Abstract:

In order to determine the place of the Turks in world history, Atatürk wanted Turkish history to be based on the documents and investigated without going out of reality. With the research carried out, it has been tried to put forward with the documents that the Turks have established different societies, civilizations and even states in the world before and in the historical periods and affected other societies, civilizations and states in their period. In fact, it was suggested in "Turkish History Thesis" which emerged as a result of these studies that the Sumerians were separated from the Altars and settled in Mesopotamia and they were Turks. On the other hand, in Urmu Theory, which suggests that the first homeland of the Turks, which the researchers have emphasized in recent years, is not the Altai but the Front Asia, it is also claimed that the Proto Turks living around Lake Urmu were the neighbors with the Sumerians in the 4000-2000 BC and interacted with each other as a result of this neighbourhood. In addition to these theses, the similarity of Sumerian languages to Ural-Altaic languages, archaeological findings, place names and cultural similarities have led researchers to evaluate the Sumerian-Turkish relationship. Many researchers have compared their languages, place names, king names and cultural traces with those of the Turks as a result of the Sumerian tablets found in archaeological excavations. The evaluations obtained as a result of these comparisons have supported the views as Sumerians may be related to Turks or may have influenced each other in a neighbourhood relationship. In this study, we tried to compare the Sumerian epic Gilgamesh and Altay-Turkic epic Maaday-Kara and to determine whether there is a relationship between them as mentioned above.

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