Reddit reviews The Shadow of Sparta

>Yes, that's true, some nationalist Kurds take it to that point, especially on the day of Nevruz (which is a Zoroastarian holiday) they prepare big fire and jump over it, they want to preserve the tradition. The Turkish government is based on Turkish nationalism and this is seen as a "separative movement" hence the celebrations are mostly escalating to clashes between the police and the Kurd in the region. However, as far as I know, non-Muslim Kurds have their own religion killed Yezidi, which resembles Zoroastarianism, but like a Kurdish version or I don't know. Maybe you know better than I do.

That's kind of sad actually, Nowruz is dearly celebrated in Iran and I'm happy that Kurds in Turkey remember it as well. But the fact that it causes problems is sad. I will be honest with you here, reading some of the comments Kurds and Turks make against each other online, I'm not sure there is scenario in the future where they can peacefully coexist within the same borders. The situation was never this bad in Iran. I was once in r/Turkey, and there was a video posted of a kid being beaten up because he held a Turkish flag, a kurd had commented something in lines of "good, he's a traitor". This level of hatred and animosity is fucked up. I mean really fucked up, I don't even hate ISIS that much.

Oh and nope, I've got no clue about Yazidis.


>All in all I believe 300 made us know about the big Persian empire which ruled Middle-East, Anatolia, Iran, Egypt. We came to know that it even went to Europe. So these lands saw such a vast empire, this we got to know.

Well then that's cool, there is a saying in Persian عدو شود سبب خیر اگر خدا خواهد, which means "an enemy might end up doing you a favor if God wills it so. Maybe we've been depicted so negatively by Hollywood that we've become a bit paranoid.

I don't think they actually had an agenda, I think they were more trying to create an all powerful enemy which the hero stands up to. Ancient Greece was a great civilization, not Sparta though, Sparta was shit-tier! Read this book if you want to know why: http://www.amazon.com/The-Shadow-Sparta-Stephen-Hodkinson/dp/0415104130


>It's not about Saudi Arabia, it is about "who will have the control over the resources?" thing. Turkey sides with the US, which sides with Arabs. Hence, the cooperation is as the US-Qatar-Turkey versus Russia-Iran-Iraq-Syria. I am sure you heard of the pipeline which is going to be built after the Syrian war, that is the big picture. Erdoğan himself doesn't give a fuck about Saudis, but he does whatever it takes to reach the resources. If it means to ally the Saudis.

I don't thing it's actually about oil either, I think Erdogan wants to help create a kurdish puppet state in Iraq to cut off the supply and support to Turkey's kurds. It's actually a good plan, but I don't it's going to work, you have no friends in Iraq, America or Nato won't help you carve up a part of another country, Russia will help us prevent it, your men have no reason to die in a barren desert over oil which is becoming cheaper than water, we have every reason to fight such a war.

You see,Iraqis are brave Arabs, they're not a bunch of useless cunts like the Khalijis or the Saudis, if we leave them alone, if we let them out of sphere of influence, they come up with a new Saddam or a new Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. So we will keep them in a semi-protectorate state of existence for as long as we can.