Who are the Turks actually

2017-09-29 13:11

Who are the Turks actually
Earlier Turkey had a completely other peoples: Armenians, Greeks, Jews, Assyrians. Where did the Turks? Who are they?

The Seljuks

According to official science, the Turkic-speaking peoples first appeared in Asia Minor in the sixth century. The Byzantine rulers had settled here the Bulgars, the Arabs attracted the Turkic Muslims of Central Asia and to guard the environs of the Armenian kings used to settle the Avars. However, these tribes disappeared, dissolving into the local community.

These ancestors of the Turks were the Seljuks – the Turkic-speaking nomadic peoples that lived in Central Asia and Altai (the language of Turks belong to the Altaic language family), which are centered around the tribe of the Oghuz, whose rulers had converted to Islam.

It was the Turkmens, the cynics, afshari, Kaya, karamani and other peoples. First, the Seljuks strengthened in Central Asia, conquered Khwarazm and Iran. In 1055 they captured the capital of the Caliphate Baghdad, and moved to the West. In their ranks were joined by farmers from Iran and Arab Iraq.

The Seljuk Empire grew, they invaded Central Asia, conquered Armenia and Georgia, took Syria and Palestine, considerably surpassing the Byzantine Empire. In the mid-thirteenth century the Empire during the Mongol invasion collapsed. In 1227, the territory of the Seljuks moved the Kaya tribe that rules Ertogrul, whose son Osman became the founder of the Turkish state, which was later called the Ottoman Empire.

The mixture

The invasion of the Mongols caused a new flow of immigrants, and in the XIII century. in Asia Minor came the tribes of Khwarazm. Today in Turkey roams the ancient tribe horzum.

Since the XII century the Turks began to move to sedentary life, mingling with indigenous peoples, which marked the beginning of Islamization and turkification of the population. Simultaneously, from the North-West of Asia Minor migrated Pechenegs, Romanians and Eastern Slavs.

The Turkish nation was formed before the end of the century. Already in 1327 the official language in some areas of Turkey was Turkish, not Persian. Modern Turkish science believes that the population of Turkey is 70% of the descendants of the Seljuk Turks and 30% of the indigenous population.

Another version

In the encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron stated that the ancestors of the Turks were the “Uralo-Altaic tribes”, but due to the mass immigrants of other nationalities they have long lost authenticity, and now the Turks are descendants of Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbs, Albanians and Armenians.

It turned out, this confidence is based on the story of the warlike Ottomans. First they conquered territories of the Byzantine Empire, then the Balkans, Greece, Egypt. And everywhere were taken prisoners and slaves.

Slaves were paid by conquered peoples, children and wives were taken for the debts of the Slavs. Turks married the Armenian, the Slav, the Greek women. And children inherit the traits of these peoples.

There was another process that had led to the “turkifying” the Greeks and other peoples formerly under the patronage of the Byzantine Empire. After 1204, Constantinople was pillaged by crusaders, Greeks, ceased to be allies of the Latins.

Many chose to remain “under the Ottomans” and pay the jizya tax for infidels, instead of to go to Europe. Just at this time there were Islamic preachers, broadcast that differences between religions are not a lot of ugovarivaya the Byzantines to Islam.

Genetics

Genetic studies confirm that the Turks heterogeneous. Almost a quarter of Anatolian Turks can be attributed to the autochthonous peoples, the quarter – to the Caucasian tribes, 11% are Phoenician gallogruppu (the descendants of the Greeks), 4% of the population is Eastern Slavic roots.

Anthropologists believe that the average Turk is the representative of the European race, and the Seljuk Turks were not Caucasians. Central Asia now inhabited mongoloidism peoples.

What do you think the Turks

This question is interested in Turkish ethnographer Macturk. He went to Central Asia and the Altai, related to the Turks of nationality, to find the overall narrative, the same elements in patterns and joint rituals. He climbed in remote villages and remote camps, but found nothing.

Moreover, he was surprised that anthropologically people in Central Asia are very different from Turks. And then the Professor had the theory that the official story decorates the reality, and in the XII century Turkic tribes began their migration due to starvation. They moved first to the East, and then to Iran and Asia Minor.

The ethnographer noted that pure Turks are in Turkey so far, they have kept Mongoloid appearance and is densely populated with only a few areas of the country.

According to statistics, in the world now lives 89 million Turks. 59 million of them live in Turkey, five in Syria and Iraq and almost seven in Europe.

Most Turks in Germany — four million, Bulgaria has a population of 800,000 Turks in Britain — half a million. Million Turks living in the Netherlands and Austria. In Belgium 200 000 Turks in Greece is 120 000, in Switzerland – 100 000, in Macedonia – 78 000, in Denmark 60 000 in Romania – 80 000, in Italy — 21 000. In the United States is 500 000 Turks. In Russia there are only 105 058 Turks.