How Turkey is Winning the War for the Black Sea

The war in Ukraine has taken its toll on Russia's navy, and has allowed Turkey to emerged as the dominant naval power in the Black Sea. So in this video, we'll explain why this region is so important and the three reasons this is great news for Erdogan.

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00:00 Introduction
00:58 Context
02:41 Energy Independence
03:51 The Economy
04:47 Turkish Security
06:03 What Happens Next?
06:22 Brilliant

[j.obrien]

NATO: Turkey who's side are you on?
Turkey: Mine.

[metinbektas]

When Türkiye shot down the Russian plane, other NATO countries said it was Turkey's problem. Additionally, 4-5 months ago, America opened fire on NATO member Turkey's UAV on the Syrian border. I touched upon very few of the mistakes made by NATO countries against Turkey.

[hokiedevil]

Turkey has ALWAYS had the control of Black Sea because they control the Bosporus. That is the gist of the treaties that rule the maritime there as well

[hai.]

It's easy to play brave when you are not neighbouring Russia. Turkey HAS TO play all sides. The USA is not an "ally" anymore because they are cooperating with PKK/YPG.
However, Turkey has supported and will support Ukraine as they are fighting for their freedom..

[azhanali]

Turkey is good in performing the balancing act.

[andrewrogers]

Hard to not win it when you control the entire entrance…

[aaronbottke]

Why does TLDR usually not highlight Turkie when they talk about NATO?

Turkie is a NATO member state.

[neosinan]

There is one piece of fake news here. Turkey didn't denied black sea access to British ships. First off, UK donated those ship last year. And According Montreux convention, Both Russian and Ukrainian ships can't use Turkish Straits. And According Head of Ukrainian navy, They didn't ask for passage. So Ships were coming to Turkey and that was their destination. Secondly, This video should have mention, Turkey was also building 4 Corvettes for Ukrainian Navy. Billion dollar naval deal between Turkey and Ukraine was important.

[bodoslama]

Türkiye is doing very well by not letting America and other invaders into the Black Sea. In addition, when PKK terrorists launched missile attacks against Turkiye from Syria, the USA and Germany withdrew their air defense systems from Turkiye and left Turkiye in a difficult situation. Despite the PKK terrorists who have been massacring civilians in Turkey for 40 years, the USA and Europe have always taken a stance against Turkey.

[burakertugrul]

You skipped the fact that Türkiye is building ships for Ukrainian Navy and Bayraktar and other Turkish drones are made with Ukrainian technology transfers. Türkiye refuses access to the Russian Navy ships because those ships are not registered to Black Sea ports. The latter policy and Ukrainian attacks on Russian navy literally crippled the Russian naval capacity in the Black Sea.

[svart]

Turkey is a giant country. It has enormous history and culture and a huge battle hardened army..

[Naturenerd]

Turkey is really playing all sides. Nato, Russia, China, Africa, and Central Asia. Don't know how they pull it off.

[TrinaldoTomek]

Why are your channel always acting like a Turkey isn’t a nato member country ?

[billsmoke]

There's always blatant Turkophobia on this channel. By not showing Turkey as a NATO member, and not even mentioning the fact that Turkey has supported Ukraine since 2014, (and was sending billions of dollars worth of arms while Germany offered to send helmets and Macron was cosying up to Putin) is done on purpose to make it seem more nefarious than it is. This was similar to the Nagorno-Karabakh situation, in which you mentioned Armenian's leaving the region after the war, but failed to mention how it was illegally annexed by Armenia and thousands of Azeris were butchered in the 90s, with several million being made refugees.

If you honestly want to be a neutral channel, you need to get out of your tiny westoid Anglo-box and views of 10% of the world, and at least attempt to see how the other 90% of the world looks at geopolitics, because this is sloppy and basically propaganda.

[SARodriguez-kwwl]

The black sea coasts territory were an Ottoman empire land lost to Russia.

[zomfgroflmao]

Turkey: 'We are winning the war for the Black Sea dominance!' Everybody else: 'How did you do it???'
Turkey: '... we did not invade our neighbours and generally did nothing ...'
...

[dotaturboman]

Türkiye is handling the situation quite well. It also helps Ukraine in the war. It continues on its way without damaging its relations with Russia and without shaking its own economy. If NATO enters the Black Sea, there will be great confusion and huge threats for Turkey. After all, other NATO countries do not have a border with Russia, but Turkey does, so they are always careful and cautious about Russia.

[timestorm]

Türkiye has officially changed its name as Türkiye! Are you trying to humiliate a proud Nation and County by intentionally calling its as turkey?

[MarseLL]

Why does your channel constantly act as if Türkiye is not a member of NATO? Why do you always criticize Turkey? But when it comes to European and US interests, you always want Turkey (Ukraine-Russia war, Istanbul agreement, etc.) you are a hypocrite.

[robertmax]

Turkiye literally got keys from the gates of Black Sea 😂