Our compass is Atatürk, our course is a fully independent Turkey

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Our YouTube channel, "Blue Homeland and Beyond with Cem Gürdeniz," which we launched on the 102nd anniversary of our Republic, celebrates its first anniversary in the 103rd year of our Republic.

• 8 million 456 thousand views!

• 2 million 143 thousand hours of watch time!

• 73 thousand 613 net new subscribers!

• Over 88 million impressions!

In one year, with over 100 programs, we covered the Republican Navy, our maritime history, naval culture, maritime geopolitics, and the great power struggle reshaping the world.

We commemorated the greats of our maritime history and kept their memories alive.

We brought the past together with the present, and the present with the future. In our geopolitical tours, we defended facts against perceptions and truths against propaganda.

Most importantly, in this historical turning point where old molds are being broken and a new multipolar world order is being born, we explained that Turkey's inevitable future is to become a maritime nation and to embrace Kemalism, and that we have no choice but to return to both.

We drew attention to the traps of polarizing Turkey through ethnic and religious themes.

We tirelessly explained that our nation-state, our unitary structure, and secularism—the sine qua non of democracy—are the main pillars of the republic, especially in a conjuncture where our republic is shaken by corruption and polarization, and the law has become politicized.

I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the tens of thousands of patriots and Blue Homeland enthusiasts, especially from the younger generation, who have watched us, criticized us, and contributed with their comments over this past year.

Our compass is Atatürk, our course is a fully independent Turkey, and our horizon is the Blue Homeland and beyond.

Happy 103rd anniversary of our Republic! To many more years and many more Blue Homeland gatherings!

Long live the Republic,

Long live Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

How happy is the one who says I am a Turk.