It is beyond doubt
that the Safevi people had borrowed the aforesaid elements from Chagatai people. In
addition to this, it was stated that the Chagatai literature was in high demand among
Safevi people. Therefore, it would not be considered as an inappropriate opinion that the
Safevi State could be considered as the invigoration of Ilhanli Empire. As
it is known, we do not have any Turkish document obtained from the divan of the Iran
Seljuk (even from the Anatolian Seljuk State) State. We can state the same thing for the
Karakoyunlu State. It has been known that some of the Akkoyunlu beys had sent letters to
Turkey that had been written in Turkish language. As for the Safevi State: there were some
Turkish letters despite their few number in the divan of this state since the period of
Shah Ismail.
Iran of the Safevi State had turned into a country in
which the Turkish groups had constituted a denser majority in population when compared
with the previous periods. The reason for this density of Turkish population was the
continuous migrations from Turkey that took place in crowds emigrating from Turkey in
relation with the foundation of the Safevi State.
These migrations had lasted for more than a century.
Moreover, there are some documents that states that there were some migrations to this
country even in the beginning of the century XVIII. As it has been stated in other
resources before, there were continuous movements of migration from Anatolia to Ian in
relation with the political activities since the century XIV. Moreover, various Turkish
tribes in Iran had even forgotten about their migration from Anatolia in the century XIX.
The first stage of these migrations was initiated upon the advance of Uyrat Ali Padişah
who was the Governor of Diyarbakir connected to Mongolians against the Ilhanli Ruler,
Arpagaun in the year of 1336. Ali Padişah had defeated Arpagaun and established dominion
in the region. Upon these events, a Mongolian and Turkish community with crowded groups
from the regions of South-East Anatolia and some of the regions of the Eastern Anatolia
immigrated to Iran. In the same year, these migrations were followed by the migration of
another Mongolian-Turkish group under the administration of Celayir Sheikh Hasan, the
general governor of Anatolia pertaining to the Mongolians. The community that Cobanli
Sheikh Hasan and Düzmece Demirtas had brought from the Central-Anatolia to Iran was a
more crowded community than the previous two groups.
We have
known that the people of Karakoyunlu State had immigrated to Iran in the century XV. These
people took with them most of the Turkish tribes that lived in the Central Anatolia and
the South-East Anatolia. They also caused some of the Turkish tribes from the Central
Anatolia to immigrate to Iran. For example; the Karakoyunlu people caused the immigration
of a branch from Agac-Eriler people that had lived in the region of Maraş-Elbistan. This
branch has survived until nowadays in Iran. However, as it can be understood from the
following information stated below, the immigrations that took place upon the foundation
of the Safevi State were too concentrated and continuous that they cannot be compared with
the migrations stated above. Even after the foundation of the Safevi State, this state was
alimented from Anatolia in respect of particularly manpower for a long time. Therefore,
the Ottoman and Safevi States that were the merciless enemies of each other had jointly
benefited from this country for nearly a century.
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