A Study into the Concepts of "Turkey" and "Türkistan" Which Were Used For the Ottoman State in the XIXth Century

Authors : Tuncer Baykara

Pages : 179-190

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Publication Date : 2017-07-14

Article Type : Research

Abstract :"Türkistan and Türkiye/Türkiya” are two concepts which were used to describe their country by Turks who knew Europe and spoke a western language, but they were not widely distributed. However with the effect from the middle of XIXth Century, as we definitely know after 1856, Turkistan started to be used for Ottoman countries as well, in official records and also later in literary work. This concept continued to live for a longer period of time until the beginning of XXth Century in official documents. In this essay it has been included these concepts and their sources.
Keywords : Turkistan, Turks of Anatolia, Turkey, History of Anatolia, Turkish People