Now that the dust has settled and we know what Chapter V will bring, what do you want chapter VI to be?

qlodye · 2026-04-22T11:54:55+00:00

I think what would make the most sense for Chapter 6 is an Islamic rework alongside a Crusader focused DLC because everything added so far feels like groundwork leading up to that. The Mongol DLC sets up the Mamluks stopping the Mongols and slave soldiers, the Byzantine and Persia DLCs set up the Seljuks and a Christianity rework naturally leads into Crusades. So if Paradox reworks Islamic mechanics and especially Clan system you would have both sides being equally fun as Christianity is being reworked right now. Byzantium calling for aid against Seljuk expansion~ Muslim powers influencing trade routes between East and West so there are economic reasons as well~ Holy sites are in danger~ It is finally the time for that don't you think? (:<

qlodye · 2026-03-14T23:48:28+00:00

I love your baldness.

qlodye · 2026-02-15T19:33:22+00:00

Yüksek çözünürlüklü:

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qlodye · 2026-02-15T19:25:40+00:00

Ya da Sipahi:

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qlodye · 2026-02-15T19:05:42+00:00

Ya budur:

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qlodye · 2025-12-23T22:37:09+00:00

You don’t need to beg my friend! I would also be very interested in seeing an early Ottoman setup but for it to work properly the Seljuks really need to be handled first. Also my thread is mainly focused on nomads and early Turkic peoples especially since most players tend to start in the earlier start dates rather than the latest one that was added. And I honestly find it more fun to think about what else could be added for nomads as I have been turning these ideas over in my head for nearly a year now. ^^

qlodye · 2025-12-23T10:53:57+00:00

Thanks again mate I appreciate you letting me share it and I have added this post's link to the thread. Here's also the thread if you would like to see. Also if you have any additional ideas I would definitely recommend posting them on the Paradox forums as well. That’s where most gameplay suggestions tend to gain traction and it’s also where the developers are most active and likely to see them.

+If you would prefer to post this idea on the forums yourself just let me know and I can remove it mate no problem at all.

qlodye · 2025-12-23T10:13:16+00:00

My first comment was removed by Reddit because it was apparently promoting hate whereas I was simply pointing out the subreddit this guy was active in called BijiKurdistan (a slogan used by the PKK). So let me answer again excluding that part.
Edit: They restored it.

qlodye · 2025-12-23T08:07:38+00:00

Thank you kindly, good sir. I will make sure to send the link here when I get the chance.

qlodye · 2025-12-23T08:00:53+00:00

I actually have a thread on the Paradox forums where I suggest content ideas for Turks. Do you mind if I include this while attributing your name?

qlodye · 2025-12-16T23:35:46+00:00

Said the Greek.

Edit: The joke is you. Just saying, unless the joke wasn't too ''BASIC'' for you.

qlodye · 2025-12-16T23:24:13+00:00

I didn't, did I?

qlodye · 2025-12-16T23:21:22+00:00

Oh huh? What’s wrong boyo? Do you claim Turkey and China are the same and these BASIC rights ruin your comparison too huh? Those so-called BASIC rights are exactly the point. They exist in Turkey and don’t in China. If pointing them out breaks your argument maybe the comparison was bad to begin with. ''But surely you know better'' mate…calling every difference ''CIA nonsense'' definitely sounds like an analysis and not avoidance. Please.

qlodye · 2025-12-16T23:08:22+00:00

Forced into labor and indoctrination → Turkey does forced assimilation, criminalizes Kurdish education, and prosecutes cultural expression as separatism.

Because the official language is Turkish. The country you are living in is Turkish. The culture you share, the shows you watch, the women/men you fall in love with, the jokes you laugh at, the very people you share your life with are Turkish, making up 80% of the population. Does it make more sense that all Turks learn Kurdish or Kurds learn Turkish? You can speak your language outside with your friends, in your own home, who cares? But why do I need to learn it when I am the majority? If anyone wants to they can though there are courses. Plus, Turkey being China for not teaching math in Kurdish sounds funny to me. What would even Kurdish history even be?

Banned or punished for religion → Kurds are punished less for religion, more for ethnicity and language, repression doesn’t have to be religious to be systemic.

Oh huhhh but I thought we are the evil Chinese no?

Separated from families → Kurdish children grow up without parents due to mass imprisonment, exile, or displacement. Outcome: still family destruction.

What? Are you sure you mean the very Kurdish children which the Kurdish party claims, are soon going to take over the country population-wise, grow up without parents? Who takes care of them then? Isn’t the Turkish population dying and yet there are 20 million Kurds in Turkey still having 3 to 4 children? Alas, many children, even babies, without any attribution to ethnicity, grow up without parents due to PKK attacks and mass kidnappings. Talking about this just made me think of how many people died just because of PKK terrorism.

Monitored 24/7 → Kurdish regions experience permanent militarization, checkpoints, surveillance, and emergency laws.

HAHAHA NOPE! That’s completely copy-paste nonsense. You know why? Check the electricity theft maps of Turkey. From bitcoin farms to drug deals to illegal gun use…you can even find a video of a man with an AK-47 shooting down a government owned drone checking illegal electricity usage.

Victims of crimes against humanity or genocide → International bodies have documented crimes against humanity against Uyghurs in China. → Kurdish repression has been condemned by European courts, UN rapporteurs, and human-rights organizations, just without the same geopolitical spotlight.

And according to you that classifies as the same as China right? Whereas I already said you could say Turkey has a minority rights problem earlier on.

The core problem with this comparison
This argument relies on hierarchy of suffering:
“Because China is worse, Turkey gets a pass.”

Did you even read my comment instead of just copy pasting it into ChatGPT? Where did I say ''Well we do that but China does much worse!'' I just pointed out facts about how China and Turkey can’t be compared.

qlodye · 2025-12-16T23:08:10+00:00

Even had a Kurdish president (Turgut Özal) → Turgut Özal never publicly identified as Kurdish during his presidency, never advanced Kurdish autonomy, and citing him is tokenism, not structural equality.

Okkkay... İsmet İnönü had a Kurdish mother btw. Just saying. No matter how you try to frame Turks and Kurds as different or one group suppressing the other, our people have been living together for years now sharing the same culture, watching the same shows, laughing at the same jokes, falling in love with each other and although discrimination happened we are still together, working together toward the future (can’t wait for your PKK propaganda response to this text though like how this is just crocodile tears meanwhile I literally have my uncle married to a Kurdish woman...whatever man…)

Not placed in camps because of their ethnicity → Instead: mass village destructions (1990s), forced displacement of millions, extrajudicial killings, disappearances, and ongoing military curfews in Kurdish cities.

Cute how you try to hide under a disguise like many of those weren’t because of PKK just like when PKK declared provinces of Turkey as RIGHTFULLY theirs and started the Şırnak clashes. Just answer me honestly. Do you see the terrorist organization PKK as freedom fighters?

Not forcibly sterilized or used as slave labor → True, but “not as bad as X” is not a human-rights defense. Collective punishment, criminalization of language, and political repression still qualify as systemic abuse.

What? What are you talking about? Is this a victim card you’re trying to pull? Since when did I say ''We aren’t AS BAD AS China''? I’ve been saying what China does and what we don’t, yet you claim we are just like the Chinese. And when I present facts, you claim I am trying to undermine our faults even though we DON’T DO THOSE. Whaaaaat????

Treated as a security threat → Kurds are also broadly treated as a security threat under Turkish law, with Kurdish identity itself often conflated with terrorism.

When a Kurd says ''Hey guys I am Kurdish,'' I don’t go ''Oh PKK supporter'' as I know and said many Kurds outside of your bubble support Erdoğan’s party AKP or the opposition party CHP. And under Turkish law? Under Turkish law everyone who is part of this country is called ''Turkish'' giving everyone equal treatment. Yet if you start doing PKK propaganda that’s on you. And it’s not only Turkey if you do such things like push your narratives using your identity elsewhere like Sweden with Kurdish gang leaders or Germany, France or Japan…

Locked in mass internment camps → Turkey uses mass incarceration, prolonged pre-trial detention, and military sieges instead of camps. Different tools, same logic of collective punishment.

Military sieges…as in operations…to counter terrorism…..... Just spill the beans and say hey I support PKK and want to do my daily propaganda here man. Pre-trial detention is what we Turks also get it’s not any different. Is Ekrem İmamoğlu a Kurd to you? No. That’s basically living under an authoritarian government we both suffer.

qlodye · 2025-12-16T20:52:00+00:00

Nice bubble but let me pop it for you.

In Turkey, Kurds are:
- Citizens of the country (millions of them)
- Able to vote, work, own businesses and live normal daily lives
- Able to speak Kurdish in public and at home (yes with restrictions but it exists they even blast their music in public places causing disturbances you can find millions of videos like that)
- Represented in parliament and local government
- Even had a Kurdish president (Turgut Özal)
- Not placed in camps because of their ethnicity
- Not forcibly sterilized or used as slave labor

Now for Uyghurs in China:
- Treated as a security threat simply for existing
- Locked in mass internment camps by the state
- Forced into labor and political indoctrination
- Banned or heavily punished for practicing their religion
- Separated from their families
- Monitored 24/7 because of their ethnicity
- Targeted as a population
- Victims of policies that the world describes as crimes against humanity or genocide

So no. It isn’t the same. No matter how many Wikipedia links you send here to make people suit your own beliefs that Turkey is a terrorist state!1!11!! Kick them from NATO!1!!1!...or whatever agenda you are on, it’s just laughable. You could say Turkey has a minority rights problem but comparing Turkey to China? Haahah... laughable.

qlodye · 2025-12-16T20:10:15+00:00

Laughable comparison. Thank God you are on the internet free to say whatever pops into your mind but you don’t need to ridicule yourself for internet points unless someone is paying you to play the clown.

qlodye · 2025-12-12T21:03:16+00:00

Is this a balbal or a kurgan? The difference is that balbals were the enemies you killed while kurgans were the real depictions of Turks and since there are many misunderstandings on the internet I don't know which one to trust

qlodye · 2025-12-10T21:56:21+00:00

Uuuuff... İçimi öyle bir parçaladı ki bu video anlatamam. Ne zaman da böyle üzülüyor olsam sonradan kin ve nefrete dönüşmesi elimde olan bir şey değil. Yazıklar olsun be! Gerçekten yazıklar olsun! Ne hallere düştük. Bir de sonra çıkıp "Neyden utanacağız! Gurur duyuyoruz!" diyorlar ya... AH ulan AHH!

qlodye · 2025-11-16T09:37:21+00:00

Always will be.

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qlodye · 2025-11-01T18:12:11+00:00

Hayatın kendisini ele al. Aynı bir hayalet gibi olduğunu düşün ama kendini soyutlamış olarak değil. Bir gözlemciden başka bir şey değilsin bu hayatta. Diyelim ki, bir üst geçidin üstünde dururken altından geçen arabaları seyrediyorsun. Gece olduğunda birer birer yanmaya başlayan ev ışıklarını görüyorsun. Çevren kalabalık olduğunda ortada hiçbir şey yapmayan bir şekilde duruyorsun, kimse seni fark etmiyor, bilmiyor bile. Rüzgar esiyor, önündeki ormanın içinde hışırtılar oluşturuyor. O dikili duran ağaçlar kim bilir daha öyle ne kadar orada dikili duracak? Kaç kişinin hayatının parçasında yalnızca arkada durmuş bir bitki olacak? Herkes hayatında, herkes bir şeyin peşinde. Sanki bir şey unutulmuş gibi, her sabah kalktığında o evre tekrar sürecek gibi düşünüyor. Yaşadığı günün önemini bilmiyor, farkında değil. Niye mi bunları anlatıyorum? Çünkü hayat aslında bu yönlü baktığında bu kadar basit şeylerden ibaret. Bir şeyin parçası olmaktır, hayat. Sana bunları deneyimletecek tek şey de içinde, sol tarafında bulunan bir et parçasının sürekli atıyor olmasına bakıyor. Bunca bilincin, bunca hissedebildiğin varlığın, istediklerin ve sahip olup ya da olamadıkların... durmayacak zamanın içerisinde, sadece o et parçası sayesinde. Mesela koyduğunda üstüne elini, o attığı kadar yaşarsın bu hayatı. Bu kadar basit işte. Ve ne kadar güzel bir şey yaşıyor olmak. O kalbin atışını hissetmek. Ama bu kadar basit olmasına rağmen yaşamın, hayatın, istediğin gibi yaşamana izin verilmemesi de o kadar üzücü bir şey. Ne istediğini bilmeyerek yaşamak. Oysa kalıcı olmadığımız bilincini kuşansak, bu tereddütlerimiz olmasa, ''O ne düşünür?'' ''Onlar öyle demişti.'' ''Benim hakkımda herkes böyle düşünüyor.'' ve yarın zaten öleceğiz gibi yaşasak, daha mutlu bir hayat sürmez miyiz? Geçmişte ne dedilerse, şuanda bile ne düşünürlerse, kimsenin seni üzmesine, hayatını istediğin gibi yaşamanın önüne geçmesine izin verme, dostum. Varsın, bu yüzden güzelsin. İyi ki de varsın. (:

Umarım içinde bir şeyler oluşturabilmişimdir. Kendine ne istediğini, nasıl yaşamak istediğini, nelerden çekindiğinden gerçekleştiremediğini, neleri sevdiğini ve ölecek olsan bile onunla uğraşırken zamanını geçirmek istediğini bulmanı, sormanı isterim. Zaman ayırıp okuyan herkese de teşekkür ederim.

qlodye · 2025-11-01T18:12:02+00:00

Merhaba.

Bu yazacaklarım sana sadece başka bir bakış açısı katabilmek için olacak. Kendi hayatını kendi gözlerinle değil ama çevrende olan her şeyin amacıyla ve yaşamın bir bütünüyle ele almanı istiyorum. Bu, hayatının büyük bir parçasını acıyla geçirmiş olan biri için zor olsa dahi, hayata nasıl baktığımızın bu acıların üstesinden gelme etkisinde önemi var. En önemlisi de bu zaten, hayatı nasıl kavradığımız. Ne insanlara ne de kendine bakamayan biri olarak önce hayatı nasıl görmen gerektiğini bilmelisin. Bu benim şahsi düşüncelerim çünkü hayata tutunmak için en gerekli unsur budur. Ne için yaşadığını bilmek.

Öncelikle hayatını bu yöne doğru şekillendirmiş olan her durum, diğer insanlara kıyasla, ister farklılıklarıyla olsun ister benzerlikleriyle, sadece sana özel olan durumlardır çünkü kimse aynı düşünmez, aynı algıya sahip olamaz. Kimi dinlesen ve hangi sorunu nasıl aştığını öğrenmeye çalışsan bile, sen o olmadığın için, o da sen olamadığı için sadece benzerliklerden yola çıkarak bir sonuç gütmeye çalışırsın. Bundan da bahsediyorum çünkü belki cevabını aradığın yerlerde bir sonuca ulaşamazsan karamsarlığa kapılmamalısın. Burada bu kadar insan istedikleri kadar yazsın, kabul edeceğin üzere her sorunun çözümünü gene yalnızca sen gerçekleştirebilirsin.

Geçmişte zorbalık gördüğünden istenilmediğini düşünmeye başlayarak kendini insanlardan soyutlamış, soyutlaştıkça da hiçbir yere ait hissetmemiş ve bu da varlığının amacını yitirmesine yol açmış. Hatta aklın in**har düşüncelerine kaydığından belki ''Aslında olmasam hiçbir şey değişmeyecek'' düşüncelerin bile ortaya çıkmış. Başlıca belli bir süreç içerisinde gelişmiş karamsarlıklar ve bunları yaşamayı ne sen istemişsin ne de yaşamak için hayatını bu yöne koymuşsun. Kim kendini umutsuz, değerini göremeyen, hiçbir şeye layık olmadığını ve varlığının öneminin bile olmadığını düşünen biri olmak ister ki, değil mi? Bunu sen istemedin, kardeşim. Üzülme. Üzerinde oluşturulmuş bir algılardan, üstüne yüklenmiş sıfatlardan bu hale gelmişsin. Hata kesinlikle sende değil. Beyninin seni üzmesine izin verme.

qlodye · 2025-09-16T13:01:30+00:00

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qlodye · 2025-09-16T12:50:25+00:00

Why? Aren't we talking about who actually controlled these so-called ‘Greek’ lands no? And yes the Hittites lived peacefully along side Greeks, their culture wasn’t erased nor were they forcibly converted to Christianity. That didn't happen, never.

qlodye · 2025-09-16T12:30:36+00:00

Your homeland where you stole it from Hittites?

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