The Reasons why the Gok-Turk's Lost
Their Freedom
The 50 years between the years of 630-680, in
which the Gok-Turks had lost their freedom, was a period of mourning. Even though in the
Middle Asia the Turks protected their language, belief and traditions and existed as a
nation, they were deprived of an independent state. It was a source of suffering to be
"the slave who deserved to be the Sir and the Lady" for the Gok-Turks who
thought this issue as the event breaking their honour. The people were saying: "I was
a tribe with a country, now where is my country? I was a tribe with a khan, now where is
my khan?" According to the inscriptions, there are three reasons for those disasters,
which the Gok-Turks lived through.
1)
The inadequacies of the successor statesmen and administrators: "…
The khan was wise and brave, his orders were wise and brave, and so his tribe, in this
manner they organized the country recording to the customs… Then the brothers and sons
became khans, since the little brother did not resemble to the big one and the son to the
father, the ignorant khans ascended the throne, their orders were unwise and not suitable…
The Turkish nobles threw away the Turkish names and used the Chinese names, they were
dependent on the Chinese khan and worked for him for fifty years…"
2)
The inadequate conducts of the Turkish nations: "Turkish nation…
You don't think about the satiety when you are in hunger, you don't know what is hungry
when you are satiated. For this reason you did not listen well the words of the khan, you
leaved your country, you ruined and exhausted. You lost your independent kingdom… You
went to the east and to the west. What did you do where you have gone leaving the happy
homeland Ötüken? You caused a general massacre, your bones piled up like a mountain…",
"The Turkish nation has left his own khan, and gone under the control. Since it is
under control, God brought the death, the Turkish nation has died, destroyed…".
3)
The shrewd Chinese politics and the destroying propaganda: " The
Chinese nation do pleasant speech, its present is soft, soft words and soft gifts bring
together the nations far away. Then, he begins to spread the corruptive knowledge, he does
not let the good and the wise men. Lots of Turkish nations died believing his soft words
and soft presents…", "… Since the Chinese people are tricky and shrewd, the
Turkish nation begins to collapse because of the rebellions of the little brothers against
the big ones, and because of discords between the nobles and the nation, the independent
nation terminated…", "The Chinese khan decided to destroy the Turkish nation
instead of killing, even though the Turkish nation was working for him, then he begin to
destroy…".
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