Why This Country Was Erased From History

[@Cergun_]

Turks are not gonna like this video.

[@lk5k8]

Ong 💀

[@ardaneseli2235]

didn't even care

[@Graham567]

Video really isn't about the Turkey. It's about how they were used like a fiddle throughout many countries. Harris' focus on here is the US, his own country.

[@doctorjekyll6125]

@@ardaneseli2235Constantinople

[@vintoncerf7562]

Cry more

[@sujaynis3905]

the U.S. has to be the prime example of, pretending to care and then never actually care.

[@syncout9586]

Except when it's Israel. Then they'll REALLY care. Even more so than their own citizens

[@OrkYiyen]

ABD için Kürtler sadece kullanışlı bir araç

[@blacktiger995]

youll notice that with any superpower nation or even large nation in general

[@Uchiha.Itachii]

yeah fr, america only cares about what helps them, they know they have more power than most countries and that they “control” basically everything

[@carsonw8223]

How did the US pretend to care about the Kurds?

[@sayadyosefi2660]

I am a Kurd from what is called Iran. born in Iraq and grow up in the Iraqi Kurdistan. Half of my family lives in Iranian Kurdistan and the other half in Iraq. In iraq they call me Iranian and in Iran they call me Iraqi. I have never had a passport or Citizenship. When my grandfather was sick and dying, i was not allowed to cross the borders and meet him, i never meet him throughout my live. I call out people around the world to read and learn about all the other genocides and ethnic cleansing by those mentioned countries. And thank you for making the video. Sayad,

[@Eran_Haim]

Israel supports the Kurdish cause

[@sayadyosefi2660]

@eranhaim9913 People in Israel have been through what we are going through, and we expect them to support or understand us. But I have not seen any actions from them personally. Knowing I might be worng

[@potato1084]

⁠@@Eran_HaimFor their own gain yes. They don’t actually care 😂😂 If they could invade for our oil they would 😂

[@Eran_Haim]

@@sayadyosefi2660 our government are too scared to anger Erdogan who is already preparing and saying things against us. I think the right thing to do as Israel is to defeat Assad and Iran and help the Kurds get their country back

[@sayadyosefi2660]

@@Eran_Haim we both need a friend in that region

[@Hast26]

I am a Kurd. There are so many stories of the Kurds to be told. We have suffered a lot more than what's said.. here is a very little part of our history which is full of blood, tears and pain : the regime of Baas al Iraqi ( which is Sadam Hussein's party ) did: 1. Every single day people went missing and got tortured and killed by there soldiers. 2. They did "Anfal" which was taking thousands of people away to deserts and burry them ALIVE among which were children, women and old people! 3. They did many chemical attacks to many places in Kurdistan the most brutal one was the the chemical attack on Halabja in which more than 5 thousand people died immediately and more than 10 thousand people got injured ( some died and many are suffering till this day) and many families lost their children which to this day they have no been found.. I am from Halabja ( that exact city) even after all these years on March 16 which is the date of the attack, there missing children ( which are not children anymore) are not found. The Anfal is not even considered as Genocide ! There are many other things to be told . The only reason of those people's deaths is that they are KURD and nothing else..!

[@AhmetOnurOnurlu-t1z]

just like the Palestinians

[@Hast26]

@@AhmetOnurOnurlu-t1z yeah, right now Rojava ( AKA west Kurdistan ) is being attacked though they've been bombarded for decades including now and no one sees that nor they mention it.. Hope and pray everything to work out for Kurdistan , Palestine, Ukraine, Sudan and wherever else that suffers from war..🤲🏻🙏🏻❤️

[@static7040]

And yet you are hostile to the Turks?

[@Evîn22126]

​@@static7040look up the dersim and zilan g*nocides and you will understand us kurds .look up what turks have been calling us for years .

[@yigitalimoglu586]

But believe me that Most of The Kurds lead their life without any problem in Turkey. But There are some forces like PKK that seeks for some ways to distrupt the peace among The Turks and The kurds.Nobody should listen to the words of terrorist groups .

[@erkinsahin9937]

I think this question should have been asked. Why are Europeans drawing map borders for places they have nothing to do with.

[@N4TE_94]

Because they won the war.

[@patriklundvall3296]

Don't hate the player hate the game. I can link dosens of links of muslim conquests of how their ethnic cleansing are causing problems until this day. If you think Europe was doing a singleplayer playthrough of colonies, conquest or slavery then you are delusional

[@MariamSleiman944]

​@watup3494Well said

[@gerceginpesinde9742]

Obviously, you are an enemy of the Kurds

[@KikoDayrit-ly2hm]

@@N4TE_94 Because white imperialism.

[@RE3254]

crazy how much the US has used the kurds without ever really helping them E: stay in school kids. otherwise you'll end up as a 35 year old telling people you don't understand the necessity of repaying debts made in blood or the importance of upholding your reputation as a trustworthy person in the comment section of a KZbin video you couldn't finish

[@marcustulliuscicero.5856]

Welcome to the real world

[@Commander-leo]

They are still helping and arming them secretly how do you think the syrian democratic fighters got new weapons?

[@theerdalavignesh4443]

not their fucking job ,is it ?

[@wowsuchhandle]

Maybe kurds should try not to be gullible.

[@darthnihl4274]

😢

[@phillip7731]

It's crazy that anticolonial movements in Palestine have massive support in these countries, yet they have their own version of the Palestinians they are oppressing themselves. Edit: Replies prove my point. Tons of hypocrites replying to this comment saying 'it's different' but then using the exact same arguments as the Israelis. "freedom! civil rights! (Just not in my backyard!)"

[@soundwave2481]

The Kurds never had a state in this region and no one here owes them one they themselves migrated to west asia later. Israel was founded after WW2 when Palestinians were already living there. The situation is not comparable in the least. If you care about this so much then why don't you talk about the Zazas,Yezidis and Assyrians who think Kurds stole their lands? Armenians also accuse them. See how messy this gets? It is not as simple as "Uhh just give them independence!". Turkey is the only country and moderator that keeps the peace in their part and prevents them going for eachother's throats and that's a fact.

[@PatG-xd8qn]

​@@soundwave2481 Palestine has never been it's own country either, so I don't really understand what's your argument.

[@phillip7731]

@@soundwave2481 they seem to be dropping a hell of a lot of bombs for a moderator and peace maker lmao

[@MrApplehair]

@@soundwave2481can you show me when there was a Palestinian state? Oh wait

[@guardianofthehill]

​@@soundwave2481I think you legitimately could not have made it more obvious that you are a Turk. Which is especially funny, because all Oghuz turks (except maybe the Turkmens) stole the land they consider their ancestral home. 1000 years ago, there were no turks in Turkey, no Azeris in Azerbaijan, etc. They stole all of that land. And considering how the government of Turkey treats Kurds and Greeks in their country, and how both the Turkish and Azerbaijani governments opress what little remains of their country's Armenian populations, seems like not much has changed.

[@timademaj]

My barber is Kurdish. Dawood All the Kurdish i know i get along really well. Funny and Easy to get on with. Love for the Kurdish brothers 🫡 🇦🇱

[@alientv6842]

My best friends are albanians, They teach me to speak alot. Its useful everytime i met albanian or Kosovo brothers

[@drazedits5440]

“We were told that we were going to be attacked, but it was too late, and the notice was too short. All of a sudden, we heard the sound of bombs dropping all over the town. People started coughing, tears streaming from their eyes, and all I could think about was running. I grabbed my brother’s hand and ran as fast as I could, struggling to survive as people were dropping dead. I was getting weaker and weaker, but for the sake of my younger brothers, I had to pull through and just keep running. We survived the attack and stayed in a cave for a week without food or water. I had to go back to the town to search for something to eat or drinking water, but when I returned, I found a ghost town, filled with thousands of dead bodies lying on the ground, among them my relatives and neighbors.” This is the story of my mother during the Halabja chemical attack as she tried to survive the chaos. She and many others posed no threat to anyone, and all that we Kurds have ever wanted is to own the lands where we have lived for thousands of years, before anyone else claimed it as their homeland. This is just one story, but there are thousands more as we have endured many other genocides. Where is the justice in this?

[@souniewalters6655]

So sorry 😢... so sad. Whatever I say or feel ...I can't describe the pain that you all are going through. 💔. Love n light to all God creations . ❤❤❤😢

[@buraktemizel-oe7xm]

you lived thousands of years? cool strory... you haven't had a genuine state in history. we, turks, will continue to rule you.

[@YojhanCiencia]

Kurdistán

[@ErEn-173]

​@@buraktemizel-oe7xmwtf dude it is not even about you

[@PRTV4027]

@@buraktemizel-oe7xm there is no honor in that

[@lukerichards22]

My barber is Kurdish and when I asked him where he comes from he says “Kurdistan”. That’s the only answer he gives.

[@bobakbobak2588]

There is a province called Kurdistan in both Iran and iraq, but there has never been any country called Kurdistan and never will be, not from my soil(Iran)

[@AhmedR-l2m]

​@@bobakbobak2588 سنٲسس دولة کوردستان علی انفکم

[@bobakbobak2588]

@@marwansa7293 boy, you've been trying to do that for 2500 years. Don't make me laugh. There's no place called east kurdistan, never has been, never will be

[@bobakbobak2588]

@@marwansa7293 there has NEVER been and NEVER will be a kurdistan country

[@Aveen8279]

Nice answer. He is from occupied Kurdistan.

[@sedadkurd1495]

“Your ancestors enemy will not be your ally” this is a famous line we say to ourselves

[@Tornout-e7i]

Historical Assyrian lands were not Kurdistan!

[@blxckmc4673]

Dijmine bavu kala nabe doste lava

[@EhmedSemsedin]

@@Tornout-e7i Assyrians were invaders not inhabitants they were like todays Turks .. Assyrians true land was middle and south of Iraq

[@Tornout-e7i]

@@EhmedSemsedin Kurds are invaders. Assyrians have been living here for more than 4000 years !! You have no identity longer than middle ages!

[@JaceDean89]

I'm surprised they don't use this in American history. Black history at that. Sense they want to create so much hate and division lately.

[@stanktaint15]

Everyone whining about the Palestinians but no one says shit about the kurds.

[@Darkseidsolosfiction]

Real

[@MamaMia-go7co]

Fr

[@ASAVSP]

This whole area of the world has been treated so unfairly its terrible

[@caseydouglas412]

Brother everybody feels for both Kurds and Palestinians. But they aren’t the only oppressed people in the world let’s just say the world is fcked*

[@Protonium.]

Thats very bold. If every ethnicity deserves its own seprate states, then there are thousands of ethni minorities in europe , india, US and russia. Free them also. Its a very dangerous ideology.

[@ulical]

The Kurds have no friends, no friends but the mountains.

[@Blaidd1298]

Kurds have a country and that is Iran.

[@HozanMzere1063]

​@@Blaidd1298 land is kurdistan

[@aryarytheotheo1727]

This is the dumbest saying ever ..seriously.. if anything the kurds.. we kurds barely use this Phrase P

[@ulical]

@@aryarytheotheo1727 This is the dumbest response ever...you speak for all the Kurds in the world? Kurd Dosti Niya Jga La Chiyakan/کورد دۆستی نییە جگە لە چیاکان

[@timurjack8773]

Not true, when Saddam attacked them Türkiye took many refugees from them. But now they are forgetting that help.

[@Khulasatul-alkulaasah]

Are there kurds watching this video ?

[@thephoenix4363]

@@Khulasatul-alkulaasah yep

[@RoyceVera]

@@thephoenix4363yes✌🏼

[@lanaj19362m]

Yep

[@doskiduhok8718]

yes

[@jegerbaderkhan71]

Yes, but the amount of miss information is insane

[@1337ahd]

No friends but the mountains.

[@DÊPE_23]

True vallah 😢😢

[@hyde9989]

@@DÊPE_23 Bzhi Kurdistan , Bruxi Stamkaran

[@casandrala8370]

God is in the wilderness.

[@ikramyagdran4492]

And the bombs to terrorize touristic areas

[@mogensgallardo3288]

​@@ikramyagdran4492I'm sure you're talking about Turkey, right? Syria? Iraq?

[@HalukTatar]

Your history knowledge about Turkey is totally wrong!

[@OttomaniaGaming]

@@HalukTatar he is typical western. What to expect.

[@Totsuzenshi]

Perhaps you are brainwashed by your falsely presented history in your country to favor it's achievements.

[@whQQps]

hocam sen yapma bari :). "Türkiye" lütfen.

[@itneverends.]

haklısın hocam

[@erdendenizergus6068]

abi standart AntiTürkist işte ne bekliyon

[@GeDiceMan]

Kurds: It sucks being split by different powers. Poland: Been there.

[@Turkishfella]

Except the United States actually hold their promises for the Polish.

[@rezaganjizadeh4263]

​@@Turkishfella by leaving them to the soviets for close to 50 years?

[@tasbykekerey1203]

Kazakhs also

[@Bluesky-f2n]

Hungary: June 4, 1920. Treaty of Trianon. We never forget.

[@amirrezaazimi8280]

The only difference being there is a country called Poland now (although smaller) but there is no sovereign country called Kurdistan

[@ibrahimdunga]

As an Albanian i feel very bad for kurdish people. Everyone was unfair to them and they were loyal. ❤️💛💚 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱

[@DhhSbsh-i3n]

Fr 🗿 ❤️💛💚🇦🇱🤜🏿🇹🇷🇮🇷

[@yodorob]

Both the Albanians and the Kurds have been generally quite friendly to the Jews/Israelis.

[@Johnggggggggggfhkjkkkgfvbfcfg]

You are not albanian 😂

[@servettunc7567]

❤

[@timurjack8773]

Not true, when Saddam attacked them Türkiye took many refugees from them, but now they forget that help.

[@karginmehmet0]

I am a Kurd born and living in Turkey. I have Turkish friends and neighbors. Every race or society what ever you call it includes bad and good ones. I have met with some Turks who accept me more than some Kurds. My family and I have never experienced any discrimination from anyone other than some Kurds who blame us because not being a terrorist and a murderer.

[@kilic958]

Batı nın amacı Orta Doğu devletlerini üç veya beşe bölmek. Doğal olarak Kürtleri veya diğer etnik grupları kullanırlar. Maalesef Kürtler bu oyuna geldiler, ben Kürtlere hep şunu derim ABD çekildiğinde ve Kürtler Türklerle, Araplarla ve Farslarla baş başa kaldığında ne yapacaksınız?

[@A_Firat_H]

@@kilic958 Batının amacı hem petrol hem de savaş çıkartıp silah satmak. Terörist örgütler yaratıp savaş çıkartıp hem o örgütlere hem de devletlere silah satarak milyarlarca dolar kazanıyorlar. Özgürlük vs. onların umurlarında değil!

[@youngkoban3899]

@@kilic958Türklerle Araplarla ve farslarla başbaşa kaldığımızda asıl siz ne yapacaksınız onu o gün göreceğiz

[@citechscience]

😂

[@lesleymusic5437]

​​@@kilic958batının amacı büyük İsrail devletini kurmak son zamanlarda gördüğümüz gibi İsrail topraklarını büyütmek için koca bir topluluğu kadın çocuk demeden yok etti ve sırada buradaki Kürtleri kışkırtıp isyan çıkarıp karıştırmak sonunda Kürtlerin saldırıları ile zayıflayan Kürtleri ve o bölgedeki ülkeleri daha basit şekilde bastirabilir

[@susandusenbury6352]

I wish your channel the best! You do such thorough, interesting journalism!!

[@andrewlaflamme1217]

Thanks for this video. I’m sure several hours could be spent on this, but for an introduction to the country and region, I appreciate the concise yet detailed approach. If anyone recommends a next level in depth resource, I’d be open to hearing.

[@ariadna8212]

KZbin channel Kraut's Turkish history series. It's a trilogy, and highly recommended if you're interested in

[@Darkseidsolosfiction]

Kurdistan deserves independence. Respect from Georgia, we know how it feels like and we get it

[@Alz1204]

Nah

[@OsmanEfeArd58]

Exactly, you can understand the Kurds as Abaza and South Ossetia.

[@vusalnovruzov9192]

Abkhazia and Ossetia also deserve independence then, right?

[@timurjack8773]

Kurdistan is a region, was never a country. Just like Turkestan is a central asia region not a country.

[@hayreddinbarbarossa3132]

Turkish state denying Kurds citizenship? Dude wtf? Which planet are you living in? We have citizenship

[@altaycani]

How can you be a citizen of a place that doesn’t exist

[@ekaterinanagornaya2601]

how old are you?

[@armankzlarslann6044]

@@altaycani Turkey doesn't exist ?

[@abirchowdhury6377]

Probally in the past

[@TempusEst]

I agree, it's complete bullshit. There has never been such thing. Isolation? Maybe. Discrimination? Maybe. Kicking them out and not making them citizens? Hell no. I am from the East and everybody always had a citizenship since 1923.

[@SuperJarjis]

Thank you Harris, as a Kurdish person who lives in Kurdistan, we really appreciate your video. And hope someday we achieve our dreams. ❤

[@bamdadzoalghadrpour1189]

well , there has never been a country called kurdistan , kurds are an ancient iranian ethnicity , but despite all that , there has never been a kurdistan

[@BLUEKOI11037]

turks vs history kurdistan has historically existed please read read no turg history books because turks literally remove the name “kurd” when talking about animal breeds living in kurdish areas

[@DhhSbsh-i3n]

@BLUEKOI11037 There was no 😂 Iran fought the Ottomans in the East, not "Kurdistan", closest thing were the Zand, but they weren't Kurdish nationalists, they were loyal to Iran, like almost all Iranian Kurds 😂😂😂😂😂

[@BLUEKOI11037]

@@DhhSbsh-i3n so histroians are all wrong because a turg who’s only source is a propaganda filled “history” book said so

[@BLUEKOI11037]

@@DhhSbsh-i3n if kurdistan doesn’t exist,why is turkey and iraq bxmbing their “own” cities? how do kurds even exist? i am telling you your education system is filled with lies and propaganda

[@timurjack8773]

@BLUEKOI11037 , Kurdistan is name of region not country, just like Turkestan is a region central asia not country. Kurdistan region is only Zagros mountains and very small part of Anatolia.

[@LostHeart-o8d]

When thieves try to claim your house, they will call you "terrorists" for defending yourself

[@AN-on2ct]

WTF DOES THAT MEAN

[@Bejaiakabylie]

​@@ibrahimm.6803chosen people of god ? Where in the bible Quran or Torah is this in ?

[@Bejaiakabylie]

@@ibrahimm.6803 that doesn't mean anything ... Like wtf being an old civilisation doesn't make you the chosen one

[@war.neverchanges]

@@ibrahimm.6803… wth r u talking about.

[@war.neverchanges]

@@ibrahimm.6803humans came from Africa, humans established in sumaria, built by slaves making them the first to practice slavery. Thatd mean Africans are the chosen ones because they were created first…

[@JawameerHama]

Beautiful piece of art @Johny, we (as a Kurd) have been waiting for this video for a long and liked it very much!🥰👍🌺

[@fatihfatih6513]

Long live Kurdistan Bıji Kürdistan ✌️✌️✌️

[@highdunker7740]

Kurds are applauded for fighting to defend their people, clearly distinct as an ethnic group, but I bet Johnny wouldn't like native Europeans doing the same to defend their land from invaders, huh?

[@anitakonst]

Really well done video, thank you!

[@NaryHayas]

Omg.. Finally a Video about my country Kurdistan ❤💛💚

[@Blaidd1298]

If you are a Kord, you are country is Iran and you are an Iranian, stop falling for Iran-zamins enemies conspiracies.

[@OsmanEfeArd58]

Hangi ülkeden bahsediyorsun?

[@La_douleur_exquise]

​@@OsmanEfeArd58emoji bunların bahsettiği ahalshlahska

[@tolgayrdm9986]

Long live Kurdistan bro, Long live Kurdistan!

[@NaryHayas]

@@OsmanEfeArd58 the country that you have being trying to occupy for the past 100 years and still can not seem to win.. you are still losing

[@The_18th_Fret]

Kurds have been living in that region thousands of years before the first Turk or Arab tribe ever migrated there. If anyone deserved to have their own state, it's the Kurds. Even though as an Iranian I believe Kurds are one of the most ancient Iranic peoples and it would have been better if they were part of Iran today, as we are one people, just different ethnicities

[@PekekeTerbiyecisi]

Kurds are supposedly Medes right? Give them apart of your land then since thats where they originated from. They are definitely not native to turkish lands and never will be. But hey atleast you iranians can give ur iranian buddies some piece of land in Iran!

[@Chrysaetos3]

@@PekekeTerbiyecisi Turk who came from Central Asia? Kurds are indigenous to the land they live on. There's no reason for Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey to occupy them.

[@naranja562]

​@@Chrysaetos3Turks are the indigenious people of these lands. Full stop. Learn history and stop telling Turks what to do in their own country. Update your sources. Gobeklitepe (10.000 BC), turkish graves recently found in Beşiktaş-Istanbul and Hakkari 3500-4000 BC are the proofs about Turks on these lands.

[@SimplyH4san]

@@Chrysaetos3So you're basically saying that we should die and not exist anymore?

[@Chrysaetos3]

@@SimplyH4san Where did I imply that anyone should die? Who is "we" that you're talking about? Your question makes no sense in the context of my comment. Please clarify what you're saying so I can answer you properly. I believe in peaceful coexistence, where everyone's identity and culture is respected and we have equal rights. Unfortunately, that is not the reality at present.

[@rezha-8429]

No friends but the mountains

[@cigdemylmaz1532]

Not really. Kurds consider themselves as part of the Aryan race, and tthey are supported and beloved in Europe by their Aryan brothers

[@BenSezai]

​@@cigdemylmaz1532spam atma

[@senerber]

@@cigdemylmaz1532 Europeans arent Aryans. Iranians and North Indians are.

[@timurjack8773]

Türkiye helped them by taking refugees when Saddam attacked them but they forget that help.

[@Uknown000]

@@timurjack8773 turkey is just a mix with Armenian Arabs gypsy Greeks

[@rebazsaeed6448]

Thank you so much for sharing this video and I hope that one day we will be able to make it our own country . Love from Kurdistan❤☀💚

[@abdalkhaliqmohammed8538]

there's more suffering that didn't covers by this video but i can say it is very accurate and clearly shows your hard work on this matter ,thanks for your precious work.

[@demo35440]

Thank you for lying

[@Honeyless-Badger]

Kurds fought incredibly good against isis.

[@demo1636]

Tbh it wasn't worth it they only did for their ppl and the country never thanked nor anythn to save most of the area

[@Honeyless-Badger]

@@demo1636 But now they control the most valuable cities in syria.

[@PekekeTerbiyecisi]

I mean not really. They were pretty much done if the US airforces didn't bail them out. They did however do incredibly good in the PR department thats for sure!

[@Honeyless-Badger]

@@PekekeTerbiyecisi Nowadays not any army can fight without air forces sir. Even the best trained and equipped army cannot advance 1 mile without air support.

[@Eilbron93]

Yeah, fought so well they disarmed the Assyrian and Yezidi villages while promising protection, fled like cowards, then accepted payment from ISIS to pass through their checkpoints to attack the villages the Peshmerga left unprotected.

[@ANIL-xc6do]

Just because you live in a region does not mean it is your kingdom. You cannot establish your own rules, your own system, your own army. Today, there are many different ethnic groups living in England, Germany, France and America. How would you explain if these people taking up arms and engaging in terrorist activities? You can't just look at the world from a Western perspective. Empathy brings peace.

[@rakunx0]

Siz niye kurdunuz o zaman

[@ANIL-xc6do]

@rakunx0 This is a point you do not want to understand. In modern societies, killing babies, killing women, killing the elderly, burning schools, burning hospitals, and exploding bombs in city centers are considered terrorist activities and are punished. If you want to establish a country and wage war like the people who lived a thousand years ago, you will not complain about the problems you encounter.

[@ANIL-xc6do]

@rakunx0 This is a point you do not want to understand. In modern societies, killing babies, killing women, killing the elderly, burning schools, burning hospitals, and exploding bombs in city centers are considered terrorist activities and are punished. If you want to establish a country and wage war like the people who lived a thousand years ago, you will not complain about the problems you encounter.

[@rizgarmustafa8263]

Exactly opposite: just because you have lived in a region throughout history, it’s your land and should be your kingdom. Besides, if one ethnic group has more power, that doesn’t mean to wipe out others rights on their land!!!

[@hevarjalal]

Great video and Thank you for your accurate information and analysis

[@l.kurdistani]

Independence & Prosperity for Kurds and #Kurdistan.

[@Mahmut4202]

Ağla la ağla git günlüğüne yaz la

[@beeb7477]

There was never a country called "Kurdistan" in human history.

[@beeb7477]

@zhenicc wrong

[@Yarkanlaki]

There was no county in history. It was kingdoms

[@timurjack8773]

True. They don't understand the difference between region and country. Thats like saying Turkestan is a country, its just the name of central asia region.

[@HerdemWelat]

thanks for the video.

[@VirusKurdish]

As a kurd thank you to you show other people how we live in Kurdistan we are have 4 enemie. Iran Iraq turkiey Suriye we not happy long live Kurdistan

[@antunderexist692]

Either by laws or politics, Kurdish movement has no legal description. People who live in a certain region cannot have self-determination right without Terra Nulius happening. According to international law, secessionist movements forbidden. So, you cannot claim there is a state terror. Because the central movement is illegal and who supports it basically secessionist. The man who created this video is entirely ignorant. Turkish government is sovereign in the region. Without consent of sovereign, any claim of anyone is unvalid. You can say Turks trying assimilate you. Kurds living under West's economy. Almost all economic production of whole country is created in the West. Without west, there is no difference between Lebanon and Southern Turkey. Without the Western Turkey, ya guys would end up as like syria or iraq since you guys dont have enough strength to protect yourselves from USA and Russia's games too. Iran can atleast prevent those, but we saw what would happen if a country couldnt prevent them and here iran and iraq.

[@Seyedamirrezasalahaldini]

you guys were not even country to begin with

[@Alandahairman]

⁠ did you ever watch the video?

[@Chrysaetos3]

@@Seyedamirrezasalahaldini Lebanon wasn't a country, they got a country, Syria wasn't a country, they got a country, Jordan wasn't a country, they got a country, Israel wasn't a country, they got a country. What makes Kurds any less deserving of self-rule than all of these groups mentioned? The arabs in all four of those countries are even the same ethnicity! Same language, ethnic identity, everything! How come they get to have multiple countries, but Kurds don't even get one? Claiming that they weren't a country when modern nation stated didn't exist is not an excuse. Kurds are a distinct people who fulfil all the criteria of statehood according to the Montevideo Convention, yet they don't have a single state. If they hadn't been treated as subhuman and as second-class citizens in all four occupied regions over the last century, there wouldn't have been the strong desire for nationhood. Imagine watching everyone around you get nationhood in the carve-up of a fallen empire, yet you don't even get one state on your own ancient land that you've been indigenous to for millennia.

[@Seyedamirrezasalahaldini]

@@Chrysaetos3 kurds will not have country + they had country in the past exept israel a=and kurds doesnt have a country

[@elmunus1]

The fact that the US used the Kurds to fight ISIS and then abandoned them is one of the greatest moral failings of US foreign policy.

[@zsalim2871]

true, the US shouldn’t have funded the PKK terrorists at all.

[@ariframazan]

Wrong, Kurdistan was never a country. No need to separate countries for every ethnicity.

[@Evalionn]

Would you say the same thing before 1923?

[@ariframazan]

@@Evalionn yes

[@NatCyber]

Someone skipped history class.

[@naranja562]

​@@Evalionnoh my God. Did you really say that? Turks founded 16 states in their history. Meaning: Turks had always a state! Am I clear enough? And in 1923 we were on our own land.

[@Yarkanlaki]

Why do you separate ethnicities for a new country for the first time 😂

[@peymankoohi8195]

As an Iranian (Turk/Kurd), I understand that people of the region may want to be independent, and I have nothing against that, but calling Iran a new country is ridiculous. Iran is one of the oldest countries (if not the oldest exciting country) in the world. These lands were part of Iran for thousands of year

[@simko28]

It was empires not country , concept of nationalism and country with borderline started after ww1

[@Bdestiny933]

So many turks crying in the comments🤣

[@Veteran_lul]

You can see that the countryless are crying more

[@ersankuneri4815]

Who cries? A nation with tons of states throughout history or a minority who has never ever had its own state. You guys are so funny 😂😂

[@s.m.d7212]

Kurds are literally of Iranian heritage why don't y'all go there?

[@masoud-aqil]

The actual map is much bigger than the shown one. Long live Kurdistan.

[@timurjack8773]

Its just Zagros mountain and very small part of Anatolia. Kurdistan was never a country its the region name like Turkestan central asia region.

[@AlexiBrusk2780]

Love Kurds from Isreal 🇮🇱🇹🇯✌🏻✌🏻🟩🟥🟨

[@23_sevin]

I really enjoyed this video. The animations are well done and you explained the matter perfectly especially for people who are not quite familiar with the kurdish question yet. But hopefully now they are! Keep up your great work 🎉❤

[@Hast26]

Thanks for your video and not back away from the truths..

[@OttomaniaGaming]

You should think about why Turkey attacking so called Kurds but not to arabs etc ? The problem is not Kurds.. The problem is what kurds did under PKK names and how many civil turkish people dead because of that.

[@BRO_ishere]

And how many civil Kurdish people died before PKK by turks

[@rho620]

What do you mean by so called Kurds? Are you in denial of Kurd identity and language as your idols were?

[@Yarkanlaki]

How many Turks died because of ottoman civil wars and Their own personal causes , and how many people died in the ottoman because of Their ww1 participate

[@yavuz285]

​@@Yarkanlakithis is irrelevant raiding villages are not cool

[@yavuz285]

​@@BRO_ishereif you support the guy that very against republic and its futuristic reforms than u no god I dont think that the uprising in the eastern reigions was beacuse of etnicity or culture its propably because of seyh sait and its existance people should know that its not a hatred of the kurds but a action against traditionalist moveme t

[@ayazmamsin2119]

Thanks for sharing our story ❤

[@allywiess8716]

Love Kurdistan from Israel ❤

[@emilynelson5985]

Trump abandoning the most effective force actively fighting against ISIS while claiming he personally defeated ISIS is definitely the weirdest case of stolen valor I can think of in recent memory.

[@quvy338]

he abandoned a bunch of terrorist that were used a simple meat shields against ISIS lol. ISIS was defeated with airstrikes

[@Byronic19134]

Trump deleted ISIS he didn’t need the Kurds this comment is weak af.

[@Bread-nx9fo]

@@quvy338 what a stupid take

[@altansbildircin2105]

Herkes herşeyi biliyor nedense IŞİD in İsrail'e herhangi bir saldırısı yok hep müslümanları öldürdü

[@krd2brothers]

Trump only love money

[@Afhhkedl]

I'm from Kurdistan thank you ❤️☀️💚🙏✌️

[@b.nierpi]

Great video, very informative about the kurdish struggle. Hope they get their independency soon❤

[@Conspexit]

Iraqis aren’t gonna like this video.

[@EliasRoy]

All 3: Turks, Iraqis and Syrians

[@jackholler3572]

​@@EliasRoyWhy would they like a terror propaganda ? Many civillians in those countries are killed and syrians are displaced and their lands occupied by US and kurdish terrorists.

[@erfankarimi7604]

And Poorsian

[@thisisnumber11ofsectionb28]

Thanks for this video mate, we appreciate it

[@zagrosnaseri1075]

Thanks for your video, we like Kurd appreciate it

[@TANRENJUNKENNETHHCI]

this vid made me feel sad for the Kurds...

[@eren3390]

i‘m sad for the turks. they lost 50k people against them 😢

[@lachlanchester8142]

@@eren3390found the Turkish bot

[@PIXELGamerzXvlogs]

@@eren3390most of those 50k were Kurds anyways.

[@eren3390]

@@PIXELGamerzXvlogs still turkish citizens.

[@eren3390]

@@lachlanchester8142 western bot

[@vengecolig]

Our friends are the mountains. We trust no one but the mountains. We have been betrayed too much and it has taught us that our friends are not people but mountains.

[@SaraTalefe]

loooove this format of telling a story with maps, and you guys have been getting better and better at it. congrats to the whole team! ❤

[@dictator21]

tnx for making this video

[@tanrbilimi2276]

whole bunch of false information. Kurds have same rights as Turks in Turkiye. We even had Kurdish Presidents like Turgut Özal etc. Kurdish language is not forbidden, there is even government operated Kurdish TV Channels...

[@askfaisalmuslim]

Gov operated tv channels, seems as nothing but propaganda outlet. And having some token politicians on your side so you can pretend to not be racist.

[@TheMoreVodka]

sus lan

[@Yarkanlaki]

What about Kurdish names and nicknames. Why don't they have Kurdish names 😂

[@growthandunderstanding]

The area you describe and outline was originally part of Persia--modern day Iran--going back THOUSANDS OF YEARS! THEN, western imperialism messed up the map lines of the region. Then the Ottoman Empire impinged on the territory of the shrinking Persian empire. In that span of time, going back thousands of years, Kurds have been a subset, a nomadic peoples who were understood and accepted to be transient. And in the last 120 years, in the midst of western imperialism, and drawing lines on paper that take no account of the impact of those lines on land, in the effort to further diminish the long established nations of the region--#1, Persia/Iran; #2, The Ottoman Empire/Turkey--western imperialists are trying to further diminish the strength and capacity of ancient powers in a region that is literally a world away from us and totally out of our jurisdiction. If you believe so much in the rights of the Kurds to have a nation, then you will support with equal fervor the disintegration of the USA into 50 individual nation-states, or even worst, thousands of tiny city states.

[@lorjon68]

You just described the future of the USA perfectly.

[@rubuntux]

This guy almost lies about history in every video . There is nothing new from the old Vox mouthpiece . He lived his whole life spreading lies when he was a religious exterimist and did missionary, and now, with his maps and lies

[@growthandunderstanding]

@@rubuntux Cheers!

[@REVIEWSONTHERUN]

Interesting! Thanks for sharing it. ✌️

[@demven04]

This is such a terrifying story. Thanks for spreading this information.

[@RenasAmed21]

ım kurdish Thank you very much jonn ♥️

[@noridher53]

Thank you for your amasing work.

[@aranbest]

No friends but the Mountains.

[@mehmett3851]

I am Kurdish and i am proud of being Turkish citizen! Such ideas won't divide my country! This video totally wrong, in Tukey Kurdish people don't want to leave from Turkey!

[@bepsi6204]

some do, some don't. I know plenty of Kurds living in turkey who hate the state, and some like it. it should be democratic and not erdogan bombing civilians in Syria.

[@sensen9909]

Obviously. You too weak for independent

[@Evîn22126]

Speak kurdish then ,oh wait you cant ,and why is that ? i have the answer because you were forced to be a turk .so you are no longer kurdish ,you are just turkish nothing else .you are not one of us ,period .

[@mehmett3851]

@Evîn22126 I am proud Kurdish in TURKEY. Turkey is a unique and strong country and will be stay always. You won't be able to divide MY COUNTRY from İraq, Syria, Iran etc. All of people knows in Turkey your aim is dividing us, make us weaker as you. Look at Siberians, they're not Russian but they belong with Russia because to stay strong. Same for us too, we want to belongs to Turkey and stay strong together, we don't want to become weaker as you İraq Kurds and Syrian Kurds. Biji Tirkiyê✌️ Ez wek kurdek amade me ji bo Tirkiyê bimirim. Di xewnên xwe de jî tu Kurdistanek li ser Tirkiyê nabînin.

[@fami0711]

As they say; dont look for the enemy far away. You are a danger to your own people. Sad but true.

[@taraomer6335]

I’m Kurdish lady from kurdstan and I blocked all turkish products and companies and airplane using of them

[@mehmetarkz9603]

Nerde yaşıyorsun

[@taraomer6335]

@@mehmetarkz9603 I do not understand maghol language

[@mehmetarkz9603]

@@taraomer6335 ı am kurdisj where do you live

[@taraomer6335]

@@mehmetarkz9603 hawler

[@mehmetarkz9603]

@@taraomer6335 ok

[@GamingfunwithArina]

Thanks for explaining the kurdish history.

[@EdgarKirakosyan.2005]

So much misinformation there, you are telling the story without either deep research on each involved country and its views, or without even knowing what you re doing. You mapped Armenis as a part where kurds are, I am giving you my word as an Armenian there is no Kurd living in Armenia, and there has never ever been any bombing on Armenia (Specifically the part you showed in your video, it is near the capital city of Yerevan and if there was bombing from Turkey that would be huge incident). So, please recheck the information given, and look closely at every dot before publishing these maps

[@bayeseve2475]

Hey brother, Stalin deported all the Lachin Kurds to countries such as Tajikistan and Turkestan, we are not saying that Armenia is to blame.

[@bayeseve2475]

We also know that the Yerevan government allocated Yerevan radio to us in order to protect our language and the aid they provided for the Kurds.

[@MT.2012]

Thanks Johnny for shedding light onto this matter.

[@MixerArt34]

haha zırva :)

[@senpaii7478]

hahahaha ağlaa

[@Zaza.Kurdo1]

Nazi tirko shows his hate

[@NUMENORLUDEMIRCI]

Aptallar haritanız bile yok bide ağla diyor

[@senpaii7478]

@@NUMENORLUDEMIRCI ağla oe

[@NUMENORLUDEMIRCI]

@@senpaii7478 jaajajajajaj sizin pacavranızda sarı renk yokmu. Size çok yakışır

[@cengizyigit4648]

Ask the Japanese, they will tell you what the Kurds are

[@demo1636]

I would love if u explain

[@Evîn22126]

What ? 😂 .i think turks and japanese people are kind of related but japan has nothing to do with kurds .

[@Yarkanlaki]

Ask Korean and Chinese 😅. They will tell what the Japanese are. I am gonna Ask Balkan about 🦃

[@zsoltontube]

Kurds were used against Armenians in the genocide. Ca. 100 years later, the grudge is mostly resolved. Öcalan has personally made major steps to reconcile and normalize Kurdish-Armenian relations, despite being jailed. The SDF has an Armenian battalion. The same progress has been ongoing with other minorities, like the Assyrians (who suffered genocide themselves at the hand of Turkey, and were promised a state, partly overlapping with the proposed Kurdistan, which has been a source of conflict). There are Assyrian battalions in the SDF. Most of this reconciliation and alliance building is done at the command of a jailed leader, Öcalan.

[@childishbrownie]

@@zsoltontube what genocide ?

[@Yarkanlaki]

Armenian has also been used by Russian. In WW1 German used to kill french and now they are best friends. Why does this not working in the middle east 😂

[@bib8227]

after seeing this video, the first thing in my mind that I was understand what is happening in middle east that people say its just a conflict. but the reality its very complex and its related to anything, such as between saddam husain and kurds, turks and pkk, Iran and kurds, syria and kurds, that the reality its have a same problem like in my country Indonesia. which is OPM in Papua island is wanting their freedom in their land, but the government and I especially not agree with that. BUT, in this kurds case somehow I support kurds to fight for freedom over their land and get their own country, which is this is same like the conflict in Papua that I don't support and agree and its opposite with the kurds case that I don't. (pardon me if my English is bad pal, cause I'm still learning)

[@rodelenz8114]

Interesting insight 👏👏👏

[@buraku.6657]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="247">04:07</a> Hey Johnny, I don't know if you simply made a typo or used an incorrect source, but the Dersim operation started in 1937, and what is referred to as the massacre happened in 1938.

[@Ethan-qo9rx]

For more historical context with Turkey and Mustafa Kemal, the Kurds in fact supported him because at the time they were very religious and were duped into fighting for 'Islam' (the remnants of the ottoman caliphate) against the Christian Europeans when in reality they fought for a secular Turkish nation-state. So once they realized they had been tricked, they began rebelling against Turkey from the 1930s onwards. They missed out on a great deal to have their own country, had they worked together with the British+French and Armenians, so they dug themselves into a deep hole.

[@PekekeTerbiyecisi]

And how would they have been having their own land when they didn't get along with Armenians, Assyrians etc? Not to mention the Turkmen and Arabs in the area who they did get along with, were they supposed to kill them too for a country? For more historical context, the Kurds are native to Southwest Iran, so if they want some land they can always talk to their ancestoral Iranian people and take a piece of Iran.

[@Ethan-qo9rx]

@@PekekeTerbiyecisi What do you mean? When Turks established their nation-state, they forced assimilated everyone (Circassians, Abkhaz, Arabs, Kurds, Laz etc.), all groups which previously lived in their own communities with their own language during the Ottoman Empire. A Kurdish state wouldn't have been much different, it would have provided the majority population comprising Kurds their own nation-state to protect their language and cultural rights. Completely reasonable the Kurds, who are their own nation with a distinct language and history. The Kurds are indigenous people, descendants of the Medians. Some specific areas like Van, was actually Armenian to begin with (Urartu civilization) so Kurds expanded overtime but have generally inhabited that region for millennia.

[@Diacometuçi]

Thanks for video,The Middle East is like hell😑Everyone wants to oppress each other under any excuse

[@zademic1505]

Interesting story, thank you, i never really had any idea about it, but i noticed that you did not talk about the kurds in armenia.

[@AshotJanibekyan]

Most of the Kurds in Armenian are Yazidis and they usually don't consider themselves as Kurds and don't get along with other Kurds because of different religion. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds_in_Armenia and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazidis#Identity

[@hellewellejus2895]

ISIS killed whole villages of the men and boys. They kidnapped the Yazidis girls and women, then sold them as slave wives, raped them and forced them to have children. Some got beaten and some got killed. The Yazidis are an unique ethnic and religious minority, and have been mistreated throughout history by most of the other ethnic and religious groups in the region. The Yazidis men and women that escaped the ISIS attacks, have relentlessly organised groups to locate the missing girls and women. They have fearlessly fought to free their families from the torture and slavery of the horrible ISIS. Some of the victims were very brave and succeeded in escaping by themselves. Their stories are truly tragic and inspiring at the same time. A strong heroic people ❤💪🙏

[@archuk6058]

Because there are no kurds in the current borders of Armenia, there are some Assyrians and Yazidis, no kurds. Armenians are not too fond of kurds because they were active participants in the Armenian genocide, and kurds also occupy Western Armenian territory and are now trying to claim it as theirs.

[@Kurd010dish]

Urmia is Kurdistan Krmashan is Kurdistan Amed , hewler, afrin ❤

[@lxNjomana]

I never knew about this... thank you

[@kedarpatwardhan9816]

The question is when Iran had its first election in 1953 and a prime minister was chosen, He was basically assasinated by hard liners financed and provided for and trained by the British and American Intelligence agencies, then they instated Reza Pehlavi because he agreed to grant them both the control of Iran's Oil fields which the prime minister was in the process of nationalisation. Why did the Americans and British then did not "carve out" the Kurdish Area? I mean No issues blaming Khomeini, however, that too should be mentioned. Again in the case of Iraq, Saddam Hussein was basically helped by the Americans as a buffer and counter the Iranians, and secure Iraqi oil. Why does the US have to be involved in everything when they are 4-5k miles away?

[@erfanmirzaei3100]

so many lies I can't even keep track! Pahlavi government was already in place, Reza pahlavi was the constitutional Monarch and there WERE elections held since the "Mashrote" or constitution revolution had succeeded and the national assembly had existed. Mosssadegh was brought to power by support of the Shah at first to fight British petroleum hold on our oil but soon he began a coup against the government and he lost. separatists whether kurds or Azeris had been receiving support from the soviets since 1946 when they left Iran and those who were seeking to annex our soil in north west had actually taken land from the local kurdish and Azeri and lur iranians and unconstitutional! so they entered a war and lost. Also Iran is NOT a new country in fact the only nation that never had it's borders drawn by a british or french in 1800's.

[@kedarpatwardhan9816]

@@erfanmirzaei3100 Thank you for the additional Information. I do not know if you are negating what I have said, and stating my statements as lies? Nevertheless, thank you for providing me with new information. The Information which I have provided above about Reza and Mossadegh is from my reading, From a book by Stephen Kinzer. After re-instating the monarch a Trade consortium of 1954 was put in place which stopped the nationalisation of oil fields and gave control of them to the British and Americans. Since then the Shah brought about great infrastructural and educational developments, although the prime resources i.e oil was being lost to private companies. To bypass that he brought about the 1973 sale and purchase agreement. The ridiculousness of this all is that Ayatullah was living in Turkey and then France before the coup. He was flown there in Air france and he was the time magzine person of the year 1979.

[@rdekort9273]

Completly forgot about the Russians in Syrië 😅

[@12mickeyd12]

The Russians main motivation was helping the Arab nationalists and other factions fighting Al Qaeda and ISIS and are in Syria on behalf of the government. They too do not care about the Kurds and have nothing to gain from attacking or using them.

[@vahidiranidokht891]

Despite other three conutries, Kurds loving whithin iranian border has been significant and essential part of iran since the day that Iran has been known asal a country ( 2500 years ago). Many lands are taken ir lost by different leaders but the current borders has always been there. Being an ethnic group does not justify asking for independen state however having equal right and a respecful living condition is drfinitely a must for evey person. Unfortunately iranian regime opresses every body and kurds are also among them. We are all fighting for freedom but this does not necessitily mean spling our coutry to several ethnic groups.

[@reggieparker5340]

Ive always had a hard time getting my head around all of this, but this video is incredible at explaining it

[@znarhaji8324]

Kurdistan ❤❤❤

[@talhasial5502]

I just clicked on this video after 2 title and thumbnail changes. Should be great for your analysis Johnny.

[@APPECE]

Ahmet Kaya was a very famous Kurdish artist in Turkey. At a time when even singing Kurdish songs was forbidden, fascists wanted to lynch him because he said he would sing one Kurdish song in his last album. Then he was exiled to France and died there, and his grave is there... kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4K8eq2odtiEpZY&ab_channel=AhmetKaya / They are a people whose identities have been ignored, whose languages ​​have been banned and who have been massacred in every country, unfortunately. Their villages have been destroyed, they have been displaced from their lands. They have been fighting the state for years to gain their most basic human rights.

[@ahmedkamal7095]

Zor supas Kurdish for thank you

[@DhhSbsh-i3n]

You can't erase something that never existed 🙂

[@MüqAbandoned]

real 🦍

[@demo1636]

The most dumbest logic I have ever heard but nice try ig💀

[@DhhSbsh-i3n]

@@demo1636 Cry about it

[@infostar8177]

Because you read only persish history.

[@DhhSbsh-i3n]

@@infostar8177 no, I don't read Turkish history, lmfao, are you gonna claim now almost every Iranian Dynasty is Kurdish like an average Kurdish nationalist? 😂

[@wtbond]

Will this video be on Nebula?

[@Evalionn]

Kurds have the right to be independent. Arabs, Turks and Persians people should understand that we are different from them. We have our own language, culture and background.

[@Etsfx]

Biji kurdistan Media kardukh Gutians Hurrians ✌🏻🏔☀️🌾🦁One day we will back our land God willing if they like it or not . Free Kurdistan Bijî Rojhilat Rojava Başûr u Bakur

[@blackvirus9]

They never had a nation in the past, so why invent one? obvious interests.

[@windowsxpisloading]

Across the world there are many many many countries that were never independent states, or had a history of owning their own country, but, they are today independent countries.. so why not Kurds?under the current situation Kurds don’t really have an option to decide their own future, as its always decided by either the Iraqi, Syrian, Iranian or Turkish government.

[@emirhanbudak6824]

@@windowsxpisloading why not give lands from your country?

[@YusufGever]

Kurds are the indigenous people of these lands. They can establish a state whenever they want. Turks are an invading tribe that came to Anatolia later.

[@blackvirus9]

@@YusufGever there is no such thing as Kurds, people are mixed, if you are a kurd do a DNA test and you will see, all tribes have invaded lands in the past, according to your analogy kurds where there ever since planet earth was created, which is quite stupid, the so called "kurds" also migrated from central-south Asia to todays Iraq, so check your facts first.

[@YusufGever]

@@blackvirus9 What you say about Kurds is a complete lie. They were always in the Middle East. Kurds have many J2 blood groups. J2 blood group is found in Anatolian natives. This shows that the Kurds did not come from anywhere and were always in Anatolia.

[@gillmaster]

Thank you for clearing things up. It's probably just a fraction of their history but you still made it very easy to understand, even for an outsider like me. Much love to the kurds - I stand with you.

[@pripyatist]

I am a fan of your videos for years Johnny. But there are many mistakes and misleading information in this video. Not only in details, there are giant mistakes. Clear, very apparent mistakes. I still want to believe in your honesty but it gets hard with these type of misleading videos. We all know that we can use the same story and change what the audience gonna believe in by just shaping our words. This video doesn't do this only, but also sharing wrong information very clearly to the people who knows, but the average people won't know. It's just sad.

[@bishoo10]

wich Information?

[@hann5240]

owww turk got sad

[@kurdistanfedaisi]

@@bishoo10he is Turk just making propaganda