Crescent
24-09-2020, 21:11
(reactie op degenen die hen foutief het Turkse rijk noemen)
Even within the Ottoman Empire, the term “Turk” was sometimes used to denote the Yörük backwoodsmen, bumpkins, or illiterate peasants in Anatolia. “Etrak-i bi-idrak”, an Ottoman play on words, meant “the ignorant Turk”.
Özay Mehmet wrote in his book Islamic Identity and Development: Studies of the Islamic Periphery:
The ordinary Turks [Turkmen, or Yörüks] did not have a sense of belonging to a ruling ethnic group. In particular, they had a confused sense of self-image. Who were they: Turks, Muslims or Ottomans? Their literature was sometimes Persian, sometimes Arabic, but always courtly and elitist. There was always a huge social and cultural distance between the Imperial centre and the Anatolian periphery. As Bernard Lewis expressed it: “In the Imperial society of the Ottomans the ethnic term Turk was little used, and then chiefly in a rather derogatory sense, to designate the Turcoman nomads or, later, the ignorant and uncouth Turkish-speaking peasants of the Anatolian villages.” (Lewis 1968: 1)
In the words of a British observer of the Ottoman values and institutions at the start of the twentieth century: “The surest way to insult an Ottoman gentleman is to call him a ‘Turk’. His face will straightway wear the expression a Londoner’s assumes, when he hears himself frankly styled a Cockney. He is no Turk, no savage, he will assure you, but an Ottoman subject of the Sultan, by no means to be confounded with certain barbarians styled Turcomans, and from whom indeed, on the male side, he may possibly be descended.” (Davey 1907: 209)
Anti-Turkism by Ottomans
The Ottomans discriminated against the Turkish peasantry, and used ethnic slurs such as Eşek Turk (donkey Turk) and Kaba Turk (rude Turk) to describe them. Other expressions used were “Turk-head” and “Turk-person”
http://https://imaan.home.blog/2020/09/24/het-woord-turk-was-een-scheldwoord-in-het-ottomaanse-rijk-reactie-op-degenen-die-hen-foutief-het-turkse-rijk-noemen/
Even within the Ottoman Empire, the term “Turk” was sometimes used to denote the Yörük backwoodsmen, bumpkins, or illiterate peasants in Anatolia. “Etrak-i bi-idrak”, an Ottoman play on words, meant “the ignorant Turk”.
Özay Mehmet wrote in his book Islamic Identity and Development: Studies of the Islamic Periphery:
The ordinary Turks [Turkmen, or Yörüks] did not have a sense of belonging to a ruling ethnic group. In particular, they had a confused sense of self-image. Who were they: Turks, Muslims or Ottomans? Their literature was sometimes Persian, sometimes Arabic, but always courtly and elitist. There was always a huge social and cultural distance between the Imperial centre and the Anatolian periphery. As Bernard Lewis expressed it: “In the Imperial society of the Ottomans the ethnic term Turk was little used, and then chiefly in a rather derogatory sense, to designate the Turcoman nomads or, later, the ignorant and uncouth Turkish-speaking peasants of the Anatolian villages.” (Lewis 1968: 1)
In the words of a British observer of the Ottoman values and institutions at the start of the twentieth century: “The surest way to insult an Ottoman gentleman is to call him a ‘Turk’. His face will straightway wear the expression a Londoner’s assumes, when he hears himself frankly styled a Cockney. He is no Turk, no savage, he will assure you, but an Ottoman subject of the Sultan, by no means to be confounded with certain barbarians styled Turcomans, and from whom indeed, on the male side, he may possibly be descended.” (Davey 1907: 209)
Anti-Turkism by Ottomans
The Ottomans discriminated against the Turkish peasantry, and used ethnic slurs such as Eşek Turk (donkey Turk) and Kaba Turk (rude Turk) to describe them. Other expressions used were “Turk-head” and “Turk-person”
http://https://imaan.home.blog/2020/09/24/het-woord-turk-was-een-scheldwoord-in-het-ottomaanse-rijk-reactie-op-degenen-die-hen-foutief-het-turkse-rijk-noemen/