What actually counts as Europe?

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Exploring Europe: Where Does It Begin and End? Does Europe's edge stop at Greece, stretch into Russia, or include parts of Turkey and beyond? We examine if geography alone can define a continent and question the role of natural landmarks in shaping our understanding. Can political entities like the European Union provide a clearer picture, or do cultural aspects hold the key to Europe's true essence? This journey is not just about lines on a map, but a deeper quest to understand what makes Europe uniquely European. Join us in this fascinating investigation into the heart and soul of a continent that has captivated the world for centuries.
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@EUMadeSimple 7 ай бұрын

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@JmKrokY 7 ай бұрын

Sus

@andreanderson8639 7 ай бұрын

You mean like Eurasian plate? 2:19

@alexandrosonassis3436 7 ай бұрын

Εuropeans indigenous peoples are those white Europeans whose heritage comes from Ancient Hellas (Hellenic DNA), that's why there are Europeans in Argentina, Chile, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc. Culturally EUrope is definitely NOT Islam, that's why Turkey, Morocco can never join Europe. Geographically speaking Europe expands from the Atlantic to the Urals, that's why all Russians are also Europeans, unfortunately, due to politics there is a war and everybody calls it a European War, this alone is another proof that Russians are Europeans.

@keltoislavi 2 ай бұрын

@@alexandrosonassis3436 I agree somewhat tho Albania, Kosovo, and bosnia have large muslim populations of a european ethnic background. Tho generally id say europe leans more towards secularism/christendom. Islam at least for me often feels more alien generally as its seen as more of part of the arabsphere than eurosphere. I think Christianity gets more acceptance generally because of Romes influence and the decline of Christianity in the middle east which pushed it from being primarily in the middle east to being primarily in europe and in the future probably latin america

@nataliiateteruk585 7 ай бұрын

Norway was never "kicked out of the club". They had the peoples referendum on joining but at that time Norwegians voted no to join the EU.

@falsevacuum4667 4 ай бұрын

He meant kicked out of the club of what counts as Europe, not kicked out of the EU.

@nataliiateteruk585 4 ай бұрын

@falsevacuum4667 sometimes I forget that Europe bigger than the EU.

@Loff3t 3 ай бұрын

@@falsevacuum4667 the club isnt Europe, its an organization, just like Soviet

@ralfklonowski3740 7 ай бұрын

As a schoolkid almost 50 years ago I was tought that Europe is limited geographically by the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Aegean and Black sea as weel as the Caucasian and Ural mountains. This still makes the most sense to me, as culture and especially politics can be subject to change, while oceans and mountains tend to stay where they are, at least on a human timescale. Historicly and culturally I would insist that western Russia belongs to Europe. Looking at it through politics, it does not seem like it, but then politics are a very shiort-term buisness.

@sfp2290 7 ай бұрын

I agree. If the outcome / understanding of a definition was changing as rapidly as politics. Then that definition would effectively be rendered useless, as a definition is only useful so far as people commonly understand its' meaning.

@MarketsDriveTheWorld 7 ай бұрын

Russia is obviously European, politics means nothing, then Germany wasn't European when they were against the rest?

@OscarOSullivan 7 ай бұрын

Problem is Russia’s politics are of a vanishing larger European country type politics of believing your borders do not end

@ivydark9741 7 ай бұрын

@@OscarOSullivanthat does not affect the clear geographical borders.

@MarketsDriveTheWorld 7 ай бұрын

@@saccount-z3 🤣🤣🤣 russia is just a state is not a civilization, and it would be a pretty pathetic civilization if it was with basically no ancient history ecc, Russia is clearly European, Russians are slavs like most Eastern Europeans with an influx of vikings blood too... Russia is such a separate civilization that half of their historic buildings were build by French and Italians, their leaders were other Europeans and they were called Zar which just men Caesar, they are famous for a political movement invented in Germany, and they follow the same religion Europe follow. How they are different? Because putin now is politically opposed 🙄 even in stats Russians are actually quite similar to Europeans.

@ivan_matvichuk 7 ай бұрын

It's a complicated question, but I think it's culture, politics and common history that binds the whole continent of Europe! 🇪🇺

@MW_Asura 7 ай бұрын

Culture, geography and common history for me

@vforvreak8895 7 ай бұрын

Yeah I think that if we had to get strict criteria it’d be like “if you meet 3 of the 4 criteria mentioned in the video”

@JAG214 7 ай бұрын

Agree

@bob_0146 7 ай бұрын

Race?

@fadi8083 7 ай бұрын

Christian Religion unifies the continent.

@msender 7 ай бұрын

I don’t understand why the geographic definition isn’t enough. It’s pretty exact and internationally recognised, so why bother with all this useless polemic about politics and culture? It’s a continent, not a social club you can join or leave.

@ivydark9741 7 ай бұрын

Just to spin some xenophobia.

@TheJayjayforce 7 ай бұрын

Because it makes absolutely no sense on the border with Asia? What kind of continental border is made up of Mountains and a river running through a plain? There is no real geographic continental boundary there. If you are using mountains and rivers, then you can just as easily say that India is own continent demarcated by the Indian Ocean, Himalayas, the Mountain ranges on the border with Myanmar and the Indus river running through Pakistan.

@msender 7 ай бұрын

And yet it is internationally recognised as a continent and reflected as such in all world maps, so it doesn’t really matter whether you and I think mountain ridges make a good demarcation line or not, just like it doesn’t matter whether we think that a seven day week is a reasonable time measurement unit or not. Unless you want to seriously propose that the world should agree to re-draw its continental borders, all conversation about “where Europe is” is entirely pointless. It’s where it’s always been.

@user-ds8no1ro2q 7 ай бұрын

No, it IS a social club if one is talking about who enters the European Union and who does not. If one is conducting an intellectual exercise concerning geography Europe is the western end of Eurasia. The Caucasus Mountains, and the Ural Mountains and River are simply arbitrary dividing lines to divide Europe from Asia. Europe, geographically speaking, is not even a continent. Culturally, it is a cohesive region that after WWII came see the wisdom in cooperating in unity rather than in fighting each other by competing. The result has been an exciting period of unprecedented peace and prosperity helped by common ties of religion, ethnicity, language, and values. I personally am glad to have lived long enough to see this.

@user-ds8no1ro2q 7 ай бұрын

@@TheJayjayforce Curiously enough, often called a SUBCONTINENT, India forms a region of common religions, cultures, and values. My high school freshman world history book considered Indian civilization one of the five great living civilizations. My college freshman world history book often cited many similarities between Europe and India.

@Shellydason 7 ай бұрын

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@Shellydason 7 ай бұрын

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@Kylecogswell 7 ай бұрын

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@Johnnywrightt 7 ай бұрын

+1213

@Johnnywrightt 7 ай бұрын

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@jervylim9250 7 ай бұрын

Definition of European border: It is bordered by Asia to the east - the watershed of the Ural Mountains (RUSSIA), the Ural River (KAZAKHSTAN), the Caspian Sea (AZERBAIJAN), the Greater Caucasus (GEORGIA), the Black Sea (UKRAINE, ROMANIA, BULGARIA), the waterways of the Turkish Straights (TURKEY), the Aegean Sea (GREECE), the Mediterranean Sea to the south (MALTA, ITALY, MONACO, FRANCE, SPAIN), the Atlantic Ocean to the west (PORTUGAL, UNITED KINGDOM, IRELAND, FAROE ISLANDS, ICELAND), and the Arctic Ocean to the north (NORWAY). CYPRUS is not geographically included. But yes ethnically, religiously, politically, and economically part of. Like ARMENIA (Lesser Caucasus) isn't geographically in Europe but ethnically, religiously, politically, culturally, and historically part of. However, I do believe that Cyprus and Armenia are part of the European Family.

@irgendwer3610 7 ай бұрын

there is no true definition, only conventions

@ScapeRuneQ 7 ай бұрын

Do you think Cape Verde is part of the European family? Geographically itis part of Macaronesia together with the Canaries, Azores, and Madeira; demographically it is a half-and-half of Europeans and Africans; historically it has been tied to trans-continental exchanges, and politically it is still deeply tied to Portugal.

@MrTohawk 7 ай бұрын

The ancient customary border between Europe and Asia is the Don River. So Europe doesn't even reach the caucasus or the Caspian Sea or the Urals

@koseku3 7 ай бұрын

also malta belongs to semitic language family so you can say its african

@Salsaman34 7 ай бұрын

As you say, you think...

@elkgus403 7 ай бұрын

7:53 as a Finn i am legally obliged to inform that Finland is not apart of scandinavia. Fenno-scandia or the Nordics would be the right term

@nicholasbennett9369 7 ай бұрын

jatkuvasti nuo kaksi käsitettä sekoitetaan. hyvä että aina löytyy joku suomalainen kiireellä korjaamassa.

@elkgus403 7 ай бұрын

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@Pidalin 7 ай бұрын

That guy is literally saying that continent is defined by beying surrounded by ocean, explaining that Finland is not Scandinavia is probably too much. 😀

@Dim.g0v 7 ай бұрын

@@Pidalin Europe is a peninsula of peninsulas

@HolgerJakobs 7 ай бұрын

My friend from the North of Finland doesn't agree with you.

@ugur4511 4 ай бұрын

Turkey's culture is close to the Balkan countries, except for religion. The food, traditional folk clothes, friendliness are close to each other. There are many cultural differences with Western Europe, but Southeastern Europe and Turkey have a lot in common.

@user-hz8qw6hn7v Ай бұрын

The Balkans affected Turkey now the origin of the Mongol Turks

@tugra9158 Ай бұрын

@@user-hz8qw6hn7v The only origin of the Turkish language is Mongolia

@bonami. Ай бұрын

@@tugra9158no.. 💀

@user-dn6tf7ge7z Ай бұрын

@@tugra9158Turkey Mongolia 🦃🧔🏿🇹🇷🇲🇳

@user-dn6tf7ge7z Ай бұрын

Turkey Mongolia 🦃🧔🏿🇹🇷🇲🇳

@emreunalir 7 ай бұрын

- Although the Turkish Empire ended with the abolition of the Ottoman Dynasty in 1922, modern Turkey is the continuation of this country. This is the political thesis of Turkey's Europeanness. - We largely lost our presence in the Balkans with the ethnic Turkish migration to Anatolia and Europe during World War I. However, the basis of the Turkish identity formed during the Ottoman Dynasty is our old European lands of 1,998,000 km2. This is a historical and cultural argument. - The thesis that Turks came from Asia is an insufficient thesis. Today, Hungarians, Finns and many Caucasian people who stepped into Europe are of Asian origin. However, today all of them have undergone cultural change in the face of the dominant European identity and culture. Today, there are huge differences between Turks and Turkic peoples. (This is not just because of Europe) - Although Turkish Thrace is a small region, 10 million Turkish citizens live in this region. This is more than the population of many European countries. - +BONUS; You can see the traces of European identity in Turkey by reading the English edition of the book Turkish Founding Fathers Of United Europe by Kayhan Karaca.

@mahmutsimsek8836 7 ай бұрын

Sır, we are European sir.

@aviationkaan6292 7 ай бұрын

@sultan_e_hind5051 we don’t want to become European so badly we just are European, Turkey is a EU candidate country, Turkey is in the council of Europe, Turkey is in NATO and many Balkan countries have Turkish food and have Turkish culture in them so we are European our language has old French and Spanish words in them

@aviationkaan6292 7 ай бұрын

@sultan_e_hind5051 and we don’t look like Arabs because we’re not there’s also many blonde blue eye Turkish people so there you go

@emreunalir 7 ай бұрын

Because we don't deserve the same treatment as Indians. We have never been a mandate or colony of another country. :D@sultan_e_hind5051

@mahmutsimsek8836 7 ай бұрын

@@aviationkaan6292 Turkish race is not a yellow race. The reason for the blonde race in Turkey is the Circassian migration to Anatolia in the 19th century. This migration was larger than today's Syrian migration and was large enough to constitute 10% of the population at that time, and they settled in western Turkey along with the Balkan migrations. Another reason for the yellow race in Turkey was the Ukrainian female slaves who came to the Aegean and Black Sea coasts of Turkey for 400 centuries. Slaves came to the Aegean and Black Sea by sea and poor Turkish men married these slaves. This caused the formation of the yellow race on the Black Sea and Aegean coastlines today. It is said that 2.5 million people in Turkey are of Ukrainian origin. In fact, those living in the Black Sea region during this period say that their grandmothers 3.4 generations ago were Ukrainian. The reason why the inner and eastern part of Turkey is dark is that, due to the conditions, Ukrainian slaves could not reach the inner regions and stayed in the coastal regions, and the Balkan and Circassian migrations were settled in the west.

@kredfieldk 7 ай бұрын

What a dumb video. Who ever would not consider Russia as European? Just look at their people and their history started in Europe

@lunahoi-jh2jt 25 күн бұрын

I'm Russian we fully do not consider Russia as euro swamp, Russia is Eurasian nation as well as Turks Armenians Azeris or Kazakhs, absolutely mixed society of Orthodox Muslims and Buddhists , being among your euro murderers much more offending than being non European.

@slavianalbanovich9025 7 ай бұрын

I add that there are many more British territories (Bermuda, Cayman, Turks and Caicos, Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Saint Helena, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha, Pitcairn, Sandwich Islands, South Georgia and British Territory in Indian Ocean) and the Netherlands also has 5+1/2 islands in the Caribbean.😊

@Elliasp-xx7mb 7 ай бұрын

Let's do simple : all these countries are europe (except the city of La Courneuve in the suburb of Paris, wich is Africa) 🤣🤣🤣

@AntonKa-yn4mb 7 ай бұрын

10 years later... On this channel... Is france is a part of Europe 😂?

@deeptoot1453 6 ай бұрын

France is no longer France.

@o_s-24 7 ай бұрын

In MY opinion, Europe is the loosely defined westernmost part of the continent of Eurasia that has some common cultural features and is mainly composed of three people/language groups: Slavic, Romance, and Germanic. The more vague countries include Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Turkey, as they might geographically or culturally more different than other European countries. I see a lot of people who don't want to include Russia nowadays, but by my definition, I think it fits; yes, Russia's land is mostly east of the Urals, but the vast majority of its population is located west of the Urals, moreover, ethnic Russians (the majority of Russia's population) are undisputably Slavic people as can be seen from their language, looks, food, etc etc. Justifying your opinion based on a military event doesn't make sense, because I think everyone agreed that Germany was in Europe during WWII, right?

@hia5235 7 ай бұрын

Slavs fall outside of most European history, only showed up in the 600s AD and moved to Europe only because Attila the Hun wiped out the Roman population of the Balkans. The Frankish empires and the Germans never considered the Slavs to be European either. At constant war.

@serebii666 7 ай бұрын

@@hia5235 "Slavs fall outside of most European history" u wot. "only showed up in the 600s AD" Not only did the Slavs originate in Europe, likely to the North of the vicinity of the Dniepr and were already written about by Romans in the 1st century, the Slavs already began migrating and living in Central and Southern Europe in the 400s. "Attila the Hun wiped out the Roman population of the Balkans." You know very little about history. You don't even realize that the Huns occupied lands outside of the Roman empire, which was the catalyst for Slavs and Germanic people to flee into the Roman empire for protection. "The Frankish empires and the Germans never considered the Slavs" Well that's just a blatant lie, if only considering The Slavic Mecklenburg, Moravia and Bohemia and Carantania literally integrated into the Frankish Empire and Germany and adopted Latin religious rites with the archbishoprics centered in for instance Augsburg, with the noble families of these states otherwise also intermarrying at the highest levels like Judith of Swabia marrying the King of Poland. You are a liar and a fool.

@Bayard1503 7 ай бұрын

@@hia5235 That's ignoring that the Slavs were already known a lot earlier, their tribes are named by Greek and Roman historians, that's ignoring that they probably also have as ancestors the Sarmatians and Scythians (besides others) who were known probably earlier than the Germanic tribes.

@jonvin 7 ай бұрын

@@hia5235 You sound like hitler or maybe just his follower? Most white natural blond people IN EUROPE located in Russia, NOT Germany and NOT Scandinavia even if you put them all together.

@jerrymctwisp6244 7 ай бұрын

Russia is geographically Eurasian. Culturally, it depends on exact territory. People in Siberia don't feel European mostly, even if they are Slavs. Also there're a lot of Muslims and Buddhists, it also has some impact on society and its identity.

@BanCommies_Fascists 7 ай бұрын

It might sound a bit racist but being light skinned played a huge role of being European.

@LuDa-lf1xd 7 ай бұрын

I don't know dude, i've seen Indians more light skinned than some andalusians. Not everyone here look like the nórdics.

@MB-em9ek 7 ай бұрын

@@LuDa-lf1xd Light skin in the North of India comes from Indo-European migration long time ago. Darker skin in Andalusia is mainly due to the occupation of Spain by the Ottoman Empire for several centuries.

@LuDa-lf1xd 7 ай бұрын

When you are a lot of time under the sun, you tan. In Spain our northern neighbours are easily exposed by their tomato color in our beaches. They lack a lot of melanin.

@stevanjakovljevic8390 7 ай бұрын

EU is not Europe . EU is 4 Reich wich is falling a part , cos USA master said so .

@Solid_Snake99 7 ай бұрын

you wish serb.

@stevanjakovljevic8390 7 ай бұрын

@EuropeanPatriot2000 EU bot , what isnt a close ? Falling a part or been 4 Reich ?

@AntonKa-yn4mb 7 ай бұрын

EU is new version of Rome empire. But in 20 years without ethnic Germans and Italians))

@Solid_Snake99 7 ай бұрын

@@AntonKa-yn4mb you wish. We are here to stay. And will make you pay, russian

@AntonKa-yn4mb 7 ай бұрын

@@Solid_Snake99 we? Where are your from)? You try it many hundreds years) , since Crusade

@21preend42 7 ай бұрын

Such a bad answer to such a simple question. So many things wrong with this video, like if Morroco applies for EU then all of the sudden they are European. No it's already decided what is European, there is map on that. The Ural mountains and Caucasus mountains divides Europe from Asia as well ass the Mediterranean sea and Black sea divides Asia from Europe. Just because Roman empire owned non European territories doesn't mean they were European, is like saying UK owned 70% of the world, therefore 70% of the world is European. Nonsense.

@flistick1253 7 ай бұрын

So I think I should say here why we don’t have these problems in Russia. There are two normal options for dividing continents, these are Europe and Asia and, in our case, Eurasia. BUT, in our schools a person learns two things, these are continents and parts of the world. The continents are standard everywhere, the same as everyone else’s - Eurasia. But parts of the world are an interesting thing. In parts of the world there are: America (all of North and South), Africa, Australia and Oceania, Antarctica, Europe and Asia. We have one continent - Eurasia, but different parts of the world - Europe and Asia. The border between them runs along Geographical lines (the Ural Mountains + the river next to them, to the Caspian Sea, then from Azerbaijan to the Black Sea, and through the Bosphorus Strait in Turkey)

@inteallsviktigt 7 ай бұрын

Well we have large historical reasons why Russia aren’t ever considered part of Europe but just an invader who should have stayed beyond the Ural-mountains.

@Pidalin 7 ай бұрын

@@inteallsviktigt But this is about Geography, not about politics. When you look at tectonic plates, Europe doesn't even exist, it's really one big Eurasian continent.

@JmKrokY 7 ай бұрын

Cool

@JmKrokY 7 ай бұрын

@@inteallsviktigtBad take

@uroboros4260 7 ай бұрын

@@inteallsviktigt you confused Russians with Hungarians and Finns clown. Go back to school

@shaikhwadud1270 7 ай бұрын

Europe is a CLUB, not a continent. Europe is a US satellite.

@angelobucciarelli4848 7 ай бұрын

Your sister is part of the club

@angelobucciarelli4848 7 ай бұрын

@@saccount-z3 You never heard Ventotene manifest ? did you ? Very happy that UK is not anymore part of the club.

@Jamil_bonano818 17 күн бұрын

America is literallt continent europe 2.0, they literally invented all americas lol

@xczv00 4 күн бұрын

We made the USA and we are not their satellite, we don't need you

@xczv00 4 күн бұрын

Keep dreaming lol

@Trebor-17 7 ай бұрын

The only real problem would be defining the Eastern Border of Europe. For me the Eastern Border includes European Russia, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbajan Furthermore, in addition to the rest of the countries that reside west of the Eastern Border, I also consider Greenland to be European

@MrAintGotNoBitches 6 ай бұрын

What Makes you include Armenia, Azerbaijan in your definition of Europe. And turkey, I'm just curious. Considering I know a lot of Armenians would not consider themselves to be European.and azerbaijanis as well

@Trebor-17 6 ай бұрын

@@MrAintGotNoBitches Both Armenia and Azerbaijani are already part of the Council of Europe and this denotes the relationships and cultural exchanges that those territories historically had with Europe, and that they still have at a geopolitical level. Furthermore, in my opinion the European geographical border includes them entirely. I'm sorry that some of them don't identify as European, as happens in Georgia, but it's not up to me to limit borders or make them members of the EU, so what I do is just express personal opinions, that's all. As for Turkey, I hope that sooner or later it will have a government more in line with European ones (as a large part of the population would like) with a less aggressive policy, and that it will finally become, after all these years, an EU member. Furthermore, the historical and cultural reasons are innumerable.

@MrAintGotNoBitches 6 ай бұрын

@@Trebor-17 what is being part of a European organization have to do with being European Greenland is part of Denmark and no 1 considers them to be European and considering that Armenians have more in common with Kurdish people and assyrians and.Persians Same goes with azerbaijanis.and other Caucasian groups would not considered themselves to be European either. Outside of georgians.

@FakenameStevens 7 ай бұрын

No one says the UK isn't part of Europe though, that's just the EU. It's not like the UK has to join some economic alliance of another continent now.

@PapyrusEngineer 7 ай бұрын

(sarcastically) You're right. UK is not part of Europe. UK is their own continent.

@Mr71paul71 7 ай бұрын

We English don't need Europe we never have and never will, push off

@namenlos40 6 ай бұрын

No one says that exept the British people. :-)

@TheFactsMan 5 ай бұрын

@@Mr71paul71LMAO you'll crawl back like dogs eventually.

@angelawhitehead6187 7 ай бұрын

Nice video. Thanks. But Europe is Not the EU. That's an economic organisation and some European counties didn't even want to join it while others joined and left. Many European countries are in another organisation called NATO which again some countries don't want to join(once joined it is very hard to leave). Ethnicity and dare I write it Skin Colour have a lot to do with which countries are in Europe. This issue is actually fixed by the geographical boundaries of Europe (stopping at the Urals for instance in the east). Immigration is an ever increasing issue - nationality may be given in some cases but European ethnicity cannot.

@renatoovelar7442 7 ай бұрын

Russia is 100% European despite the current political situation

@Furmanov-UPC 4 ай бұрын

Facts

@NeutralDice 7 ай бұрын

I think that to define Europe we should also define Asia. It's like a geometry problem. If Asia's western border starts at the Ural Mountains then there is where Europe's eastern border ends. But from a cultural point of view, the borders of Asia and Europe are arbitrary. It would be surprising if most Anatolian Turks, Chechens and Tatars consider themselves Europeans.

@yorgunliberal735 7 ай бұрын

Let me answer as a Turk; We are not European or Middle Eastern, we are Central Asian. Our family structure, language, traditions and history come from Central Asia. This region is already known as Turkestan.

@yorgunliberal735 7 ай бұрын

In fact, the young generation feels Central Asian. Those who see themselves as Europeans are mostly middle-aged people, people who grew up in a warm environment that in the past believed that Turkiye could join the EU. The young generation is trying to stay away from Islam and European values. Anti-refugee, anti-Islam and anti-LGBT.@wr3t3tgetedxadge3fvzdqfgwr5gva

@fatihersayn7877 7 ай бұрын

@wr3t3tgetedxadge3fvzdqfgwr5gva A very vocal but small group. Unlike the conservative mass, they are very active on the internet.

@scofield529 7 ай бұрын

@wr3t3tgetedxadge3fvzdqfgwr5gva Yes, generally Gen Z, non-religious or atheist, deist, agnostic people and secular modernist people see themselves as Europeans in Turkey, but the majority do not want to feel European.

@AthanasiosJapan 7 ай бұрын

@wr3t3tgetedxadge3fvzdqfgwr5gva How people identify themselves is completly irrelevant to what they actually are. The comment by yorgunliberal735 accurately summarizes what Turks are. (And what they aren't.)

@user-vv2ge4uh4c 7 ай бұрын

@wr3t3tgetedxadge3fvzdqfgwr5gva *Turk without self-respect.

@AchyutChaudhary 2 ай бұрын

6:14 *🇬🇪Georgia has not only applied but is also even a Candidate to join the EU.*

@user-xp8nq5mf9y 7 ай бұрын

Its basically a social construct. Its whatever we agree it to be.

@_srz_9742 7 ай бұрын

Hu ... not really social construction are in society.. europe isnt à society lol its à common civilisation who have différents society

@WingDingHQ 10 күн бұрын

finally someone who can think

@TheAstrobiologistOW 7 ай бұрын

This is an excellent exercise in why looking for ways to divide ourselves from each other is kinda ridiculous and unproductive: there are _always_ exceptions and inconsistencies to whatever line you might try to draw My personal definition of Europe is the geographical one on Wikipedia though

@Bubalabub 7 ай бұрын

Europe isn't continent, it's peninsula

@Maninthesea-eo6ly 7 ай бұрын

So then , Africa is a massive island surrounded by water from all of its sides. Dumb comment to dumb comment. We're even

@daprodigy3353 7 ай бұрын

Europe is double standards union. Home of the first known, biggest (cartagian genocide ) and other several genocides. Gifted to the world 2 world wars. Europe is transatlantic slavery company Europe is blaming the other countries with genocides while they try to hide their all cruel history Europe is human rights but only for europeans of course ))

@wrenchax 7 ай бұрын

Turkey's EU adventure dates back approximately 65 years. Turkey is a place where Europe and Asia blend together. If Turkey had joined the EU many years ago, we would have seen a different Turkey in 2024 in terms of education, politics and military. In my opinion, it is not in the West's interest for Turkey to go neither forward nor backward. They're trying to keep it in balance. This is the policy implemented to date. Since Turkey has seen this more clearly, especially in the last 10 years, it is trying to become a more independent country similar to Russia. The exclusion of Russia and Turkey is a loss for the EU for the future. Moreover, it is doubtful that the EU will stand under one roof :))

@zimskasalamabg 7 ай бұрын

One thing is certain, the EU is definitely not Europe.

@oscarschneider3522 7 ай бұрын

I heard Europe and Asia is actually one continent.

@lemonade_ib 7 ай бұрын

It's called Eurasia. It's spilt BC of cultural, political, religious differences, Geographically it's one .

@atacanmadrali9385 3 ай бұрын

I'm really reading stupid comments about whether Turkiye is European or not. These people probably haven't traveled to Turkiye. It's not about what they say to you, it's about how you feel about yourself. Actually, there is no point in discussing this because Turkiye does not have a single identity. You are talking about the people left behind from an empire that ruled over 3 continents at the time. In fact, when you look at it, at the end of the day, religion determines the perspective of people. The Ottomans fought against Christian Europe. From now on, we can't expect them to count us as one of their own and accept us as being European. But as I said, who cares, you are what you feel like.

@irwainnornossa4605 7 ай бұрын

Geographical definition is the best, it's the closes to objective as it gets.

@Marrator 7 ай бұрын

No. There are no objective reasons to draw the border along the Ural Mountains. There are no tectonic plates there. If you draw a border along the Amur River, it will have exactly the same legitimacy and logic, only it will be the border between Russia as a European country and China

@Obebchik 2 ай бұрын

@@MarratorIt's very logical, because there is an East European platform

@Marrator 2 ай бұрын

@@Obebchik Yes, there is an Eastern European plain, but in Europe there are a number of mountain camps that separate Italy from Germany, no one says that Italy is not European. In addition, if you look at the map of the earth's plates (which is actually more logical than looking at plains and mountains if you want to highlight a continent), you will find that Europe is located on several plates that separate western Europe from Southern and Eastern Europe. there are no explicit criteria. Moreover, Europe is for the most part a cultural definition, which is propiated in the context of the EU's accession, and Russia is a culturally European country

@Obebchik 2 ай бұрын

@@Marrator I agree with you, but I think cultural things aren't enough to define Europe

@andreimircea2254 7 ай бұрын

To me Europe is the Geographical limits, plus Iceland, Cyprus, Malta, the UK, Ireland, Kazakstan (because they have a bit of land in Europe), Turkey (Same as Kazakstan), The Caucus area is also European in my book, so Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan qualify as European in my book. Where is Europe is a complicated question with no definite answer just like the video says, but I like to keep the definition of what is European as broad as possible because I want as many nations as possible to qualify as European and be given the right to apply to join the EU eventually if they so chose.

@PetrovichErochin 7 ай бұрын

0:02 This map is highly offensive. Excluding Russia and especially Belarus due to political issues in a topic that is cultural and geographical is extremely biased. Russian part of Europe is bigger than a whole EU and Belarus is completely in Europe from all points of view

@Darian___ 7 ай бұрын

Hqve you watched the whole video?

@cuginidifrancia94 7 ай бұрын

The Italian historian "Alessandro Barbero" believes that the origin of current Europe is to be found in the Frankish Empire and therefore in Charlemagne. The Carolingian Empire in fact included France, Benelux, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Northern Italy. This would be the fulcrum from which Europe would be born.

@marcobelli6856 7 ай бұрын

European Union Maybe. The concept of being European is older than Charlemagne. But of course Barbero is a medievalist so he don’t know shit about ancient history. But it’s not the worst thing I have him say

@cuginidifrancia94 7 ай бұрын

@@marcobelli6856 The concept of Europe is certainly earlier, however it was not used to refer to the entire continent.

@alexandrosonassis3436 7 ай бұрын

Charlemagne is a Charlatane, all Europeans stem from Hellenic Heritage. That is from Rome, which was a Hellenic Colony same as so many others (Marseille, Barcelona, Paris , the whole of Italy etc)

@glass-floor 7 ай бұрын

The Frankish empire is one of the key origins of the West, but not of Europe. Europe has two main civilations: the Larin West and the Greek East. The West stretches from Ireland to Poland, Hungary and Croatia. The Greek East stretches from Greece, Romania and Belarus across western Russia to the Urals.

@cuginidifrancia94 7 ай бұрын

@@glass-floor this vision is extremely limiting. There are European countries that have little connection with the Greek and Roman world. And in any case the history of Europe cannot be limited to the ancient period.

@go4itt 7 ай бұрын

Türkiye is not a European, Asian, Middle East, or Africa. Türkiye is Türkiye, middle of all those parts.

@georgedevries3992 7 ай бұрын

You're right. It's an anomaly on Holy Terra.

@GeneRauXxX 7 ай бұрын

Lets not forget that, Ottomon Empire was ruled the South of Europe for a very long time. And it was not long ago. And the Capital was in the Europe, and they funded those areas heavily, not gave a damn about Anatolia or the Southern part. They lost both of them. But culturally countries in the area were affect each other for centuries. It’s hard to draw an exact line. Funny thing is Turkey’s Turk doesn’t look like as original Turks from Central Asia. It’s a melting pot for sure.

@paul1979uk2000 7 ай бұрын

The land mass of Europe is a bit weird when it comes to defining what is Europe and what isn't, and many people will have different views on what defines Europe. I come to the conclusion of defining it as European ideals, culture and values over geography, and I know that's not very accurate but even the EU bends the rules on what countries can join the EU, regardless of if they are in Europe or not but more based on European ideals, culture and values, and it wouldn't surprise me if the EU continues to expend, over the long run, it could expand out of Europe based on those ideals, culture and values and that the EU could probably do it on a case by case base per country, but that's going to be some time away as there is enough in Europe for the EU to chew on. In any case, it's complicated, and this debate has been going on for a long time, and honestly, I don't really think it matters in modern times.

@ΠέτροςΟικονομάκος 7 ай бұрын

Putting geography aside, the culture that produced Dostoyevsky and Tchaikovsky is of course european. If Europe wants to disown that, no problem, it's Europe's loss.

@Player-re9mo 7 ай бұрын

Imo, it's geography or nothing. Europe begins at the Atlantic and ends at the Ural mountains. We can spend an eternity arguing based on culture and values, which aren't consistent and change as time passes. Some countries occupy land on more than one continent. But that doesn't change the geography. Western Russia is European, while Eastern Russia is Asian. Same with Turkey. Now, regarding the question of whether a nation itself is European. I think it doesn't matter. I would say that a nation is European if its capital was on European soil and the majority of its population also, but these are subjective standards.

@saccount-z3 3 ай бұрын

“i would say a nation is European if it’s capital was on European soil…” - however, what we are trying to figure out here is what is europe.. to include russia as part of europe is such shallow and eurocentric view. russia is basically separate civilization state, like china, india, muslim world and africa. does religion make countries european or western? well phillippines is mostly christian country, and no one would view them as western coutry or european for that matter. united states is western but it is not european. albania and bosnia are muslim countries, however most recognize them as european. and as for as culture goes, united states champions freedom of speech, democracy and so on and on, but it is not european. so how is russia european exactly?

@super200-w3o Ай бұрын

as a turk , were definitely not european . we are meditarranean

@katynewt 7 ай бұрын

It really depends on the context. Geographically, Europe extends to the Ural mountains, the Caucasus mountains and the straits of Turkey. Some people often mistakenly exclude Russia even though it's by far the biggest country in Europe.

@kirillskwerty 7 ай бұрын

Russia isn't Europe dude

@Elijah-cy9do 7 ай бұрын

@@kirillskwertyit is, in fact the the European part of Russia is bigger than any other European country

@kirillskwerty 7 ай бұрын

@@Elijah-cy9do I'm Russian and I think Russia is more Asian country

@kirillskwerty 7 ай бұрын

@@Elijah-cy9do Russia mostly is Asia dude like Turkey

@Elijah-cy9do 7 ай бұрын

@@kirillskwerty really? Interesting. I see it more as an European country with a huge territory spanning way into Asia, coz most of the people live on the European side and it's culturally, linguistically and ethnically very European.

@chrispp8642 7 ай бұрын

Its very easy: Parts of Russia and Turkey are european, other parts are asian. Its all about geographics.

@ivydark9741 7 ай бұрын

Both Russia and Turkey are Eurasian countries. Solved.

@Furmanov-UPC 4 ай бұрын

I have never heard more facts spoken in my life

@MrPilgrimuk 7 ай бұрын

Europe is a continent, NOT a political/economic (pseudo) union (aka the EU).

@pionieresvizzero2224 7 ай бұрын

The division of the continents is a very Eurocentric thing, it is emblematic how Europeans try to set cultural limits to distinguish what is Europe from what is not, but they do not make the same reasoning for Africa and Asia. It seems that for these two, internal divisions in terms of religion, linguistic family or other cultural aspects matter little. For many Europeans it is very difficult to include Turkey in Europe, but then Turkey itself is in the same continent of Asia together with Myanmar or Mongolia. Another strange thing is how the Anglo-Saxons define the continent as "Australia" while for others the continent is Oceania. Furthermore, as a geologist I categorically refuse to divide the continents according to tectonic plates. If this were the case, the system of continents would be decidedly more complicated and I have serious doubts that geopolitics can be based on the tectonic lines of our planet.

@crusaderboi9659 7 ай бұрын

I think what we have to realise here is that there is no specific definition of culturally European when defining these other countries. There are shared cultural elements within Europe, but these aren't universal and are very different. (For example, Greece is close to Bulgaria culturally and they're both European, but they're not that connected or close to say the UK and France which may be equally distant). So I think that its really hard to define a European culture. The best way to define whether these countries are European or not are their politics. For example with Australia, you can argue its culturally close to the English, but has no political interactions or recent close history with Europe. Turkey on the other hand, while interacting with the middle east, relies primarily on European institutions in participating globally, as with other countries, and thus has developed standards of life through European infrastructure standards, so I think its more fair to say that Turkey is European .

@NeutralDice 7 ай бұрын

the EU is not a Christian union. Many leaders and MPs are atheists/agnostic, or of other religion@@elturco69

@atlas567 7 ай бұрын

@@gorilipuantTurkey, Azerbaijan and Kazakistan is not Europe, never, ,is Asia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Kazakistan is not culture, language, race, religion Europeans,is Asians

@cuginidifrancia94 7 ай бұрын

@@atlas567 there is no objective answer, that's the point.

@alexandrosonassis3436 7 ай бұрын

@melonking9752 7 ай бұрын

I'am not sure about Morocco but we can set borders of Europe as Cyprus Turkey Azerbaijan Armenia Georgia Russia and Kazakhstan. But exclude impreial powers' overseas lands in other continents. e.g. include Gibralter into Europe but exclude Turks and Caicos Islands in the Careabbian.

@aaronruss6331 7 ай бұрын

It is really not complicated. You are confusing it and not making much sense as unfortunately to prove what you think is a complex matter,you look at things from a purely simplistic and black and white approach to show the extremes that no one believes in. Being european is not purely one thing such as geography, identity or values. It is a mix of all those things. Culturally the US has many similarities with europe but is not part of Europe geographically and also differs with europe in terms of culture. Some countrys can be near europe like moroco but has a culture,religion and history that is as far away from europe as China for example. So its really a mix and a balance. Youre overthinking it and confusing it.

@bgcvetan 7 ай бұрын

This is a lot of gum stretching, you know what Europe is by knowing what it is not.

@mandrews1245 7 ай бұрын

Ukraine counts as Europe, but they are not an EU member.

@AthanasiosJapan 7 ай бұрын

"Are countries like Russia and Turkey European?" I rephrase the question into something easier: Are Russians Europeans? Yes. Are Turks Europeans? No. My criteria: Language, religion, origin. Russians are Europeans because they speak a European language (Russian) and their pre-christian religion (Slavic Paganism) is European. Other Slavic countries are located in Europe. Turks are not Europeans because they speak an Asiatic language (Turkish) and their pre-islamic religion (Tengrism) is Asian. Other Turkic countries are located in Asia. Russians expanded from Europe towards Asia and Turks expanded from Asia towards Europe.

@Anrylla 7 ай бұрын

While i am neutral in this subject, your argument against the Turks not being European collapses onto itself once you consider Finland, Hungary and Bulgaria. All of these nations have their ancestral roots in Asia. Finland and Hungary are lingually separate and not indo-europeans. Both Hungary and Bulgaria has their religion origins as Tengri also.

@AthanasiosJapan 7 ай бұрын

@@Anrylla You are assuming that I consider Hungarians and Finns Europeans, but I don't.

@bedri1 6 ай бұрын

Hungarians and Finns must be Asian then?🤡

@lunahoi-jh2jt 3 ай бұрын

As Russian it's not accurate for us , coz we consider ourself as Eurasian nation, nation which is mixed and do not belong to historical euro rusophobes

@oleksandrbyelyenko435 7 ай бұрын

Simple. There is no European continent. If we are talking about part of the World, cultural for example, then of course Europe is its own thing. But the geographical continent is Eurasia.

@TheMercyBeat 7 ай бұрын

Please continue with the EU countries in the EU series.

@EUMadeSimple 7 ай бұрын

We will :)

@TheMercyBeat 7 ай бұрын

@@EUMadeSimple Excellent !

@michaelneichel9543 7 ай бұрын

In the pure geographical definition of continents, Europe is definitely not an independent continent. That is why the "definition" of Europe must be a cultural and political matter and there are rarely clear boundaries

@Masha_bez_medvedya8 7 ай бұрын

Я была в Европе как турист . В Европе Очень много людей с коричневыми глазами и черными волосами. Я русская из России. У меня как и всех моих друзей светлые цветом глаза и волосы любого цвета кроме черного . Сравнив Европу ( Италию ,Португалию,Францию и тп) я не хочу ,чтобы нас русских называли европейцами. У них нет как у нас светлых глаз. У них большинство. 👁️ Я не хочу ,чтобы нас ассоциировали с этими южными людьми. Я имею рецессивные гены 🧬. Это мои гены русских людей . Пожалуйста никаких европейцев и азиатов тоже . В Азии так же как в Европе . Коричневые цветом глаза . Россия должна быть отдельно от всех. Турки внешне похоже на европейцев из за цвета глаз и волос . Я не могу отличить итальянца от турка . Для мне это одинаковые люди . Значит если итальянцы европейцы и турки европейцы так как имеют одинаковые внешние данные , а мы русские отличаемся . У нас нет черных волос вообще у этнических русских. У всех реально русских волосы русого цвета и глаза светлого цвета

@juliansebastian 7 ай бұрын

I really like this kind of discussion-type video and also the mix of graphics and video. James Kir-Lindsey has perfected the integration of the two in my opinion

@AchyutChaudhary 7 ай бұрын

*I am surprised that there was no mention of the Transcaucasia/ South Caucasus countries of 🇦🇲Armenia, 🇦🇿Azerbaijan & 🇬🇪Georgia which Geographically may be Asian but culturally are European - given that all the 3 countries are members of the Council of Europe, European Political Community, in the ‘Eastern Partnership’ of the EU & Georgia which has just even become a Candidate to join the 🇪🇺EU alongside NATO - especially as they don’t have any equivalent ‘Asian’ alliances!*

@wingslider 7 ай бұрын

I mean Georgia kind of does have culture aspect with Europe from time to time

@MrAintGotNoBitches 6 ай бұрын

Interesting that you say that considering I know plenty of Armenians and azerbaijanis who would not consider themselves to be European even if they're part of European organizations. Considering the Armenians have more in common with Kurds and assyrians than they do with any European. Same goes with azerbaijanis

@user-di1rl9zp4d 6 ай бұрын

@@MrAintGotNoBitches EXACTLY TRUE!WHY WOULD THEY CONSIDER THEMSELVES EUROPEANS IF THEIR OWN VERY OLD ROOTS LIES IN ASIA AND PROUDLY INHERITORS OF GREAT ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS LIKE URARTIANS ACESTRAL TO ARMENIANS BEFORE THEY BECOME SOCALLED INDO-EUROPEANISED FROM THAT REGION?

@maximux777 6 ай бұрын

Azerbaijan is religiously and culturaly Turks than Europeans. In many maps part of Europe is Russia to Ural and at Caucasus are only Georgia and Armenia. Armenia and Georgia are many centuries christians. Azerbaijan are muslims. That's what separate Europe.

@Zenciiiii 7 ай бұрын

Europe is seperated from Asia culturally, that's it.

@Eoin-B 7 ай бұрын

I'm seriously supprised that this wasn't a sponsored channel by the EU itself. I never get EU politics-centric news that ignores all the issues of the sponsor country. (Like DW, Euro News, France 24, etc, etc.) The contributing bloc needs to give this channel money!

@signalshift6676 7 ай бұрын

I think Europe is not even a continent.. it's Eurasia and Europe is just a subcontinent.. also finland, Sweden and Norway aren't part of that subcontinent.. but part of the european cultural sphere.. and the eastern border is basically from the white sea streight through St. Petersburg and from the Baltic Sea down to the Black Sea, and then through Istanbul. Island is not part of the subcontinent but part of the cultural sphere etc. etc.. Also Russia is part of the cultural sphere but certainly not until the Ural mountains.

@PapyrusEngineer 7 ай бұрын

I have been taught in primary school what is the geographic definition of Europe the continent. Europe's limits to the east and north-east are usually taken to be the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, and the Caspian Sea; to the south-east, the Caucasus Mountains, the Black Sea, and the waterways connecting the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. Haven't you been taught in primary school about Europe the continent?

@signalshift6676 7 ай бұрын

@@PapyrusEngineer No, I have been. I propose to change it.. there is only a eurasian continent. Europe is basiaclly a paninsula.

@newtubevector 7 ай бұрын

It will help to define what is not Europe: not Americas, not Africa. That only leaves one question: Asian border. On that front, you can combine history, religion, ethnicity, etc. That is where it just gets impossible to get a real answer as Europe and Asia (unlike North and South America) are on the same continental plate. Any distinction between Europe and Asia is a pure social construct and thus while some takes may be better than others there is no such thing as a 100% correct answer.

@hia5235 7 ай бұрын

There is a clear divide between the Germans and Slavs. Sorry. European races touched by the Romans are absolutely different.

@uncommon_name9337 7 ай бұрын

The US State Department will define that for you as "any allied (satellite) country within or adjacent geographical Europe.

@luigiking89 7 ай бұрын

Ironically America (North and South) is considered as one same continent by many countries.

@atlas567 7 ай бұрын

@@luigiking89Ironically????? .....!!!!! America is only 1 continent of the 42 MILLIONS of km2, United States is country of the American Continent, is not 2 continents, is ONLY 1 Continent and Europe is continent of the 11,9 MILLIONS of the km2

@deeptoot1453 6 ай бұрын

Great arguments. I would say based on the rather arbitrary definition of where the Euripean geographical border end, it might be worth looking into other factors such as the vudeo creator did. Then, one could (relatively safely) say, as of present day, what counts as Europe and what does not.

@KK-cr8uh 2 ай бұрын

Turks are a mixture of Asians (predominantly Turkmens) and Europeans (Greeks, Bulgarians, Albanians, Bosnians, Circassians). Kurds, Arabs, Zazas of Turkey are Asians.

@axoloneidolon4702 7 ай бұрын

It certainly doesn't have anything to do with being in the EU, which is a political and economical power structure. Being European is about cultural identity, shaped by a common history.

@tic-tacdrin-drinn1505 7 ай бұрын

The USA and Europe have neither a common history nor the same mentality. The fact that many US residents came from Europe does not make them equal.@@saccount-z3

@PeterXiao1 3 ай бұрын

There is only Eurasia. Oh ya there is a European peninsula

@GDB11 7 ай бұрын

Turkey is definitely not European in terms of culture, ethnicity and geography. Russia is partly European in those terms

@e.v3832 7 ай бұрын

😂don't make that sure, since modern day Turks genetically mostly Byzantines, thus Turkey culturally many similarities with Balkans, and lastly geographically land of Turkey is deeply tied with Europe since Hellenistic era

@getlost3346 13 күн бұрын

Europe is Christian, Turkey is Muslim and part of Middle East

@balcamisis 7 күн бұрын

If Turkey isn't culturally, ethnically nor geographically similar to Europe then shall we just forget about the balkan countries? Turks have extremely a similar language to majority of the balkan states, not to mention the obvious ties with cuisine and general culture and traditions (i.e. the evil eye, woven lace etc). We have had such an immense impact on the southern and Eastern European counties it's crazy. The same can be said vice versa. Hungarians and Turks come from the name ancestors of Gokturks and majority of europeans are considered to have the Anatolian Farmer gene. If by ethnically you are talking about our looks, can you tell the difference between a Turk, Greek and an Italian? It seems not, considering that in recent times Michael Amato who is an Italian has been mistaken as a Turk and given the name "Turkish Quandaledingle". Percentage wise we have more blonde hair, blue eyes people than other southern European countries. If you go as so far to say it's because of religion, then Bosnia, Kosovo and Albania are not European. Besides, Turkey is constitutionally a SECULAR country with democratic and liberal values. We aren't Arab scums. Thank you xx.

@GDB11 7 күн бұрын

@@balcamisis I'm from a Balkan country and been to Turkey on holiday and I can definitely tell the difference. Have nothing against Turkish people and got along well but we are not the same. I see Turkey as Middle Eastern in all aspects, doesn't feel like Europe at all

@getlost3346 7 күн бұрын

@@balcamisis Eastern and Southern Europe is nothing like the Turks. Them is fighting words. Do Muslim Turks eat Pig, drink wine or Rakia? Not on your life. There are differences and Balkans have fought dearly keeping Turks out of Europe. Any similar appearances are due to European women being kidnapped and enslaved by Turks.

@kubilaykhan 7 ай бұрын

Being European is not just about geography! This is a political system issue! Human rights, freedom of expression, the rule of law and Democracy are the foundation of the European Union! When we say Europe, what comes to mind is Western Europe: Germany, England, France, Benelux countries... Countries such as Sweden, Norway and Finland have the basic characteristics of the European Union! Switzerland is not in the European Union, but it is a European country as a system... The mentality of its people is European! The former communist countries and the countries that have joined the European Union in recent years are all just a market for the productive Western European countries! When it comes to Turkey: While Russia and the countries affiliated with the old Warosha pact have directed their missiles at Western European countries, Turkey, as the most strategic NATO country, has become a strong Southern wing of NATO... Therefore, it is wrong to compare it with Russia. Turkey became one of the founding countries of the 'Council of Europe' in 1963 (in Ankara)! Although he has chosen anti-democratic paths with Erdoğan for the last 20 years, his system has always been oriented towards the West. It will reset to factory settings again in the future! It is the most strategic NATO country with the largest military after America!

@Chaldon-hl6yk 7 ай бұрын

Human rights, freedom of expression, the rule of law and Democracy - fakes

@thehillbillygamer2183 7 ай бұрын

The reason they separate Asia and even turkey from Europe is because the people are not European modern Europeans don't want to admit this but it's true

@PapyrusEngineer 7 ай бұрын

I will stick to the geographical definition which I was taught in primary school. Additionally, Wikipedia also has good geographical definition of Europe.

@erzsebetnilsson580 7 ай бұрын

Wikipedia a ANGLO - SAXON jewish bullshit

@JaceVibe 7 ай бұрын

For me, no. They are Europe by the most common geographical definition of Europe, but Europe isn't a real continent anyway, it's part of Eurasia. The concept of what is European is based on culture.

@TemoJgha 7 ай бұрын

Georgia is an old European country! Learn history!

@wolfgangrenner4152 7 ай бұрын

I think the geographical Europe is the well known Ural / Bosporus line. Therewith Russia belongs geographically to Asia (3/4) and Europe (1/4) of its land area. But this geographical definition is not relevant to considering Europe as "political continent". And the idea of an political european continent becomes a reality with the founding of the EU states community. And nowadays every one thinking about "European Continent" is thought about EU space. And that UK, Norway and Switzerland is not part of EU and therewith not part of Europe is due to an faulty EU constitution, which repells this nations to be EU member. With this idea of Europe Russia becomes an Asian State like China, India and Iran. And this is also resembled in an alliance formation between this major asian powers. If Erdogan is friendly to EU community, Turkey is taken into the heart of Europeans and Turkey is felt as belonging to Europe and not to Asia. If Erdogan is unfriently to EU community Turkey is regarded as Asian country belonging to Russia - China sphere. Typically for the European Continent is that it is Christian and from Nordic White Race. Because this is valid for Georgia and Belarus to, this nations can be easily integrated into EU community like Ukraine and Moldowa. But Turkey is islamic. Attatürk dried to repress islam from goverment and proposed an shift toward Europe, which was not yet joint from the EU states federation. But the European continent border is nowadays strongly coupled to the relation to EU community. More valueable than the traditional Bosporus - Ural line.

@mertruc.5242 7 ай бұрын

Turkey isn't europe as a argument is literal joke while Cyprus and Georgia exist

@georgedevries3992 7 ай бұрын

Your point?

@user-di1rl9zp4d 6 ай бұрын

TURKS ARE TURKS AND NOT EUROPEAN BUT ONLY TURKS -SO SIMPLE IS IT!

@joroa7151 7 ай бұрын

Why do we not address the elephant in the room? Everyone knows that if Turkey was Christian it would be considered European. No ifs and buts. Albania and Bosnia are exceptions, because they are not very religious and are incredibly small. Also if Morocco was Christian, you think EU would not accept them? The reality is that Europe is overwhelmingly defined by Christianity

@mikel9138 7 ай бұрын

As it should be

@spacecube8561 7 ай бұрын

no, it wouldn't, since, geographically, Morocco is not in Europe ''The application was rejected on the grounds that Morocco was not considered to be a "European country" and hence could not join. This geographic membership criterion has been part of the EU's and its predecessors' treaties since the Treaty of Rome (Article 237 of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community) and was later also included among the Copenhagen criteria.''. however, if we'd reform this and allow not-on-european-continent-itself countries to join, Morocco would probably be the first country that would get it's membership approved. because what other countries would you have applying? Turkey's democracy really isn't flourishing, ruzzia is...well, being ruzzia..... Israel? yea, no ? that'd cause huge shitstorm accorss every EU country you see, out of all possible ''potentially eu, but not in Europe'' countries, Morocco would be the least problematic one. it even scores higher than Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina on democracy index. not too high tho, but higher than those two.

@Player-re9mo 7 ай бұрын

No, because Albania is majority Muslim, yet everyone agrees they are European. Turkey only occupies a small piece of European land, the biggest part is in Asia and so are its capital and population. Russia at least has its capital and the majority of the population in Europe.

@pionieresvizzero2224 7 ай бұрын

Russia is historically Christian, do you think it would be accepted? seriously?

@pionieresvizzero2224 7 ай бұрын

@@Player-re9mo However, I would like to point out that it makes no sense to say "it occupies a portion of Europe" if we have not yet defined what Europe is. In the sense that the border of the Sea of Marmara is precisely an arbitrary border.

@alexandrupreda1994 7 ай бұрын

Very simple. EUROPE is a continent and its limits are from Island and Portugal from west to Russia (Urals Mountains), Georgia-Azerbaijan-Armenia (Caucaz Mountain) and west part of the city Istambul. Anybody else out of this borders is not European no mather of language, culture or history. The origins are the only thing that keep a historical relationship and nothing more

@Giorgi.Koberidze 7 ай бұрын

As a Georgian, Georgia is a politically, culturally and historically part of Europe and partially geographically too.

@O3Br 7 ай бұрын

I am Italian and I agree with you. I hope you will join EU soon.

@TemoJgha 7 ай бұрын

@@O3Br Two nations, but we are one species! Due nazioni, ma siamo una sola specie! From Georgia.

@greasher926 7 ай бұрын

Georgia is Christian middle eastern country that got occupied by Russia. Before Arab conquests most of Middle East was Christian, and many Christians still remain, like Armenia, Lebanon, Assyrians, Copts etc.

@svaty_peter 7 ай бұрын

Sit down please, a nation with literacy rate 75% is not European by any means. Nor your fellow cititzens’ common behaviour confirms that. I’m sorry but that’s the way it is.

@carolineleiden 7 ай бұрын

No. And neither is Ukrain.

@Daniel_ue_esp 7 ай бұрын

A pesar de la trágica situación actual, Europa desde Lisboa hasta Vladivostok. Y me parece que al menos deberíamos considerar el Consejo de Europa como una guía o la evolución de las opiniones sobre el espacio europeo desde De Gaulle hasta Macron.

@kirillskwerty 7 ай бұрын

Russia isn't Europe (talking as Russian)

@svetagentosh7650 7 ай бұрын

Росія то не нація а колоніальна структура багатьох культур та інших націй. Росія не існує як етнічний стереотип бо змішана з різних етносів і Росія як така не має право на існування бо колоніальна система існування немає фундаментальних правових норм. .@@kirillskwerty

@sergicb1533 7 ай бұрын

If we talk about geography Urals and Caucasus are the borders, but countries doesn't match with natural borders. If we talk about cultures and ethnics, Russia has European origins, but Turkey don't. Things are better if we keep it simple.

@recep2939 7 ай бұрын

We need a inbetween term to actually make everything make sense. As a Turkish person I don't neither fully feel Asian (and when I say Asian I don't even include the Middle East, I just do not accept the concept of Middle East, there's no commonality in "Middle Eastern" countries to put them in the same category whatsoever, even religions differs widely from Turkey to Arabian peninsula to Iran) nor European. I think the term "Eurasian" should be applied to both Turkey and Russia officially in the international level. And this term should not be seen as "countries that are both Asian and European" but rather as "countries that neither fully European nor Asian".

@aerdeniz 7 ай бұрын

That is a valid reasoning as Turkey is a transcontinental country in terms of its land. Humans like to categorize things with strict definitions. To add to this point, speaking as a Turkish person, I could say that Turkey itself has people with different socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds within itself while those that adopt more Western-oriented values reside roughly on Thrace to Mediterranean regions. That is why Turkey does fall into an ambiguous category to define if its whether European or Asian.

@elvenrights2428 7 ай бұрын

In my opinion, there are only 4 true continents - Europe-Asia-Africa, America (North and South together) Australia and Antarctica. Islands near the mainland count to continent where the shallow marine water continental shelf belongs to. British Isles are therefore part of Europe, and Greenland is part of America. Continents are those which are divided by deep ocean water altogether.

@absolutezeronow7928 7 ай бұрын

I'd consider Armenia and Georgia as European. I'm willing to consider Turkey and Azerbaijan as European.

@aviationkaan6292 7 ай бұрын

This is true even though Turkey and Azerbaijan are majority Muslim population that shouldn’t mean they’re not European take a look at Istanbul and Edirne, Edirne is bordering Bulgaria and Greece and those places have heavy European culture. I’m a Turk born and raised in Canada and every year I’ll go to Istanbul European side to visit family and Istanbul has a lot of European culture and don’t forget Turkey is a secular country so when I would live in Canada majority Christian country and go to Istanbul majority Muslim country I didn’t feel a difference nothing changed for me it felt the same Islam in Turkey is not forced upon people in Turkey there’s a lot of people probably half of the population who drink teens have piercings and tattoos no one cares over there so that’s why I agree I feel like Turkey is European when someone asks me what am I, I say I’m European

@atlas567 7 ай бұрын

@@aviationkaan6292Turkey Azerbaijan and Kazakistan is not Europeans, is Asians, Armenia and Georgia is Europeans

@absolutezeronow7928 7 ай бұрын

@@aviationkaan6292 the Ottoman Empire also had a significant role in European history during its existence and was called "the sick man of Europe". And before the Ottomans was the Eastern Roman Empire, a distinctly European empire whose capital was in what is now Istanbul. Turkey is a secular country as you say, and with different leadership that values democracy, it could resume negotiations with the EU to become a member state.

@aviationkaan6292 7 ай бұрын

@@absolutezeronow7928 yes that’s also true they were also classed as a European Empire and the Modern Turkish language has old French words and similar English words in them, this doesn’t really matter being European or not but there’s also very white blonde Turkish people too blue and green eyes it’s pretty common half of my relatives have blue eyes. And yes I hope they resume negotiations I would love to see Turkey in the EU

@eldahalas7015 7 ай бұрын

It is not complicated Question, Cyprus, Half of Turkey, Russia until Caspian Sea line is Europe. When Blacksea and Caucusus Mountain ends Europe ends Asia starts.

@tyson00001 7 ай бұрын

No Turks aren't european

@balcamisis 7 күн бұрын

@tukaes6651 7 ай бұрын

I don't consider myself an European, because this term is meaningless, beside loosely defined geographical area.

@esajpsasipes2822 7 ай бұрын

I'd say it would be a combination of all of these. Geographically from the west, north, and south, it's encircled by oceans. For the islands, it should include any islands that are part of european countries excluding colonies very far away (not sure if i would include or not include the portugese ones right at the coast of africa), and UK, ireland, and iceland for relative proximity and culture. I'm also not sure if i would include the Spitzbergen but i think yes because of country belonging, unless there is some "north" continent/region that includes greenland and russia's and canada's northern islands. As for the east, south the border continues through to the black sea, dividing turkey off and leaving a small part of Turkey in Europe. Not sure about the Cyprus, but i would make it Europe because of the EU. Then there are two options: Declare russia big bad and end europe right at Russia's borders (the easy solution as the border is well defined), or try defining it through the Caucasus and Ural mountain ranges.

@samuel-3682 7 ай бұрын

U forgot kaliningrad. Also west russia is europe for sure its history bound it to europe.

@Nick-AngelpeodSeaxisc 7 ай бұрын

The EU does not decide what is Europe and what is not, neither do people who comment on KZbin. The boundaries of Europe have been set for a long time and the video is meaningless nonsense.

@1899_Viktorious 7 ай бұрын

I've been researching about my family heritage a couple years ago. What I found is 250+ people! They all came from the same place as me, Scania (Skåne in swedish), the southest region of Sweden. Scania has belonged to Sweden since 1658, my recorded reasearch reach back to 1756! Before 1658 it belong to Denmark, so I'm thinking that I have danish relatives somewhere. Throughout 1600, 1700 and 1800 century, the scanians were roughly integrated into the swedish people, sometimes with force. That is a result of today that a big part of the people of Scania want to belong to Denmark once again, or being independent. Me, myself want it to belong to Denmark again, we share much more history and culture with Denmark than with Sweden. Nevertheless, we are still europeans

@dariusalexandru9536 7 ай бұрын

useless video madee just for promoting a sponsor .

@TheDarkRizon 7 ай бұрын

To me it is all about shared values.

@ivydark9741 7 ай бұрын

What values would those be? 100 genders?

@rchatte100 7 ай бұрын

UK was not kicked out of the EU, we left all on our own.

@HorrorSFManiac 7 ай бұрын

In practice the main divider between continents is cultural similarities / differences in combination with geographical proximity. North and South America are culturally European, but they're too far away to be part of the European continent. Personally I see Georgia and Armenia as part of Europe, Turkey as part of The Middle East.

@balcamisis 7 күн бұрын

I just have this to say: If Turkey isn't culturally, ethnically nor geographically similar to Europe then shall we just forget about the balkan countries? Turks have extremely a similar language to majority of the balkan states, not to mention the obvious ties with cuisine and general culture and traditions (i.e. the evil eye, woven lace etc). We have had such an immense impact on the southern and Eastern European counties it's crazy. The same can be said vice versa. Hungarians and Turks come from the name ancestors of Gokturks and majority of europeans are considered to have the Anatolian Farmer gene. If by ethnically you are talking about our looks, can you tell the difference between a Turk, Greek and an Italian? It seems not, considering that in recent times Michael Amato who is an Italian has been mistaken as a Turk and given the name "Turkish Quandaledingle". Percentage wise we have more blonde hair, blue eyes people than other southern European countries. If you go as so far to say it's because of religion, then Bosnia, Kosovo and Albania are not European. Besides, Turkey is constitutionally a SECULAR country with democratic and liberal values. We aren't Arab scums. Thank you xx.

@HorrorSFManiac 7 күн бұрын

@@balcamisis Having invaded Europe doesn't make you European just like the French aren't African for having invaded Africa, that's not how that works. Doesn't mean we can't be friends, but, sorry, culturally I don't see you as European. And your language argument is especially bizarre because Turkish is not related to any Balkan or Other European languages, there's even a European sprachbund that very much puts Turkey on the outside but I can't post links here.

@balcamisis 7 күн бұрын

@@HorrorSFManiac So maybe I misunderstood your reasoning? What divides the culture of Greece and Turkey? We have shared the exact same history for hundreds of years after all. What makes us an uncivilised Middle Eastern country instead of a normal European one? (PS. Turkish belongs to a separate language group called Turkic languages, however, a language like Hungarian also roots from the same Altaic-Turkic family. We also have Gagauzians who live in Moldova and Ukraine who are Christian Turks who speak the exact same language (I am actually part Gagauzian.) Plus, what I'm trying to say is our impact on languages in Europe is like German impacting English. Also, I don't quite understand your point about us 'invading' Europe. Firstly, majority of us are native anatolians so does that disprove our heritage? Our people have lived in these lands before borders were created and have assimilated to different parts of the European peninsula. How come Georgia and Armenia count as European and us not? There's two possible answers, one is that they're ex-Soviet states -- if that's the reason, why exclude Azerbaijan? And that would be hypocritical considering that you just said invading doesn't count, does the same rule not apply for the invadees?-- or two, it's because of religion, even though that falls flat because Turkey is a secular country with 0 governmental ties to any particular religion. The religion argument also falls flat because of Muslim majority countries like Albania, Kosovo and Bosnia & Herzegovina still being considered in Europe.)

@MarkDDG 7 ай бұрын

For me, the third map is the European continent (Atlantic to the West, Mediterranean and Black sea to the South, Aegean sea, Caucasian and Ural mountains to the East and the Artic to the North) This means parts of Türkiye, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan are in Europe. The British Isles and Iceland are also part of Europe, but Greenland is in North-America. The middel one is a current map of the EU.

@atlas567 7 ай бұрын

@ Mark DDG Greenland is not AMERICA, Kazakistan is ASIA,is not Europe

@Furmanov-UPC 4 ай бұрын

Atlas i agree

@davidjennings2179 7 ай бұрын

I think its often avoided as a topic but skin colour and religion are also big factors in this. A similar skin colour indicates common exchange of people, religion an exchange of ideas. This is the main reason I think most people don't include Turkey. Purely from proximity it seems it should be included.

@briancops3798 7 ай бұрын

The problem with religion is that Europe isn't religious cohesive. The Orthodox patriarch and the Pope are still on hostie terms, Protestantism and Roman catholigism are still weary of each other. And then there are the muslim peoples of Bosnia, Kosovo, Albania, and some muslim groups in Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Ukraine.

@davidjennings2179 7 ай бұрын

@@briancops3798 Christianity is split into many sects but those are usually (historically at least) Christian countries. Many are moving towards atheist now. They aren't primarily Muslim like Turkey

@jackyex 7 ай бұрын

Its nit about color but religion, southern europeans and peoples from the Mediterranean region look mostly the same, from Portugal, To Italy, Algeria, Turkey and Lebanon. Also southern europeans are darker than Northern europeans, does that mean they are both different races?

@briancops3798 7 ай бұрын

@@davidjennings2179 Albania and Kosovo are primarely muslim. Also Turkey is mostly secular in the main cities. Sure the countryside is very religious but the same happens in Poland or Italy.

@thematthew761 7 ай бұрын

You could argue Azerbaijan's position towards religion is more European than Armenia