THE QUALITY OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH CAN AFFECT REGIONAL PEACE PROCESSES: TURKICNESS OF THE SUMERIANS AND PEACE IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN AREA

Abstract

The article examines the possible impact of objective and comprehensive historical research in solving peace problems. The discussion was carried out on the lines of the general dissatisfaction of the people of the region against the Turks during the First World War in the Turkish region as an example, drawing relative parallels with the events of our time. In the study, it is emphasized that some Turkic peoples settled in the Eastern Mediterranean region from the earliest times, while the Seljuk and Ottoman tribes came later. The article examines the ethnic identity of the Sumerians, and for the first time in historiography, various types of scientific evidence are presented that substantiate their existence as an ancient proto-Turkic people. The author, using possible historical, linguistic, mythological, archaeological, anthropological, genealogical and other results of various fields of science, for that historical period of the distant past, which is visible or shown in the twilight, trying to clarify with comprehensive scientific data from all directions, presents new scientific results for historiography, fully confirmed by sources. It can be seen from the study that while the first Sumerologists, following the information in the Gospel, examining the Sumerian texts found through searches and archaeological excavations, stated that these cuneiform texts were written in a language close to the Proto-Turkic languages, and the speakers of this language belonged to Turan region. Later, this issue was politicized, and was directed in the wrong direction by the rabbi of Bucharest and his followers, bringing with it darkness and wrong conclusions for the world academic science on this issue. In the article, for the first time for historiography, the roots of a number of Sumerian toponyms, anthroponyms, such as Sumer (Sumer), Kish, Abram (Ibrahim), Sarai (Sarah), Aran and others, are revealed scientifically, in compliance with the rules of linguistics, the etymology of words is explained and it is proved that these words are of Turkic origin. With the evidence presented here, the author not only scientifically refutes the orderly theory that “the Sumerian people are a people whose ethnic origin is unknown, lost in history,” but also marks geographical names and ethnonyms directly related to Sumer in the historical Turkic regions. He also comprehensively explains the question of the origin of the Sumerians and shows the ethnicity of this people to the Turkic peoples. When revealing his position from the point of view of linguistic data, the researcher uses words that have entered the scientific circulation by Sumerologists. However, the article emphasizes the need to study the Proto-Turkic languages ​​among the ancient languages ​​for a more correct interpretation of the Sumerian texts and a successful presentation of the meaning of the texts in modern languages. Because, according to the author, if today's Turkic-speaking Turkologist himself does not know the historical stages of the words he studies, if he does not know the Proto-Turkic languages, then he cannot be aware that any word he mentioned in ancient languages ​​is taken or not from proto-Turkic languages, and naturally, he cannot perceive either the ethnic landscape of Western Asia (including Sumer) of that period, or the essence of the events taking place there. To help solve such problems as much as possible, the author of the article considers it necessary to improve the Sumerian dictionary and the Proto-Turkic dictionary by specialists.