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TURKISH
HISTORY & LANGUAGE : ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE
Histories relating to Turkish-speaking peoples are too superficial, scanty, controversial, and often downright prejudiced... Today, two systems of thought exist amongst the enlightened Turks of Anatolia. First group claims an ‘Asian root’ for all Turks; and they seem to be quite right within the historical knowledge found at present in the history books and encyclopedias. Opposing this view, a second smaller group is in search to contain the Anatolian Turks within a ‘Mediterranean civilization’ to which they must belong because of racial and cultural characteristics of Anatolia, their home for the last thousand years... The question of "what is the real truth?" can now be answered by those who carefully follow the historical development of Turkish languages studied in this work. Indeed, I have proven that the culture of 6300 B.C. Anatolia as discovered at Çatal Hüyük by archaeologist James Mellaart is Turkish, and since this almost 8300 years old culture was not created in a day, we can easily talk of a ‘Ten Thousand Years of the Turks’ from the point of Turkish cultural history. The true history, that is, literary history goes back to 5000 years with the discovery of writing by the Sumerians who, as we will see spoke definitely a Turkish dialect. While Turkish-speaking peoples of an advanced culture lived in Asia Minor nearly ten thousand years ago, we do not have any similar archaeological evidence in greater Asia at corresponding time. Thus we can claim that Anatolia was the first home of the Turks. The Mediterranean culture was not created solely by the Greeks and Romans but more so by these ancient Turkish-speaking peoples. And, the Turks of today can truly consider themselves pure and native Anatolians without reservation... On the other side, countless brethren nations, settled at unknown times in such regions as the Balkans, Russia, Trans-Caucasus, Central Asia, Mongolia: the Bejens (Pecheneks), Gagaghuz (Gagaguz), Azerbayjanians, Crimeans, Turcomans (Türkmens), Uighurs, Kirghiz, Uzbeks, Kazaks, Yakuts, have been rooted well in their own geographies... |
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3- TÜRKLERİN KÖKENİ Buraya kadar aktarılan bütün veri
ve tespitler göstermektedir ki Doğu Anadolu "yerli unsur" olarak diğer
bölgelerden çok daha Türk’tür.
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3- ETHNICITY OF THE TURKS All the data and evidence that has been elucidated up to this point shows that Eastern Anatolia is -- as far as the native elements go -- far more "Turk" or Turkish than the other regions . |
| Kürtlerin kökenini ve özellikle
"bugünkü tabakasını" araştıranların 2600-3000-4000 yıl önce tarih sahnesinden
çekilmiş kavimleri (Kürtlerin) "karışım" unsurları olarak zikrederken,
bu bölgedeki "köklü" varlıklarını yüzlerce yıl ve bugüne kadar da sürdürmüş
Türk unsuru dışlamalarını anlamak mümkün değildir...
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What is absolutely incompre- hensible is the way those who are researching the roots of Kurds, and particularly those who are researching the genesis of the "current stratum" of Kurds mention tribes that have disappeared from the stage of history 2600-3000-4000 years ago as mixture elements (of Kurds) and disregard the Turkish element that has continued its presence in the region for thousands of years and is still here today. |
| Anadolu'daki Türk varlığının derinliğinin M.Ö.2000 yılına uzandığını düşündüren fevkalade önemli veriler mevcuttur. (Ayrıca) Türkler Oğuz'lardan 700 yıl önce Hun, Ağaçeri, Sabir olarak Anadolu'ya girmişlerdir... | Very significant data indicates
that the Anatolian presence of Turks easily go back 2000 B.C. (Also) 700
years before the Oguz, another wave of Turks arrived in Anatolia as the
Hun, Agaceri, Sabir...
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| (Diğer taraftan) 12. yüzyıla gelinceye kadar Türkiye, İran, Irak, Suriye de dahil olmak üzere tarihte Kürdistan olarak anılmış bir bölge mevcut değildir. | (On the other hand) Until the 12th century, there is no historical region called "Kurdistan" anywhere including the terrirtories of Turkiye, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. |
| Kürt kelimesinin kullanıldığı ilk
kaynak ise Göktürk alanındaki Yenisey Elegeş anıt taşıdır. Bu yazıt
Türkçe olarak Alp Urungu tarafından diktirilmiştir. (732 öncesi)...
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The first source where the word "kürt" is used is on the Yenisey Elegesh memorial stone in the Kokturk region. This memorial stone was erected by Alp Urungu and is inscribed in Turkish. (732 AD) |
| Kürtlerin isim babası olarak 10.y.y.
da yaşamış olan Mesudi bilinir, Kürdistan kelimesini ilk kullanan ise (sadece
Cibal civarı için) Selçuklu Sultanı Sancar' dır...
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Mesudi who lived in the 10th century is generally regarded as the first person to name "Kurds", and the Selchuk Sultan Sancar is the first person to use the word "Kurdistan" (exclusively for the Ciabl area)... |
| Ve bugün, Türklerin ya da Sakaların
egemen olmadığı hiç bir coğrafyada Kürdün mevcut olmadığı bilinmektedir.
Bir başka deyişle Kürtler, Türk ve İskit coğrafyasının topluluklarıdır.
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And today, it is well known that there are no "Kurds" in any geography where the Turks or the Saka (Scythians) have not dominated at some time. In other words, Kurds are one of the communities of Turkish or Iskit (Scythian) geography. |
| Bu tespitler doğrudan Kürtlerin
Türk olduğu savını geçerli kılmaz. Ancak Macarlar, Finler de Türk
kökenleri kimse tarafından inkar edilemeyen "farklı etnik guruplardır"
ve bugün "farklı dillere" sahiptirler. Kürtler de aynen Macarlar,
Finler gibi ayrı bir etnik unsur olabilirler, olmayabilirler de. Bunu tespit
edecek olan bilimdir. Ancak Kürtler Türk olmasın da ne olursa olsun
gibi bilim dışı ve Batı çıkarlarını empoze bir şartlanmanın hiç bir yararı
yoktur.
(Ali Tayyar Onder) |
These determinations do not directly
indicate that Kurds are Turks; however, Hungarian and Finnish populations
are "different ethnic groups" with different "languages" whose Turkic roots
are undeniable. Kurds, just like the Finns or Hungarians may or may not
be a different ethnic entity. Scientific studies will yet determine the
facts. On the other hand, unscientific and prejudiced efforts that serve
Western interests by insisting that "Kurds can be anything as long as they
are not of Turkic roots" are pointless.
(Ali Tayyar Onder) |