Turkey: A Strained & Critical Alliance: Insights from Ahmet Üzümcü | Battlegrounds w/ H.R. McMaster

[@johndunne7900]

Erdogan has an Islamic view of Israel and this will not change until his party is out of power.

[@Redmentalhm66]

Bruh You guys fund and train terrorists in Syria and Iraq YPG-PYD-PKK organisation

[@Redmentalhm66]

Doesnt matter left or right side we support our country doesnt matter if Erdoğan leads or not you guys dont know anything about us

[@Redmentalhm66]

The audacity that you Western people think you are the good guys

[@Redmentalhm66]

You people dont even have right to speak about middle east Maybe should ı talk about WikiLeaks or Miserable coup attempt in 2016 Killing civillians all around world creating terrorism destabilizing countryies just to benefit neo-ccnservatives

[@shafsteryellow]

Please tell me you're joking...

[@kingcrazymani4133]

Thanks to both for the interview.

[@Sarcasmses]

H R was conspicuously silent during the Ambassador's description and characterization of the Gaza War, I was hoping for more of a conversation on the topic since clearly the two disagree in many places.

[@lawrencefrost9063]

He wanted him to give his view, not fight him on it. And when the guy was finished HR did say something like "Let's not forget Hamas is the primary aggressor" etc.

[@adamhenrywalker]

NATO needs Turkey, not the other way around.

[@nuqwestr]

22:30 I looked at those surveys and he is being disingenuous. Question: How much do you trust the Hamas-Led Government 15% A Great Deal 18% Quite A Lot 25% Not a Lot I'd say the majority supported Hamas in Gaza on Oct 6th, at least somewhat, 58%, while only 44% said not at all. "Our most recent interviews were carried out between September 28 and October 8, surveying 790 respondents in the West Bank and 399 in Gaza. (Interviews in Gaza were completed on October 6.) The survey’s findings reveal that Gazans had very little confidence in their Hamas-led government. Asked to identify the amount of trust they had in the Hamas authorities, a plurality of respondents (44 percent) said they had no trust at all; “not a lot of trust” was the second most common response, at 23 percent. Only 29 percent of Gazans expressed either “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of trust in their government. Furthermore, 72 percent said there was a large (34 percent) or medium (38 percent) amount of corruption in government institutions, and a minority thought the government was taking meaningful steps to address the problem." - Arab Barometer.

[@junaidahmed1993]

Mr. McMaster, please do a show on Pakistan. How do we see the relationship between Pakistan and USA

[@thedoctor.a.s1401]

Yh do us pakistan then us india relations

[@timothyjones74]

Thanks for this interesting post. Turkey seams so two faced. Islamic states seem to speak peace while they hate the West. After reading Leon Uris “The Haj” and “Exodus” i don’t see a version of “peace” that could endure the Islamic culture. How many Palestinians have they allowed to reside in Turkey And allowed to become citizens? What other countries in that region are willing to bring ‘Palestinian “refugees” into their respective nations?

[@Tuathadana]

Thats Islam for you

[@shafsteryellow]

Turkey has literally MILLIONS of refugees and has been airlifting Gazans to turkish hospitals. No one wants to be complicit in Israels ethnic cleansing campaign.

[@tunatangor8835]

Why would we allow Plaestinians to settle in Turkey? Palestinians have the right to live in peace in Palestine.

[@blackace4423]

What a stupid comment. Why should people of Palestine leave their country? That would be a favor to the zionists. Turkey has over 4 million refugees from Syria and Iraq because of your country.

[@oguzoztas1851]

İslamla ne ilgisi var, insanlığın 70 yıldır Filistinde ırzına geçiliyor.

[@RS-uh7rz]

I'm disappointed your six minute history didn't mention the "disappearance" of Turkiye's Armenian minority. Presumably, this comment would disappear if I used the appropriate word to describe what was done to them.

[@shafsteryellow]

That has literally ZERO to do with Turkiye.

[@tunatangor8835]

Why would this be a topic between the US and Turkey? Ankara's position is very clear and reject any notion of genocide.

[@Seosaidh1]

It does when their countries leaders deny it and idolize the paschas who orchestraded it. Erdogan wants rhe Ottoman name in all the good but refuses to take responsibility for all the bad.

[@gregorytaylor9104]

And the same with the pontic Greeks.

[@gregorytaylor9104]

​@@shafsteryellowThe centre of the Ottoman Empire was in...

[@jon9625]

Turkey - Nationalised chaos

[@pinkbike0217]

Still hoping

[@proudtobeanamerican]

Too bad Ataturk abolished the fez hat, very cool looking hat.

[@nuqwestr]

Perhaps the Palestinians should give back the land they stole from Turkey in WW1. Didn't they fight alongside Christians against their Muslim brothers?

[@shafsteryellow]

Turkey didn't exist in WW1. You make no sense.

[@tunatangor8835]

The Palestinian flag is almost identical to the flag of the Arab Revolt and they paid a very very heavy price for that. Not only did their former allies the British sold them out, but they are still facing the consequences for their ancestors actions today. However, that was more then a 100 years ago and today most Turks sympathise with the Palestinian cause. However that does not mean we are against the right of Israel as a state to exit. We seek a two state solution where Israelis and Palestinians do not kill each other and are seperated by hard borders where both can live in peace and be recognized by the international community.

[@mattcat83]

"you know"

[@pinkbike0217]

💖❤️

[@kevinjenner9502]

Erdogan has recognized GNCD in Gaza, and US complicity in same.

[@nuqwestr]

How Ironic, Jews and the Hashemites war against Turkey with the Allied Powers in WW1, now Turkey wants to "administer a mandate" in its former region of Palestine. LOL. In mid-October, following the UN Security Council’s failure to pass a Russian resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian truce in Gaza, Turkey proposed a “guarantor system” to end the fighting in Gaza and to secure a lasting Palestinian-Israel peace. Turkey’s initiative envisions foreign governments-including Turkey-serving as permanent mediators in the conflict and keeping Israel and the Palestinians in check over possible violations of any peace agreement that is reached.

[@Hratchya]

I am surprised by the general’s position and participation in the development of the narrative around which the conversation is built. Türkiye currently and for coming generations is an authoritarian revisionist center of power, where Islamism playing a dominant role. Türkiye is a country where the vast majority of the population hates the United States, Europe, and democratic institutions and values. Turkey is currently projecting military-political power on the Middle East, Africa, the Caucasus and Central Asia, posing an open military threat to its neighbors. Turkey was directly involved in the Nagorno-Karabakh war in 2020, allied with Azerbaijan and Russia, which ended in ethnic cleansing and the exodus of the Christian Armenian population. And it is extremely naive to try to “persuade” Erdogan and Turkey to abandon such a policy. However, the respected general cannot be called naive, and he knows perfectly well how the appeasement policy ends. The general and the whole conversation look extremely unconvincing.

[@searchingfortruth619]

That was funny, comparing Turkey and Israel as "the two democracies" in the Middle East.

[@dahanler1599]

Yea one of them is being home to 11 million refugees, the other is intentionally starving thousands of children.

[@lawjef]

Ngl, his heavy accent will tank your video views. Its a shame

[@Armenrican]

Turkey was created as a counterweight to imperial and later soviet Russia. Its sultan abdul hamid and later ataturk with their governme ts committed most heinous crimes against humanity but somehow noone was truly punished. This is because those who created it hold these crimes as weapons they can use against it. Until then, Armenians and Greeks need to survive and become stronger economically. One day, this house of cards will collapse on itself. Just pass a law to allow ancestry tests in Turkey.

[@Armenrican]

Even the Turkish alphabet was created by an Armenian!

[@dahanler1599]

DNA Tests aren’t banned in Turkey. What are you talking about?