On the Internet, there is such a sentence "husky in the dog, Turkey in the country", the reason why Turkey is compared to a husky, is because the historical Turkey has done a lot of operations that can be called "stupid" and "strange", so why does the historical Turkey get such an evaluation? If you are interested in this topic, please help "press the 2-second like button" to give a strong thumbs up. And "pay attention" to it, often come later, and don't get lost.
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > claimed to be the ancestor of the Turks and demanded "tolls" from China</h1>
Turkey is located in the peninsula of Asia Minor in western Asia, with nearly 90% of its territory in Asia, but Turkey has always insisted on claiming to be a "European country" and has repeatedly applied for membership in Europe, wanting to join the rich brothers in Europe. What is even more peculiar about Turkey, however, is that it calls itself a European state, but rather refers to itself as a "descendant of the Turks." In Turkish textbooks, the Turks describe themselves as descendants of the Western Turks and claim that China had the Great Wall to defend itself against the invasion of their ancestors, the Western Turks.
So, is this real history? First of all, from the perspective of Chinese history, the construction of the Great Wall in China began in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and after Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, the Great Wall scattered in various regions was connected together, so we have today's "Great Wall". At that time, China built the Great Wall mainly to defend against the Xiongnu in the north, and was posthumously recognized by Turkey as the "ancestor": the Western Turks were not yet born at that time.
(Great Wall)
The real threat that the Western Turks began to pose to China's borders was during the Tang Dynasty, and the Great Wall did play a role in defending against the invasion of nomadic peoples like the Western Turks. But are the Western Turks really the ancestors of the Turks? With the development of modern genetic technology, scientists have extracted the genes of today's Turks to compare with the genes of the Western Turks and found that turkey's "Turkic" genes are pitifully small. According to studies, today's Turks are more inclined to Caucasian genes and have little connection to the Turks.
However, claiming to be of Western Turk descent is not the first time in Turkish history that it has "touched porcelain" with our country. When China purchased ukraine's "Vaglian" aircraft carrier in 1998, later the Liaoning aircraft carrier, the transport ship passed through Turkey, and Turkey suddenly attacked China's transport fleet, demanding that China pay a "deposit" of up to $1 billion to Turkey and sign a tourism agreement with Turkey. It was only after Greek mediation that Turkey's extortion was finally put to rest.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > started a war and injured friendly forces, making the U.S. military cry and laugh</h1>
Historically, Turkey was repeatedly invaded by Russia before the establishment of the republic, and today's Crimean Peninsula is the territory that Turkey once ceded to Russia in the war. Therefore, Turkey, as a small country, has never trusted its big brother in the north, so after the end of World War II, Turkey did not hesitate to throw itself into the arms of the United States and became the only Asian country in the NATO camp.
After Turkey joined NATO, it also very much wanted to find opportunities to "express itself" to the United States. After the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, Turkey joined the United Nations Army and entered the Korean Peninsula battlefield. Prior to this, Turkey had not fought against our country and the North Korean troops, but believed that as long as the troops were yellow-skinned, they were likely to be enemy troops. In one battle, a Turkish unit saw a group of yellow-skinned troops, so overjoyed, they commanded the troops to pounce on the enemy, successfully captured this group of enemy troops, and asked the American army for credit. However, the United States could not laugh after receiving the prisoners of war, because the Turkish prisoners were South Korean troops, not North Korean and Chinese troops.
(Korean Battlefield)
After negotiating with the American officers, the Turks finally understood some of the basic characteristics of the Koreans and Chinese, so the Turkish troops once again went to the battlefield to look for Chinese troops. In one battle, the Turks did indeed find a group of "Chinese troops", so they rushed forward again, captured this group of troops, and captured a Chinese flag. However, when the US military discovered this "Chinese flag" captured by Turkey, it was once again dumbfounded: because turkey captured not China's five-star red flag, but a "blue sky and white sun flag"!
Why did Turkey seize a flag of blue sky and white sun? Although Chiang Kai-shek, who was in Taiwan at the time, repeatedly "asked the United States for war" and let the Nationalist 52nd Army go to the battlefield, the United States still refused Chiang Kai-shek's request. It was only to allow Chiang Kai-shek to send an expedition to study the combat experience of the United Nations army, but what Neither Chiang Kai-shek nor the United States expected was that this group of nationalist observation regiments carrying the blue sky and white sun flag actually became prisoners of the Turkish troops first. To this day, this "Blue Sky and White Sun Flag" captured by Turkey is still placed by Turkey in its own exhibition hall for its own people to visit.
(Blue Sky and White Sun Flag captured by Turkey)
But Turkey's harm to friendly forces is not only manifested in the armies of other countries, but sometimes even in its own. In 1974, Turkish troops set their sights on a small country on their doorstep: Cyprus. Prior to the incorporation of a republic, Cyprus was a small island under the jurisdiction of Turkey, but then Turkey was invaded by the British and Turkey was forced to cede the island. Later, Cyprus became a small island nation in Europe after independence from Britain, but Turkey still did not give up its territorial ambitions for Cyprus. So in 1974, Turkey sent its navy and air force to prepare for a secret invasion of Cyprus. However, due to the fact that the Turkish Navy and Air Force had not communicated in advance, and the operation was too secretive. When the Turkish planes found the warship at sea, they indiscriminately bombed the warship, but afterwards it was found that this warship was the warship of Turkey's "secret invasion" of Cyprus.
Turkey's launch of the operation of blowing up its own fleet really frightened a group of European countries at that time. Later, although Turkey landed in Cyprus and established the "Turkish Republic of Cyprus" in the north of Cyprus, the country is currently recognized only by Turkey in the world.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="14" > face blindly recognized the national flags of the three countries, and the TV station wanted "Moon Jae-in"</h1>
It is often said that turkey always mistakenly injures its own army because the Turkish army may have "face blindness", but then a series of operations in Turkey gradually made people realize that Turkey's face blindness may not only be manifested in the army hitting friendly forces, but also in the indistinguishable flag.
During the War in Syria, Russia sent air forces to bomb Turkmen villages in northern Syria. However, it is widely believed in Turkey that Russia's dispatch of air force to bomb Syria at that time was an "invasion" of Turkey's airspace. So, enraged, the Turkish people rushed into the Dutch embassy, smashed and robbed the Dutch embassy, and burned the flag of the Dutch embassy in the street. Why does Turkey mistake the flag? - Because the flags of the Netherlands and Russia are very similar, the Dutch flag is top-down red, white and blue, while the Russian flag is top-down white, blue and red. Turkey's blinding of the flag not only made dutch diplomats very angry, but also made the French embassy next door can't help but take a breath of cool air.
(From left to right: flags of France, Russia, Netherlands)
And in the end, it turns out that France's fears are not wrong. In 2017, Turkish diplomats wanted to visit the Netherlands, but the Netherlands was still upset about Turkey's smashing of the Dutch embassy, so it refused the visit of Turkish diplomats. So, enraged, the Turkish people spread their anger at the French embassy next door, and the French flag was burned in the street – turkey offended nearly three countries because of Turkey's protests against Russia. For a period of time, Turkey was very reluctant to open Chinese restaurants opened by local Chinese, so it rushed into Korean restaurants in South Korea and burned the Korean flag as a Chinese flag in the street, and South Korea was once very dissatisfied with this.
But south Korea is even more indignant: In recent days, Turkish television broadcast a news story about the suspect's couple. However, because the TV station's program team did not undergo strict TV program review, Moon Jae-in's photo and the suspect's photo were placed on the TV station together, so the current President of South Korea, Moon Jae-in, appeared on the screen as a "Turkish criminal", and in just 1 minute, Moon Jae-in appeared on the screen as a "criminal" 8 times. In Turkey, there are still many Koreans living there. So soon after the "Oolong Incident", South Korea issued a solemn protest to Turkey. However, at present, Turkey has not made a statement on this oolong incident.
Although Turkey has a lot of strange operations in history, from most of the historical time, Turkey is still a country that should not be underestimated. In the 13th century, Turkey rose from the Anatolian plateau, developed from a nomadic group to a powerful state, and in 1453 destroyed the thousand-year-old Byzantine Empire in the West, becoming a powerful country spanning the continents of Asia, Africa and Europe. In the modern period, although Turkey gradually declined under the invasion of Western powers, under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal, Turkey finally gradually got rid of the shadow of colonialism in the 1920s and grew into a secular republic, leaving a strong mark in history.
Even today, Turkey remains the strongest NATO military force in the Middle East, and occupies the Strait of Turkey, the crossroads of trade on the Asian continent, and its excellent geographical location has contributed to Turkey's economic prosperity. After the 1980s, Turkey began to implement the same policy of opening up as China, and entered a period of rapid economic growth in the 21st century, from 2003 to 2015, Turkey's GDP economic growth rose from 304.9 billion US dollars to 720 billion US dollars, and the total GDP value nearly tripled. At present, the world economic community generally believes that Turkey is an emerging market and newly industrialized country in the Near East today, and has considerable potential for future development.
Turkey and China established diplomatic relations in 1971, and after the establishment of diplomatic relations, the economic exchanges between the two countries have become increasingly close. In 2013, the total trade between China and Turkey reached the mark of nearly 20 billion, and in the same year, Turkey also organized the Year of Chinese Culture in its own country. After the Belt and Road Initiative was proposed, Turkey became an indispensable key node in the Belt and Road Initiative. In the future, Turkey's participation will become a key factor affecting the prosperity of the Belt and Road.
Therefore, although Turkey may have played a gratifying role in the history of the world in recent years, we should also respect and pay attention to such a country with development potential and a possible trading partner, and jointly create a friendly tomorrow between the two countries.