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The
Fourth Section
THE
STATE OF TÜRKMEN
The Ancient OGUZ STATE
My
beloved Türkmen!
In
the course of the development of humanity, many nations and countries
have made momentous contributions to the world community. China and
India achieved enormous advances. These advances also happened among the
Oguzs or Türkmens. World
History, however, offers insufficient information about the progress
made by Türkmens. Great
efforts are being made to retrieve what has faded of Great Türkmen
history. There is not infrequent distortion of the history of the Oguz
who, ever since the period of Oguz Han, have left significant historical
traces in the destiny, politics, economics and culture of Asia and
Europe by founding many great states in the world. Sooner or later,
however, time will put all things in their proper place.
The
achievements of the Oguzs between the 1st and the 13th
centuries cannot be denied. It is an undeniable truth that the Parfiıa
State, the Gaznalys, the Seljuks, and the Köneürgençs affected the
historical and political development of the world and reached a high
level of accomplishment in the cultural and economic realms. But because
some historians were Arab and Iranian in origin, they tried to connect
all of these historical advances with Iran, or with the Arabs and later
generalized them as Turkish… Our historians, brought up in
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