The Lineage of Atatürk

·   This information is quoted from the book of “The Rising Sound of Turkish Youth in Information Age 1999”  written by Þecaattin Zenginoðlu, ex-consultant of Primeministery.

THE OWN DESCRIPTION OF ATATÜRK:

(1) “My only honor, treasury in life is nothing than Turkishness”
“Do not try to impute a birth to me above of humans. Any perfection in my birth is to be born as a Turk.”

(2) His replay to the question by an English of “Which noble family are you from?”:
 “Teodoz who is proud himself with his mother’s and father’s honorary asks to Attila before the peace negotiations: “Which noble family are you from?”. Attila answers like this: “I am a son of an noble nation!”. This is the answer of mine to you!”

(3)  Answered to so called new Rýza Nurs:
“Turk is noble just for he/she is Turk…. Most of us cannot remember the father of our grandfather. We find our entire noble proud in being Turk.”

(4)  “… Turkishness is my deepest confidence source, my largest proud support.”

(5)  “We should not be friend to ones turning against to our national being. Against them we say “I am Turk and enemy to you, even if I am the only one standing.”

(6) “If Turkish nation, that I am one of the members, has glory and honor then I have glory and honor as a member.”

(7) Atatürk identifies himself like this. He says that he is a Turk and he proud himself with it. Taking into consideration that if a person is from the nation he/she felt, M. Kemal is a Turk and he is a great Turk, Ancestor of the Turks. He is a Turk who had gained the national identity back to Turkish nation; he is a Turk who ensured changing to nation from faithful community depends on religion. These are also won’t be sufficient enough to new Rýza Nurs. To bring clarity to the matter, as a matter of fact it is unnecessary, we will also study the race of his mother and father. We will look at who is he, from whom.

MUSTAFA KEMAL’S MOTHER ÝS YORUK TURKMEN

The race of Zübeyde Haným is Yoruk. She is a member of a family that had emigrated for Turkicising of conqured places in Balkans in Fatih time after falling down of Karamanoðlu Beyliði (1466). Because they came from Konya region they registered as “Konyarlar” and called as like this afterwards.

(8) The family has been placed in Sangöl sub-district of Vodina sub-division. Zübeyde’s father, Sofi-zade Seyfullah Aða, emigrates to Lankaza near Salonica and be owned with a farm. And, Zübeyde Haným is born in there in 1857. Mother of her, Ayþe Haným, is the third wife of her father.

(9) Lets see the race of Zübeyde Haným from narrations:
From Makbule Haným, sister of M. Kemal (1885-1956):
“I had heard from my mother repeatedly. Our main race is Yoruk. We had come to here from Konya-Karaman region” she says and explains that some turned back to Konya: “My grandfather Feyzullah Efendi’s Grand uncle went to Konya, and attended in dervish lodge of Mevlevi, then stayed there.”

(10) Makbule Haným tells about Yorukness:
“… My mother all the time was proud of being Yoruk. One day, I asked Atatürk “What is Yoruk”. My elder brother said “Walking Turks”.

(11)  Yoruk and Turcoman are synonymous. When Atatürk explains his race he also stresses on this:
“… My ancestors are from Yoruk Turcoman that they came to Rumelia from Anatolia.”

(12) Hasan Tahsin San, born in Salonica and old deputy (1865-1951) of Aydýn, who knows Zübeyde Haným’s father, her husband Ali Rýza Efendi and also knows Ali Rýza’s father Kýzýl Ahmet Bey                                                           

(13) Gives below information: “Zübeyde Haným, mother of Atatürk, is the daughter of Fethullah Aða from Sofu-zade family. She was born in Salonica. This family came to Salonica from Sarýgöl 130 years ago (at the beginning of 1800s). This sub-district family that constituted from sixteen villages and settled in Sarýgöl sub-district which is placed on west of Vodina sub-division, is from Turcoman that sent and housed from Konya province by Ottoman government, after conquest of Macedonia and Teselya. They didn’t change their life style, and external appearance along five centuries.”                                                                                                                                                

(14) A foreign writer was quoting the information about Atatürk’s mother: “Mustafa’s father was Ali Rýza Efendi, and mother was Zübeyde Haným. Zübeyde Haným … was blond; she had smooth and white skin, deep but clear blue eyes. Her family came from lakes district that hard and naked mountains sink in the frozen waters at the west of Salonica and straight forward to Albania. This place was the place that the villagers came from the heart of Anatolia and have been settled on after conquest of Macedonia and Teselya by Turks. Zübeyde Haným, because of this, was enjoying to think that she was bearing the blood of the Yoruks that were the first grandchildren of nomad Turkish clans and were still going on to live at large in Taurus Mountains. Mustafa was also resembling to his mother; his hair was yellow like her, his eyes were blue like her.”           
                                
(15) Zübeyde Haným’s own expression; common expression of her son, daughter and the ones who know her and also the ones studying on the matter; is that Zübeyde Haným is Yoruk Turkmen That means that Zübeyde is Turk.

Father’s race of Mustafa Kemal is “Kocacýk Yoruks (Koca Hamza Yoruks)” that had come from Aydýn/Söke then have been settled in Monastery province. Ali Rýza Efendi was born in Kocacýk of Debre-i Bala sub-division (1839). The family migrated to Salonica afterwards. His father is primary school teacher Kýzýl Ahmet Efendi. His uncle is Kýzýl Mehmet Efendi. The “Kýzýl” nickname they were bearing and “Kocacýk” of the name of place they were living shows that Ali Rýza Efendi’s race is “Red-Oghuz” or “Kocacýk Yoruks-Turcoman” that have contributed to the Turkicising of Anatolia.   

(16) Most dependable information regarding father race as well as mother race is quoted by Atatürk’s mother, sister and their relatives.
Makbule Haným;
“My father Ali Rýza Efendi is a Salonica inhabitant. He is from Yoruk descent.”                                                 

(17) Atatürk: “My ancestors are Yoruk Turcoman whom they came to Salonica from Anatolia.”

(18) Mehmet Somer (1882-1950), old deputy of Kütahya, Atatürk’s friend both from district and school:         

(19)  “My information about Atatürk’s ancestors as below:
Atatürk’s ancestors were settled in Kocacýk sub-district of Debre-i Bala sub-division of Monastery province after coming from Anatolia. I had heard these information from old people of Salonica. All of the Kocacýk people speaks Turkish. They are well built human beings. All of them are Yoruk… Their wearing looks like Anatolian Turks’. Their life style, and even their dialects are same.”

(20) Milliyet newspaper issued an article on November
10^th, 1993 named as “Family Tree of Ata”. Altan Araklý, reporter, goes to Kocacýk village and makes a study and speaks with the villagers. Here are the quotes from Numan Kartal from Kocacýk: