SOVIET HISTORIANS...

Touching on the debates about the roots of the Hungarians, Fakılı continued as follows:

"Some historians attribute the origin of the Hungarians to the Turks and some to the Finns. Some Turcologists say that the Soviet regime, which did not want the Hungarians to strengthen their ties with the Turkic world during the Warsaw Pact 1945-1989, claimed that they were of Finnish origin. He states that he was related to the Cumans, Pechenegs and Khazars, that under the rule of the Khazar state, which ruled between 650-965 AD, Hungarians lived in close contact with the Turkish tribes, and that the fusion of kinship took place at that time.Hungarian historian Ferenc Eckart, in his book Hungarian History, states that He states that they are no different from Turks in terms of political organization and economic life while migrating to the West. In this context, we can record that Hungarians and their close relatives, the Szekels, used the Yenisei Turkish alphabet until the 16th century. It is accepted that there are hundreds of words from Central Asian Turkish in the Hungarian language, which is in the Altaic language group. Journalist and writer Arthur Köstler (1905-1983), who is also Hungarian, writes that there are 200 words in Hungarian from the Turkish (Chuvash dialect) used by the Khazars."

"I HAVE APPLE IN MY POCKET"

Drawing attention to the similarity of Hungarian and Turkish, Fakılı said:

The best example often given for language similarity between us is the sentence "I have a very small apple in my pocket", which is the same in both Turkish and Hungarian. Apart from this, there are many Turkish words that are still used in today's Hungarian, such as ax, goat, door, beard, jackal, ram, camel barley, hemp, tray, whip, bowl. Many street names in Budapest are still in Turkish today (such as Sipahi, Taban, Tuğrul, Pala, Kartal Street). Hungary is also considered the cradle of Turcology in the world with its two institutes and famous Turcologists. In our country, Hungarology chair was established in 1936 within the Faculty of Language, History and Geography of Ankara University by the instruction of Atatürk.

TO TURKS: TÖRÖK

Noting that Hungarians kept Turks apart from other eastern societies and Muslims, Fakılı wrote:

"The Hungarians, who are a nation interested in keeping their history and traditions alive, call the Turks "Török". Török is a name adopted by the Hungarian society, not taken from outside. They see a bit of "themselves". Speaking of ancient times, it would be impossible not to mention the book of the Thirteenth Tribe (Jewish Turks of Central Asia, Khazars) by Arthur Köstler, a Hungarian-born Hungarian writer mentioned above, in which he describes the Khazar Khaganate. It deals with the Caspian state and the Turkish people of the Khazars who lived there, which ruled in the region between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, including today's Ukraine, a part of Russia and the North Caucasus, between 965. The author, in this book, also discusses the same state roof of the Hungarians. use the Turkish dialect together with the Caspian and Hungarian. He states that the first Hungarian king Arpad (meaning barley in Turkish) ascended to the throne according to the Caspian tradition.

HAZARDS DETAIL

However, the thesis put forward by Köstler in this book, published in 1971, is that around 750, the Khazar Khaganate chose Judaism as the official religion, and the majority of today's Jewish community, especially Ashkenazi Jews, are of Caucasian origin, and that the Khazars constitute almost the dominant element of today's Jewish population. It is based on the idea that there can be no talk of a pure Jewish race. Naturally, it has been argued that the basis of anti-Semitism in Europe will weaken if there is no single race. Naturally, the people who will reveal the truth or falsity of this thesis are undoubtedly historians, anthropologists, geneticists, in short, scientists."

CLAIMS IN THE BOOK

At that time, many nomadic tribes, namely Cumans, Pechenegs, Huns, Oghuzs, Kipchaks, continued to migrate in waves from Central Asia to the West. It is recorded in the book that the Khazars had close ties with the founders of the Seljuk dynasty, the branch of the Oghuzes, and that one of the four sons of the Seljuk chief was named Israel and one of his grandsons was named Davut, but this closeness was broken when the Seljuks chose Islam.

The 300-year life of the Khazar State was completed in 965 as a result of the attacks of the Eastern Roman Empire and the Russians, but the Caspian element continues to live in the region. From here, there are migrations to Eastern Europe. The victory of the Seljuks in the Battle of Manzikert in 1071 opens the door of Anatolia to the Turks. Meanwhile, Hungarians continue to migrate to Central Europe, to their present homeland, and they choose Christianity in 900. The homeland of the Hungarians is the Slavic and Germanic sea.