In the 19th century Ottoman Empire, the word Türk referred to Anatolian peasants. The Ottoman ruling class identified themselves as Ottomans, not as Turks. [133][134] However, they still claimed to be members of Kayi tribe of Oghuz Turks and direct descendants of Oghuz Khan. [135] In the late 19th century, as the Ottoman upper classes adopted European ideas of nationalism, the term Türk took ...
Turkey (Türkiye) is a country that occupies a unique geographic position, lying partly in Asia and partly in Europe and serving as both a bridge and a barrier between them. The modern Turkish republic was founded in 1923 after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and its capital is Istanbul (formerly Constantinople).
With the conquest of Sogdiana by the Türk armies against the Hephtalites,[sic] in 560, a genuine Sogdo-Türk fusion was created. Numerous examples attest to this. Thus, Čakin Čur-Bil’ga, one of the kings of Panjikent at the end of the 7th century, was a Türk, and his successor Dēwāštīč, though bearing an Iranian name, was himself of Türk descent, according to his genealogy as ...
Türk adının bilim çevrelerince kabul edilen ilk kullanımı 1. yüzyılda Pomponius Mela ve Plinius adlı Romalı tarihçilerce kaydedilmiştir. Azak 'ın doğusunda yaşayan insanlar Turcae/Tyrcae adı ile kayda geçmiştir. [69][70][71][72][73][74] "Türk" (veya Türük, Török, Törk) adı Türkçe belgelerde ilk defa Kül Tigin ve Bilge Kağan yazıtlarında 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (Türk ...