Why Do Turkey and Greece Hate Each Other

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[thenorthkoreanwifier]

Spicy? Absolutely, though not as spicy as the Balkans can be. Like Kosovo or all of the war crimes that happened during the downfall of Yugoslavia.

[erenwelch]

As a Turk, I love Greek people, culture and cuisine. Being from the southwest, our cuisine and culture overlaps a lot

[aaa-do]

I love Greeks as a Turk. I hope we, as both sides learn to separate politics from people one day.

[Doekekkkdkd]

The map in 7:45 is wrong. The Lesbos island is Greek. Be carefully with Turkish maps…

[Mrprodromomos]

As a Greek, I’d say there isn’t hatred but mistrust. Turkey still denies to this day the Greek genocide and their genocides against other Christian minorities in their region. I’ve been to Turkey and our cultures are very similar in nature.

[aliencdh]

love your content! your channel is currently my favorite history channel on youtube, so I'd like to suggest the topic of moldova and transnistria, which is something many people aren't really aware of

[giannism]

One more thing about the Paris peace agreement regarding the Dodecanese is that everyone seems to forget that TURKEY IS NOT PART OF IT. Literally, this treaty was signed between the allies (including Greece) and Italy. NOT TURKEY. Therefore Turkey as a third party does not have the legal right to call upon the treaty. The only country that can do that is Italy and they don't seem to give a fuck.

[JediMasterEzio]

This is a very intelligent and insightful young man. I'm a new viewer and subscriber, and I really enjoy your takes on history. Entertaining and educational. Keep up the great work! We need more history and science communicators out here!

[buttonanastasia]

I've been to Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus (including the North Turkish area) for university and long-term travels. Part of my time in the areas was living in an apartment on the border of the Green Zone in Cyprus - that was a whole experience in itself. 

As a non-citizen of these areas, I've heard from all sides and from many generations of people living in city centers and some rural. It's a complex issue, for sure, and all of them hate the idea that they are being divided because of their leaders who cannot find non-confrontational solutions.

I hope I get to see a deep friendship being built between these states within my lifetime rather than tension or potential militant action.

[Ismail-Ibrahim]

Eh, I would say the rivalry and animosity doesn't just come from the Ottomans annexing Greece, it also stems from that Turkic tribes over a series of several campaigns (going back all the way to the Seljuks in the 11th century) systematically kicked out the Greeks out of Anatolia and it's subsequent Turkification.

[MetaSynForYourSoul]

I have an idea for you: a series called Flashpoints. Basically, it goes over areas where conflicts are likely to begin in the future and the historical and/or present day aspects of why there's conflict to begin with.

[icantthinkausername]

During the imia crisis in 1996 the greek and turkish armies almost clashed on those two uninhabited rocks. turkish special forces landed on the east island meanwhile a greek helicopter was flying around and it mysteriously crashed and the crew of 3 men died, nobody knows still how it crashed, some say it was because of bad weather, some say it was a malfunction while others say the turks shot it down

[HelloBalkans]

I don't think Greeks and Turks hate each other, they are the 2 most similar nations in the world, don't compare the dirty games of politicians with the thoughts of the people, I've been to both countries many times, they are very similar and you can see how much they love each other even in their social media comments.

[thanosandnobill]

I don't want to be cynical. But, in my life, I have met many friendly and cool Turkish people that are also open-minded, don't like Turkish government authoritarianism, enjoy traveling, and even like greek music and greek food. Then suddenly many of them proceed and tell me out of the blue how greek people are greedy that have all the islands of the Aegean sea and that we must give back to Turkey some of them. Nationalism is so high in Turkey that even centrists there could be considered super nationalists by European standards.

I don't think Greeks and Turks hate each other. It's about goverments and politics. A lot of Greek and Turkish people won't support any war against each other. I hope our goverments will find a common ground in the future.

[ossie]

We don't hate each other! At least the people don't. We're loving neighbours.

I'm from Turkish descent originally and found Greeks are always friendly and nice. Been to Greece on vacation and people were always so hospitable and good.
It's politics that wants them to hate each other for their own profit.

[panayotisdamianakis]

That was pretty informative and unbiased. Thank you 👍🏼

[alperylmaz]

1st time after so long, a video which is way more objective. Thanks for that

[razorian]

As a Greek, I actually worked with Turks here (worked in the same enviroment) and they were all awesome.

[__-oqgz]

You missed a key point. In the Lausanne treaty, article 13, Turkey is supposed to respect Greek airspace

(2) Greek military aircraft will be forbidden to fly over the territory of the Anatolian coast. Reciprocally, the Turkish Government will forbid their military aircraft to fly over the said islands

As Turkey has violated this repeatedly, Greece is there justified in arming its islands