Ian Explains: Greece-Turkey Tensions Goes Back (Way Back) | GZERO World

To understand the latest escalation of tensions between Greece and Turkey, you have to go back in history. Way, way back. Ian Bremmer turns back the clock and then explains how things got so heated this summer that a military conflict almost broke out. A crisis was averted for now, but who knows what the next few months will bring?

[techthumbs]

Ian, your historical reference is way off. The Trojan war took place thousands of years before the Turks arrived from central Asia. A more apt historical starting point would have been the Byzantine-Seljuk Wars.

[thanoss]

Turks came here a lot after the Trojan war. Turks at that time were in Central Asia. Anatolian people were never Turkic.

[btw]

Ian, your timeline needs to fast forward and move East to Manzikert 1071

Anatolia was Greek for a thousand years before the Turkic nomads even arrived.

[thewolfofswingthat]

oh dont be ridiculous, when the trojan wars happened turkey didnt exists, the turks were basically a bunch of nomadic tribesman with no affiliation to any land.

[johna]

You lost me on your opening with a history of Troy vs Greeks 🙈

Ian, don't quit your day job for youtube.

[NikolasSerpanos]

Hellenes (Greeks) have been residing within The Greek peninsula and Western Anatolia since time immemorial. While the Turks (Mongols) only arrived in the region after the 10th century. There were many distinct people groups living in Anatolia from ancient times including Indo-Europeans, Hittites, Lydians, Akkadians, Hurrians, etc. but the Turkic Mongol presence that resides on the territory now did not come into play until millennia after the rise and fall of several great civilizations.

[vanmars]

I came here to hear about the actual issues of Greece and Turkey that came after the treaty of Lausanne, the different approach of EEZ rights that both countries have, who's violating the international law of the sea, the fact that Turkey's president started conflicts with all of the countries of the region and the growing neo ottomanism ideology of turkey etc...
Instead I learned turkey have something to do with ancient Troy and many things about Greece like about Greece's economy, approach to covid 19 and the financial repercussions of it...🧐🧐🧐
Feel more 🙄stupid???

[Sira]

Greeks are fighting Seljuk Turks since 11th AD and Ottomans Turks since 13th AD . 7-9 centuries of fighting.

[NikolaGruevski]

Hahaha Americans teaching history is hilarious

[basiliossideris]

The Trojan War reference feels very misleading. The Trojans were not ethnically Turkish and the implied connection seems to support the rhetoric of some of the more radical voices in Turkey. Secondly, the belligerents in the Trojan War were the Greeks; that is not the case in the current tussle.

[WalterBurton]

OMG, the nerds commenting on this video about the damned Anatolians. They're COMPLETELY missing the forest for the trees (and they've obviously never spent any time in the region). HUH-LARIOUS! 👍🤣👍