YavuzArts

It all began with a blog in 2019. The YouTube channel Khan's Den followed in 2020. Together with its Turkish and German sister channels it has since reached more than 104,000 subscribers and 10 million views, from the United States to Germany, from Japan to Indonesia and from Brazil to Türkiye. It is the backbone of every project that followed.

“My professional areas of interest include the Xiongnu, the Huns of Attila, the Göktürks, the Uyghurs, the Khazars, and other various Turkic and non-Turkic peoples of the Eurasian Steppe Belt up until the High Middle Ages.”

From the Xiongnu, the Huns, the Xianbei and the Rouran to the First and Second Göktürk Khaganates, the Western Göktürks, the Uyghurs and the Yenisei Kyrgyz: the Turkic Atlas brings more than a thousand years of steppe empires together in one place, in 841 articles. Every claim can be checked. A footnote leads straight to its source, whether the Chinese annals, the Byzantine historians, the Persian and Arabic chronicles or the Old Turkic inscriptions carved on the stelae themselves.

Read it in your language. The articles are written in English, around a hundred are already fully translated into Turkish, German, Spanish and Japanese, and more follow all the time; the whole site works in all five languages. Watch the empires grow and shrink on moving maps, follow the chronology, the family trees and the guided reading paths, leaf through an atlas of hand-drawn maps, and let the Khan's Den radio play while you read.

“Five years ago, I swore that I would bring together everything there is to know about older Turkic history and culture from antiquity to the Middle Ages in a single online encyclopedia. I would leave nothing out and do it for everyone around the world, in several languages, free of prejudice and free of charge.”