KUT UNDERSTANDING OF TURKS FROM COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
TÜRKLERDEKİ KUT ANLAYIŞINA KARŞILAŞTIRMALI TARİH AÇISINDAN BAKIŞ

Author : Kayhan ATİK
Number of pages : 209-222

Abstract

The state is the name of political institution that people form among each other, in order to meet their needs in a prosperous, collective and regular life. The state is a phenomenon that exists among the people who live collectively, starting from primitive tribes since the beginning of mankind. It basically means "state, fortune, luck, happiness, greatness, rank, richness, wealth, changing, turning from one state to another, wandering, prevailing, victory." Turks have given great importance to state and political organization throughout history. In other word Kut was the power of political sovereignty, that is, to rule the state in terms of the power and authority of the administration. Already, the "blessed" meaning of Kut shows his interest with the God. In the Turkish thought, God gave the "kut" or "political authority". The sovereignty was taken from the heavens, according to which the right to rule over the Turkish ruler was granted as a

Keywords

Turks, Kut, Comparative History

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