Why Istanbul Isn't the Capital of Turkey?

Most important cities for over 2000 years and one of the few major cities in two different continents and even then housing over 15 million people and is the largest city in Europe 10th largest in the world and by far the largest in Turkey it was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire from a 3 establishment at 3:38 until it was conquered by the Ottomans in 1453 from henceforth it became the capital of the Ottoman Empire with the Ottoman Empire gone since 1922 however Istanbul no longer serves as the capital of the modern Republic of Turkey is that honor now goes to the city of Ankara!

so why did Turkey decide to move its capital away from a city as big let's go back in time a bit so we can see the full story is strumbled one of the world's most important cities. A bit further back than that in 1453 after years of Ottoman expansion all around the Byzantine / Eastern Roman Empire the ottoman surrounded the remains of the old Empire which was now effectively a city-state consisting of Constantinople and a few other scattered territories since their initial founding in 1299 was the Ottomans have moved Constantinople and a few others scattered territories since their initial founding in 1299 is the Ottomans have moved the capital of a few times already from so it's down to 부르사 

and then over to adrianople now known as I do your name and now look at Snowbowl presumably thinking it would be an awesome City to have his capital and so without going into too many details for which I absolutely make a future video about Constantinople was conquered after years of Siege Decades of previous ottoman attempts and over a thousand years of attempts in general the city was made the new & Final capital of the Ottoman Empire the theme is Hagia Sophia was turned into a mosque Pence the minarets and the city was not actually renamed yes the Ottoman Empire ruled these lands and expanded into surrounding lands for over 500 years afterwards but by the nineteenth-century it would eventually be given the nickname the sick man of Europe has its decent started the weekend and Province after Province started to gradually break away even if only to become part of France and Britain's colonial empires shortly after the turn of the twentieth century Europe set itself in what would be known as world war in which the Ottomans joined what would turn out to be the losing side at the end of the war British troops made their way into Constantinople and the Ottoman Empire was confined to the borders to make a modern turkey and then split it amongst the Victorious powers and after the Treaty of SEPTA the treaty was signed in 1920 between set Victoria's powers and the Ottoman Empire no further consigning automatic control to this part of Northern Anatolia with this park going to Greece to France this part of the UK this part to Armenia this part of Georgia and the area around the