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Yörtürk Magazine, Number: 47
Diyarbakir and It's Districts
Ziya GOKALP
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The
description of nationality isn’t a matter of discretionary, but it is
scientifically to be arranged. When I’ve first arrived in Istanbul in my
youth for education, I had to begin this scientific investigation: because,
I noticed that there had been a misunderstanding coming from the past as
“the ones who come from Blacksea region were called Albanian and the ones
who come from eastern provinces, like me, called as a Kurdish nationality”.
Until that time, I had been feeling myself Turkish. But my opinion wasn’t
based on a scientifical investigation. In order to find out the truth, I’ve
started to research “being Turkish” and on the other hand “being Kurdish”.
First of all, I’ve started from the language. In Diyarbakir city, even the
native language is Turkish, every body knows a little Kurdish. The duality
in the language could be explained in two ways; Diyarbakir’s Turkish was a
Kurdish Turkish or Diyarbakir’s Kurdish was a Turkish Kurdish. |
My linguistic researches displayed that,
Diyarbakir’s Turkish was consisting of a natural language i.e. : Azerbaijani
dialect extended from Baghdat to Adana, Baku and Tebriz that is Akkoyunlu’s and
Karakoyunlu’s Turkish. There isn’t any artificiality in this language. For this
reason, it is not a Turkish which was distorted by Kurds. (Diyarbakir language
is Azerbaijani Turkish and this situation makes the claims decay that cities
were speaking Turkish with the influence of Ottoman Government. Because if this
was the case, the language that was being speaked in these cities should be
Ottoman dialect. )
I noticed that Kurdish which was spoken in
Diyarbakir, differed from fluent Kurdish that was spoken in villages. Although
Kurdish is a relative of Persian, it differs from Persian in meaning of syntaxe.
Because, although there is not such a case in Persian, the concepts of
“masculinity and femaleness” in Kurdish are defined by putting a letter at the
end of the word like in Arabic and in Latin languages. Thus, Kurdish is more
compound and more complex compared to Turkish. Some grammatical properties
which are mentioned above can not be found in Turkish language. Therefore, the
Turks couldn’t have a chance to penetrate Kurdish language. Diyarbakir people
created an artificial Kurdish by adapting some of its rules to Turkish grammer.
This kind of Kurdish can be named as “Turkish Kurdish”. This
significant case is the biggest evidence
that Diyarbakir’s people are Turkish. Furthermore, Diyarbakir people use this
language only when they speak to Kurds. Between themselves they only speak
Turkish. When it is looked at the words of this artificial Kurdish, words of
this Kurdish are very limited. That’s why, they fill the blanks with Turkish
words. Anyway, Kurdish words that they know are restricted only with easy words
like “come and go”.
I found one more evidence in religious
area which proves that Diyarbakir people are Turkish. Real inhabitants of
Diyarbakir are Sunni like all Turkish people. And Kurds are Shafi’i in general.
This is not special to Diyarbakir people. In the cities of eastern and southern
provinces, the inhabitants speak Kurdish by distorting it and they differ from
Shafi’i Kurds because of being Suni. And furthermore, there are also differences
in some matters like clothing, cooking, construction and furnishing. These
properties not only showed me that the people of Diyarbakır are Turkish, but I
also understood that my grandfathers, who came from a Turkish region called
Çermik, are Turkish originated as ethnic.
ARTUKLU TURCOMAN
STATE
Ancestor of Artuks Mr. Artuk is the son of Mr. Eksuk who was one of the
presidents of Kayi clan. He participated to Malazgirt War when he were the
president of Kayi clan. Then, Diyarbakir – Mardin – Harput and Malatya
cities were given to Mr. Artuk. When pact with Byzantium had been violated,
Alp Arslan charged an army in command of Mr. Artuk with conquering Anatolia.
Mr. Artuk organized activities of installing Turkmens to Anatolia. Mr. Artuk
who administered important top level duties within Grand Seljuklu State died
in 1901 while performing Jerusalem Emirate duty. After he died, Turcoman
clans, as his sons, founded South-East Anatolia Artuks Generosity.
Diyarbakir –Mardin–Harput–Malatya cities had been the places where Turkmens
lived the most throughout 307 years. Artuks who were sovereign to South-East
as Hasankeyf, Mardin and Harput clans took the basis of Old State Principle.
They used old Turkish names like Alpsagun, Kutlug and Yabgu. Artuks are the
most important evidence that South-East Anatolia is a Turkmen state.
1-Diyanet Vakfı İslam Ansiklopedisi c.3 s.415 2-Ana
Biritanica C.2 s.361 3-Türk Kültürüne Hizmet Vakfı Kültür Atlası c.1 s.173
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