Bob Dylan wrote about The Chronicles of Turkish origin when in his autobiography published last autumn (2014), in memories , Bob Dylan talking about his ancestors which came from İstanbul(Turkey ) then moved to Trabzon (Turkey ) and finally moved to Odessa (Ukrain)
original paragraph is given below
“Originally, [my grandmother had] come from Turkey, sailed from Trabzon, a port town, across the Black Sea — the sea that the ancient Greeks called the Euxine — the one that Lord Byron wrote about in Don Juan. Her family was from Kagizman, a town in Turkey near the Armenian border, and the family name had been Kirghiz. My grandfather’s parents had also come from that same area, where they had been mostly shoemakers and leatherworkers.
My grandmother’s ancestors had been from Constantinople. As a teenager, I used to sing the Ritchie Valens song “In a Turkish Town” with the lines in it about the “mystery Turks and the stars above,” and it seemed to suit me more than “La Bamba,” the song of Ritchie’s that everybody else sang and I never knew why.”
Kagizman (Kars)- Turkey
information About Kirghiz -kirghizistan (” family name had been Kirghiz)
formerly known as Kirghizia, is a landlocked country located inCentral Asia.Landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south west and China to the east. Its capital and largest city is Bishkek.
The official language, Kyrgyz, is closely related to the other Turkic languages
Connection Between Turks and Kirghiz
https://www.turktarihim.com/K%C4%B1rg%C4%B1zlar.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6kt%C3%BCrks
The majority of Turks were deported from south-western Georgia to Central Asia in 1944, where they were employed largely in the agricultural sector in grain and livestock production. Of the 207,500 Meskhetian Turks registered in the 1989 Soviet census, there were 21,294 Turks in Kyrgyzstan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks_in_Kyrgyzstan
The Celestial Turks or the Kok Turks and sometimes as its Anatolian Turkish form Göktürks (Celestial or Blue Turks), were a nomadic confederation of Turkic peoples in medieval Inner Asia. The Köktürks, under the leadership of Bumin Qaghan(d. 552) and his sons, succeeded the Rouran Khaganate as the main power in the region and established the Turkic Khaganate, one of several nomadic dynasties which would shape the future geolocation, culture, and dominant beliefs ofTurkic peoples.
Interesting Turkish News (A Turkish man Looks like Bob Dylan )
Turkish woman says (Emine Kırgız from Trabzon) : When I saw Bob Dylan’s Grandmother news on TV, I shocked because
Bob Dylan looks like my Husband (Mehmet Salih Kırgız) who died 25 years ago , His skin color and winkles on his face remembers me my Husband, if Bob Dylan came to Trabzon I will be very glad for
Emine Kırgız”s son says “I investigated my ancestors and There is no one in Trabzon who have Kyrgyz Surname more than us”
here is the news : https://www.radikal.com.tr/haber.php?haberno=139963
VIDEOS ABOUT BOB DYLAN’S TURKISH ORIGINS
I used to sing the Ritchie Valens song “In a Turkish Town” with the lines in it about the “mystery Turks and the stars above,”
Anna (Greenstein / Kyrgyz?) Zimmerman 1879 (married Zigmond 1898) Kars Turkey? Odessa Ukraine arrived USA 1910
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Related Turkish Link : https://www.kigem.com/acilarin-cocugu-bob-dylan-kars-kagizmanli-cikti.html
Courtesy of UĞUR ORAL (TURKISH DYLANIST )
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