Читаю сборник "Mental Maps in the Era of Two World Wars" и малость офигел от турецкой "национально-сознательной" историографии. Если вкратце, то по четырёхтомной "Истории" Турции, опубликованной с одобрения Кемаля и при его активном участии, турки:
1) за десять тысяч лет до Рождества Христова жили по берегам большого моря в Средней Азии, где научились плавить металл, приручили животных и сеять хлеб. Затем, в связи с концом ледникового периода и высыханием этого внутреннего моря, турки расселились по всему свету, одна их часть за 7000 лет до Р.Х. принесли цивилизацию в северный Китай, а другая - создала цивилизацию Хараппы и Мохенджо-Даро;
2) шумеры - это турки; хетты - тоже, и вообще турки живут в Анатолии с 5000 года до Р.Х;
3) троянцы - турки, этруски - тоже турки, как и греки(!) - греческое название Эвбеи происходит от турецкого слова "обе".
Короче говоря, это не просто нечто сравнимое со "славянско-ордынской" империей Фоменко; это было активной частью государственного исторического "нарратива" при Кемале. После его смерти фитилёк прикрутили, но "хетто-турков" оставили.
Оригинал.
The first volume advanced the Turkish History Thesis: that all civilizations came from the Turks or were profoundly influenced by them. Turks yielded to no others in antiquity or civilization, and in fact even preceded them. The Thesis was bold, ingenious and utterly fantastic. It was embodied in a map of Eurasia showing the civilization-bearing Turks radiating out in all directions from the centre of Asia. This map appeared everywhere. According to History, the Turks of 10000 BC lived around a great sea in the middle of Asia, where they developed metalworking, domesticated animals and began settled agriculture. At the end of the Ice Age, however, the climate dried up and Turks emigrated in all directions. The first group settled in North China, where they brought the techniques of civilization by 7000 BC. Others moved to India to establish the civilization revealed by the excavations at Harappa and Mohenjo Daro (the Thesis made extensive use of archaeology). This might seem more than dubious, since the Chinese and Indians obviously weren’t Turks. There was an easy explanation: the Turks were gradually absorbed into the local population – much as the ancestors of the Bulgars (who really were Turks) were swallowed up by the local Slavs.
Far more important for the future were developments in the Near East, where the migrating Sumerian Turks founded the first organized states and cities and developed the world’s first writing system. From there, around 5000 BC, Turks entered their holy land of Anatolia and a millennium later had established the Turkish Hittite civilization; all this confirmed by excavations in Asia Minor. This was a crucial point, establishing Turkish priority in Asia Minor and implicitly denying claims by Greeks, Armenians or anyone else. Along with the Hittites came the Turkish Thracians who founded Troy, followed later by the Lydians of whom one branch moved to Italy where, as the Etruscans, they laid the foundations for Roman civilization. Likewise, History concluded that the earliest settlers in Egypt came from Central Asia, bringing agriculture and irrigation around 5000 BC. The Greeks posed the biggest problem. No one could deny their importance in world history, or their key role in developing the Western civilization the Turks were so anxious to join; but there was no way to claim that Greeks were Turks. The solution was ingenious. The Bronze Age was not a problem: the Minoans of Crete who came from Anatolia, could be considered Turks. Their tribes had leaders called ege (hence the Aegean sea) or aka, a name taken by the Akalar (Achaeans) who produced the Mycenaean civilization. Many place names in Greece belong to a pre-Greek language. Some could be identified as Turkish on the basis of fanciful resemblance to words in a Turkic language; so the people of Euboea (Obe) and Ionia (Iyon) could be claimed. The Iyonlar were heirs of Crete and Mycenae, flourishing at a time (eighth to fifth century) when mainland Greece was poor and backward; their language was not Greek or Semitic but Central Asian Turkish. But History had to give up on the classical Greeks, by stating that no one knew when or how they arrived. They were different, in any case, from the Macedonians, a Turkish tribe who came down from the Danube region.
(p.92-94)
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Тема: Турция и события вокруг неё (Прочитано 10957 раз)