Two topics from Turkey’s ancient capital/Carlos Pueblo

Two topics from Turkey’s ancient capital/Carlos Pueblo

I did briefly drop by Topkapi Sarayi, Topkapi Palace of Byzantine on

the morning when I ran into that con-artist to steal my 40 US dollar.

Byzantine Empire was before Ottoman Empire and before that my

knowledge could only track to Roman Empire. This is the history of

current day Turkey while developing the second of my topic the race

of Turks.

Topkapi Palace is located on the shore of Marmara Deniz, the sea of

Marmara on the European side of Istanbul. Not far away, you can take

a ferry across Istanbul Bosphorus strait to the Asian side of Istanbul.

Topkapi is a Palace of Byzantine era. There have been four different

Empires, Roman, East Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman since the beginning

of the century. Topkapi is a beautiful museum at present with a beautiful

garden and I regret very much that I don’t take advantage to visit on this

trip.

I am very curious of the Turks, the people of such rich heritage. I thought that

the Turks were originally  from current day northern China, north of the great

Wall of China called Gokturks, a branch of the Huns. After thousands year war

with Chinese,  they were pushed westward to the north of Altai Mountain.

Eventually the Mongolian pushed these people further west along the ancient

Silk Road to the current day Middle east. They got a final break in current day

Turkey after the Mongolian stopped at Baghdad. In 1299 A.D. they formed a

Kingdom and conquered Byzantine in 1453 A.D. to set up the Ottoman. This

Ottoman went up north through the Balkans to reach to the wall of Vienna.

During 600 years, Ottoman Empire was a center of Africa, Asia, and Europe

and Istanbul was the capital city attracted so many different kinds of people,

the black from Africa, yellow skin Asian, and  white skin Caucasian. Caucasia

is nearby. According to my classical Chinese history knowledge, Gokturk are

color eyes and white skin like current day Uyghurs in  the east Turkistan, western

China. I am not quite sure if Turks and Uyghurs speak the same language; however,

Turks, Mongolian, Japanese, Korean, Hungarian, and Finish are all Altai linguistics.

Immigrating to the U.S. helps me to understand how people immigrate especially

when people move in order to find a better place to live. Now Turks move to

the western Europe and I understand because people move to America as well.