Kabile ve din olgusunun Doğu Anadolu`daki yansımaları (1923-1938)

Abstract

Turks has played an important role in the course of the history. Due to theircapabilities on structing new states, their mobility, immigration to new landscapes andhorizons, Turks migrated into the west from central asian steps. They settled down tothe country where it is later called by westerners as the country of eastern issue. Initallylived as nomads, Turks quickly developed a sense of tribalism. Since the rules fortribalism have been stated as being ruled under a chieftain, obeying the orders given byhim, the authority of chieftains has been increased dramatically. The habits of preislamicTurkish values have also been imported to islamic era, thus they have alwayskept tribal traditions and religion as the foremost criteria for their Iifes.The remaining signs of states which were born and developed in eastern anatoliaafter the great exodus still cane seen today. In fact, all the nations who lived and ruledtheir states effected this anatolian geography to some extent with their culture, familytraditions, and religious dogmas. Among the turkish tribes who migrated from centralanatolia, some tribes who called themselves as