PROBLEM OF LEGITIMACY WITHIN THE PRE-ISLAMIC TURKISH STATE TRADITION
İSLAMİYET ÖNCESİ TÜRK DEVLET GELENEĞİNDE MEŞRUİYET PROBLEMİ

Author : Özlem COŞKUN
Number of pages : 444-458

Abstract

This article aims to evaluate Turkish state formation tradition during the pre-Islamic era, the factors that were at stake during this formation, types of official organization, and sources of sovereignty. This is done by a comparative analysis of various pre-Islamic Turkish states in the light of sources that come up to today and present historical reality. The results of the evaluation show that the ontological foundations of this tradition present neither a contradicton nor a conflict with respect to the content of the founding ideology, and balance of the ideal and the real were taken care of. Within this balance, the basic dynamics such as nation, country, sovereignty and political organization were largely compromised with the “kut” belief. Furthermore, it is concluded that, as a fundamental parameter of a theocracy even it is clear that the essential source of the legitimacy of the political power is God, the Turkish state tradition stil can not be matched with a theocratic government type and such aims are unrealistic and purposive.

Keywords

State Tradition, God, Kut, Sovereignty, Legitimacy.

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