Turkish History in Portugal Caves
However, the tablets found in the Portuguese Caves have already come to the light of history and pointed to the Turkish presence in Europe 12 thousand years ago.
The first time I met him, I was travelling around the ancient village of Kaleköy in Kaş. On a hot summer evening, I was looking for a market where I could buy cold water. The man with long white hair coming the other way could have been one of the English people living here. When I asked him in English where I could find a market, he answered in Turkish.
When I said that I thought you looked like the British , he responded with sentences that reminded me of Gene D. Matlock's book ‘O people of the world, you are all Turks’. ‘They are more like us’!
We continued our deep conversation, which started spontaneously at this interesting junction of time and place, in Prof. Dr. Haluk Tarcan ‘s house in Kaleköy, which bears the traces of history for thousands of years. With the first light of the day, we realised that I still had not drunk water and took a short break from the conversation.
Prof. Dr Haluk Tarcan was invited to Sorbonne University in France with a scholarship to do his doctorate in music. One evening, he meets a beautiful girl on the bus on his way to the library. The coincidence is interesting. That girl is also going to the library. They sit at opposite tables, facing each other.
While Haluk Tarcan is looking for a suitable opportunity to talk, the pictures and writing in a history book open in front of him attracts his attention. He forgets about the girl and dives into the book. In the book, he sees signs similar to the signs engraved on the walls and carpet rug motifs used in the Stamped Valley in Central Asia. However, the note under the pictures is more interesting. Because the note under the pictures reads as follows: "There is a cave painting found in caves in Portugal that dates back to between 8 and 9 thousand years BC: 8 to 9 thousand years ago!
Photocopies of the relevant pages were immediately taken and the subject was shared with the late famous Turcologist Kazım Mirşan. These tablets began to be deciphered with the writing systematics created by these two together, which they called the Öntürk Alphabet . Upon these developments, Haluk TARCAN applied to the Sorbonne University by preparing a large dossier and stated that he wanted to stop his doctorate in music and continue his doctorate in history. The university informed him that in this case his scholarship would be cancelled and that he could continue his doctorate in history by paying his own fees. He continued his education by giving private music lessons on the one hand and financing his life with piano recitals in French restaurants on the other, and received the title of doctor of history. His main subject of study was the ÖNTÜRKS.
In his historical study based on French, German and British sources, it is seen that the Turkish presence in Europe goes back to the first mass migration movement from Central Asia to the west between 8 and 12 thousand years BC, in other words, after the ice age 30 thousand years ago. Kazım Mirşan was very pleased with these findings and studies.
Afterwards, a book titled PRE-TURKISH HISTORY was prepared. The book caused heated debates and denials in the world of European academia. Upon this, Haluk Tarcan Hodja started travelling around the universities in Turkey with his book and thesis. Since his work does not comply with the official history thesis and the academic format of the universities, which accepts that we came to Anatolia in 1071; no interlocutor can be found in the Turkish Academic world. Thereupon, people, institutions and parties who put Turkish Nationalism at the centre of all ideas were interviewed. Everyone they talked to said it was a good work and saw Haluk Tarcan off at the door. There was neither support nor any other comment... The only organisation that took ownership of this thesis and itself was the Directorate of Military History and Strategic Research (ATESE) under the General Staff.
About 20 years after the Öntürk study, Simon Jenkins wrote the book Celts - The Mysterious People of the Ancient Age, which confirms the Öntürk History thesis. Naturally, the Book of Celts reignited the debates in Europe. Because this book argues that the history of Europe was formed by the children of the Turkic tribes, called Celts, who came to Europe from Asia via Anatolia and the Caspian route 12 thousand years B.C. and brought the horse, the wheel and iron workmanship with them. Europe, on the other hand, has difficulty in accepting this thesis.
Then the concept of Göbeklitepe is added to the knowledge of mankind. Göbeklitepe is dated precisely to the beginning of this migration movement. Deep research in Göbeklitepe is not wanted by those who do not want the known history to be questioned and rewritten. However, the tablets found in the Portuguese Caves have already come to the light of history and pointed to the Turkish presence in Europe 12 thousand years ago. In the future, scientists will definitely write about the deep history of Turkishness and the fact that it is the starting point for humanity, and will acknowledge the ancient right of Turkish civilisation.
With gratitude to Kazım Mirşan and Prof. Dr. Haluk Tarcan
