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2017/2
Journal owner
Thinking platform for international Iranian Turks
MEHMET MÜŞTAK
Editor
Prof. Dr.
Haydar Çakmak
Associate Editor
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Şennur Şenel
Prof. Dr.
Yonca Anzerlioğlu
Editorial Board
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nail Alkan
Assoc. Prof. Dr.
Bilal Karabulut
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kürşat Turan
Assis. Prof.Dr. Fatma Güngör Akkan
Dr. Hatem Cabbarlı
Peer – Review Board
Prof. Dr.
Oya Akgönenç
Prof. Dr. Hayati Aktaş
Prof. Dr. Hale Şıvgın
Prof. Dr.
Bayram Kodaman
Prof. Dr. Abdulkadir Yuvalı
Prof. Dr. Refet Yinanç
Prof. Dr. Cemalettin Taşkıran
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PREFACE
As a result of hard work and efforts, second edition
of the journal has reached to the audience. I want to thank to
Assist. Prof. Yonca Anzerlioğlu and Assoc. Prof. Şennur
Şenel for their contributions and article choices and
publication of the journal in time. Also, I thank to dear
academicians who contributed with their articles to the
second edition. Finally, we thank to the journal referees
because they evaluated the articles based on scientific
standards and prepared them for the publication.
This edition includes nine interesting academic
articles and they all aim to educate and enlighten the
audience. In addition to this, the articles contribute to the
scientific researches and international literature. Publication
of the journal in three different languages –Turkish, English,
Persian- provides opportunity to reach genuine studies for
the local and foreign people who make research and collect
information about the region.
Along with these duties, the journal is an influential
resource for researchers. As we indicated before in the first
edition, the journal aims to establish and consolidate peace
and fraternity in the Middle East territory and the world as a
whole.
As a Council of the Journal, we are taking the
responsibility to consolidate and sustain the peace in the
territory. Also we need to note that we
are waiting feedbacks
and support of our audiences. We will be pleased if you
reach us via e-mail or phone. In addition to this, our website
will be active soon and it will be in three different
languages. We hope we will pass good news in the
upcoming edition about the website.
Best wishes
On Behalf of Editorial Board, Editor,
Prof. Dr. Haydar Çakmak
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Turks In Iranian Geography
In Prehistoric
And The Common Era
Prof. Dr. Abdulkadir Yuvali
The term Turkic world is used to define the
geography where Turks live today and Turkic world has
existed throughout the prehistoric ages, the medieval age,
the new age and the modern age. Representatives of Turkic
history or our national history in prehistoric times,
documents and the information they had left behind are of
great significance. Furthermore, the aforementioned
geography needs to be examined in line with its relationship
with tribes in its immediate vicinities in order to bring
Turkic world in prehistoric times to light. New findings that
verify and diversity the information on the topic emerge on a
daily basis. While findings on the Turkic world in
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prehistoric times and tribes in its immediate vicinities were
gathered by chance, more organized excavation works are
carried out today in locations that were spotted thanks to
these discoveries. Thus as a result of these works, new
Turkic tribes and states that existed in prehistoric times are
being added to the list while available
historic data are being
updated. In addition to all of that, some opinions regarding
the Turkic world in prehistoric times and the medieval age
as well as the culture and civilization it represented are being
abandoned and new information about the Turkic world in
the prehistoric times and the middle age are brought to
daylight.
Today the term Turkic world is evocative of Eurasia
and the same is true for the prehistoric Turkic world. The
sources include the Latin, Greek, Byzantine, Arab, Persian,
Sumerian, Babylonian, Indian and Turkish. Although the
aforementioned sources are sorted out based on place and
time, almost none of them should be ruled out. Currently,
there is a large body of sources on the history of the Turkic
world covering the period from the prehistoric times to
present day. On the other hand, recently discovered
archeological findings in excavations works look very
promising for Turkic geography (despite the challenges
regarding the naming and classifying of available findings in
museums).
Turkic Studies are conducted by scholars in Europe,
Russia and some other countries. Strahlenberg, Yadrintsev,
Heikel, Radloff, Thomsen and many others have done
significant work in this regard since the 18th century. In fact,
the first Turcology platform was founded in “Ecole des
Languages Orientales Vivantes” in 1795. Institutes of
Oriental Studies and Turcology followed. Periodicals and
numerous academic articles on Turks in prehistoric times
and the medieval age were published by these institutions in
Moscow (1814), Paris (1821), London (1823), Helsinki and
London (1906) (Taner Tarhan, “Ön Asya Dünyasında İlk
Türkler, Kimmerler ve İskitler”, Türkler, v, p.597). After the
foundation of the Turkish Republic, Gazi Mustafa Kemal
Atatürk assigned Fuad Köprülü for this mission in 1924. So
the Turcology Institute was founded for the first time in our
country for research on Turkish language, culture, history
and ethnography. Similarly, Turkish Historical Society