The power Mu-kan had commanded had been the army of
the east wing of the emperorship. The other army under the command of Istemi (552-576) was
active in his own region. In a short time, the Turkish emperorship raised to be a world
state by Istemi, who after he had the sovereignty of the west of Altays, the Lake of Isik
and Tien Shang Range, affected the two biggest states of the Middle Age, such as the
Emperorship of Sassanids and Byzantium with his military and political movements in the
wide range, to adapt to the Gok-Turks' politics. After his first pressure experience
over the Ak-Hun-Eftalits in the year 561, Istemi who accepted the Sasani Emperorship to be
a natural allied against this state, that held the Silk transit trade in their hands, made
an agreement with Şehinşah Anuşirvan Adil. By this means, his daughter became the
empress to the palace of Iran by marrying Anuşirvan. The state of Ak-Huns-Eftalits
collapsed by the suppression of the allies and its lands had been shared between the two
emperorships, with the Oxus River (Amu Darya) as a border (564). The Transoxiana, a part
of Fergana, Kaşgar, Hoten etc. had been transferred to the Gok-Turks. Thus, the Turkish
had the Middle Asian Silk caravan road for the third time in their hands.
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