Sulayman Shah

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Former location of the tomb of Suleiman Shah: Qalʿat Jaʿbar Castle

Sulayman Shah ( Ottoman سلیمان شاه, Completely: سلیمان بن کیا آلپ Süleyman bin Kaya Alp ; * around 1178 ; †  1236 ) was, according to the historiographer Aschikpaschazade, the grandfather of the founder of the Ottoman Empire , Osman I. This view is considered to be refuted, but Sulaiman Shah still enjoys a high reputation in Turkey today.

Life

There are no contemporary sources about Suleyman Shah's life. According to tradition, he was a tribal leader of the Oghuz Kayı towards the end of the 12th century . During the armed conflict with the Mongols under the leadership of Genghis Khan , Sulayman Shah and his tribes were expelled from Turkestan ; so he emigrated with his tribes towards Eastern Anatolia. There he settled with his tribes in 1214 near today's Erzincan . Some of the tribesmen later migrated and settled in what are now the cities of Diyarbakır , Mardin and Urfa .

Death and Sulayman Shah's tomb

It is believed that Sulayman Shah and some of his followers from the Oghuz tribe of Kayı drowned in the Euphrates under unknown circumstances . His alleged grave is in what is now northern Syria. The original position at Qal'at Dscha'bar Castle was flooded in 1974 during a reservoir project for the Tabqa Dam and the grave was therefore moved around 100 km to the north. Since the Ankara Treaty of 1921, the area of ​​the tomb was under Turkish control until 2015. The area and the tomb of Sulayman Shah were guarded and protected around the clock by Turkish soldiers.

During the civil war in Syria , the " Islamic State " threatened to destroy the grave, which would have given Turkey a reason to intervene in the war. On April 23, 2014, a Turkish military convoy consisting of 300 soldiers, six tanks and several armored vehicles crossed the Syrian border to protect the grave. Due to the pressure of the IS militia, on the night of February 22, 2015, Turkey commissioned its own soldiers to clear the tomb in order to bring the remains to the town of Eschme within Syria. The tomb was destroyed by the soldiers.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fahamettin Başar in: İslâm Ansiklopedisi , s. v. Ertuğrul Gazi .
  2. ↑ Convoy to the tomb of Suleyman Şahs is "routine action". German Turkish Journal, April 25, 2014, accessed April 27, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Turkey before direct confrontation with IS , orf.at, September 30, 2014.
  4. ↑ Ankara evacuates soldiers from the exclave. February 22, 2015, archived from the original on February 22, 2015 ; accessed on February 22, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Operation in Syria: Turkish elite units free comrades from the exclave. Retrieved February 22, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Sulayman Shah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Suleyman Shah; Suleyman Şah Kaya Alpoğlu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Grandfather of Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman Empire
DATE OF BIRTH around 1178
DATE OF DEATH 1236