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WHO ARE TURKS

1. They are Yafes's sons (Yafes is the prophet Noah's son).

2. They are the son's of Oguz Khan who has taken the world under his nation's sovereignty. He is called as "The owner of east and west" at holly Quran.

3. Name of their holly land is "Ergenekon". Today this area is between east China, Mongolia and Kazakstan.

4. They are not Arabs, and not speaking arabic. For at least 5000 years, they have spoken Turkish. Turkish is the one of the oldest languages of the world.

5. At every age, The huge majority of turkish civilization belived in one God. Their ancient religion is called as Shamanism, but indeed, it was very different and also it was very close to original prophet Abraham's religion.

6. Their culture and cultural rules and orders have many common points with the native americans (indians) also there are some similarities between the both languages.

7. Chengiz Khan of mongolia has turkish ancestors.

8. KHUNS (HUNS) are Turks. Attila is one of the greatest turkish king (kagan).

9. As a nation, Turks suddenly decided to became muslim altogether at 9.century after great wars with arabs.

10. Turks have 16 great imperial state at history. They were all the strongest of their different eras. the 16 stars at the pennant of the turkish republic president meant this.

11. Great wall of china was built to resist turk attacks. (The fear! which can be seen from moon).

12. Backgammon and football are ancient turkish games.

13. The basics of modern Military system is coming from Turkish ancient military system.

14. First rockets at battle fields were invented and used by "the Turk" Baybars khan to defend egypt and resist mongolian attacks at 1200s. He was the only one who defeated mongols.

15. Buhara and semerkand were the first and great metropols, science and art cities of the world established at 800s and after mongolian attacks they still stand as the biggest open air museum.

16. The howitzer was invented by Fatih Sultan Mehmed (conqueror of istanbul from byzantium- the emperor and scientist).

17. Today in europe Hungary and Finland have turkish roots from the era of Attila Khan.

18. Today the demograpic structure of europe completely built by turks. The nations of europe found their identities after turk attacks and immigrations of nations. some nations were borned and some were disappered.

19. The greatest all time international state established by turks, Otthoman empire: 72 nations were living together without apartheid and governing theirselves as an independent state under the turk emperors.

20. First flying man was turk.. Hazerfen Ahmet Çelebi.. At 1600s he has flied with his made apparatus on bosphorous from europe to asia.

21. the huge majority(%98) of turks are muslim, but gagavuz turks are orthodox and hazar turks are jewish (Hitler killed all at II.WW).

22. when the time was calling as dark age at europe, the turkish civilizations were living golden years with justice, richness, art and huge science developments.

23. world greatest medicine doctor Ibn Sina was Turk.

24. world greatest architect Mimar Sinan was Turk. His buildings are still secret and sample for modern architecture.

25. Algebra and algoritma was invented by turks (Mehmet bin musa al-kharezmi).

26. trigonometry was developed with founding tangant and sinus by Turks.

27. modern astronomy was developed with the works and books of turk scientists like abdurrahman es-sufi. Biruni (973-1048) wrote books about astronomy, many years before Galileo, he described the movements of earth around sun and calculated all earth measurements and the solar system correctly. Copernic was wrong but Biruni never.

28. while europe does not know even a toilet, turks have got sewer systems surround the cities.

29. Piri Reis discovered america many years before colombus. also he was the first sailor rounded the world and draw a world map. Moreover he calculated the heights of the mountains of antarctica under ice. Today it is very difficult although we have sonar technology. You can see this original world map at topkapi museum.

30. On paper money you generally see the pictures of national hereoes and soldiers. However you will see on turkish paper money the pictures of great scientist sons of turkish nation.

31.Turks are cruel to enemy and supportive to their friends. Every nation has a benefit from turk race and every nation, who deserves, has a wound from this race. Turks know the payback time best and never forget. History proved it at many times definitely.

32. Kopuz (kind of turkish guitar) used to be holly at ancient turks, when a man plays it everybody sits and listens. Turks had used the music as a hooly tool just for giving social and national messages. it still goes on like this at some regions of Turkey.

33. "as strong as turk" or "as brave as turk" are the phrases at european literature.

34. "start like turk, finish like english" is another phrase :)

35. Turkish woman has got all the social rights like voting and being elected before all women of the world.

36. Turkish children have got the annual national celebration day before all kids of the world.

37. At every era of turkish history women and men were equal. The Harem stories which europeans want to listen very much, are just tales. Dansöz (the woman dancer) and belly dance belongs to arabs, turks never let their females to humiliate theirselves. At ancient turkish culture the dancers were males.

38. At past and nowadays, different religions live together at Turkey and there is pure friendship. you can see the church synagogue and mosque at one garden just in Turk lands. Look at the world map, there are chaos at all old ottoman lands. but they used to live in peace once upon a time.

39. Every turk is nationalist and liberal from blood, but it is not politic.

40. Every national item has got own special name for turks. for example: land name is anadolu, name of nation is turk, state seljuk, ottoman, Turkey... the original name of turkish land is "Turan"

41. Ottoman empire is given name to Turkey by europeans, the original name of the empire was "Devlet-i Ali", which means "The Great State".

42. The name of the ideology of Turks which is coming from past, is "Kızıl elma" (red apple).

43. the symbols of Turkish national flag: moon: first letter of arabic alphabet and symbolize the word of Allah, star: shape of the word of Mohammed in arabic, red : bloods of our warriors.

44. Turkish language is very rich and complicated, totally different from arabic. Turks used different alphabets for writing their literature, especially the science developments appeared when they passed to arabic
alphabet but after revalution and declaring republic they accepted Latin alphabet instead of arabic or original Turk alphabet.

45. Ankara is capital city of Turkey. Istanbul is ex-capital city like Edirne and Bursa.

46. İstanbul is one of the biggest city of the world with 15 million population.

47. your life time will not be enough to taste all turkish kitchen. It is delicious and one of the richest kitchen of the world. Turks made other nations meet yogurt, sousage, jam, baklava, döner and þiþ kebap. Also there
are several kind of delicious treasures wait for you to be discovered.

48. totally at europe there are 1500-3000 kind of botanic, at turkey there are more than 30.000 kind. Turkey is just like a paradise with its natural richness the beauty of costs, rivers, mountains and forests.

49. Turks came and get these lands from byzantium order at 26 august 1071 by Malazgirt war. 36.000 turkish warrior defeated more than 120.000 united byzantium warriors in 3 days.

50. 7 churhes of christianity are here in anatolia, Turks are protect these although their muslim.

51. Turks are pure muslim and have strong faith, they called theirselves as "Sword of God". At past the mission of Turks "fight with the cruel in the name of justice; save the innocents, without looking their religion and nation". Because of this mission, they never assimiliated other cultures to make them muslim and never gave them a military duty. Everyone was free at Turkish land. Turks spread justice to whole world and carried their civilizations to make people meet justice and Islam. Turks never fighted with innocents. Fighting with innocent and weaponless person is big shame at Turkish culture.

52. At 16. century Kanuni Sultan Suleyman isued the first biggest and detailed constitution as modern meaning.

53. If you want to know turks and know their character and ethic understandings, you have to observe canakkale wars (gallipoli-I.WW)

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54.  FC GALATASARAY ISTANBUL was the greatest football team of Europe at 2000-2001 with all statistics. They got UEFA cup and SUPER cup without any lose.

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