EXCEPTIONAL MIGRATIONS IN HISTORY Hamza Aksüt
Türkçe EXCEPTIONAL MIGRATIONS IN HISTORY Hamza Aksüt
As it is known, communities migrate to the west throughout history and today. It is a fact that even cities expanded towards the west. Undoubtedly, sociological analyzes can be made on this situation, but it is not my topic. I will try to make analyzes on migration with historical data and examples.
We said that communities migrate to the west, but this is the case with everything. There are also exceptions to the determination. The subject of the article is these exceptional migrations.
Towards the end of the fifteenth century, the Safavids in Ardabil, Azerbaijan his lodge added political activity to its religious activity. Whether settled or nomadic, Alevi communities in Anatolia, Syria and Mesopotamia began to migrate to Azerbaijan to support these political activities.
One of the most important examples of west-to-east migration in history took place.
These migrations, which started in the fifteenth century, continued until the eighteenth century. The most important event in thisprocess was when Shah Ismail came to Erzincan and met with the lords of the community. 0, 0, 0);">conversation. (1500) In 1501, the Safavid state was established in the city of Ardabil and a sermon was read and a supplication ceremony was held in the name of the Twelve Imams.
In order to understand the subject better, it is necessary to explain the political situation of Anatolia, Syria and Mesopotamia at that time.
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Dulkadır state, whose capital is Elbistan, Maraş, Kayseri, Yozgat, Kırşehirdominated its regions. Its border with the Ottoman Empire was the city of Ankara. The Mamluk state, whose capital was Cairo, dominated all of Egypt and Syria, Antep, Malatya and Divriği. The state of Al-i Osman (the state of the Osman family), whose capital was Istanbul, dominated the Black Sea region, the northern part of Central Anatolia, the entire Aegean and Marmara regions and the Balkans.
Turkish, Kurdish and Abdal Alevis in the lands of these states are so crowded that they migrated in masses As many places became deserted, the tax and fee revenues of the states decreased. Reacting to these migrations, Iranian Hodja Saadeddin Efendi, the Ottoman palace historian, says the following in his five-volume book:
“A crown on your head Become Pelid ((referring to Shah Ismail) ” (He made the incomprehensible Turks his disciples)
The leaders of the communities that joined the Safavids assumed important positions there, such as governorships and army commanders. Ottoman court historian Kemalpaşazade says: “The Turks abandoned the lands and sold them for nothing”
Historian's The text continues as follows (in today's Turkish): When they arrived there, they became government officials. All of them wanted to leave, dead and alive. When they arrived there, they became lords and gained excessive prestige. The one who heard it left.
Finally, let's give a list of the most numerous communities that joined the Safavids.< br>
Turks: Beğdili, Avşar, Bayat, Bayındır, Dulkadır, Ustacalu, Acirli, Çepni,< br>
Kurds from Harbendeli, Damascus: Arapgirli, Hınıslı, Çemişkezekli, Nakit Mansurlu, Çegeni, Kelhor, Rışvan, Balaban, Canbek , Izol Abdal: Dusty, Black Rain, Tencili, Halberd
