TÜRKLERDE BOY YAPILANMASINA BİR ÖRNEK: KARAHANLILAR
AN EXAMPLE OF CLAN ORGANIZATION IN TURKS: QARAKHANIDS

Summary/Abstract: The formation process of the ancient Turkish states covers the period starting from the family called oguş until becoming a state called urug, tribe, bodun and province respectively.Turkish tribes played a role in both the establishment and the division and disintegration of the Turkish states. In this regard, the issue of which Turkish tribes had an influence on the state formation process of the Karakhanids has been discussed by Western and Eastern scientists for a long time. While the dominant view focuses on the Karluk thesis, some of them are the Yağma, Çiğil and Uyghur assumptions, which are also expressed in the study. By trying to reach all the opinions in the literature, the article tried to answer the question of which Turkish tribes the Karakhanid dynasty was based on.

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