Why Don't Turks Speak Arabic Either? 🇹🇷 #shorts

Name: Why Don't Turks Speak Arabic Either? 🇹🇷 #shorts
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Iranians don't speak Arabic, and neither do Turks, but their story is even stranger. Turkic peoples came from Central Asia, thousands of miles from Arabia. They became Muslim but kept their own language. Then they flipped it: in 1517 the Ottoman Turks under Selim I conquered the Arab world, and ruled much of it for about 400 years. Turkish was still written in Arabic letters until 1928, when Atatürk switched it to the Latin alphabet in a matter of months.

So is Turkey Middle East, or Europe? 👇

Sources: Wikipedia – Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–1517); Wikipedia – Turkish alphabet reform (1928); Wikipedia – Orkhon inscriptions.

Historical borders: historical-basemaps by aourednik (GPL-3.0).
Satellite imagery: Sentinel-2 cloudless by EOX (s2maps.eu), contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016.
Photos (Atatürk, 1928 alphabet, Selim I, Göktürk stone): public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Music: ElevenLabs.

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@romulus9990YouTube

Middle Europe

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@Masst8YouTube

Algiers was allied with Ottomans and they were never conquered. Ottomans were just in few places in Algeria, and that the ruler of Algiers hired two brother Ottoman privateers to help fight off Spain.
Algeria belong to the Amazigh world.

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@Ioannis-ph9qdYouTube

Turkish Central Asia

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@KamoolaVRYouTube

Turkey is both😅

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@producerguynoYouTube

Asia Middle East and Europe

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@JesscolonellYouTube

1% in europe.

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@CP-xy1bzYouTube

Turkey is Pakistan of Europe

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@producerguynoYouTube

@Jesscolonell%1 pregnant is still pregnant

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@H.F.H-e2xYouTube

None , they,re part of greater ISRAEL

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@MIKEDIAMONDZYouTube

😅 Since Erdogan, they are middleast... in europe we used to consider them europeans but things have changed since they turned a church into a mosque, Hagia Sofia

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@somonalamshoev521YouTube

The Turks did not come from Central Asia, they came from Altai and Siberia. Central Asia is also one of the regions they migrated to.

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@ClipKing.YouTube

Mongolian

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@kiarashshahYouTube

this is inaccurate the turks wrote their poetry and letters in persians and not arabic. remeber from diarbekr to todays persian borders everything was persian. the dna of these people are not turkish but azeri or persia. or kurds which are persians they took land from iran by force and still all over their mountains you see persian signs and statues and treasure

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@atacanmadrali9385YouTube

Moğollar Türk değil ki Biz Moğol olalım

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@Kunoritherb_noobYouTube

ermmmmm actually it is more not just central asia east asia somewhere neat china but yeah we are asians

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@omeromer18YouTube

Just go visit different cities in Turkiye. You will see both, but neither. We are unique.

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@manontondalan9941YouTube

it was the reverse....lol

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@NaciMahmut-rf5xfYouTube

Both.

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@padafandVatanYouTube

People of Türkiye are not Turks that is a misnomer, they speak Turkic language but are mostly of middle eastern and European origin.

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@agagagaga-e5sYouTube

turks didnt come from central asia. i mean they did but the modern turks are like %80 anatolian and %20 turkic thats why they look nothing like uzbeks, kazakhs. anatolia wasnt empty when central asia turks came. they came and mixed with the anatolians and enforced their language.

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@MehmetAliCopur-w1dYouTube

We are Asian

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@yeterartikkdefneYouTube

65 million turks in 90 million population

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@salahaldeen7924YouTube

Islamic East

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@ggigii5416YouTube

DNA😊

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@daveabdul706YouTube

That is funny back then algeria was size of Bagcilar, they would not live without having Turkish Fas on their head if they wanted to be free. So Ottoman saved Algeria.

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@brom-b5wYouTube

It means Arabs would never have gained independent counties under the Turks. The Europeans brought to them independence

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@moea9577YouTube

Both

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@Illuminati-fz6geYouTube

Yes with puppets

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@alzanatialafilYouTube

This contains incorrect information. First, there was no single ruler of Algiers during the time of the Barbarossa brothers, as the Zayyanid dynasty was embroiled in an internal power struggle and the state was in a process of collapse. Instead, it was the inhabitants of cities such as Béjaïa, Jijel, Algiers, and Tlemcen who sought the brothers' assistance. Subsequently, Hayreddin Barbarossa declared himself ruler of Algiers with the consent of its people. The governance of Algiers evolved through four distinct phases: the era of the Beylerbeys (1518–1588), during which the ruler was appointed by the Sublime Porte in Istanbul; the era of the Pashas (1588–1659), who served three-year terms and were sent directly from Turkey—a system that eventually left them weakened in the face of the army; and start the era of the Aghas(1659–1671), a period dominated by military commanders; and finally, the "White Revolution" of 1671, when the Algerian populace, the Kouloughlis, and the Raïs (corsair captains) rose up against the tyranny of the Janissaries and expelled them from the country. This led to the establishment of an Algerian republic—in the historical sense of the term. Therefore, Algiers was under Ottoman control between 1518 and 1671.

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@alzanatialafilYouTube

No, just a new colonizer. A far, far worse colonizer.

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@1acecadYouTube

Neither, nor

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@whityking152YouTube

@Jesscolonell noone asked

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@betterdeadthanred4196YouTube

Turkey is Armenia

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@thesayynnYouTube

Butt pain? Hagia Sofia has turned into a mosque long time ago, not something Erdoğan did.

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@bilLaahiYouTube

Several languages in Iran

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@Karatuğ-y5wYouTube

Not central asia its Turkistan

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@Karatuğ-y5wYouTube

We are Turks we have nothing to do with persians or kurds No they did not persians are a minority even in iran
40 % of people in iran are of turkish turkic origin
Turks ruled iran for over 1000 years
Persians dont have their own alphabet they use arabic letters
Persians are a minority
Thats why its called iran rather than persia
Because half of iran is arab turks balochs and other peoples

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@Karatuğ-y5wYouTube

Not true because turkic peoples look different turks from türkmenistan and türkiye
Look more similar than uzbek turks
Your comment is well known among anti turks like yourself its hurts racists like you when you hear about turks and their history coz people like you are jalouse

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@mlkljjgjgYouTube

They are Middle East

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@kearsenYouTube

The official language of ottoman was Persian.

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@ekmeksever8334YouTube

Turk here, we are Asian, Turk Asian.

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@AzizooooooYouTube

The last line is really funny 😂

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@kearsenYouTube

Neither is European,europeans are Persian

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@JesscolonellYouTube

@whityking152 turks are barely welcome in eastern europe as foreigners. How would they be welcome as a state? When someone is uncivilized in europe they call him Turk. Do you really think turks are european? Is it a joke?

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@Karatuğ-y5wYouTube

No it was definetly not
It was turkish infact the ottoman turks made turkish official language of the state and the empire
And dont forget iranian is multiple people
Turks are a single people

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@Karatuğ-y5wYouTube

You mean armenia is stolen turkish land

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@kearsenYouTube

@Karatuğ-y5wthe government official language was Persian go check

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@Karatuğ-y5wYouTube

@yeterartikkdefne well above 73 million easily very easily

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@aydeayYouTube

nope

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@Karatuğ-y5wYouTube

@kearsenno no no no definetly no maybe some crossborder letters yes but you have these kind in many languages
Dont play smart kid
Ottoman turks official language was turkish period
Even turkish dynasties that ruled iran safevids and qajars spoke and communicated in turkish
Persian belonged to garbage
Thats all

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@Karatuğ-y5wYouTube

@aydeay its to hard for them to accept anything that is turkish its to heavy for them
Because its about turks

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@stannisbaratheon5939YouTube

it was mosque more thwn 400 years dont be loser just biuld new one

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@Ioannis-ph9qdYouTube

@Karatuğ-y5w the origins of the Turkish people language and culture is central Asia moving to the west part of Asia doesn't change that

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@ArtaTalaeiYouTube

They have turned churches into mosques many times during the last 500 years, and you just realized that

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@Masst8YouTube

@alzanatialafilThanks for the journal, but the ruler of the city of Algiers was Salim. Algiers was never under Ottoman control.

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@Kübra-n8s3fYouTube

Stop yapping Bro you can‘t compare them with Pakistan

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@Kübra-n8s3fYouTube

Keep dreaming Bro 🫰🏽

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@betterdeadthanred4196YouTube

@Kübra-n8s3fno we dont want it. Just stating the fact. Ahmed

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@alzanatialafilYouTube

@Masst8 You know that Salim Toumi died in 1516 and Aruj Barbarossa took control of the city?

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@ayseboykin5808YouTube

We are best of east and west and proud of it.

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@latifkuiper4814YouTube

What you call the middle-east is the center of the world

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@Masst8YouTube

@alzanatialafilYou are conflating the current mindset with the one that prevailed centuries ago. At the request of Salim, Barbarossa and his brother sought to drive Christian colonizers out of Muslim lands; at the time, this was considered a duty for a Muslim. By fighting the Europeans, they gained great renown and became full-fledged members of the community of Algiers. The Ottoman sultans, for their part, saw this as an effective way to keep European powers at bay in the western Mediterranean. In any case, although they eventually betrayed the inhabitants of Algiers, the city of Algiers was an ally of the Ottoman Empire, not a colony.

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@gameplaygamesuzbYouTube

Çingizlar hujum qilganda Xorazmdan kelganku

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@milad_kayi01YouTube

😂😂 yarim Yarti Turçke dill DNA De yunan Anadlolu Nasil Turksiniz?

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@sergiofreiYouTube

American view to explain the world

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@GoloMedia-q9gYouTube

Neither. Turkey is Asia minor. I think Turkey closer to Caucasus as a region.

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@Karatuğ-y5wYouTube

@betterdeadthanred4196 its not a fact the fact is that turks conqured asia minor from easteren roman empire thats a fact
So stop lying Cakalyan

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@MIKEDIAMONDZYouTube

@ArtaTalaei thanks to Count Dracula many ottomans where defeated and stopped from attacking europe ... islamists relentlessly attacked europe bcz of jelousy and hate

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@yeterartikkdefneYouTube

Even karabağ isnt armenia 😂

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@KimseKimsesiz1948YouTube

Türkiye is not Middle-East nor Europe, it's Eastern Asia imposed themselves in those lands by the power of their Warlords since Atilla & Cengiz Khan ...

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@Hirsizz59YouTube

🇹🇷🫸🏻🇪🇺

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@PastPossibleOfficialYouTube

@Kübra-n8s3fyes Pakistan is great, They are Owner of their Land but turk are from central asia

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@HossamQasim-t2oYouTube

Both

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@agagagaga-e5sYouTube

@Karatuğ-y5w i am turkish myself. turks are not central asian. turks are mostly anatolian origin. its not a theory its a fact.

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@Tieu-h1eYouTube

You dont even know the difference between tucic and turk😂 turk prentend they are both ancient greek and Mongolia, they dont have any history

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@Karatuğ-y5wYouTube

@agagagaga-e5s i am a turkish too i respect your wiev but i am as turkish my origin is from turkistan called central asia
We turks have our culture language all of it from turkistan thats why our language turkish is totally different from all our neighbores arabs armenians bulgars greeks persian
We turks of türkiye are turks who are the only turkic state that is far west than our other turkic brothers

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@agagagaga-e5sYouTube

@Karatuğ-y5w You are assimilated. you do not come from central asians. you are anatolian. you come from hittites. the reason why you speak turkic language is because they assimilated you just like how greeks assimilated anatolians in byzantium

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@HamzaWarriorYouTube

Turkiye not turkey is middle east country turks dont feel Europeans they feel middle eastern and thats true logically

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@_Pars__YouTube

The Turks were a migratory tribe who arrived 200 years ago. With British support, they wiped out the native Anatolians and began ruling over them. The UK armed them with rifles and cannons at a time when Middle Easterners were still using swords and arrows. During World War II, the UK overthrew the Ottoman Empire and crowned Atatürk.

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@admirosmani3765YouTube

That is not true

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@amirlalabeygi1953YouTube

Iran have 50 milyon turk

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@huseyozYouTube

Last question in the video was so dumb, was so stupid!

Geographic locations is not up to what people think, its based on facts!

And historically fact is this, Turkiye is in MINOR ASIA!
what a stupid video! In all old
Maps its written as Minor Asia.

Thats it, topic is over! Make a better content

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@Gabogabo-i4vYouTube

Iran is persia and has nothing to do with arabs ..They are muslims who speak Farsi and persia..
Turkey are not arabs but muslims because of otoman rule ..I can say turkey is asia and not europeans

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@YasserNasr-c4eYouTube

Neither

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@چول_هزارگیYouTube

Turks lost their identity

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@leilakrmYouTube

اونها اذری هستن که زبانشون ترکی هست ، نژاد ترک زبانهای ایران با ترکهای ترکیه فرق داره

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@BU13XVOYouTube

Bit of both

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@AzizaA-S.AYouTube

1. Turkiye!!! Not Turkey
2. Turks and turkic nations, in general, like to build empires 😂
3. It is İstanbul, not constantinople 😊

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@Erikamil1998YouTube

Iran's flag has a lion and sun in the middle

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@EXPLODINGGM-j9cYouTube

We gained independence ourselves, yes the Europeans scammed us but we were also able to gain independence against the Turks.

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@EXPLODINGGM-j9cYouTube

The majority of Muslims who are Sunni see Iran as an atheist country, because Iran is Shia and the Shia religion is very different compared to Islam.

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@Riza-e1mYouTube

Lütfen böyle sacmaliklara inanmayin bu koca bir yalan Kim anlatiyor Kim ögretiyor size bu gercek olmayan yalanlari biz o topraklara gectigimizde siz ingilizler baska haklari boyundurugu altinda yasiyordunuz

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@Riza-e1mYouTube

Türkler ikinci Dünya savasina katilmadi bunun da gercegini ögrenemiyecek kadar aptal olamaz insan

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@Johnny-v4g8fYouTube

Actually they don't, this is the official flag

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@Erikamil1998YouTube

@Johnny-v4g8f
Actually Iranians don't care, the majority of the country see it not as their flag therefore it doesn't represent them

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@everythingfromeverywhere1924YouTube

😂

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@Reza90210YouTube

Turkiye is not europe, its west Asia.

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@MK35.5YouTube

Türkler hiçbir zaman Arap alfabesi kullanmadı.
Osmanlı’nın kendi alfabesi vardı.
Tamamen sallamışsın.

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@Karatuğ-y5wYouTube

Around 35 milion is more accurate

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@Karatuğ-y5wYouTube

@leilakrm irandaki türkler öz türktür
Farslar iranda azınlıktır
Arap baloch onlarda cok kalabalıktır

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@SalihGunay-sc2miYouTube

Ataturk he was planned he was a Zionist he wasn’t he was easiest. They give him he great family. He came from Spain when they kick them out on Spain and Jewish people at one of them kids and Oman empire given place and Saykı and then they take it from his own original Jewish family they gave one Muslim family. They told him his family dead they adopted him so he grew up. They put him in the school army school he became general and he carried a lost leader of the Oman empire and then he make a deal with English and change Turk from Arabic alpha to Latin Alpha and I grandfathers they told us next day we wake up we go to school and we can leave the car right because he changed them all helpless Latinos European so attitude is not father of the text he’s actually he was Jewish. He was planned by English to finish most of the empire and then whatever it takes that there and get them Islam make them Turk to Christians which he didn’t work out so proper Muslims and Turk they defend the country and now he’s been we have a law. His number law is called 5816 in the parliament. Nobody can open it because they protected his identity so hopefully by end of this year or institution change they can open that 5816 institution and then hold Turk they know whoseAtaturk and then whole Muslim nation in Turkey there were no was biggest enemy for our religion for our cultures. He wiped out our language. He was not wiped out and he was biggest enemy and he was with the England and then can you imagine that being as a given him as a gift second biggest diamond chandelier by our family early 19th century so we will see that after Hercules

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@truthonly2453YouTube

Iran and Turkey are weak as they became muslims, the arabs kept them under their authority as those countries still believe in an arab god

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@emin_0646YouTube

we arent "the best" theres no such thing as "the best people"

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@cingizkhan9763YouTube

@leilakrmbiz hepimiz Oğuz'uz ne anlatıyorsun

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@SahinUstaNLYouTube

Turkiye is East and West, Middle East and Europe

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@MURATDÖNERCİYouTube

İts not turkey bud TÜRKİYE
pls respect

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@sevdacenikli55YouTube

you mix up centuries, wars, and basic historical facts.

• Turkic settlement in Anatolia dates back roughly 1,000 years, with a major expansion after the Battle of Manzikert in 1071—not 200 years ago. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• The Ottomans used cannons centuries before any supposed British introduction. Their artillery helped capture Constantinople in 1453. The idea that Middle Eastern armies were still limited to swords and arrows until Britain armed the Turks is false. OpenStax

• Britain fought against the Ottoman Empire during World War I. The Ottoman sultanate was abolished by the Turkish National Assembly in 1922, and Atatürk became the republic’s first elected president in 1923. Britain did not ‘crown’ him—he was never a king. Holocaust Encyclopedia

• Atatürk died in 1938, before World War II even began. Your timeline is therefore impossible.

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