From the Monuments of Kül Tegin and Bilge Khan             

        Turkish Bilge Khan who was in the sky as the God, I sat right now. Hear my words completely… All the nations in the east where the day lights, in the south in the noon, in the west in the sunset, in the north until the midnight, are dependent to me. All those people | I have organized. He is not bad now. There is no any discomfort in the city, when the Turkish Kah would sit in his forest in Ötüken. I led the army until the plateau of Şantung in the east, I almost reached the sea. I led the army until the Nine Ersin in the south, I almost reached to Tibet. I led the army until Demir Kapi by passing the river of Inci in the west. I led the army until the Yir Bayirku in the north. I made them walk almost to everywhere; there is no better place then the Forest of Ötüken. The place to live is the Forest of Ötüken.

 

        I stayed there and made agreements with China. It gives gold, silver, silk, and silken goods without any trouble. The speech of Chinese people is pleasant, the silken fabrics are soft. They bring far away nations near to themselves with pleasant speech and by their soft silken fabric. After the approach of the other nations, they begin to think the bad things. They do not let walk the good, wise and brave person. If one person mistakes, they do not give shelter in their clan, nation, relatives. Turkish Nation, you are dead while being persuaded to the pleasant speech, soft silken fabric; Turkish Nation, you will die! If you wish to camp in the Plateau of Tögültün, the Forest of Çogay in the south, Turkish Nation, you will die!

 

        The bad person teaches there: he teaches that if it is a place away from here, the goods bought are spoilt, but if it is a place closer, the goods are good. You unwise man, you are dead if you take these words and go near! Turkish Nation, you will be dead if you will go towards there! You don't have any discomfort if you stay in Ötüken and sent caravans, and convoys. You will stay in the Forest of Ötüken, it will be your city forever.

 

        Turkish Nation, you do not know the value of being satiated. You do not think about the hunger, and satiety. If you are satiated, you do not think about the hunger. Since this is the situation, you went everywhere without the permission of your khan who is feeding you. You are destroyed, damaged there. You were walking there with the remained people getting much more weak, and dying. I became the khan, since God ordered this, since I was prosperous. I collected all the hungry and poor people, when I became khan.

 

        I made the poor people the rich ones. I made the few to the many. Is there any lie in my words? The blue sky on the top, the black earth in the bottom, and between them the human being is created. And on the human being there were my ancestors, Khan Bunun, and Khan Istemi. By being there, they organized the traditions and the power of the Turkish Nation. All four directions were full of the enemies. They made all the nations depending on themselves by sending their troops in four directions. They bowed, and they made to kneel down the rebellious ones. They arrived to the forest of Kadirgan in the east, and to the Demir Kapi in the west. Between those places, there were unorganised Gok-Turks. He was a wise khan, a brave khan. His order was wise too, brave too. The nobles and the nation were right. Thus, he had the power and organized the tradition. He in this manner died. All the nations, the crying people in the mourning, the People of Bökli Çöllü from the east, China, Tibet, Avar, Byzantium, Kirghiz, Three Kunkan, Otuz Tatar, Kitay, Tatabi came, cried, he was such a famous khan.

 

        Since the Chinese people are tricky and liar, and they are deceptive, since they make the brothers fight against each other, since they make the nobles and the nation to dispute, Turkish Nation has lost the power, has lost the khan whom they made the khan. The noble sons become slaves, the daughter's concubines to the Chinese Nation. The Turkish nobles left their Turkish names. The Chinese nobles began to use Chinese names; they obeyed to the Chinese khan. He worked for fifty years. He led the armies to the Khan of Bökli in the east, he led the armies until Demir Kapi in the west. He gave his power, his tradition to the khan of China.

 

        The Turkish People said so: I was a powerful nation, now where is my power, for whom I'm gaining power? I was a nation with a khan, where is my khan, for whom do I work for? They became enemies to the Chinese Khan. They became enemies, but gave themselves up to him since they did not organize and arrange themselves. He was saying to kill and annihilate the Turkish Nation without thinking about their manpower. He was going to cease to exist. The Turkish God in the skies has arranged the Turks' cerebral lands, and water that way. He rose my father Khan Ilteris, and my mother Ilbilge Hatun up from the hills of the sky, so that the Turkish Nation should not be annihilated, and it should become a nation. My father khan went out with seventeen soldiers. The others heard his footsteps, the ones in the city went to the mountains, the ones on the mountains came down to the city, they came together and became seventy soldiers.

 

        Since the god gave the strength, the soldiers of the khan were like the wolfs, and the enemies like the sheep. He sent the soldiers to the west and to the east, and piled them up. All of them became seven hundred soldiers. The seven hundred soldiers created the weakened nation, which was without a khan, which became concubines and slaves, according to the traditions of the ancestors. There they organized the nations of Tölis, Tarduş. There they gave the Yabgu, şad. The Chinese people were enemies in the south. The tribes of Khan Baz and Nine Oguzs in the north were enemies. Kirghiz, Kunkan, Otuz Tatar, Kitay, Tatabi, they all were the enemies. My father khan led the soldiers for 47 times, he made wars for 20 times. Since the God wished, he made the powerful to the weak one, the one with the khan without the khan, he made the enemy to depend on him, he bowed and knelt the rebellious ones. My father khan, after he gained the power and the tradition, flew away.

 

        It is firstly constructed by Khan of Baz for my father khan. According to the rule, my uncle became the khan. My uncle by being the khan organized again, and fed the Turkish Nation. He made the poor rich, the few many. I was şad in the Tarduş Nation when my uncle became the khan. We led the army together with my uncle until the River of Yeşil in the east, and to the Plateau of Şantung, until Demir Kapi in the west. We led the army until the country of Kirghiz by passing the Kögmen. We led the army in total 25 times, we fought 13 times, we made weak the powerful, the country with the khan without any ruler. We made the rebellious to bow and to kneel. The Khan of turgiş was one of our Turks, our nation. The khan had died as he did not know, he behaved wrongly toward us. His commander and his nobles had died, too. The On-ok clan suffered.

 

        We settled the country by passing the Forest of Kadirgan in the east, we organized them so. We arranged the Turkish Nation until the Kengü Tarman in the west, we organized them so. In those times, the slave became the one who own the slaves, the concubine became the one who own the concubines. The little brother did not know his big brother, the son did not know his father. We had such strength, and the rules that we have gained and organized.

 

        O Turkish, Oguz nobles, nation, listen! who can destroy the Turkish Nation, its power and rules, without the weigh down of the sky at the top, and without the holes in the earth at the below? Turkish Nation, give up, be regretful! Because of your undisciplined character, you made mistakes to your wise khan who was feeding you, and to your free and independent strength, you made it to be seen badly. From where did the ones with the guns come, destroyed and sent? From where did the ones with the pears come, draw away, and sent? The people of the cerebral Forest of Ötüken, you have gone. You went to the east. You went to the west. Your purpose should be this: your blood should ran like water, your bones should pile up. Your noble son became the slave, your daughter became the concubine. My uncle khan flew away because of your ignorance, because of your badness.

 

        I firstly beat the Kahn of Kirghiz. The god that rose my father khan and my mother lady so that the Turkish Nation did not become annihilated, the God that gave the power, made myself the khan so that the Turkish Nation did not become annihilated. The nation was not rich when I became the khan; the nation was ruined, poor, naked, unemployed, poverty-stricken. We talked with my little brother Kül Tegin. I did not sleep at night, did not sit on daytime, so that the Turkish Nation our father and uncle had gained, did not become annihilated. Together with my little brother Kül Tegin and two şads we gained the wars with our last strength and did not put our nation into fire.

 

        When I became the khan, the nation, that had went to everywhere, rushed back by food, naked and poverty-stricken. In order to feed the nation, I led the big army for 12 times against the clan of Oguz in the north, the Tatabi, tribes of Kitay in the east and China in the south, … I fought. Then, God forgives; I fed the nation, which was dying, since my state existed, since I was lucky. I made the bare people dressed, the poor people rich. I made them much more powerful, valuable than a khan. I made the nations in the four directions dependent on me. They all obeyed me. After winning all this rules, my little brother Kül Tegin died.

 

        When Kü-l Tegin had been 26-years-old, we led the army to Kirghiz. They were asleep when we arrived there, after we had passed the Forest of Kögmen. We fought with the khan in the Forest of Songa. Kül Tegin attacked the white horse of Bayirku. He shot a soldier with an arrow, he speared two soldiers. When he attacked, they shot the Bayirku's white horse. We killed the Khan of Kirghiz, we captured his country.

 

        In that year, we walked by passing the Forest of Altin, and the River of Irliş toward Turgiş. We attacked to Turgişs while they were sleeping. The army of Turgiş khan came like a storm. We fought. Kül Tegin attacked on the grey horse with a white forehead.The grey horse with the white forehead caught two of them. Then he caught the minister of Az, who was the commander of the khan of Turgiş. The khan was killed there. The Turgiş people became dependent on us. We settled that clan in the Tabar…. We led the army to Demir Kapi by passing the River of Inci in order to bring the order to the Nation of Sogd.

 

        When Kül Tegin had been 27-years-old, The Karluk Nation, that was free and independent, became enemy. We fought in the Tarnag Iduk Baş. Kül Tegin had been 30-years-old in that war. He attacked on his horse named Alp Şalçi. He killed two soldiers with arrows. We killed Karluk and won. The Nation of Az became enemy. We fought in the Lake of Kara. Kül Tegin was 31-year-old. He attacked on his horse named Alp Şalçi.

 

        He caught the Az commander. The Nation of Az was destroyed there. When my uncle khan weakened, when the nation and the khan separated in two, we fought with the nation of Izgil. Kül Tegin attacked on his horse named Alp Şalçi. The horse fell down there. The Izgil nation was destroyed. The Nine Oguzs were my own nation. They became enemy because of the mixture of the sky with the earth. We fought 5 times in a year. First we fought in the Togu Balik. Kül Tegin attacked on his horse named Azman.

 

        He killed six soldiers with the arrows. Upon the soldiers attack, he killed the seventh private with a sword. Second we fought in the Kusalguk with Ediz. Kül Tegin on Azman, his gray horse, attacked and killed a soldier with an arrow. He shot 9 soldiers. The Ediz clan was destroyed there. Third, we fought in Bolçu with Oguzs. Kül Tegin attacked on his horse called Azman. We speared soldiers, we took their power.

 

        Fourth, we fought in the Çuş. The Turkish Nation resisted. We were going to be destroyed. Kül Tegin drew away their army, we destroyed a clan from Tongra, we killed 10 brave soldiers in the Tonga Tigin's funeral. Fifth, we fought with Oguzs in the Ezginti Kadiz. Kül Tegin attacked on his grey horse. He speared two soldiers. That army was destroyed there. We stayed in the Castle of Amga for the winter, in the spring we sent an army toward Oguzs. We left Kül Tegin at home as a precaution of protection. The Oguz enemy attacked the center. Kül Tegin spared 9 soldiers on his horse, and he did not give the center. My lady mother, my mothers, my sisters, my brides, my princesses all the livings would become concubines. You all would be dead if Kül Tegin did not existed.

 

        My little brother Kül Tegin has died. I'm in deep sorrow. I'm likely blind, my mind that knew, does not know anything. I'm mourning. God lives the time, the human-beings die. I'm thinking while I suppress my tears coming from my eyes, my sorrow from my heart. I'm thinking that my two şads, my little nephews, my son, my nobles, my nation will fall in deep sorrow.

 

         Kitay, and general Utay from the nation of Tatabi came to cry and to mourning. Isiyi Likeng came from the kingdom of China. They brought a treasure more than 10 thousand of gold and silver. A vizier came on behalf of the khan of Tibet. Sogd, Iranian, general Enik from the country of Buhara, The Son Tarkan came. Maharaç from the Turgis, the minister of khan Oguz came. Inan-çu Çor came from the khan of Kirghiz. As the mausoleum constructor, designer, and constructor of stone monuments, General Çang, the nephew of the khan of China came.