Turkey: The Clever Man in the Middle
Simon Whistler · May 14, 2024 · 28 min video · Middle East
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Throughout history, power has migrated across the globe. Whether it be the Roman or British empires, the Islamic Caliphates of the Asian world, or the modern United States of America, power is always shifting hands, it's always in flux. There was once an empire of a similar size.
It ruled large swaths of Europe and Asia before fracturing into pieces at the end of the First World War.
The European powers descended on like vultures, tearing at its carcass and leaving almost nothing left, but out of the ashes of this empire came a young new nation, one that said no to the old ways and chose to drag itself into the light of the modern age, willing and eager to prove itself on the world stage. But it ran into a number of key problems.
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