Horse breeding, wrestling and racing: From central Asia to Anatolia

Mehmet TÜRKMEN

In this study, “Stallion wrestling,” which was made in the nature of horseherds (yilki) and a designated area for horse breeding in ancient Turks, is presented with some arguments. Explaining briefly the importance given to horses and horse breeders in ancient Turks and today’s Central Asian culture, how stallion wrestling was formed and transformed; it was aimed to seek answers to the questions of why horse breeding was not done with this wrestling method in the Ottoman Empire, but it was done with a canter running system and to recognize and introduce this ancient traditional struggle. In th ...Daha fazlası

Jereed games on horseback from ottoman times to the present

Mehmet TÜRKMEN

The “jeered,” which is a type of bayonet or spear used as a war tool for the Turks, is a wooden athletic (jereed) stick, 100 cm long, 2.5 cm in diameter at the head, plastic-coated, oval, with a diameter of 1.5 cm towards the back. Just as many Arabic words entered our language, jereed also entered Turkish from the Arabic word “cilind” during the Ottoman period. Jereed is a game that emerged with the aim of better throwing the bayonet and spear on the horse to the enemy. (Turkman, 1996:128).In this case, as in the prototype of all sports, the jereed emerged to develop warrior skills, and by do ...Daha fazlası

Kyrgyz and Kazakhs in a forgotten horse sport: Valiant chase

Mehmet TÜRKMEN

In Kyrgyz, “Dzhigit Kumay” and in Kazakhs “Dzhigit Kuu” as a team and evasion of this game in the form of the chase, Turkey full provision in Turkish “Yiğit Kovalama / Valiant Chasing” is. This equestrian game, which is almost forgotten, until 1922-26, was played extensively among the Turkic peoples in all Turkestan geography. To overcome the shortage of resources, which is almost nonexistent in the game, to provide a resource to researchers and future generations on the subject, this game is about to be forgotten, again to add to the national sports ring of the Turks.In a globalizing world, a ...Daha fazlası

The horse races and their categories in World Nomad Games

Sıymık ARSTANBEKOV

The history of nomadic civilization is an epoch almost three millennia long. Spirituality and morality become important in the life of a young person. The World Nomad Games (WNG) united more than 86 countries around the world with horse riding and horseracing, a popular equestrian game in Kyrgyzstan and other Asian countries. Therefore, the motto of the World Nomad Games (WNG) is “United in spirit, united in strength.” Keywords: nomad games; horseracing; categories

Traditional equestrian games in Kyrgyz cinematography

Marat ERGEŞOV

Traditional equestrian games were a very important part of the culture for all Turkic people, because of the nomadic style of life and periodic wars throughout the history. Equestrian games make the young people be very close to the horse – the animal, which was the main element in daily nomad life and prepare young men to control a horse very skillfully during the battles. We can see the same situation in the history of the Kyrgyz people. Most of the traditional games of Kyrgyz people are also horse related. According to literature, Kyrgyz people have a lot of equestrian games like At Chabysh ...Daha fazlası

Preface

Mehmet TÜRKMEN

A general perspective ottoman wrestling lodges and Greek gymnasium/palaistra

Mehmet TÜRKMEN

Concepts of wrestling and wrestler in Turkish folks

Sıymık ARSTANBEKOV

Introduction: Historical perspective of traditional wrestling

Mehmet TÜRKMEN

Pedagogy of traditional wrestling in turks

Mehmet TÜRKMEN

Simplified descriptions of the most common traditional wrestlings in the world

Mehmet TÜRKMEN

The artifact “yurt” as an object of Kyrgyz and Tuvan linguoculture = Артефакт «юрта» как объект киргизской и тувинской лингвокультуры

Zamira DERBİŞEVA

The “yurt” artifact is a part of the Kyrgyz and Tuvan peoples’ systems of cultural values. As a cognitive mechanism, language offers its own linguistic and creative interpretation. This paper considers the artifact “Yurt” in terms of cognitive linguistics by analyzing the concepts of boz üy and ѳg. The linguistic and cultural analysis of these concepts made it possible to reveal the specificity of their ethnolinguistic perception that discovers the role, place, and significance of “yurt” in the linguistic worldview of the Kyrgyz and the Tuvan peoples. Common cultural and linguistic roots of th ...Daha fazlası