Turkish Civilization: Never Existed!
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:37 amTurkish* Civilization: Never Existed!
I was interesting in history and geography since I was 8 years old. I can clearly remember my history books in the school (I have grown up in the Near East) starting with “Diaoko” (first Median-Iranian king) and his work of unifying ancient Kurdish tribes to defend their land against regular attacks of bloody Assyrian enemy. After him, we were reading about Cyrus the Great, Darius, Alexander and his descendents, Parthians, Sassanids, raise of Muhammad in Arabia, Muslims invasion on Iran, domestic wars between Ali (4th Caliphate) and Muawiya son of Abu Suphian… Nomadic Turkish invasions, Turko-Mongol invasion… Ottoman-Safavid wars, and so on.
Besides the great aspects of the Iranian civilization (Median, Achamenian, Parthian and Sassanid periods) we also informed about where the invaders came from: Assyrians, Muslims, Alexander, Turks and Mongols. Though for all the ancient nations the name “Assyrian” reminded “cruelty” but these bloody cruel people had their own civilizations in Nineveh and centre of current Iraq. Iranians always read about Muslims invasion on Iran and how they killed men, burned libraries, raped women, etc. But indeed before this invasion they had their own civilization in Hijaz mountains. Big cities of “Mekka”, “Medina” (<originally named “Yathrib” which after Islam they called it “Medinat Al Nabi” ~ “City of the Prophet/Muhammad”), “Taif”, etc. No need to talk about Greek civilization and Alexander! As u see all the cruel invaders came from they own cities and civilizations, but Chingis and Turkish invaders were indeed exceptions! Instead of an urban home, or even a rural home, Chingis came from the local tents which Turkmen call them “alaçiq” and Siberian Mongols “ulus” (< very funny that the Modern Turkish term “ulus” in meaning of “nation” comes from this Siberian “ulus”! God knows what might be the connection between “Siberian tents” and “Turkish nation”!! The funnier is that the term “national” in so-called PURIFIED Modern Turkish is composed of Mongolian “ulsu”~”tent” and French “-al”: “ulusal”!! Indeed plus the experiences of Modern Turkish Government of Turkey in cases of military, treating with ethnic and religious minorities, economics and money, etc. we must add linguistic experiences to this worthy list too!!). All the way from time of ancient Sogdians to around 150 years ago (last attacks of Turkmen tribes to the Mazandaran province of Iran which defeated by Zaghmarzi Kurds of Sari) we can find no trace of civilization you could refer to the Turkish people! All of their acts were based on the ex-civilizations. For example in the current Turkistan of China the civilization is exactly based on Ancient Iranian people of “Khotan” and “Sogdia”. Even the names of the cities are mainly Iranian terms “Yarkend” (“City of the Sweetheart”). Also Uygur Turks (current residents of Chinese Turkistan) are in a though relation with Iranian culture. For example the Islamic “selat” ~ “pray” is called “namaz” and instead of Arabic “edhan” they say “bang”. All mosques and other archaic buildings are built in the Northeastern Iranian (Khorasani) styles.
As you know all over the world the term “civilization” is tagged to the meaning of “city” or “village”. Exactly passing the stage of being “nomadic” to “staying in a village or city” is called “civilization”. In Arabic “civilization” is called “medeniyet”/”temeddun” from “meden” ~ “city”. In Kurdish it’s called “şaristanîtî”, from the word “şaristan” ~ “big city”. In Persian the original Iranian word is lost and they use Arabic “temeddon” but if they ever wanted to purify it they would replace Arabic “temeddon” with Persian “şahrvari”, “şahrgerayi”, etc. from Persian “şahr” ~ “city”. As you see the “base of the civilization” is “city” and “village”. Even if you wanted to purify your language about the term “civilization” so there must be any original word for “city” or “village” in your language. So lets take a look at the Turkish Language purified with genius super-man linguistic experts of “Turk Dil Kurumu” (Governmental Academy of Turkish Language), in order to realize what’s their suggestion about a pure Turkish word for “civilization” after around 70 years of non-stop linguistic research on Turkish language: “uygarlık”. So let’s see from where it comes: “uygar” + “-lık”. “-Lık” is a Turkish suffix and “uygar” is their willed pronunciation of the word “Uygur” ~ “Uygur Turks”!!! They selected “Uygur” word because of two major reasons:
1. There is no pure Turkish word for “city” and “village” in all kinds and variations of Turkish language all over the world!!
2. Uygars were the first Turkic nation to possess civilization (worthy of mention that while Golden Iranian civilizations go as far as 3000 years ago but the oldest Turkic civilization is younger than “1300” years! Also this Turkic civilization was exactly based on ex-Iranian civilizations of the respective area, as I just talked about Iranian effects on Uygur Turks, for example the term “Karakhoja” kingdom of Uygur golden civilization is exactly a Turco-Persian term from Turkish “kara” ~ “black” and “khoja” ~ “master” from Persian “khwaja” or “khaja”; also about Uygur music: “Russian scholar Pantusov writes that the Uygurs manufactured their own musical instruments; they had 62 different kinds of musical instruments and in every Uygur home there used to be an instrument called a "dutar"” And every Iranian knows that “dutar” exactly is a famous Iranian instrument as its name is an Iranian name: “du” ~ “two” and “tar” ~ “wire”).
Besides this in Ottoman Turkish language and even in other Turkic languages such as “Azerbaijani Turkish” you cannot find any original Turkish word in meaning “city” or “village”. In Ottoman Turkish they currently say “şehîr” ~ “city” which is borrowed from Persian “şehr” < Old Iranian “xşethre”~”city”; and “köy” ~ “village” which is also borrowed from Persian “koy” ~ “little town”. In Azerbaijani Turkish “şeher” ~ “city” of Persian origin and “kend” ~ “village” from Old Iranian “kantha” borrowed via Tati into today Azerbaijani Turkish.
The poverty of Turkish language is a flat fact but this poverty sometimes illustrates other facts about Turkish people. Indeed the fact you cannot find any original Turkish word in meaning of “city” or “village” just illustrates if any original-independent Turkish civilization ever existed or not, or they loaned “civilization” from Iranians just same as the respective loan-words!
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I used the term “Turkish” to refer to “Ottoman” and “Oquz” Nomadic Turkic tribes who invaded Anatolia, Kurdistan, Armenian, Eastern Greek lands and Azerbaijan in the last millinum. The authorities of Republic of Turkey consider their selves as “descendents” of “Nomadic Ottoman Turks”.
I was interesting in history and geography since I was 8 years old. I can clearly remember my history books in the school (I have grown up in the Near East) starting with “Diaoko” (first Median-Iranian king) and his work of unifying ancient Kurdish tribes to defend their land against regular attacks of bloody Assyrian enemy. After him, we were reading about Cyrus the Great, Darius, Alexander and his descendents, Parthians, Sassanids, raise of Muhammad in Arabia, Muslims invasion on Iran, domestic wars between Ali (4th Caliphate) and Muawiya son of Abu Suphian… Nomadic Turkish invasions, Turko-Mongol invasion… Ottoman-Safavid wars, and so on.
Besides the great aspects of the Iranian civilization (Median, Achamenian, Parthian and Sassanid periods) we also informed about where the invaders came from: Assyrians, Muslims, Alexander, Turks and Mongols. Though for all the ancient nations the name “Assyrian” reminded “cruelty” but these bloody cruel people had their own civilizations in Nineveh and centre of current Iraq. Iranians always read about Muslims invasion on Iran and how they killed men, burned libraries, raped women, etc. But indeed before this invasion they had their own civilization in Hijaz mountains. Big cities of “Mekka”, “Medina” (<originally named “Yathrib” which after Islam they called it “Medinat Al Nabi” ~ “City of the Prophet/Muhammad”), “Taif”, etc. No need to talk about Greek civilization and Alexander! As u see all the cruel invaders came from they own cities and civilizations, but Chingis and Turkish invaders were indeed exceptions! Instead of an urban home, or even a rural home, Chingis came from the local tents which Turkmen call them “alaçiq” and Siberian Mongols “ulus” (< very funny that the Modern Turkish term “ulus” in meaning of “nation” comes from this Siberian “ulus”! God knows what might be the connection between “Siberian tents” and “Turkish nation”!! The funnier is that the term “national” in so-called PURIFIED Modern Turkish is composed of Mongolian “ulsu”~”tent” and French “-al”: “ulusal”!! Indeed plus the experiences of Modern Turkish Government of Turkey in cases of military, treating with ethnic and religious minorities, economics and money, etc. we must add linguistic experiences to this worthy list too!!). All the way from time of ancient Sogdians to around 150 years ago (last attacks of Turkmen tribes to the Mazandaran province of Iran which defeated by Zaghmarzi Kurds of Sari) we can find no trace of civilization you could refer to the Turkish people! All of their acts were based on the ex-civilizations. For example in the current Turkistan of China the civilization is exactly based on Ancient Iranian people of “Khotan” and “Sogdia”. Even the names of the cities are mainly Iranian terms “Yarkend” (“City of the Sweetheart”). Also Uygur Turks (current residents of Chinese Turkistan) are in a though relation with Iranian culture. For example the Islamic “selat” ~ “pray” is called “namaz” and instead of Arabic “edhan” they say “bang”. All mosques and other archaic buildings are built in the Northeastern Iranian (Khorasani) styles.
As you know all over the world the term “civilization” is tagged to the meaning of “city” or “village”. Exactly passing the stage of being “nomadic” to “staying in a village or city” is called “civilization”. In Arabic “civilization” is called “medeniyet”/”temeddun” from “meden” ~ “city”. In Kurdish it’s called “şaristanîtî”, from the word “şaristan” ~ “big city”. In Persian the original Iranian word is lost and they use Arabic “temeddon” but if they ever wanted to purify it they would replace Arabic “temeddon” with Persian “şahrvari”, “şahrgerayi”, etc. from Persian “şahr” ~ “city”. As you see the “base of the civilization” is “city” and “village”. Even if you wanted to purify your language about the term “civilization” so there must be any original word for “city” or “village” in your language. So lets take a look at the Turkish Language purified with genius super-man linguistic experts of “Turk Dil Kurumu” (Governmental Academy of Turkish Language), in order to realize what’s their suggestion about a pure Turkish word for “civilization” after around 70 years of non-stop linguistic research on Turkish language: “uygarlık”. So let’s see from where it comes: “uygar” + “-lık”. “-Lık” is a Turkish suffix and “uygar” is their willed pronunciation of the word “Uygur” ~ “Uygur Turks”!!! They selected “Uygur” word because of two major reasons:
1. There is no pure Turkish word for “city” and “village” in all kinds and variations of Turkish language all over the world!!
2. Uygars were the first Turkic nation to possess civilization (worthy of mention that while Golden Iranian civilizations go as far as 3000 years ago but the oldest Turkic civilization is younger than “1300” years! Also this Turkic civilization was exactly based on ex-Iranian civilizations of the respective area, as I just talked about Iranian effects on Uygur Turks, for example the term “Karakhoja” kingdom of Uygur golden civilization is exactly a Turco-Persian term from Turkish “kara” ~ “black” and “khoja” ~ “master” from Persian “khwaja” or “khaja”; also about Uygur music: “Russian scholar Pantusov writes that the Uygurs manufactured their own musical instruments; they had 62 different kinds of musical instruments and in every Uygur home there used to be an instrument called a "dutar"” And every Iranian knows that “dutar” exactly is a famous Iranian instrument as its name is an Iranian name: “du” ~ “two” and “tar” ~ “wire”).
Besides this in Ottoman Turkish language and even in other Turkic languages such as “Azerbaijani Turkish” you cannot find any original Turkish word in meaning “city” or “village”. In Ottoman Turkish they currently say “şehîr” ~ “city” which is borrowed from Persian “şehr” < Old Iranian “xşethre”~”city”; and “köy” ~ “village” which is also borrowed from Persian “koy” ~ “little town”. In Azerbaijani Turkish “şeher” ~ “city” of Persian origin and “kend” ~ “village” from Old Iranian “kantha” borrowed via Tati into today Azerbaijani Turkish.
The poverty of Turkish language is a flat fact but this poverty sometimes illustrates other facts about Turkish people. Indeed the fact you cannot find any original Turkish word in meaning of “city” or “village” just illustrates if any original-independent Turkish civilization ever existed or not, or they loaned “civilization” from Iranians just same as the respective loan-words!
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I used the term “Turkish” to refer to “Ottoman” and “Oquz” Nomadic Turkic tribes who invaded Anatolia, Kurdistan, Armenian, Eastern Greek lands and Azerbaijan in the last millinum. The authorities of Republic of Turkey consider their selves as “descendents” of “Nomadic Ottoman Turks”.
