
Tayfun
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Tayfun
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𒀭𒆤𒄥𒅀 Sanat/Müzik/Tarih/Digital Art/Ai ☮️














Went to the Kashgar museum today and got many rounds of Xinjiang is an inseparable part of Chinese territory etc etc. But the most fascinating items are from Kashgars path as a Silk Road node. It feels less like a Chinese bastion and more like a waypoint where everyone passed through. My favorite pieces are these almost European-looking sculptures from the tradition of Serindian art. Classical Greek technique fused with Buddhist/Indian themes. This particular figure depicts a guardian figure called a Yaksha. Yakshas later appeared in China more as a kind of grotesque low-level demon, far from the fierce but classically handsome Hellenistic depiction we see here. Fun fact: Buddhism traditionally frown upon concrete representations of the Buddha but the Greek Buddhists started making statues to make Buddhism competitive with the Greek gods. They literally modeled Buddha on Apollo. And well the rest is history. This was from 6th-7th century. Kashgar then would have been a real melting pot: Songdian (Iranian) traders, Tang dynasty administrators, Indian monks, Turkic nomads. It was a grab bag of religion too: in addition to Buddhism you had Zoroastrianism, Nestorian Christians, Manichaeism. Interestingly…no Uyghurs. The people who would become the Uyghurs are I think hanging out in Mongolia at this point in time.







R1a frequency map from YFull



“There will be no serious security architecture on our continent without Türkiye.” At today’s conference of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and TEPAV, I spoke about deterrence, NATO cohesion, and the future security architecture of our continent. #NATO #Türkiye #EuropeanSecurity










“Türk” Adının Kökeni Üzerine Türk ~ Türük adının başlangıçta *türü- ‘yığmak, toplamak, biriktirmek, bir araya getirmek vb.’ (> EUyg., DS türü-) anlamındaki eylem kökünden türeyen ve (2) aslen ‘birleşik, birleşmiş, toplanmış; ⬇️







