Ergenekon Türk Destanı mı, Moğol Destanı mı?
Whether Ergenekon Turkish Epic or Mongol Epic?

Summary/Abstract: The greatest importance of Jāmi' al-Tawārikh for the researches of Turkish history is that it collects the oral and epic narratives of the Turks' past. A variant of the Oghuz Khan Epic is known to us through Jami' al-Tawarikh. Just as a variant of the Oghuz Khan epic has reached us through Jāmi' al Tawārikh, one of the two variants of the Ergenekon epic, if the narrative in Chinese sources is considered parallel and equivalent, is the narrative in Jami' al-Tawarikh. This article analyses the Turkish-Mongolian common tradition and the Ergenekon myth in Jāmi' al-Tawārikh and tries to clarify why the Turkish Ergenekon was narrated through the Mongols by Rashid al Din and his succeeding Iranian chroniclers. The narrative that iron ore was melted down and the people came out of Ergenekon, which we believe plays a key role in this analysis, has been reconsidered along with the tradition of blacksmithing attributed to Genghis Khan. The claim that Genghis Khan's lineage is based on the Turkish blacksmith tarkhans, which has been expressed by many researchers from Klaproth and Howorth to Zeki Velidi Togan, has also been included in the discussion because of its relevance to the subject, and the statements of the sources that form the basis of this claim have been used as auxiliary arguments.

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