- The Chinese who ruined
the Eastern Turkish Kingdom brought the people from the family of the khan to the capital
and gave them some duties in order to keep them under control. They thought to annihilate
the Turks and convert them to Chinese in order to get rid of the Turks completely. Thus,
they settled a big part of the Turks along the Great Wall of China. But this suppression
helped Turks to increase their resistance. They embraced with determination their
language, habits and traditions, and they got ready for revenge. During their enslavement,
which lasted 50 years they rebelled when ever they found a chance.
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- One of these rebellions
known as "the rebellion of Kür-şad" forms the golden pages of Turkish history.
The Turkish Prince Kür-şad was the younger son of Çuluk, an ex Turkish khan. He was
charged as the bodyguard in the Chinese Emperor's Palace. At that time, the emperor of
China was Tay-çung from the family of Tang. Kür-sad formed a secret rebellion committee
together with thirty-nine friends of his in order strengthen the Turkish State and free it
from slavery. These forty patriots who were strong and brave and good gun users prepared
an attack plan. The Emperor Tay-çung used to go around sometimes in the garden wearing
the clothes of a king and sometimes he was walking in the city alone and disguised. The
plan was to kidnap him, to take him to the Turkish cities and exchanged him with the
Turkish nobles hold in the Chinese Palace as slaves and the Turkish lands that were under
the control of China. Then, they would call all Turks to rebellion. It was not difficult
for the forty young Turks to kidnap the Chinese Emperor.
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- The secret committee
received information that the emperor was going around that night, they informed each
other to start the action. Kür-şad's friends arrived at the determined place after
abandoning their duties. But, that night there was a very big storm and the emperor did
not get out of his palace. It was dangerous to postpone the plan, because it would become
clear they had abandoned their duties and the plan for the preparations of a rebellion
would be uncovered. This could result in the massacre of all Turkish slaves. Thus, the
forty Turkish heroes attacked suddenly the palace without waiting for the emperor to come
outside. Hundreds of the palace guards were killed. But the Chinese armies filled up the
palace upon getting information from those who had escaped. They could not kidnap the
emperor under such conditions. Kür-şad had to leave the palace and apply the second part
of his plan, which was "an attack to the palace's stable".
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- The forty heroes rode
outside the town on horses after they killed the guards and the stablemen. The whole army
was after them. They stopped compulsorily when they reached the River of Vey near the city
and turned into an attack position. They killed hundreds of soldiers, but the army was
crowded. The Turkish heroes died fighting until the last drop of their blood.The rebellion
was not successful but the desire for freedom in the hearts of the Turks increased and
spread rapidly in all Turkish cities. This event happened in 639. The desire for freedom
lasted 41 years until they regained their freedom.
