ON DOKUZUNCU ASIR TÜRKİSTAN TÜRKLERİNİN KÜLTÜRLERİ, KARAKTERLERİ VE GÖRÜNTÜLERİ HAKKINDA AVRUPALILARIN GÖRÜŞLERİ

Year 2008, Volume: 10 Issue: 20, 271 - 296, 01.10.2008

Memet Yetişgin

Abstract

On dokuzuncu yüzyılda Türkistana yönelik yabancı ilgisi oldukça yoğundu. Bunun en önemli nedeni Rus yayılmacılığı ile İngiliz-Rus rekabeti idi. Bölgeye yönelik yabancı gözlemci ve gezginlerinin sayısında büyük artış sağlanmıştı. Amaçları farklı olsa da bu gözlemciler bölge üzerinde geniş bilgiler kaleme aldılar. Bunların ortaya koydukları bilgiler bölgenin sosyal, siyasi ve kültürel yapısı hakkında önemli bilgiler sunmuştur. Yabancıların açıklamalarında bölgede yaşayan Türklerin kendi çevrelerine mükemmel uyum sağladığı, kendi kendilerine yeten bir seviyede kültürel ve ekonomik zenginlik gösterdiği görülmüştür. Ancak, yetersiz bilgilere ve tecrübeye sahip olan birçok gözlemcinin ortaya koyduğu bilgiler bölgenin gerçek yapısını açıklamada kısır kalmıştır. Bununla birlikte, yabancıların Türkistan hakkındaki gözlemleri, tarihçiler ve diğer araştırmacılar için önemli esin ve bilgi kaynağı olmuştur

Keywords

Türkler, Türkistan, Kültür, Rusya, Türkmenler, Orta Asya

ACCOUNTS OF THE EUROPEANS ON THE CULTURE, CHARACTER AND APPEARANCE OF THE TURKS OF TURKISTAN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Abstract

Foreign interest toward Turkistan was intensive in the nineteenth century. In this, Russian expansion and Anglo-Russian rivalry played important role. Number of the foreign observers and travelers to the region sustained great rise. Despite different goals, these observers inked large works. These works have presented important information about social, political and cultural aspects of the region. As the foreign sources reflected, the Turks of Turkistan had perfectly adopted to their environment, developed good enough economical and cultural wealth to go on living. However, because of shallow knowledge that the foreign observers had about the region, sources failed to present the whole picture. Despite all weaknesses, foreign sources had inspired historians and others to write about the region.

Keywords

The Turks, Turkistan, Russia, Culture, Turkmen, Central Asia.

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