Osman Karatay
Osman Karatay (1971), graduated from the Bosphorus University (Istanbul) in 1995. Completed his master and doctoral studies at the Gazi University (Ankara) respectively in 2001 and 2006. He worked in the Turkish Historical Society, in the Eurasian Strategic Studies Centre (ASAM) as head of the Balkan desk, in the Yeni Türkiye Research and Publishing Centre as manager of the Project Turk, the greatest historiography project for Turkic peoples. He is also founder of the journal Karadeniz Araştırmaları (the Black Sea Studies), the first academic regional journal of Turkey. Karatay works now in Ege University, Izmir, as chair of the department of Turkic History in the Institute for Turkic World Studies. He studies on medieval history of Eastern Europe, especially Turko-Slavic relations and Proto-Bulgar issues, Apart from his thesis, translations and many editions, including the Turks in six volumes (Ankara 2002), and numerous essays, he is the author of 17 monographs published. [email protected]
Address: Ege Üniversitesi, Bornova - İZMİR
Address: Ege Üniversitesi, Bornova - İZMİR
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thus to the proto stage, and the latter to the well-known imperial formation in Eastern Europe. The scattered but rich sources of Khazarian history are not, on the other hand, very helpful in Khazar history. The debates on the meaning of the ethnonym Khazar are also a part of the proto-history. We are bound, for the early parts of the history, with the eastern, i.e., Chinese and Turkic sources. Previously the Chinese sources were effectively used in that regard, and with the publication of the readings of the two Uyghur
inscriptions Tes and Terkhin from the 750s some fifty years ago opened a new chapter for the early history of the Khazars and the etymology of their name. This paper suggests a new frame for the early history of the Khazars in Asia and Europe and slightly revises the etymology of what we may call the French school, supposing that the Khazars came from South Siberia to the Caucasus in the wave of the Suvar union, after being
defeated by the Uyghurs during an internal strife likely instigated by the Türks and their overlords Juan-juans.
Keywords: Huns, Bulgars, Armenians, Georgians, Alans.