Geography Now! TURKEY (Türkiye)

One day I met a 14 year old Turkish kid with his aunt and they showed me and my mom around Istanbul. I promised him he could be in the Turkey episode when it came up. 5 years later I kept that promise. Say "hi" to our youngest guest host, Ege, who became a part-time metalcore emo musician and international relations major. Proud of you man! You've grown up! And HUGE thanks to the ~60 Turkish Subscribers that met up with us in Izmir and Istanbul and helped with information for this episode! ALSO yes I am aware the UN recognizes this country as "Türkiye" however we follow the English names (English hs no "ü") and also... I'm not the UN Enjoy!

We also have a city named Denizli which means “has sea”. Denizli is a landlocked city.

I'm learning turkish now... so this video made me super excited！！　 love from japan🇯🇵

Greetings to Turk brothers and sisters from 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan. Love Turkiye

As an American, one of my favorite aspects of Turkish culture is the 70's psychedelic rock musicians like Selda Bağcan.

I spent a couple weeks in Turkey earlier this year as part of a nine-week Eastern European road trip. I have NEVER been someplace where grown men were more delighted to see a baby! My wife and daughter loved the attention, and I must admit that I was quite touched by how sweet they all were.

Hungarian here, love you Turkish brothers and sisters!🇹🇷 🇭🇺

As a Greek, I have never met a Turkish person I did not like. Lovely, warm and kind people that we have so much in common with (and that is how all the Turkish people in the video seemed to be as well) It feels a bit like we are siblings that grew up with different parents - love from your neighbours to the West ❤

I waited long for this very good episode. Thank you! Another history fun fact: In around 1890 an Ottoman ship named Ertuğrul shipwrecked off the coast of Japan as it came back from a diplomatic mission. The local population helped rescue the surviving crew and since then the Ottomans(and later Turkey) had a warm relationship with Japan. They even made a movie about it called „Ertuğrul 1890” or „125 years memory“.

I was lucky enough to meet you in Kadıköy-- thank you so so much for being so kind! This is awkward to say but I was in a car accident a couple hours ago. Thankfully everyone is fine but I'm still really shocked. I was looking for a distraction and man, this is absolutely perfect! I've been waiting for this episode for years and it's helping me so much right now. Teşekkürler for everything ☀️💛

Turkey is awesome and Turkish people are awesome too!! There are soooo many Ottoman monuments in my town Thessaloniki that are sadly left to rot... I hope our countries will eventually get along peacefully.

As a romanian i love Turkey. Great country with a great history, beautiful country and very nice and friendly people.

this was awesome!! thanks for letting me be a part of this :)

Before my great grandmother died she started learning turkish because her husband (My great grandfather who died a month before she died) was in the air force and turkey had been her favorite country she ever lived in when her husband was in the millitary. So when I think of the country Turkiye I think of my great grandmother (R.I.P)

As a 2nd generation Hungarian, I met and made a lot of Turkish friends in college. We had a lot in common and have fun exchanging aspects of our culture. We also have a very similar alphabet so I can pronounce a lot of Turkish, even though I can’t understand it, which made for many amusing moments. Special mention to Altin Gün, who I believe single handedly re-introduced Anatolian Rock to the international community! They’re by far my favourite Turkish band!

I laughed a lot with the superstitions segment. We do most of these things in Greece too, like entering a house with your right leg, the ubiquitous Evil Eye, telling your fortune with coffee remains, wood knocking, right hand itching=money (but left hand itching=you're gonna get beaten up), stepping on new shoes (but not just the first one, everyone who sees it will do it until your shoes are not new and nice anymore). I also had an ex-girlfriend who believed that exchanging sharp objects meant that we would fight, although we didn't need the sharp objects for that...

In Bulgaria we learned that almost everyone loves Turkish Delight, along with the coffee or tea. And yes they had “Doner Kebab” too. My wife’s family took us to a Turkish restaurant in Westchester run by a Ukrainian, he explained to us that he was a smuggler during the USSR days, he would sneak across the Black Sea at night, stay in Turkey all day, and then sneak back in the next night, and he grew to love the food so much he wanted to open a Turkish restaurant!

About Hungary: the Ottoman Empire ruled a large part of Hungary for 150 years. It's complicated (imagine a little bell ringing here) but sometimes the Hungarian people had better relations with the Turks then the Habsburgs (who ruled another big chunk of Humgary at that time). Also back in ancient and early medieval times the Hungarians were Central Asian nomadic people - just like many Turkic groups. We have many Turkish loanwords, Turkic historic sites and of course during 150 years of Ottoman rule many people intermarried. There are many Hungarians with Turkish last names. The influence of the Ottomans might not be as strong or easily spotted as German or Slavic ones, but it's clearly visible.

Even though we had rivalry in the past we help each other 🇬🇷🤝🇹🇷

Never been to Turkey, don't have Turkish ancestry or Turkish friends, however Turkey is my favorite country in the world. I wish I could visit it some day.