What Was Written In The First Inscriptions Incorporating The Name ‘Turk’ Revealed

Mongolia lands hosted a historical discovery regarding Turkish history the other day. The Orhun Monuments, which are known as the first work in which the Turkish name is mentioned, lost this title with the new discovery. The new owner of the title became a memorial complex that was determined to belong to İlteriş Kağan, the father of Kültekin and Bilge Kağan.

In the examinations made, it was determined that the first known Turkish alphabet was used in the inscriptions. However, the meaning of the writings on the monuments has not yet been shared. The International Turkic Academy, which made the discovery possible, is today the inscription of İlteriş Kutluğ Kağan, which is determined to belong to the 7th century. He shared his preview.

Part of the inscription is now readable:

Academy President Darhan Kıdırali, in his social media post, stated that the text, which is 70 centimeters high and 19 centimeters wide, has text on both sides. Kidirali is located on the front of the inscription. Of 19 lines yet 12 lines declared that it can be read. The expressions in these lines were shared as follows:

• Ninth month of the cow year
• son of god
• Kutlug Kagan: Turkish
• My boys, embers
• our beautiful
• I did: Our foreign privates
• on the ground
• Division: Ten thousand
• give my job my strength
• I appointed (given title)
• All were equal

The text in the inscription that takes the history of Turkish writing back hundreds of years. will be completed as soon as possible specified.

“There are mythological beings mixed with dragon and wolf heads”

Kidirali, together with the pre-reading of the inscription, dragon, wolf head mixed mythological beings He shared that there are pictures and Turkish and Sogdian text. Kidirali stated that Ilteriş Kağan’s complex, which is located on a large area, was destroyed by his enemies in his time, 51 balbal stones were found around the complex, but their skulls were broken. Moreover, even the newly discovered inscription was cut in half in the middle.

The newly discovered inscription of İlteriş Kağan, unlike the Kül Tigin and Bilge Kağan inscriptions, is not erected. discovered buried in the ground. The complex in the form of an oval, consisting of a total area of ​​49 square meters, included 51 balbal stones around which symbols belonging to the Aşina family and the 7th century inscription of İlteriş Kutluğ Kağan.