Origin of Western Turks

The Oghuz Turks have perhaps been the most successful branch of Turkic peoples and families

The name Oghuz is derived from the word ok, which means "arrow" or "tribe". The depiction of an archer shooting an arrow was the flag of the seljuks founded by the Oghuz Turks in the 10th century.

The designation of "Oghuz" was given to a series of Turkic tribes in Central Asia who had united into a new confederation. This socio-political union led to the emergence of a new larger inter-tribal Turkic, entity the Oghuz. The Oghuz gradually grew larger as various other Turkic tribes united during the Gokturk empire (6th, 7th century.)

Oghuz is not an ethnic name, and it can be simply translated into "Turkic tribes". The "Oghuz Turk branch" or "western Turk branch" is one of the traditional six branches of the modern Turkic peoples. The "Oghuz branch" is a geographical and historical designation, not a separate ethnic term since the Turkic peoples of the world share the same ethnic roots.

They are referred to as "western Turks" because they moved west from other Turkic peoples after the Gokturk empire collapsed, and because the majority of the areas in which they inhabit today (except Turkmenistan and the Turkmen Sahra) are west of the caspian sea, while those referred to as "eastern Turks" live east of the Caspian Sea.

Bozoklar

G�nhan

(symbol:falcon)

• Kayı (Origins of ottoman Turks)
• Bayat
• Alkaevli
• Karaevli

Ayhan

(symbol:eagle)

• Yazır
• D�ger
• Dodurga
• Yaparlı

Yıldızhan

(symbol:fox)

• (Afşar)
• Kızık
• Begdili
• Kargın

��oklar

G�khan

(symbol:wolf)

• Bayındır (origins of akkoyunlu Turks)
• Pe�enek (origins of the turks who moved to europe before turkification of Anatolia)
• �avuldur
• �epni (Turks of Black sea region)

Dağhan

(symbol:sword)

• Salur
• Eym�r
• Alayuntlu
• Y�regir

Denizhan

(symbol:grayish blue Hawk)

• Iğdir (a city name İn T�rkiye)
• B�ğd�z
• Yıva
• Kınık (origins of Seljuk Turks)