AI Summary & Key Takeaways
AI InsightChristendom saw Islam as a deviance, a bogey, which, it believed, aimed at eradicating the Christian heritage; and therefore the Ottoman Turks, who had espoused the cause of Islam by taking over the Caliphate, became the object of that Christian hatred and hostility.
📌 3 Key Takeaways
Abstract
When the Turks made the fateful decision of embracing Islam as their religion, they became a marked people in the eyes of the Christian World, which saw that religion as a great danger to its very existence. The Turks failure, or refusal, to accept Christianity, despite the efforts of Pope Pius II, did not endear them to the Christians of the West; nor did their contribution to the Muslim cause during the great politico-religious upheaval of the Crusades. These religious wars created bitterness, hatred and hostility between Islam and Christianity, which were to last for centuries. Christendom saw Islam as a deviance, a bogey, which, it believed, aimed at eradicating the Christian heritage; and therefore the Ottoman Turks, who had espoused the cause of Islam by taking over the Caliphate, became the object of that Christian hatred and hostility.
Özet
Gök (Kök)-Türkler, bilindiği üzere, Türk milletine ad veren bir Türk zümresi olarak tarihimizde şerefli bir mevkie sahiptir. Kendilerine ve devletlerine Türk ( = güç-lü, kuvvet-li) diyen bu kütle milâddan önceki yüzyıllardan beri Asya'nın hâkimleri Hunlar soyundan olup, başbuğ Bumın'ın 552 senesinde Ötüken yaylasında (Baykal gölü'nün güneybatısında: 47. enlem, 101. boylam. Orhun ırmağının kaynak bölgesi) tahta çıkması ile, yukarı Çin sınırlarından Karadenize kadar uzanan sahada büyük bir hakanlık kurmuşlardı. Bu geniş sahada devlet doğu ve batı olmak üzere ikili teşkilat halinde idi.