELGamerzXvlogs still turkish citizens.
@@lachlanchester8142 western bot
You can't erase something that never existed 🙂
real 🦍
The most dumbest logic I have ever heard but nice try ig💀
@@demo1636 Cry about it
Because you read only persish history.
@@infostar8177
no, I don't read Turkish history, lmfao, are you gonna claim now almost every Iranian Dynasty is Kurdish like an average Kurdish nationalist? 😂
Great video, very informative about the kurdish struggle. Hope they get their independency soon❤
Thanks Johnny for shedding light onto this matter.
No friends but the Mountains.
after seeing this video, the first thing in my mind that I was understand what is happening in middle east that people say its just a conflict. but the reality its very complex and its related to anything, such as between saddam husain and kurds, turks and pkk, Iran and kurds, syria and kurds, that the reality its have a same problem like in my country Indonesia. which is OPM in Papua island is wanting their freedom in their land, but the government and I especially not agree with that. BUT, in this kurds case somehow I support kurds to fight for freedom over their land and get their own country, which is this is same like the conflict in Papua that I don't support and agree and its opposite with the kurds case that I don't. (pardon me if my English is bad pal, cause I'm still learning)
Very good Video, but the Map is not very accurate. As an example, Almost the entire West of Lake Urmia in Iran is Kurdish, with some small pockets of Azeris, and in Syria it is missing the Afrin province, in which Kurds ruled autonomously since the 16. Century.
afrin province is now mostly arab but the kurds after they were kicked out moved to a area called tall rafat and ming .
unfortunately Turkey ethnically cleansed afrian and kicked over 300.000 kurds out of afrain .
@@samankucher5117 yes afrin is full of palestinian settlements now unfortunately
@@hann5240 that and Chinese muslims and Syrians from east and south of Damascus.
Really well done video, thank you!
It is not the first time that the West has tried to divide our country, or even the entire region, and use some small elements as a knife. They always have and will always do this. As a country, and even as the entire Middle East, our states and nations need to be smart. For example, Kurds need to know this. When the West divides the Turks, the situation of the Kurds in the West will be worse than in Palestine. They need to be able to perceive this. Free cheese is in a mousetrap.
We Turks wont be divided. Also even if they wanted to do it by force it wouldnt be easy. Turkiye isnt a weak country. Look, Russia couldnt conquer ukraine.
Kürtleri soy kırımla tehdit eden İt havliyor.
@senerber We are not Ukraine, and the US is not Russia. If the US turns its back on Turkey, we would have to seek an alliance with Russia, China and Iran as the whole of NATO and the west would side with the US. We would effectively become the next Iran.
Thanks for sharing our story ❤
Love Kurdistan from Israel ❤
Beautiful piece of art @Johny, we (as a Kurd) have been waiting for this video for a long and liked it very much!🥰👍🌺
thanks for the video.
Despite other three conutries, Kurds loving whithin iranian border has been significant and essential part of iran since the day that Iran has been known asal a country ( 2500 years ago). Many lands are taken ir lost by different leaders but the current borders has always been there. Being an ethnic group does not justify asking for independen state however having equal right and a respecful living condition is drfinitely a must for evey person. Unfortunately iranian regime opresses every body and kurds are also among them. We are all fighting for freedom but this does not necessitily mean spling our coutry to several ethnic groups.
well , there has never been a country called kurdistan , kurds are an ancient iranian ethnicity , but despite all that , there has never been a kurdistan
turks vs history kurdistan has historically existed please read read no turg history books because turks literally remove the name “kurd” when talking about animal breeds living in kurdish areas
@BLUEKOI11037 There was no 😂
Iran fought the Ottomans in the East, not "Kurdistan", closest thing were the Zand, but they weren't Kurdish nationalists, they were loyal to Iran, like almost all Iranian Kurds 😂😂😂😂😂
@@DhhSbsh-i3n so histroians are all wrong because a turg who’s only source is a propaganda filled “history” book said so
@@DhhSbsh-i3n if kurdistan doesn’t exist,why is turkey and iraq bxmbing their “own” cities? how do kurds even exist? i am telling you your education system is filled with lies and propaganda
I've been interested in history for years, and I've watched many history-related videos, but I've never seen anything worse or funnier than this. This is not a joke; there were parts of the video that made me laugh a lot. They even misplaced the map of the Ottoman Empire, which has been known for centuries. The video contains neither sources nor accurate information. To gain real information about the Kurds, don't rely on the channel of an ignorant transatlantic American who sees everything through rose-colored glasses and wants all the world's conflicts to end in their favor. Instead, look at sources in Kurdish, Turkish, Persian, and Arabic.
I think you should go back to Mangolia and make turkish country
It seemed a lost opportunity to not carve out part of Iraq for Kurds. That land had oil and Iraqi's wouldn't agree. It's a sad story because the Kurds were clearly on the side of the US in the fight against ISIS, more so than Iraqi's who dropped weapons and ran away.
Don't talk nonsense, you don't know anything 🤣🤣🤣
Don't talk nonsense, you don't know anything at all 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣
Don't talk nonsense, you don't know anything
Thanks for this video mate, we appreciate it
Our friends are the mountains. We trust no one but the mountains. We have been betrayed too much and it has taught us that our friends are not people but mountains.
Objection:
* The Republic of Turkey has never had an issue with Kurdish citizenship or other minorities. When the Turkish Republic was established, the aim was to create a unified nation where everyone living on this land was considered Turkish, regardless of their ancestry, religion, or other differences. It was intended to be similar to the concept of American citizenship, where all citizens are regarded as equal members of the nation.
* Why is Turkey always represented by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk? He passed away in 1938, and many significant events have occurred since then.
It's smells like black propaganda against M.K Atatürk.
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1 thats why the official language is turkish a ethnolinguistic term and thats why kurdish was banned to write and speak in america anyone could speak anything it doesnt even have a official language
2 Mustafa Kemal Ataturk made turkey so ofc hes gonna represent turkey its like nelson mandela representing south africa he also and you refrence all these events yet those were all anti kurd except for the unbanning of the language but its still being enforced slightly
@@superidol7353 in Turkey you can speak any language rn. It was banned before by a military regime which didn't last long. And besides just before that regime started to rule the country, there was a kurdish terr*r!st party(which is even US and EU recongizes as a terr*r!st organization named PKK) was actively doing what they knows to do, you understand, I hope. In our counsil there are lots of kurds which are mostly separatists(who are in DEM party.The rest are loyal to their counrty) in the counsil as well. Does any separatist supporter presenting anyone in your counsil?
@@superidol7353 Mandela loved and respecting Atatürk too, buy the way. :)
In Turkey, a landowner or company can easily deny you a house or a job if they find out that you are Kurdish or speak Kurdish. I lived there as a child back in 2008. My family had to lie about our heritage because it's considered a taboo. You treat us like second class citizens and then complain about being oppressed. 🖕
Thanks for video,The Middle East is like hell😑Everyone wants to oppress each other under any excuse
Where are my Kurds at ? 🤝🏽✌🏽
At least 30 to 40 percent of the map has not been drawn, so what about Lorestan?
it is a subjective map, mostly based on linguistics. and historical actions to determine the borders. The same map used by terrorists to call a kurdish intifada which has no end or cause. there are also widespread turkmen in those regions. lors and arabs. The idea of kurdistan is a schizophrenic fever dream made by a dude who stole the idea from the people he has needless guerilla warfare with. its disgusting how many bright people died at the hands of a lost cause.
Lors are kurds this map has not been drawn fully the map goes into the aleppo province slightly were afrin is this map doesnt show this
@@Berkin62 those maps are right except for khuzestan and parts of armenia mostly
turkmens are even more a minority than kurds are lors are kurds if someone says something else it is to weaken the kurds not to empower the lors yes no one should agree with pkk it has done lots of things and is one of the many reasons why kurdistan is not a recognized nation
@@superidol7353 armenians are also kurds, half of the same map was ethnically armenian during the byzantian times.
@@Berkin62turkmens and arabs aren’t indigenous to these areas
زۆڕ سوپاس کوردستانم زۆر بێکەسە❤
No country 😂
@@m.a4651 کوردستانی من پێش ولاتە ساختەکی تۆ هەبوو❤☀💚
Interesting story, thank you, i never really had any idea about it, but i noticed that you did not talk about the kurds in armenia.
Most of the Kurds in Armenian are Yazidis and they usually don't consider themselves as Kurds and don't get along with other Kurds because of different religion. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds_in_Armenia and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazidis#Identity
ISIS killed whole villages of the men and boys. They kidnapped the Yazidis girls and women, then sold them as slave wives, raped them and forced them to have children. Some got beaten and some got killed. The Yazidis are an unique ethnic and religious minority, and have been mistreated throughout history by most of the other ethnic and religious groups in the region. The Yazidis men and women that escaped the ISIS attacks, have relentlessly organised groups to locate the missing girls and women. They have fearlessly fought to free their families from the torture and slavery of the horrible ISIS. Some of the victims were very brave and succeeded in escaping by themselves. Their stories are truly tragic and inspiring at the same time. A strong heroic people ❤💪🙏
Because there are no kurds in the current borders of Armenia, there are some Assyrians and Yazidis, no kurds. Armenians are not too fond of kurds because they were active participants in the Armenian genocide, and kurds also occupy Western Armenian territory and are now trying to claim it as theirs.
love from Kurdistan brother ❤I'm glad you're educating people about Kurdistan and please never stop
Wrong, Kurdistan was never a country. No need to separate countries for every ethnicity.
I really enjoyed this video. The animations are well done and you explained the matter perfectly especially for people who are not quite familiar with the kurdish question yet. But hopefully now they are!
Keep up your great work 🎉❤
Iraqis aren’t gonna like this video.
All 3: Turks, Iraqis and Syrians
@@EliasRoyWhy would they like a terror propaganda ? Many civillians in those countries are killed and syrians are displaced and their lands occupied by US and kurdish terrorists.
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Kurdistan deserves independence.
Respect from Georgia, we know how it feels like and we get it
The question is when Iran had its first election in 1953 and a prime minister was chosen, He was basically assasinated by hard liners financed and provided for and trained by the British and American Intelligence agencies, then they instated Reza Pehlavi because he agreed to grant them both the control of Iran's Oil fields which the prime minister was in the process of nationalisation. Why did the Americans and British then did not "carve out" the Kurdish Area? I mean No issues blaming Khomeini, however, that too should be mentioned. Again in the case of Iraq, Saddam Hussein was basically helped by the Americans as a buffer and counter the Iranians, and secure Iraqi oil. Why does the US have to be involved in everything when they are 4-5k miles away?
so many lies I can't even keep track! Pahlavi government was already in place, Reza pahlavi was the constitutional Monarch and there WERE elections held since the "Mashrote" or constitution revolution had succeeded and the national assembly had existed. Mosssadegh was brought to power by support of the Shah at first to fight British petroleum hold on our oil but soon he began a coup against the government and he lost. separatists whether kurds or Azeris had been receiving support from the soviets since 1946 when they left Iran and those who were seeking to annex our soil in north west had actually taken land from the local kurdish and Azeri and lur iranians and unconstitutional! so they entered a war and lost. Also Iran is NOT a new country in fact the only nation that never had it's borders drawn by a british or french in 1800's.
@@erfanmirzaei3100 Thank you for the additional Information. I do not know if you are negating what I have said, and stating my statements as lies? Nevertheless, thank you for providing me with new information. The Information which I have provided above about Reza and Mossadegh is from my reading, From a book by Stephen Kinzer. After re-instating the monarch a Trade consortium of 1954 was put in place which stopped the nationalisation of oil fields and gave control of them to the British and Americans. Since then the Shah brought about great infrastructural and educational developments, although the prime resources i.e oil was being lost to private companies. To bypass that he brought about the 1973 sale and purchase agreement. The ridiculousness of this all is that Ayatullah was living in Turkey and then France before the coup. He was flown there in Air france and he was the time magzine person of the year 1979.
MKA never undermined any minority living in Turkiye. They all had the same rights as Turks. What you are saying is just random words combined. Not a script. I’m from the Middle East and it’s insane hard to understand politics here if you are outside. You probably need to be a world known historian from outside to understand our politics here. You need the opinions of locals, local news, the history of it and many more. Yet you are here talking nonsense about this whole ordeal. But what I’m saying doesn’t mean I hate Kurds. Most of Turks actually love our Kurdish brothers and vise versa. Don’t spread misinformation.
i'm half kurd living in turkey i don't want such thing and i love my turkish brothers
MKA took away education from Muslim majority Turks. Scarfed women weren’t allowed to go to uni. He did great things, but he was not a saint. Don’t idolise him
Öyle mi peki neden tüm dünyanın doğu Türkistan'daki soykırımı görmesini istiyorsunuz bu bir çelişki değil mi ben bir kürt olarak yazdığın her şeyin sahte yalan ve yanlış olduğunu söylüyorum
The only misinformation that's being spread is your word salad about Turkey liking Kurds and Kurdistan. Newsflash, Turkey doesn't, and has been extremely discriminatory against Kurds and other minorities.
@@CGokce6 MKA didn’t take away education, he BROUGHT education. Just compare the literacy rates of 1910 and 1950.
ım kurdish Thank you very much jonn ♥️
Its funny how the turks claim to be kurds in the comment section then they end it with "kurdistan and kurds dont exist". You know you are on the wrong side when you have to lie about yourself to prove a point
stop using copium mate. nobody wrote anything like that lol.
whole bunch of false information. Kurds have same rights as Turks in Turkiye. We even had Kurdish Presidents like Turgut Özal etc.
Kurdish language is not forbidden, there is even government operated Kurdish TV Channels...
loooove this format of telling a story with maps, and you guys have been getting better and better at it. congrats to the whole team! ❤
So many turks crying in the comments🤣
You can see that the countryless are crying more
Who cries? A nation with tons of states throughout history or a minority who has never ever had its own state. You guys are so funny 😂😂
As a Kurd from eastern Kurdistan, I ask all Kurdish brothers and sisters in other parts of Kurdistan to preserve their language and learn their history. Please never be fooled by the propaganda of the occupying countries. We are only Kurdistanian. Be strong, let's unite because freedom is near. 🙏 2+2=1✌️bijî kurdistan❤️☀️💚
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Historical Assyrian lands were not Kurdistan!! Stop pan Kurdism
Ask the Japanese, they will tell you what the Kurds are
I would love if u explain
What a political nonsense video! Great illustration. Whoever funds these videos, the same people trying to create an unstable region there for a long time. Everybody in Turkey, including the Turkish people and Kurdish people we used to coexist together regarding our differences. In the last 20-25 years, they have made some progress on their goal. Like I said the goal is to create unstable region so some can profit from. All the historical events happened in the region, it’s been backed by US and/or British governments. If I was someone watching this video without actually knowing how it’s like, what actually happened for all these years, I would definitely feel bad about what happened to the Kurdish people but it’s not the Kurds or the Turks or the other nationalities together but the problem is PKK (now YPG) as stated in the video is a terrorist organization. They bombed the train stations, public areas, they burned down the forests in Türkiye. They kidnapped Kurds and separated them from their parents in their young age. Of course Türkiye doesn’t want another country next to their border or as for some people’s wet dreams also including part of Türkiye. There are of course a lot of problems that needs to be talked and solved by Turkish people. (That’s what we call everybody who lives in Türkiye no matter what nationality they are) but it got to the point the people who were supposed to defend the Kurds in Türkiye, they also became political figures and had sayings supporting PKK and getting funded by this terrorist organization and governments. We all know what happened all the historic figures that backed by US government. One day you are an ally, the other day you are either insurgent or a terrorist. We don’t know who gets what behind the closed doors, you think you are fighting for a cause but you are actually fighting so some can make bunch of money off of you, that’s all it is. There are also a lot of lies in this video hidden with the historical facts. The reason why US and other countries involved in Iraq war was an uncontrollable, mentally unstable Saddam and the chemical mass weapons which was found a lie after the war ended. Someone said Turks are not going to like this video.. Of course they won’t because we know there are people who are trying to create conflict between people who lived together for hundreds of years. Republic of Türkiye is not against the Kurds. As Turkish people and like any other nations, we are against the people with bad intentions. As a Turk, I was born and grew up in the Aegean region, the town that my grandparents live had more Kurds than Turks and I had bunch of Kurdish friends that I even shared my food with. Those are not the Kurds that have a problem with Türkiye. They love the country that they live in as everybody in Türkiye. Everybody has to have their opinion but don’t fall for these tricks. Again fuck the media that releases bunch of lies. They all controlled by people with power
Kurdistan is Kurdistan , not Terroriye
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One of the reasons why the imperalists (France and Britain) didnt make a Kurdistan like they made Syria, Iraq and Jordan and so on, is because they were afraid of the conservative and pracitising Kurdish Muslims who would held the uprise and keeping for an Ottoman Empire opposite of secular Kemal Ataturk and his likewise secular politicians who were against Ottoman, Kurds and Islamic influence. The Kurds were some of the most loyal Muslims who oppossed secularism and the imperalists didnt like this fact.. they afraid of a new Islamic empire in middle of Mesopotamia after the Ottoman fall
I was saying that for years.
Turks are having a country because English and French wanted to be sure that a caliphate will not be established again
@@rastisdiq4142 you so right brother
Yup exactly they did not want another salahudini ayubi
What of the Assyrians who lived there before you all
@@Stanleyslipz we were neighboors
Thank you so much for sharing this video and I hope that one day we will be able to make it our own country .
Love from Kurdistan❤☀💚
04:07 Hey Johnny,
I don't know if you simply made a typo or used an incorrect source, but the Dersim operation started in 1937, and what is referred to as the massacre happened in 1938.
So much misinformation there, you are telling the story without either deep research on each involved country and its views, or without even knowing what you re doing. You mapped Armenis as a part where kurds are, I am giving you my word as an Armenian there is no Kurd living in Armenia, and there has never ever been any bombing on Armenia (Specifically the part you showed in your video, it is near the capital city of Yerevan and if there was bombing from Turkey that would be huge incident). So, please recheck the information given, and look closely at every dot before publishing these maps
Hey brother, Stalin deported all the Lachin Kurds to countries such as Tajikistan and Turkestan, we are not saying that Armenia is to blame.
We also know that the Yerevan government allocated Yerevan radio to us in order to protect our language and the aid they provided for the Kurds.
Completly forgot about the Russians in Syrië 😅
The Russians main motivation was helping the Arab nationalists and other factions fighting Al Qaeda and ISIS and are in Syria on behalf of the government. They too do not care about the Kurds and have nothing to gain from attacking or using them.
There was never a country called "Kurdistan" in human history.
Thank you for your amasing work.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing it. ✌️
I just clicked on this video after 2 title and thumbnail changes. Should be great for your analysis Johnny.
I am a Kurdish living in Turkiye. Please do not skip mentioning that Kurdish terrorist PKK killed more than 40,000 people in Turkiye including their own people Kurds. Your claims are all wrong about Kurds living in Turkiye.
Zor supas
Kurdish for thank you
Interesting insight 👏👏👏
Free Kurdistan from Nigeria!!
They never had a nation in the past, so why invent one? obvious interests.
Across the world there are many many many countries that were never independent states, or had a history of owning their own country, but, they are today independent countries.. so why not Kurds?under the current situation Kurds don’t really have an option to decide their own future, as its always decided by either the Iraqi, Syrian, Iranian or Turkish government.
@@windowsxpisloading why not give lands from your country?
Kurds are the indigenous people of these lands. They can establish a state whenever they want. Turks are an invading tribe that came to Anatolia later.
@@YusufGever there is no such thing as Kurds, people are mixed, if you are a kurd do a DNA test and you will see, all tribes have invaded lands in the past, according to your analogy kurds where there ever since planet earth was created, which is quite stupid, the so called "kurds" also migrated from central-south Asia to todays Iraq, so check your facts first.
@@blackvirus9 What you say about Kurds is a complete lie. They were always in the Middle East. Kurds have many J2 blood groups. J2 blood group is found in Anatolian natives. This shows that the Kurds did not come from anywhere and were always in Anatolia.
I am a fan of your videos for years Johnny. But there are many mistakes and misleading information in this video. Not only in details, there are giant mistakes. Clear, very apparent mistakes.
I still want to believe in your honesty but it gets hard with these type of misleading videos.
We all know that we can use the same story and change what the audience gonna believe in by just shaping our words. This video doesn't do this only, but also sharing wrong information very clearly to the people who knows, but the average people won't know.
It's just sad.
wich Information?
owww turk got sad
@@bishoo10he is Turk just making propaganda