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00:00In 2015, there was a traffic jam on the Beijing Highway, which completely choked the 50-lane highway.
00:09In 1980, the traffic jam on the French Autoroute Highway was so severe that cars were stuck for 175 kilometers.
00:17It took several days to clear this traffic jam from Paris to Lyon.
00:23Similarly, there have been traffic jams in many parts of the world, including Brazil, Germany and America.
00:29Where cars have been found to be stuck for 12 days.
00:34But the traffic jam that I will talk about today, you will also be surprised to know.
00:40This traffic jam did not last for a few days, weeks or months, but surprisingly lasted for 8 years.
00:48Welcome back to the videos of ZAMM TV.
00:51Viewers, the longest and most difficult traffic jam in the world took place in the Suez Canal,
00:58where ships and their thousands of crew members were badly stuck for the next 8 years.
01:04It can take as many days as possible to clear the traffic jam on highways and expressways.
01:11But it was not easy to clear the traffic jam in the Suez Canal.
01:16Let's know the interesting story of this unique and longest-running traffic jam in history.
01:24We all know that the Suez Canal is called the jewel of the shipping and trading industry.
01:31Before 1869, when the shipping industry did not have the gift of the Suez Canal,
01:36ships between Europe and Asia had to travel all the way from the African continent to Europe.
01:43The Suez Canal changed this month-long journey of the shipping industry in days
01:47and now ships from Europe can reach the Asian continent directly from the Mediterranean Sea.
01:56Using this route, each ship can travel a distance of about 10,000 km.
02:02In addition to this, many pirate gangs used to loot the ships passing through the Suez Canal in the African waters.
02:09Somalian pirates and West African pirates are very famous among them.
02:14These pirates forcibly stopped the ships, looted billions of dollars,
02:19and made the crew hostages to fulfill their demands.
02:24The Suez Canal also worked to save these ships from these pirates along with a long distance.
02:30This incident is from 5th June, 1967,
02:34when 15 cargo ships enter from the Mediterranean side of the Suez Canal in the early morning.
02:40Normally, ships take 12 hours to cross this canal,
02:44but today they had no idea that this hour-long journey was going to be years long.
02:52This was the period when there were already some tensions between Egypt and Israel
02:58and both neighbors were preparing for war against each other.
03:03If you look at the map, this line is the border between Israel and Egypt.
03:07The Suez Canal is very far from this border, about 200 km away.
03:13This whole part is also called the Sinai Peninsula.
03:17Because they were very far from the border,
03:19neither Egypt nor those 15 ships were concerned about the increasing tension with Israel.
03:26But on this day, something happened that the lava that was boiling with tension burst
03:30and suddenly the war began.
03:33The Israeli forces attacked Egypt by surprise.
03:37Within an hour, many rockets and planes fell around the Suez Canal.
03:43The situation got so bad that the Egyptian forces immediately closed the Suez Canal from both sides.
03:50For the next 6 days, there were fierce clashes,
03:53but the Israeli forces succeeded in capturing the entire Sinai Peninsula.
03:58Now Israel and Egypt had a new border and the Suez Canal was the only one
04:03that separated these two countries from each other.
04:07This was a very bad defeat for Egypt.
04:11The Israeli forces did not cross the canal and move further,
04:15so Egypt built boats on both sides of the Suez Canal.
04:19They destroyed their own bridges and installed mines all over the canal.
04:25There was only one reason to do this,
04:27that no one could use this canal with Israel.
04:32Meanwhile, 15 cargo ships were stuck in the Great Bitter Lake.
04:37In their west was the Egyptian army and in their east were the Israeli forces.
04:42They could neither return to the Mediterranean nor to the Red Sea.
04:47In short, these ships had no option but to stand at this location and wait.
04:55In addition to these, there were hundreds of other ships
04:58that were stopped in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
05:01Everyone was hoping that the matter would be resolved,
05:05but the matter was getting worse.
05:08Days passed, weeks and then months,
05:11but the tension between Egypt and Israel could not end.
05:15All this was harming the whole world.
05:18Shipments were delayed and freight charges were increased many times.
05:23The ships that used to use Suez to go from Europe to the Middle East and Asia,
05:28now had to return from the African continent.
05:33Because of this war, where the whole world was facing new challenges,
05:3915 ships were stuck in the traffic jam and the crew in them were trapped in their own trouble.
05:45Among them were British, German, Swedish, Polish, French, Bulgarian, Czechoslovakian and American ships.
05:53After several months, when it became clear to them that this problem was not going to end so soon,
05:59the shipping companies called back most of the crew,
06:03and only 10 people were left on each ship for maintenance.
06:08Every second or third month, these 10 people's crews were also changed and new crews were sent.
06:14Just in the hope that maybe one day they would be able to get their stuck ships out of here.
06:22For so long, the friendship between the 15 ship crews grew.
06:27They also arranged activities to get themselves out of this depression.
06:33A small church was opened on the German ship, where all the Christians would gather every Sunday.
06:39A movie night was arranged on the Bulgarian ship every day.
06:43Pool parties were held on the Swedish ship and football was played on the British ship.
06:48They even had Olympic games played here in the middle of the Bitter Lake,
06:53which was named the Bitter Lake Olympics 1968.
06:58A year was passing by one by one, but these ships were standing in the same place.
07:04Finally, there came a time when a layer of soil had set on them.
07:09Because they were neutral ships and they had nothing to do with this fight.
07:14Therefore, neither Israel nor Egypt had any objection to sending them to eat and drink.
07:22Six years later, in 1973, this war was intensified once again.
07:28But this time the attack started from Egypt.
07:32Egypt entered the Sinai Peninsula with all its might and pushed the Israeli forces deep inside.
07:39A lot of attacks were made from both sides, but this time,
07:43an Israeli rocket came on a stuck American ship even though it didn't want to, and it was destroyed.
07:51This weekly battle caused thousands of casualties on both sides.
07:55Finally, on October 24, 1973, there was a ceasefire agreement between the two.
08:01And both countries started calling back their own troops.
08:06The war that lasted for six years was now over, but for the stuck ships in the traffic jam,
08:12as if the war was still going on.
08:15In these six years, boats, ships, planes, and rockets had scattered inside the Suez Canal.
08:22In addition, Egypt had also installed mines here,
08:26so it was still not possible for ships to leave here.
08:30It took Egypt two years to clean the Suez Canal properly.
08:35June 5, 1975 was the day the Suez Canal was opened after eight years.
08:43After being together for a long time, the time had finally come for the 14 ships to leave the Suez Canal.
08:50When they returned to their countries, they were welcomed with great enthusiasm.
08:56After being closed for eight years, traffic in the Suez Canal began to rise again.
09:01Such a big traffic jam had never happened before in history, nor has it happened since then.
09:08On the other hand, relations between Egypt and Israel were getting better.
09:12Israel returned the entire Sinai Peninsula to Egypt,
09:16and Egypt was the first Arab country to recognize Israel.
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