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Professor historian Dmitry Chernyshevsky on distorted Iranian history

Türk tarihindeki bazı hükümdar ve komutanların isimleri zamanla mecazi anlam kazanmıştır. Bugün buna ilginç bir örnekle karşılaştım: Meksikalı devrimci Emiliano Zapata’nın lakaplarından biri “El Atila del Sur” idi. Bu ifade İspanyolcadan çevrildiğinde “Güneyin Attilası” anlamına gelir.

Ancak belirtmek gerekir ki bu lakap, Zapata’yı itibarsızlaştırmaya yönelik siyasi bir kampanyanın parçası olarak El Imparcial gazetesi tarafından verilmiştir. Gazete, onu “barbarların lideri” gibi göstermeye çalışıyordu. Oysa Zapata, köylülerin hakları için mücadele ediyor ve büyük toprak sahiplerine karşı savaşıyordu.

Dávid Somfai Kara’nın “The Formation of Modern Turkic ‘Ethnic’ Groups in Central and Inner Asia” adlı makalesinden:

“Yönetici (töre) ve önde gelen Moğol soyları (Kazakça: ақсүйек – ‘asil sınıf’), Kıpçak Türkleri tarafından dil bakımından asimile edildi ve Cuci Ulusu’nun göçebeleri arasında yeni bir dilsel ve etnik birlik oluştu. Onların dili zamanla günümüz Kazakça, Karakalpakça ve Nogaycaya dönüştü. Aynı durum Çağatay Ulusu için de geçerlidir…
İslam’ın kabulü de göçebelerin kimlik bilinci üzerinde büyük etki yarattı. Cengiz Han soyundan gelen Moğol yönetici elitleri, XIV. yüzyılda yukarıda adı geçen iki göçebe devlette (uluslarda) İslam’ı resmî din olarak benimsedi… İslami dinî kimlik giderek daha önemli hâle geldi ve bu süreç, Moğol elitinin Türk çoğunluk içinde asimile olmasını hızlandırdı.”

A full Y-DNA test has been completed for an Azerbaijani descendant of Mammad Amin Rasulzade, one of the founders of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the leading figure of the Azerbaijani national movement.

The tested individual belongs to haplogroup J-Y256927, a lineage estimated to have originated around 5,000 years ago, likely during the Kura–Araxes culture.
His closest known matches currently place him on a branch that split about 2,300 years ago with a Lezgin and a Tsakhur individual. This period roughly coincides with the tribal diversification that took place within the territory of Caucasian Albania. Parallel branches of the same lineage also include Syrian Arabs, an Ossetian, and a Georgian.

Mammad Amin Rasulzade’s family originated from the village of Novkhani on the Absheron Peninsula. His documented paternal ancestor was Akhund Karbalayi Alekbar, who lived in the 18th century.
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The population greeted the Ottoman soldiers warmly and feelings of Muslim solidarity were riding high, but relations between the Ottoman commanders and Azerbaijani leaders soon proved to be less than cordial. Those Mu-savatists who had cautioned against uncritical admiration of the Ottoman State began to see their reservations vindicated. The Ottoman military failed to show consideration for the sensibilities of the young Azerbaijani administration, and local officials began registering complaints on these grounds. Nuri Pasha himself did not hesitate to interfere with the politics of the friendly country.
He let it be known that his sympathies lay with the conservative and Pan-Islamist elements rather than with the leftists or Mu-savatists, who might be suspected of being in an "Azerbaijan-first" frame of mind. Neither did he show much regard for the National Council, inasmuch as this body owed its existence to the Russian Revolution. A political crisis arose in mid-June when Nuri Pasha expressed his disapproval of the Khan Khoiski cab-inet, which included ministers objectionable to him. When a distressed delegation from the National Council sought his au-dience, he referred them to his adviser, Ahmäd bäy Aghayev.
Now a ranking Ottoman official and one of the architects of the Pan-Turanian program, Ahmäd bäy warned the Azerbaijanis that the cabinet lacked popular support - that it might even witness a revolt and that in such a case the Ottomans would not defend it. He recommended dissolution of the National Council and appointment of a new government by Nuri Pasha, although in the end he agreed to allow the National Council to form a cabinet on condition that it forthwith suspend its activity as a governing body.

Source: Swietochowski, Russian Azerbaijan, 1905–1920, p. 131.

Blue lines represent German trenches, while red lines represent the Entente forces.

The famous French writer Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) wrote a book after his journey to the Caucasus in 1858.
In the first chapter of Travels in the Caucasus (Voyage au Caucase), he recorded his observations about the peoples of the region:

“Every people living in the Caucasus has its own characteristics. The Persians trade in silk, the Lezgins sell carpets, and the Tatars [Azerbaijanis] deal in weapons. The Armenians have no particular specialty; they sell everything that can be sold—even things that cannot. In general, the Armenians did not leave a favorable impression on me.
It is said:

If a Tatar nods his head, trust him.
If a Persian extends his hand to you, trust him.
If a mountaineer gives you his word, believe him.
But if you are making an agreement with an Armenian, sign the paper in front of witnesses and keep two witnesses with you, so that he cannot later deny his own signature.”

— Alexandre Dumas, Voyage au Caucase, Chapter I (1859)

A comprehensive Y-DNA test of an Azerbaijani citizen from the village of Maştağa, Absheron, revealed that he belongs to the C-Y148203 haplogroup.

This lineage includes ancient DNA samples recovered from the mausoleums attributed to Alash Khan and Jochi (Juchi) Khan, linking it to the Borjigin lineage of the Mongols.

The same paternal lineage has also been identified among Tatars, Uzbeks, and Uyghurs, with their most recent common paternal ancestor estimated to have lived around 1,000 years ago.
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