The last of their kind: Turkey's nomads | DW Documentary

They are a rarity in modern-day Turkey: nomads who move to the mountains in summer, pitch tents and tend to their goats. The nomads know that their numbers are dwindling. And yet they wish to hold on to their traditions.

Turkey’s nomads spend winter in the plains on the Turkish Mediterranean coast. But in spring they move with their animals to the mountains. However, the state, the military and landowners are constantly placing new obstacles in their path. How long can this traditional lifestyle continue? 63-year-old Pervin Savran leads the nomads' fight for their rights. A report from the Turkish Taurus Mountains by Nevin Sungur & Gunnar Köhne.

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[Siouxperman]

I feel this peoples pain!!! I’m American Indian and our people were treated this same matter. Stand strong and keep the traditions alive!!

[expatbiker]

nothing stops a determined woman. they literally move mountains. God bless

[SpiritualBabe]

To my friends in Turkey:
We have so much in common.
I know you will make it; you are the last of your kind, of your era, and you will continue to flourish.
Sending you love from New Zealand 🙏

[parolax]

This has always been a problem in Turkish history. During the Ottoman period, the state and the nomads always had conflicts as well as republic and Selçuk Era. The nomads did not want to pay taxes because they did not understand the reason. They were already soldiers, they could protect themselves. They were saying that we don't need a bridge, a mosque or a road, so why should we pay taxes? In the Ottoman Empire, this disagreement varied from sultan to sultan. Some say this is our tradition and leave them alone, some take their taxes and demand soldiers from them. Istanbul's intellectuals call them "etrak bi idrak" (thickheaded turk) because they were "rude". Until the 19th century, the important part of the Ottoman population was still nomads, and there still believers in shamanism. Now we have only 2 boy (tribe).

[selins.]

At 06:53 she literally says: "These mines wound the chest of the Mother Earth". That's how a nomad percieves the world.

[jawedmanowar]

Its great see that after Huge Modernity..this grandma (May allah be please with her) is still continuing the Tradition of centuries that Humanity survived before Modern times came and polluted the world through Greed

Its good that these handful people r trying to preserved the Turks way of life which they have lived through centuries

[helensantiago]

Salute to the woman who stands for the old way of life

[stoorworm]

I’m a yörük from Silifke, Turkey. My family has given up and migrated to Istanbul in the 1970s. I’ve given up and migrated to Japan, of all places. I’m not happy about it and it wasn’t natural but nevertheless, it’s in the name. Keep on walking.

[Promotall]

how rare and refreshing to watch a DW documentary without the plink plonk of background music

[sashamoore]

Great documentary. Her resistance to modernism and capitalistic change that inevitably destroys the environment, is very awe inspiring. I wish to live a more simpler lifer bc everything here is so consumeristic and becoming unbalance and unbearable! Ugh!!! Good on this lady! Never change

[pecelirovucago]

Hello, I am so sorry about your freedom as nomads.

We have the same beliefs about nature, my land is registered under our tribe and ownership.
I am from Fiji, thanks!

[iampinayandispeakturkish]

am from the Philippines I dream to study and live in turkey for a good Ankara, the guinok area is good I want to live in the mountain area and this time I speak Turkish it's not easy to learn but I do. I just wait for 1year.

[kravyy]

My four grandparents were also farmers (not nomadic tho), they were all born in a village to farmers in families with four to eleven siblings. All my grandparents left their village in the 70s and 80s alongside with their children, brothers, sisters, wives and husbands and as of today (June 2022) there is only 1 brother of my grandfather (aged 70) left in their village with his wife (aged 63)… all other family members left and live in crowded cities, some nieces and nephews even don’t know where the village of our (great)grandparents is located.

[swissgaming]

this is really so hard dilema between the old and the new

[lalamusic]

I -)'m sending my love and respect to this unique people ❤️ 💕 💜

[B.K...]

Let them be happy with their animals...

[ledlight]

I hope the government will help those people to find solutions for them, thanks DW 🙋‍♀️❤

[MohammedAli-ineo]

Turkish government should be ashamed of themselves your forgetting your roots these nomadic people were how every Turkish persons ancestors may Allah bless them and protect them from the tyranny of the government

[sedaturk]

Here is my favorite quote of Ataturk (the father of Turkish people) for this video.

"Friends! Go and look at the Taurus Mountains, if you see only one Yörük (Turkish nomad) tent there and there is smoke in that tent, you should know very well that no power or force in this world can defeat us(Turks).

[hannahperlotto]

This is just so damn terrible!!! People that don't pulite and do any If they have done this for years it obviously have not damaged any thing for those times!!! Why now?? Why is there nobody that can see this and do more to help them 🙁