GREAT TURKMANS AND MODERN TURKIC NATION

Abstract

From the Middle Ages to recent times, various opinions have been expressed about the turkman name, its meaning and origin, as well as the origin of the nation. The idea that the turkman ethnonym appeared after the oghuzs accepted Islam creates the impression that the turkmans appeared on the stage of history after the oghuzs accepted Islam. However, this ethnonym existed before or in parallel with the formation of oghuz as an ethno-political union.
Every ethnos is dynamic by nature, and the turkmans were no exception in this regard. Apart from the oghuzs, the inclusion of villages and oymags from other Turkic ethnic groups is confirmed by both historical, ethnographic and linguistic facts.
Apparently, the turkmans existed as an ethnos at least 200 years before the oghuzs converted to Islam, and this ethnos included villages and oymags from Turkic ethnic groups. However, starting from the 10th century, the oghuzs accepted Islam and joined the turkmans, which played an important role in the fate of this ethnic group. The influx of oghuzs into the turkmans to the point that the prevalency of the oghuzs in the turkman world was much higher than the prevalency of the villages and oymags belonging to the remaining ethnic groups. Quantitative change as usual has shifted to qualitative change. That is, the quantitative majority of the oghuzs within the new ethnos determined the nature of the new ethnic system.
Oghuz tribes played a major role in the formation of the ethnos, so the turkman language was formed on the basis of the Oghuz language. However, the composition of this ethnos, as it is said, includes, apart from the oghuzs, kipchaks, karluks, uygurs, khalajs, etc. villages from ethnic groups of Turkic descent also participated. This event did not leave an impact on the turkman
language.
The turkmans took dozens of nations and turned into a superethnos in the large geographical area where they spread. Dozens of states established in these areas, including the Great Seljuk Empire, the Kharazmshah Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Garagoyunlu and Aggoyunlu states, are the product of the political intelligence of the great turkman nation.
There is no nation between the modern kyrgyz and ancient kyrgyz, kazakhs and ancient kipchaks, uzbeks and ancient karluks, uighurs, Kazan tatars and ancient bulgarians, kipchaks. As for turkmans stand between the turks of Turkey, the turks of Azerbaijan, and the turkmen of Turkmenistan and the oghuzs.