The Importance of the Gok-Turk Khanate in Turkish History             

         After the Asian "Big" Huns Emperorship, the Gok-Turks Kingdom, the second "super" Turk Emperorship that was the first to use the word "Turk" as the official name of a government and to gain the honour of naming a whole nation, and that presented the Turkish culture in every points of view, unified all the cultures having Turkish origins under the same administration except the Yakut Turks in East Siberia and the Ogur Turks (Bulgarian) in the west. After the collapse of the kingdom, the different groups of Turks who spread to all directions like a fan that opens, survived the name of "Turks", its administrative, political and economical traditions in every place they had gone.

 

        In all the Turkish histories, the traces of the habits and of the interpretations of life of the Gok-Turk organization and literature, except again the Oguns and the Yakuts has survived. After the Gok-Turks, except the "r" Turkish (dialect of Ogurs), all the dialects and styles of Turkish have the marks of Gok-Turks' Turkish. From the east to the west: Central Asia, Turkistan, Transoxiana, North India, Iran, Anatolia, Syria and Balkan Turks are Turkish due to the Gok-Turks.

 

        This group of people that we call Gok-Turks, whom we distinguish from the other Turkish states and groups, named themselves generally "Turk" or "Turuk". But, in their legends they used only for one time themselves as "Gok-Turks". According to Thomsen V, this phrase that meant "belong to the sky, celestial divine Turk", indicate the brightest period of the kingdom.