Çukurova Üniversitesi Türkoloji Araştırmaları Dergisi

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The area, which includes China in the east, the Caspian Sea and Khorasan mountains in the west, the Hindu Kush and Kûh-ı Sefîd mountains in the south, and the Kazakh steppes in the north, is called Turkestan in the literature. A large part of this Turkish homeland, which has been under the rule of the great Turkish states since ancient times, was dominated by the Uzbek khans in the XVI century. In the century in question, the Uzbek khans engaged in a difficult struggle and competition with another Turkish state, the Safavids, to dominate the region. Over time, the Ottoman Empire intervened in this competition between the two Turkish states, became one with the Uzbek khans and took the same side against the Safavids. As a requirement of the alliance between them, the Ottoman sultans and the Uzbek khans acted jointly against the Safavids. The Ottoman-Uzbek alliance, which was implemented especially in the campaigns organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Safavids, continued intensively during the reigns of Yavuz Sultan Selim, Suleiman the Magnificent, Selim II and Murad III, who were Ottoman sultans of the XVIth century. The alliance left behind not only political and historical victories, but also a significant diplomatic correspondence. In this study, it is an exemplary document for the alliance between the two states, and the nâmen, which is found in the Süleymaniye Library Esad Efendi Catalog and is found between the 245b-246b leafs of the munşeât magazine called Düstûru'l-İnşâ, which belongs to Sarı Abdullah Efendi, and which is revealed to belong to Abdullah Khan, one of the Uzbek khans, will be introduced. The geography of Turkestan based on the name introduced, the Turkic states established in this field, the Uzbeks, the Uzbek khanates, the relations of the khanates with the Safavid and the Ottomans, the history of the relations between the Ottomans and the Uzbek khans, the underlying reasons for these relations, the languages in which the correspondence was carried out, the archives and period sources in which these state correspondences were kept, the introduction of the journal in which the document based on the study is located, who is the sender and addressee of the document, information was given about the type, form and content features of the document, the place of the document in Turkish history, the researches on the examined nâme and Turkestan khanates, the style used by the parties against each other, the spelling and language features of the document. Then, the document was transferred to Turkish with the translation alphabet. In the conclusion part, in the light of the findings obtained, the characteristics of the correspondence language and style of the Uzbek khanates are given.