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Evangelia Balta (born 24 July 1955, Kavala) is a Greek historian. Her researches focus on Ottoman socio-economic history, Rûm Orthodox culture in Anatolia, and Karamanlidika Studies. She is an honorary member of the Turkish Historical Society and was awarded an Order of Merit of the Republic of Turkey.[1][2]

Balta was born in Kavala in 1955. She studied at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1973–77 and at Paris I-Sorbonne, Department of Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes IV) with a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation for her master’s and doctoral degrees from 1980-1983. Balta worked at the Historical Archive of Macedonia in 1979 and at the Centre for Asia Minor Studies in 1978 as well as from 1984-1987. She taught at the Ionian University in 1985-1987. Since 1987 she has been a researcher at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF). She was a member of Koc University‘s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC) in 2009–2010.[3][4] In the following years, she organized three international symposiums on Karamanli Turkish, which has been her field of work since 1978. She has organized seminars in Cunda Islands for Karamanlidika Studies since 2001.[5]

Stoyan Dinkov, Bulgaristan

Dimitri Kitsikis, Yunanistan
Evangelie Balta, Yunanistan

Nicolae Iorga, Romen

Arminius Vambery, Macar
Bernát Munkácsi, Macar
Gyula Németh, Macar
György Hazai, Macar
Ignác Kúnos, Macar
László Rásonyi, Macar
József Thury, Macar

Tibor Halasi-Kun, Macar

Andreas Tietze, Avusturyalı
Hammer, Avusturyalı

Arnavutluk
Kosova
Bosna
Hırvatistan
Makedonya
Hırvatistan

Fikret Adanır http://fass.sabanciuniv.edu/tr/sudirectorystaffdetay/1275

 

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Turkish States

Sunday, September 20, 2015

“We established 20 States in 3000 years”  

The concept of the state is directly related to contemplation.

States are formed as a result of contemplation.

The longest-lasting states, the Hun Empire and the Ottoman Empire; It shows that the beginning and ending contemplations are solid and permanent.

The distinguishing feature of our Civilization of Contemplation is its ability to form a State and its ability to organize.

The number of States established in 3000 years is 20.

  • 1100 BC – 0: 3 States
  • AD 0- 500 : 2 States
  • 500 – 1000 AD: 6 States
  • AD 1000 – 1500: 7 States
  • 1500-2000 AD: 2 States

The first state was the State of Zhu, which came to life in 1000 BC on the territory of China.

Turks established 20 states in 3000 years and established sovereignty in 75 countries. Except for 2 of these states, the other 18 are states with a coast to the sea.

Our State, which provides dominance in the most countries; It is the Ottoman Empire, known as Devlet-i Ali.

The longest-lasting states, in order:

  • Ottoman Empire, Osman Gazi, 1299-1922:              623 years
  • Great Hun Empire Teoman, 220 BC – 216 AD:      436 years
  • Karakhanid State, Bilge Ash Kadir Khan, 840-1212:              372 years
  • Khazar Khaganate, Böri Şad, 651-983:                              332 years
  • Mughal Empire, Mughal, 1526-1858:                          332 years

occurred in the form.

The first 2 states with the longest duration among the 20 established states; The first established HUN EMPIRE was the last established OTTOMAN EMPIRE.

In the ranking of the countries where Turkish States have sovereignty;

  • 10 States each, Uzbekistan, Russia and Turkmenistan
  • 9 States and Afghanistan, China
  • 8 States and Kazakhstan, Tajikistan
  • 7 States and Georgia, Iran, Pakistan

ranked among the top 10 countries.

Of the 20 established states, 17 were centered in Asia, 2 in Europe (European Huns, Ottoman Imps), and 1 in Africa (Mamluks). The center of gravity is Asia.

The countries with the most sovereignty are listed in the Asian (Front Asia-Eurasia-Turkestan-East Asia) geographies. In the European and African geographies, sovereignty was provided by 1 or 2 States.

While sovereignty was provided on the shores of 11 seas, the most numerous states were established on the shores of the Caspian, Black Sea, Arabian Sea and Basra.

While the roof of our states was in China in the 1600 years of origin (1100 BC – 500 AD), China’s descent to the Middle East was prevented by the Talas War in 750 AD, and the Turks settled in Transoxiana, Khorasan, Iran and then in the Middle East geography (Iraq, Syria) in the region. They established states and conquered dynasties.

After the conquest of Anatolia in 1071, after 300 years of fermentation, this time the Rumelian conquests were started and the 600-year Rumelian Empire was paved.

The Chu State, whose foundations were laid along the Yellow River, continued as the State-i Ali along the Blue Danube.

Today, our historical references to Asia begin with the Orkhon Inscriptions and Bilge Kagan in Mongolia, and do not go back to the state formations of the Göktürks, which date back to 700 AD.

However, the geography where Turkish state formations came to life is the processes that started in the lands of Kansu and Shensi provinces in China, starting from 3000 BC and leading to the establishment of the Zhou State in 1000 BC.

The mission of the Hun State, our first World State, which was founded by Oğuz Kağan in the early 200s BC and became legendary, has been the indispensable mission of all Turkish States that took their place in history:

More sea, more moray (rivers)
Let the sun be a flag, the sky kurikan (tent) !

ATAM Oguz Kagan

The Turks; They eliminated their opponents by allying with the Arabs against China and the Kurds against Iran.

Islam and the Caliphate had brought the Turks to wide geographies.

As a result of the deliberate thought that blamed Islam and the Caliphate for the collapse, first the Arabs were fought and the Empire collapsed.

Then, after the establishment of the Republic, this time the newly established Republic was targeted over the Kurds.

The main goal of our adversaries is to prevent the Turks from re-alliance with the Arabs and Kurds.

The Turks had eliminated their enemies, China, and prevented them from landing in the Middle East.

Likewise, by eliminating Iran, the Turks consolidated their position in the Middle East.

The powers that want to keep the Turks away from the Middle East are applying the strategy of turning these alliances into enmity through Syria, Egypt and Iraq.

 

 

Turkish Canon

1300th Anniversary of the Erection of the Wise Tonyukuk Monument in 2020. UNESCO Memorial and Celebration Anniversary. Blessed. With reference to our first author Bilge Tonyukuk, we are launching the TURKISH CANON series starting from 2020.

In terms of our Philosophy of Society and State, references identified with ourselves constitute a Turkish Canon.

  • Bilge Tonyukuk Inscription
  • Orkhon Inscriptions: Bilge Kagan Inscription, Cultigin Inscription
  • Yusuf Has Hacip: Kutadgu Bilig
  • Kemal Atatürk: NUTUK and All His Works (30 volumes)

The vision of Hun Turk Oghuz Khan produced the first written documents by the legendary trivet of the Gökturks, and these stone monuments became our canons, that is, our basic works.

First of all, we must save our Founding Thinkers, who came to life with the Legend of Oğuz Kağan and then Taş Yazıtlar (Tonyukuk, Bilge Kağan, Kültigin), and reinforce our lost ground over time, and make our pessimistic minds open and functional.

First, the inscription-laws engraved on stone by the Prime Minister Bilge Tonyukuk in the 8th century and then by Kağan (Bilge), finally a fictional Vizier was designed and this time recorded as a manuscript (Kutadgu Bilig) in the 11th century. In the 20th century, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, following the same historical line, recorded his own history with NUTUK and entrusted it to future generations.

Although the Turks, who established 16 states in 3 continents, have created a wide literature on the subject, starting from the era of Inscriptions and continuing with Manuscripts (Politics), within the scope of the discipline of State Philosophy, the said Scriptures and Manuscripts have not been examined, and the Turkish Canon has not yet been revealed. With our References Series, we will try to contribute to our goal of being ourselves by revealing our founding works of society and state philosophy. The point we will reach under the leadership of canonical sources will be Ourselves.

In the history of the Turks, there were two great statesmen who carried the pen and sword together. Bilge Tonyukuk, the founding Prime Minister of the Turkish Khaganate, and Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish Republic. Türk Evi Yayınları aims to evaluate our founding leaders with serial books and to publish the Turkish Canon as a book.

Founding References that go beyond cliches have not taken root in our minds even in 2020, when we are approaching the 100th anniversary of the Republic. In order to overcome this infertility, we are launching our Atatürk References series, starting with the themes of Human Value, Innovation, Art of War, Global Leadership.

Then, we will launch our Bilge Tonyukuk series, as the year 2020 corresponds to the 1300th anniversary of the erection of the Tonyukuk Inscription. There is a time interval of more than 1200 years between the two states, which are known as Turkish in history. Unlike the Dynasty states that were established / collapsed in the intervening years, the states of the founding leaders of both the sword and the sword are structures that integrate with the People. Because in the Turks, Hakan and the people are inseparable. The genius who illuminates our present and future with the 62-line Inscription of Tonyukuk, also manifests itself between the lines of Atatürk’s Address to NUTUK and Youth.

 

 

Oguz Kagan

Oguz Khan, 234-174 BC

“I have become your Khan;
Let’s all take swords and shields;
Kut (divine power) will be our sign;
Gray wolf will be our uran (battle cry);
Our iron lances will be a forest;
Khulan will walk on the hunting ground;
More seas and more rivers;
Sun is our flag and sky is our tent.”

Our Founding Father, who, with his vision, brought the Oghuz Turks to the Danube, and transformed the Mediterranean into a Turkish lake.

Mission: “More sea, more eels (rivers) / Sun flag, sky kurikan (tent)”

Every place under the sky where the sun never sets is our home, our homeland; WORLD STATE

Vision: World State, Oghuz Union, Tradition

Competitor: CHINA

Oguz Kagan Epic

Oghuz Hand: Right Arm/Left Arm
Right Arm: Bozok (Günhan, Ayhan, Yıldızhan)
Left Arm: Üçok (Gökhan, Dağhan, Deniz Han)

Mete Han

Teoman Duralı- This science of war, which started with Alexander, is strangely available to Turks. I do not know how and where. The founder of the army is Mete Han. And we know that Mete Han is implementing strategy and tactics, I don’t repeat these documents over and over. Wherever and how many historians we have, none of them are interested in what I have told you, and could not give me a predictive answer. We see that strategy and tactics exist in the Turkish Armed Forces in Chinese texts that mention Huns and Göktürks. Of course, these Chinese texts have ours translated.

Listener – You said that the beginning of the art of war started in the academy where Aristotle raised Alexander in Macedonia, and in the Turks you said that Mete Han was the war commander strategist. They taught us the book of the Chinese Sun Tzu at the public school. They were still teaching today. I think our people also got the art of war from there, can it be true?

Teoman Duralı – Sun Tzu was not a philosopher. He was a sage, he had no strategy or tactical skills. He tells us about martial arts. This is present in all Chinese sages. Not just that. There is also in Kung fu, Confucius. In all these eastern wisdoms there are events that we might know as the “art of defense”.

The art of war and military goes beyond this. It is not a martial art, only a war scenario that I just mentioned is considered. It is predicted, where will you lead the army, how you will feed it. Do you take the family, as we saw in the Ottoman example. If you take it, where will you accommodate that family, neither feed nor drink it. Historians reject it, but as far as we know, large numbers of soldiers are executed. Alexander passes 60 thousand people to Anatolia. An enormous number over Çanakkale, across the Bosphorus Feeding, managing, feeding these men and, of course, tactics, who will direct the martial arts, with archers, infantry, cavalry

I think the most important inspiration for the art of war is the game of chess. Three events are based on pure reason. These do not interfere at all. Philosophy of science, martial arts and chess. Naturally, the most important peak in philosophy science is pure logic and mathematics.

In this sense, war is a completely different event from fighting. War and army are new events. It starts in the 4th century BC. Mete already exists in the 2nd century BC. We do not see this structure I call in that Chinese sage (Sun Tzu).

Source: Prof Dr Teoman Duralı

Bilge Tonyukuk

TONYUKUK AS A THINKER

Wise Tonyukuk’s thinker side was noticed after thousands of years only in the 20th century.

What we need is the brightness of the sciences from A to Z …

Our examination of the identity of the wise Tonyukuk has brought us together with ancient treasures. The criteria of Wise Tonyukuk and the concept of wise power are the assurance of living the 21st century as a Turkish Century, which is the first step that will bring us to the third thousand.

Tonyukuk, the master of Pen and Swords, is also a treasure trove of Futuhat (expeditions) and Fikriyat (wisdoms). He pioneered new expeditions and ideas with his inscription. With the first sea voyage, it became the basis of the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean voyages, and his ideas enabled the following thousand years (700-1700) to be experienced as the Turkish millennium. Tonyukuk, which is the first to write Turkish identity in writing, is also a mefkur. The aforementioned mafkure keeps all the codes of our cultural identity in its bosom.

Tonyukuk, honored by the public as wise, showed that writing and language are the requirements of wisdom by bringing our first written work to eternity in the form of a monument. The fact that our first author, Tonyukuk, was also the person who used the first Turkish term in his inscription, documents that the most important dimension of his identity is language.

Our study, in which we examine the identity of Tonyukuk in the system of biography-wisdom-bitig, includes the dictionaries of more than 400 words in the Tonyukuk Inscription, our first written document in history. Being the masterpiece of our language, which is the most magnificent combination of emotion and thought, Turkish is described as “the ideal language of the computer” by Internet and technology guru Nicholas Negroponte and described as “something like the realization of dreams for a computer speech creator” at the word level. once written from Tonyukuk’s mind. The magical nature of Turkish, which was transferred to manuscripts after the stone inscription and transferred to printed works with the use of printing press, awaits the days when it will rapidly become a universal software language.

The wisdom and the ending that filtered from Tonyukuk’s biography were described by İsmail Gaspıralı in “Language, Idea” in the 19th century; It will be expressed as “Unity in Work”. Tonyukuk descendants of ancestors from acquired conquests-fikriyat coexistence of four languages ​​in the Indian sub-continent with its dynamism (Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Sanksrit ACE), in Turkey (Anatolia and Rumelia) and three languages ​​(Turkish, Persian, Arabic) blending the world’s most travelers and they created the rich Turkish Language.

The knowledgeable person can be either a pedant or a wise person. It just means that knowledge alone is not enough. The Turkish people of the time honored our first author as wise. Writing is wisdom. Wisdom, on the other hand, is a power and has formed the essence of the Turkish mind. The specificity of our mind is related to the development of the originality of our language. Idea and Work are only based on Language.

Our most valuable underground resource is our saintly sages who lie in the bosom of Turkestan; Let us ferment again, starting with the wise Tonyukuk, our alive and fertile roots, which reveal to us that wisdom is based on the unity of mind and heart.

Our examination of the identity of the wise Tonyukuk has brought us together with ancient treasures. The criteria of Wise Tonyukuk and the concept of wise power are the assurance of living the 21st century as a Turkish Century, which is the first step that will bring us to the third thousand.

Tonyukuk, the master of Pen and Swords, is also a treasure trove of Futuhat (expeditions) and Fikriyat (wisdoms). He pioneered new expeditions and ideas with his inscription. With the first sea voyage, it became the basis of the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean voyages, and his ideas enabled the following thousand years (700-1700) to be experienced as the Turkish millennium. Tonyukuk, which is the first to write Turkish identity in writing, is also a mefkur. The aforementioned mafkure keeps all the codes of our cultural identity in its bosom.

Tonyukuk, honored by the public as wise, showed that writing and language are the requirements of wisdom by bringing our first written work to eternity in the form of a monument. The fact that our first author, Tonyukuk, was also the person who used the first Turkish term in his inscription, documents that the most important dimension of his identity is language.

Our study, in which we examine the identity of Tonyukuk in the system of biography-wisdom-bitig, includes the dictionaries of more than 400 words in the Tonyukuk Inscription, our first written document in history. Being the masterpiece of our language, which is the most magnificent combination of emotion and thought, Turkish is described as “the ideal language of the computer” by Internet and technology guru Nicholas Negroponte and described as “something like the realization of dreams for a computer speech creator” at the word level. once written from Tonyukuk’s mind. The magical nature of Turkish, which was transferred to manuscripts after the stone inscription and transferred to printed works with the use of printing press, awaits the days when it will rapidly become a universal software language.

The wisdom and the ending that filtered from Tonyukuk’s biography were described by İsmail Gaspıralı in “Language, Idea” in the 19th century; It will be expressed as “Unity in Work”. Tonyukuk descendants of ancestors from acquired conquests-fikriyat coexistence of four languages ​​in the Indian sub-continent with its dynamism (Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Sanksrit ACE), in Turkey (Anatolia and Rumelia) and three languages ​​(Turkish, Persian, Arabic) blending the world’s most travelers and they created the rich Turkish Language.

The knowledgeable person can be either a pedant or a wise person. It just means that knowledge alone is not enough. The Turkish people of the time honored our first author as wise. Writing is wisdom. Wisdom, on the other hand, is a power and has formed the essence of the Turkish mind. The specificity of our mind is related to the development of the originality of our language. Idea and Work are only based on Language.

Our most valuable underground resource is our saintly sages who lie in the bosom of Turkestan; Let us ferment again, starting with the wise Tonyukuk, our alive and fertile roots, which reveal to us that wisdom is based on the unity of mind and heart.

TURKISH CANON

1300th Anniversary of the Erection of the Wise Tonyukuk Monument in 2020. UNESCO Memorial and Celebration Anniversary. Blessed. With reference to our first author Bilge Tonyukuk, we are launching the TURKISH CANON series starting from 2020.

In terms of our Philosophy of Society and State, references identified with ourselves constitute a Turkish Canon.

  • Bilge Tonyukuk Inscription
  • Orkhon Inscriptions: Bilge Kagan Inscription, Cultigin Inscription
  • Yusuf Has Hacip: Kutadgu Bilig
  • Kemal Atatürk: NUTUK and All His Works (30 volumes)

The vision of Hun Turk Oghuz Khan produced the first written documents by the legendary trivet of the Gökturks, and these stone monuments became our canons, that is, our basic works.

First of all, we must save our Founding Thinkers, who came to life with the Legend of Oğuz Kağan and then Taş Yazıtlar (Tonyukuk, Bilge Kağan, Kültigin), and reinforce our lost ground over time, and make our pessimistic minds open and functional.

First, the inscription-laws engraved on stone by the Prime Minister Bilge Tonyukuk in the 8th century and then by Kağan (Bilge), finally a fictional Vizier was designed and this time recorded as a manuscript (Kutadgu Bilig) in the 11th century. In the 20th century, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, following the same historical line, recorded his own history with NUTUK and entrusted it to future generations.

Although the Turks, who established 16 states in 3 continents, have created a wide literature on the subject, starting from the era of Inscriptions and continuing with Manuscripts (Politics), within the scope of the discipline of State Philosophy, the said Scriptures and Manuscripts have not been examined, and the Turkish Canon has not yet been revealed. With our References Series, we will try to contribute to our goal of being ourselves by revealing our founding works of society and state philosophy. The point we will reach under the leadership of canonical sources will be Ourselves.

In the history of the Turks, there were two great statesmen who carried the pen and sword together. Bilge Tonyukuk, the founding Prime Minister of the Turkish Khaganate, and Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish Republic. Türk Evi Yayınları aims to evaluate our founding leaders with serial books and to publish the Turkish Canon as a book.

Founding References that go beyond cliches have not taken root in our minds even in 2020, when we are approaching the 100th anniversary of the Republic. In order to overcome this infertility, we are launching our Atatürk References series, starting with the themes of Human Value, Innovation, Art of War, Global Leadership. Then, we will launch our Bilge Tonyukuk series, as the year 2020 corresponds to the 1300th anniversary of the erection of the Tonyukuk Inscription. There is a time interval of more than 1200 years between the two states, which are known as Turkish in history. Unlike the Dynasty states that were established / collapsed in the intervening years, the states of the founding leaders of both the sword and the sword are structures that integrate with the People. Because in the Turks, Hakan and the people are inseparable. The genius who illuminates our present and future with the 62-line Inscription of Tonyukuk, also manifests itself between the lines of Atatürk’s Address to NUTUK and Youth.

 

Fatih Sultan Mehmed

Kemal Ataturk, Human Value

ATATÜRK AND HUMAN VALUE 

Through which processes, Mustafa Kemal, the grandson of Haci Ahmet Efendi from Kocacik (Macedonia), had taken his place in our hearts as Ataturk, who became the ancestor of the Turks. What we feel lacking is the sadness caused by the fact that the References filtered from Atatürk’s words, speeches, orders and statements exceeding 10,000 pages in 30 volumes have not yet been formed.

“The third important character of genius is the power of composition and synthesis. They create brand-new, original compositions, lively and unique syntheses by understanding the mortal materials, life and spirits that geniuses give to the hands of nature. Atatürk came into the hands of Turkey, Turkey’s bankruptcy move that was formerly Empire. Ataturk’s Turkey him to compose this new beginning of a beautiful work of art, vibrant, strong, attractive, has become a beautiful thing. No date and no nation ‘Ataturk’s Turkey’ up to one and all who think, hear, and see a functioning human community. Atatürk was the creative beginning of this Turkish synthesis. ” Ismayıl Hakkı Baltacıoğlu, “What is Dehâ?” Today, (22 November 1938).

During the 15 years before the War of Independence and the 15 years after the Resurrection period, Atatürk is a genius who unites people around the goals in one piece. Although the goals differ during times of war and peace, it did not matter for Atatürk. The secret of Atatürk Tables is to benefit from people’s ideas and to activate their energies.

Atatürk’s ideals were to follow and raise the people whose talents he discovered, to send them abroad as a spark and wait for them to return to a fireball.

It is always in the public. He travels around Anatolia and expresses his feelings by saying “the people want to be rich” on his return. His love was to make the camellers who were carrying all kinds of vehicles of the army in Anatolia, which had no way in the War of Independence, the masters of the country. Raising people has always been an indispensable passion.

“At the forefront of innovation in Ataturk’s Republic of Turkey, it is removed and replaced in the middle of the world’s oldest gay-personal relationships I longed personal income docking mechanisms. We know that this does not happen completely, as all “new” depends on “old”. Naturally, “personality” would show itself in reforms made by the efforts of a leader. But Ataturk’s “ideal of Turkey, not personal relationships, it is very clear that the institutions associated consider it as a new Turkey where the dominant dignity. Speeches and statements that prove it is found in many opinions.”

It has been approached in terms of the importance Atatürk gave to human in his human resources and management approach. By putting the tip of the compass in the traces of our founder, the “human” leg of the Liberation and Establishment process, the phenomenon of transition from “servitude to humanity” has been examined in the light of him.

The features of Atatürk’s approach to events and people in his speeches in various dates and places were analyzed in the study. Atatürk’s vast culture and Human Value, which is the most basic yeast of our country, exceeding ten thousand years, were evaluated as the most important factor.

In the 21st century, leadership will be the one who has knowledge and interprets it correctly. In the new period, countries that manage knowledge best, evaluate people best and continuously strengthen them will be ahead. The 21st century will be an age in which people’s creative ideas are developed and collaborated around these ideas, and our country will bear the traces of the value given to human by its founder, along with the values ​​it was founded upon.

It will be seen that the importance given to “human” in the values ​​of the foundation of the Republic, as of 2020, at the beginning of the 21st century, has the characteristics that will put our country forward in our borders and the human hurricanes we live in.

“There is nothing in my eyes; I’m just a merit lover. “ Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

1920 At the beginning of Turkey attacking Western countries state founded by Ataturk inviting them to recognize our compliance and sovereignty to the values ​​of humanity, 100 years later before long, when sending a Western aid convoy in 2020, at this point people are faced with yapaylaştırılarak depletion dilemma left. The lost humanity has begun to threaten the individual person as well.

During the period of liberation and the resurrection that followed, when the country was struggling in poverty, there was no money, no stamps, no equipment, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk trusted only one reality: human. What he did, he did and built by mobilizing the human element and adding value to it. Man meant infinite energy, indispensable values. Human was a value and was worth Human. The fact that he gave priority to communication in his actions was the most important proof of the priority he gave to human value. When one could be persuaded, directly communicated, that one person called other people as well.

In any case, the Republic glorified the people, human societies, contrary to the Monarchic structure, which was based on servitude, subjection and devaluing people.

“Masters!”, Which is the number one subject of Atatürk’s rhetoric. his expression was the symbol of his glorifying view of Man. Human; Is the Master.

The expression “Budun da Budun boldi” (People became the people too), which was first mentioned in the Tonyukuk Inscription (MS.720) among the Turks, was the first example of how the people were elevated to where they should be. The Turks have always demonstrated what they have created (culture, language, states, etc.) in a struggle for humanitarian solidarity, under the difficult life conditions shaped by desolate and waterless steppes. What was essential in the Legend of Creation of the Turks and the Legend of Oğuz Kağan was Human with all its universal reality.

“I am only a lover of merit” and “Valuing man, not stone, land!” “Their determinations contain an extremely strong emphasis and show the superior value and importance given to human beings.

Turkey’s Future, working to shape through the concepts of human and Value Ataturk, the Turks historical research are also a result of not only Turkey, the first human homeland is considered Central Asia, seeing humanity as a common ancestry and roots Human, Human Values ​​and humanity concepts in a pot It has synthesized it by melting it and left it to us a universal legacy of thought.

The book is about “How?” It is a detailed examination of the answers that can be given to the question.

While starting the Türk Evi Yayınları Atatürk References series with the book Atatürk and Human Value, the titles that will continue will be the issues that have not come to the fore about our Founder until now.

More than 300 leaders headed the Turkish states. It is the five fingers of a hand that leave written legacies other than poems. While Oğuz Kağan became legendary, the inscriptions of Bilge Tonyukuk and Bilge Kağan, the writings of Babür and Ekber Shahs, and the books written by Atatürk are the shepherd fires sent to the times; are the secrets of our goals. Karahanlı, Altınorda inns, Gazneli, Mamluk, Seljuk, Timurid, Ottoman sultans, the Safavid shahs of poetry writing Hun, Babur and Turkey presidents of Mongolia with the düzyazıl works, China, the most valuable typing both have made both the history of India and Turkey they left a legacy.

12 thousand pages of work consisting of articles and speeches, documents, telegrams, circulars, declarations, memories, speeches and statements, decisions, letters, interviews, interviews, correspondence, statements, minutes, interviews, books, which came out of Atatürk’s mouth and pen, What he left to us and entrusted to the future through youth is the expression of the human value of thousands of years accumulated in all Turkish states.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ATATÜRK AND SUN TZU: Comparative Analysis of Martial Art

 

The first known strategist in history, Sun Tzu’s book Art of War, which has shown a strategy to different cultures with his approach to the enemy in today’s global competition and his philosophy of war, is the number one reference source for war (and competition) strategies. The actors of the war in Sun Tzu’s book “The Art of War” are the Chinese and the Turks.

Turks, on the other hand, fought ceaselessly until they came to Ataturk, but they did not write about their wars. 2500 years after Sun Tzu, Ataturk, with his applications and evaluations about the Art of War, has opened the way to provide a basis for comparing the practices of the Chinese and Turks, the oldest masters of the Art of War.

 

By Sun Tzu’s military doctrine, our founder, Mustafa Kemal decided that Atatürk taken on careers, interpreted the competitive outlook and war philosophy of winning victory in the War of Independence, it offers against their rivals, Turkey interpretation of Strategy holistic identity, allowing us to use the essence of our resources effectively will give us the opportunity to develop our corporate identity in line with our roots.

 

Mission in Atatürk; In Sun Tzu, the vision is limited to victory in a narrow sense, while Atatürk has taken the war out of the battlefields with the concept of real victory, and made the war not only concerned with the soldiers, but made the nation and the people all actors of the war. Compared to Ataturk’s vision, which surpasses the strategy, Sun Tzu does not seem to have surpassed the technical and tactical level.

 

The study also drew attention to the differences between Sun Tzu and Atatürk in similar aspects. The points where they merged and diverged have been scanned and interpreted based on the decisions they made in extensive sources.

 

Although the periodic differences of Atatürk and Sun Tzu are minimized in the text, factors that make a difference between them depending on the different conjunctures, the periods and reasons of the wars that created them, were frequently encountered during the study.

 

It should not be expected that the views of the army of Sun Tzu, who were commissioned by emperors or princes for booty, on the victory, and Atatürk’s army, which was created from a defeated imperial army and had the last chance to save his country.

 

The difference of the term victory, which is different from the two commanders, forms the center of the differences that emerge throughout the work. The choices made by the commanders between defense and attack, while the Sun Tzu does not mention the concept of pursuit, Atatürk’s strict adherence to the principle of absolute follow-up and annihilation constitute effective examples of these interpretation differences arising from the conjuncture differences of the two thinkers.

 

The most striking difference in the study was the difference in vision between the two commanders. While the aim of Sun Tzu is to gain superiority to the enemy in combat, Atatürk’s aim is to win the war. Enemy extermination, persistent aggression and pursuit emerged as a result of Atatürk’s broad vision.

 

It has also been surprising to see great identifications in the text, apart from the difference of two thousand five hundred years between them. The decisions taken by the two commanders who served history coincide with each other before, after and during the war, and it is underlined that the structure that can take aggressive and disciplined initiative will achieve victory.

 

Another striking feature is the importance that both commanders attach to the changeability of their plans in the ongoing process, following the preparation of their foundations in the planning phase. A striking difference in tactics and other areas is the importance given to factors other than its own power, such as the terrain and the state of the enemy, in Sun Tzu, although the war in Atatürk was planned by considering its own resources and its own situation.

 

 

As a result, the study has shown that the two leaders have striking similarities, rather than differences, in both leadership and management. In these similarities, while the importance given to spiritual power by Atatürk is visibly higher than Sun Tzu, Sun Tzu’s emphasis on the indispensability of the discipline within the organizational structure is more than Atatürk.

 

Considering the differences, the most important phenomenon can be defined as Atatürk’s seeking victory with the destruction of the enemy as a determinant feature, and in Sun Tzu, seeing the enemy’s withdrawal from the battlefield as necessary and sufficient conditions for victory.

 

War is a phenomenon that has existed since the creation of man. Throughout history, all the material and spiritual developments, scientific and moral advances failed to eliminate the ongoing wars between people, and even caused it to strengthen both technologically and intellectually, increase its spreading area and power of destruction. Drawing attention to this situation, some authors described the history of humanity as a “history of wars” and throughout history many thinkers, soldiers and statesmen wrote various works on what war is, its place in the historical course, its impact on the social and economic cycle and the art of war .

 

Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War”, known as “the world’s oldest book of war strategies”, is one of the most important of these works. This work, which is one of the famous Chinese classics and considered to be the basis of all modern military strategies, is It is known that it was written during the “Warring Provinces” period (the period of the Chou Dynasty), which lived between the 5th and 3rd centuries BC. It is also considered as “the road to extinction” and for this reason it is said that “it is inevitable to examine it in depth”.

  1. Ö. Sun Tzu, a great Chinese strategist (military philosopher) who lived in the 500s, introduced the first theories in the science of strategy in his famous work «The Art of War».

 

He grew up as a military strategist in China during the constant raids of Sun Tzu Turks, who lived in China 2500 years ago, between 78-711 B.C. and matured his thoughts by studying the Turkish armies. B.C. He is famous for his work “The Art of War” written in 500 years. Listing the principles and principles of war, this work preserves its importance and value in the modern age.

 

It is a magnificent book that should be read not only by soldiers or researchers, but also by everyone in today’s business world, especially in executive positions.

 

In addition to Sun Tzu’s The Art of War (500 B.C.) as a source in the study, our founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk between the years 1908-1938;

 

  • that they have signed,
  • what he wrote,
  • what you say,
  • your personal notes,
  • his orders on battlefields,
  • His statements to the press,
  • private conversations,
  • personal memories,
  • his statements during the period he directed wars

 

A systematic database has been created by scanning and gathering them together. Atatürk’s practices and evaluations about the Art of War are abstracted from place and time. Again, in the comments, it is generalized by using the concepts of enemy Turks instead of Greeks / Army instead of Turkish Army.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Samuel A. Weems (December 12, 1936 – January 25, 2003)

Edward J. Erickson