Texts of the Genealogy Documents

Introduction

The dictionary meaning of the word şecere (genealogy) is given as: a single tree, a lineage, a table showing all the members of a line of descent.

Bringing to light the genealogy of the family to which we belong, as close to the truth as possible, by researching and examining with care and patience on the basis of the information at hand, and turning it into a written document — this, I can say, emerged in me as a goal while I was still at secondary school. From the year I began my professional life as an officer, I pursued the work that I was able to begin in earnest, continuing it patiently from time to time and having the information I obtained verified as far as possible.

It is out of my belief that the family genealogy would gain even greater value by being linked with history that I have gone back from the available information and have also studied many works on the subject. It is impossible not to bow before, and not to take pride in, the greatness of the genealogy that has emerged at the end of this work. Those who have descended and will descend from this lineage will always take pride in their past and, as always, will render great services to the homeland and the nation. Here I set down a short summary of my research and examinations.

Summary of the research and examinations

The arrival of the Turkic peoples in Anatolia goes back a very long way. However, it can be seen that after the 9th century BC they came in greater numbers to the east and south-east of Anatolia, to the Tigris and Euphrates valleys, settled there, united and founded new civilisations. The arrival in Anatolia of those of Oghuz descent, on the other hand, began in the 10th century AD.

After the victory of Malazgirt in 1071, the Seljuk ruler Alp Arslan, who advanced as far as the Kızılırmak, divided the conquered lands among the Turkmen beys under his command. The region of Sivas, Amasya, Çankırı, Çorum, Niksar, Elbistan and Malatya was given to the Danishmendids. The other beys were the Saltukids and the Mengujekids.

As understood from the available information, the family to which we belong came to Anatolia from the 1830s onwards, migrating from Turkmenistan or from the north of western Khorasan. The real reason for the migration was the steadily growing Russian threat and danger in that region. This family belongs to the Oghuz branch of the Turkic peoples. Our forefathers, who came to the Ankara / Keskin area as a large family, took up farming as well as animal husbandry. Here a dispute arose with the local people. After 8–10 years, our forefather from the family who bore the name Başağa left Keskin, came to the Euphrates basin and settled in the area 70 km north of Malatya. The others remained in Keskin. The Başağa family grew in numbers, its land expanded and it became a large village. Within the province of Harput it was known for its closeness to the state, and its influence grew. The small settlements round about were attached to the village as hamlets (mezra). This village is Mezirme by its old name and Ballıkaya village by its new name.

The family, whose circumstances were very good until the First World War, lost the livelihood it derived from animal husbandry and farming and fell into hardship when, during the collapse of the Ottoman State and in various battles, it gave many of its grown sons as martyrs. The martyrs who could be identified are named in the genealogy. My mother’s father, that is my grandfather, together with two of his uncles, and my father’s four uncles are the martyrs closest to me. I bear the name of my father’s uncle, my grandfather the martyr Ali Dede (dede: grandfather; also used for elder male relatives). I remember all our martyrs with respect; may their souls rejoice.

From our family, which was valued with a new primary school built in our village right at the start of the Republican period, there are today hundreds of our people who have been trained and educated in every profession. If we consider the villages that do not have a school even today, the magnitude of the value shown takes on quite another meaning.

In return for this labour of mine, I call upon all members who descend from the Başağa family or count themselves as belonging to it: to be worthy of the past of our family, of whose lineage we shall be proud to be; as always, to render useful services to our country, filled with love of homeland and nation; and to be civilised individuals wholeheartedly devoted to Atatürk’s principles and reforms — this is our foremost duty.

Explanatory notes

1. The term Ağa (a title of respect) has been used in the family as a traditional title. It does not derive from any privilege.

2. Any possible omissions and errors in tracing the lineage and in the names should be corrected after careful examination, and the relevant parties should be informed.

3. The word “şehit” (martyr) should be written next to the names of the martyrs who can be identified.

4. The steadily growing family mostly gave and took daughters in marriage among themselves. For this reason, in tracing the lineage it has not been possible to enter the women’s names in the genealogy, as this would cause confusion. I consider it of great benefit that a separate study be made on this subject. When the Surname Law was passed, they took the surnames: ① Oktay, ② Koç, ③ Öztürk, ④ Yılmaz, ⑤ Yalçın.

5. The present generation should work on the genealogy in such a way that it is continued after them. Five copies of this genealogy have been sent to each of the families bearing a separate surname.

Ali Yalçın, Staff Colonel, 3 July 1984

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Province of Malatya, District of Hekimhan, Village of Mezirme

A Study Based on Research and Examination Concerning the Başağalar Family

Contents of the file: the genealogy of the Başağalar family; 12 pages of explanatory information in manuscript (the other families settled in Mezirme village have also been included, according to the information that could be obtained and is available).

July 1984 — Ali Yalçın, Staff Colonel

Page 1 · Families settled in Mezirme village

1. The Başağalar family (families bearing the surnames Oktay, Koç, Öztürk, Yalçın and Yılmaz).

2. The Kamber Ağalar family (families bearing the surnames Kutlu, Yıldırım).

3. The Osmanlar family (families bearing the surname Arı. There have also been those who described this family as “Turks”).

4. The Killiler family (families bearing the surname Güner). Aşkar tribe.

5. The Ceneferler family (No precise identification could be made for this family. However, it is highly probable that it consists of the families bearing the surnames Çelik, Ercan, Erol, Özerol, Fırat, Uçar, Köse, Şahin, Başaran).

6. The Kılıç Aliler family (families bearing the surname Kocaman). They are known to be of the Turks’ [?] tribe.

Explanation: Mezirme village is a very old place of settlement. It has always existed under all the peoples who have lived in Anatolia. The Hittites, the Urartians and other peoples also lived on these lands. Today we do not know what became of these peoples. Many historians describe those in this situation as “dead nations”. But this does not mean that they really died. No, their descendants live on — so who are they? That, too, we cannot know.

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Explanation continued… Everyone who lives today on the territory of the Republic of Türkiye (T.C.) and is bound to it by the bond of citizenship is an honourable member of the Turkish nation. That the State of the Republic of Türkiye, founded on these lands won under Atatürk’s leadership through a life-and-death struggle, should continue its existence as an honourable member of the civilised world is the first duty of all of us, of every lineage and every origin.

It may be possible to state that it would not be far wrong to set out the probable backgrounds of the families living in Mezirme village, in the course of history, as follows.

In 1071 the Battle of Malazgirt took place between the Seljuk ruler Alp Arslan and the Byzantine emperor Romanos Diogenes (Romen Diyojen), and it ended in Alp Arslan’s victory. Following this victory, the Seljuks advanced into the interior of Anatolia and began to rule. The ruler Alp Arslan divided these lands among the Turkmen beys. The region of Amasya, Çorum, Sivas and Malatya was given to the Danishmendids. In the process of Anatolia being made a homeland, although it is not possible to state the exact time, the highest probability is that the Ceneferler were the first to settle in Mezirme village.

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The incursions of the Oghuz tribes into Anatolia and Mesopotamia accelerated further, and with the founding of the Ottoman Empire at Söğüt in 1299 the settlement of the Turkish tribes was put on a more orderly footing. In order, the Killiler family descending from the Aşkar tribe, the Başağalar family, the Kamber Ağalar family, the Osmanlar family and the Kılıç Aliler family were settled in Mezirme village.

It is known that the Başağalar family, after the Ottoman-Russian war of 1828–1830, was forced by Russian pressure to migrate from south-western Turkmenistan because they had helped the Ottomans. Namely: in 1953 an upper storey consisting of two rooms and a kitchen was built on top of the house of Ali Ağa, a fourth-generation grandson of Başağa. I (Staff Colonel Ali Yalçın) was a middle-school pupil. In the building of the house we worked as the master builder’s helpers: carrying stones on donkeys, helping with the casting of mud bricks and making mortar from mud. During this time two things made me happy. The first was carrying stones from Sarı Duvar, although it was far away, because it was a very light stone and very easy to lift and set down. The second was that, in order to repair and partly renew the rafters of the old house,

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its roof had been opened up. Our master builder was Haçoğ Hüseyin (of course one of our elders and our uncle). When the main beam (hezen) of the house came to light, our master builder said he had found a paper where the beam lay. People from round about came too. It was a palm-sized paper written in the old script, yellowed and illegible in places.

Eğitmen Efendi, our teacher, the teacher of our lineage and the one who accustomed us to school and to reading, must have been very close by, for he came and read aloud what he could make out of the paper. It said: “Ali Ağa son of Süleyman Ağa. Büyük Başağa, the grandsons of Küçük Başağa, Hasan Ağa, Abidin Ağa, İpşir Ağa, Süleyman Ağa, the grandsons of Hamza Ağa, we came from Keskin in the land of Urum (Urum eli); some stayed behind; we were sixty head; Harput gave us a place here.” etc. etc.…

Unfortunately our master builder, Hüseyin Amca (amca: paternal uncle), saying “şunda neymiş” (“what’s in this, anyway”), crumbled the paper in the palm of his hand. I was a child; I was very upset. We lost a piece of paper of such historical importance.

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Such a record was a challenge for me. From 1953 to 1984, researching the family’s past in my own way and consulting others, I turned the information I received and reached into notes and completed the GENEALOGY.

In my childhood there were Ottoman title deeds (koçan) for the lands given to the family. Today these are called tapu. Unfortunately they could not be preserved and were lost.

The notes and records of information I obtained over this time are evident from the notes I made through inquiries and one-to-one conversations in 1956, 1963, 1969, 1973 and 1977.

In my notes, most of them worn, the names of our elders with whom I spoke one-to-one are recorded as follows. Many of them have passed away. The name of the late Yusuf Ağa (who is known to have served as village headman for many years) appears in almost all of the information obtained. The other names, regardless of the number of conversations, are: Abbas Ağa, my paternal grandmother Zeynep, Hüseyin Oktay, Ebuseyif Oktay, Hüseyin Ağa, Mahmut Öztürk, Eğitmen Efendi, Paşa Dayı (dayı: maternal uncle), Hacı Ali Dede, Ali Efendi (efendi: sir, gentleman), Ali Güner, Hacı Güner, Aşkar Hasan, Teacher Ali Öztürk (last met in İzmir in 1982; on my notes

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agreement was reached), Teacher Avni Oktay, Âşık Yusuf, Bektaş Amca, Yusuf Dede, Ayıp Emmi (emmi: paternal uncle), Hacı Ağa, Hüseyin Yıldırım, Küllöz [?] Mustafa (the late Mustafa Amca had told me that our Ali Dede, whose name I bear, was shot and fell as a martyr in the Sarıkamış operation), Yusuf Erhan, İmam Dede, Teacher Hüseyin Yılmaz, Mehmet Öztürk, Mehmet Yalçın, Haydar Öztürk, Alöğ Dede (he had also related that he took part in the War of Independence and went as far as İzmir in the Great Offensive).

We see that among the Başağalar there were marriages within the family up to the sixth generation. I had it confirmed many times that, because Hasan Ağa and Hamza Ağa had no children, their lines did not continue.

We see that from the sixth generation of the Başağalar onwards, daughters were given in marriage to, and taken from, other families. Namely: Elif Ana (ana: mother), daughter of Mehmet Ağa of the İpşir Ağalar, became a bride of the Kamber Ağalar. Elif Ana is the paternal aunt of teacher Haydar Öztürk, the mother of teacher İsmail Yıldırım and the paternal grandmother of teacher Abbas Yıldırım.

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Mehmet Ağa’s other daughter, Güşü bacı (bacı: sister / elder woman), also married Küllöz [?] Mustafa of the Ceneferler. Güşü bacı, too, is the paternal aunt of teacher Haydar Öztürk. She is the paternal grandmother of Kasım Fırat of our generation.

Of the Abidin Ağalar, Şamo bibi (bibi: paternal aunt), daughter of Mustafa Ağa, is married to Ayıp Emmi of the Kamber Ağalar and is the paternal grandmother of Ali Kutlu of our generation.

Of the Kamber Ağalar: Ayıp Emmi’s sister Assiye bibi is married to Ali Efendi, son of Cafer Ağa of the İpşir Ağalar. Assiye bibi is the mother of teacher Hüseyin Öztürk (Kara Dede).

His other sister, Fatma bibi, is married to Mahmut Öztürk, son of Başağa, likewise of the İpşir Ağalar. She is the mother of teacher Hüseyin Öztürk (Yeşil Dede).

Of the Abidin Ağalar, İsmail Ağa’s daughter [?] Zöhre bibi is married to Mehmet Ağa of the Killiler family. She is the paternal aunt of teacher İsmail Koç and the mother of teacher İpşir Güner.

Of the Ali [?] Ağalar, Abidin Ağa’s daughter Zöhre bibi is married to Hasan, the father of Hüseyin Ercan of the Ceneferler. She is the paternal aunt of Top Dede.

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Fatma bibi, sister of Mehmet Ağa of the Killiler family, is married to Mıstoğ Dede of the Ali Ağalar. She is the paternal aunt of teacher İpşir Güner and the mother of İsmail (İsmet) Yalçın.

Fatma bibi of the Kılıç Aliler is married to Mahmut Dede of the Ali Ağalar. She is the mother of teacher Mehmet Yalçın.

Of the İpşir Ağalar, Mahmut son of Cafer Ağa (Saçoğ [?] Mahmut) is married from among the Ceneferler.

In later generations, the giving and taking of daughters in marriage among the families of the village increased further. A few examples: Esme bibi, mother of teacher Abbas Yıldırım, is a daughter of the İpşir Ağalar. Tamam Bacı, mother of Colonel Abidin Yalçın, is a daughter of the Ceneferler. In our generation and the generations after us there have been many marriages.

I (Staff Colonel Ali Yalçın) am of the eighth generation of the Başağalar family. As of 1984 the Başağalar are in their ninth generation. The population of the main family is estimated to be around 2,000.

Meanwhile, a new note of mine has turned up between the pages. I had kept notes concerning marriages. What is written there is as follows:

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Of the Abidin Ağalar, Leyli bibi, daughter of Bektaş (she is the maternal aunt of me, Staff Col. Ali Yalçın), is married to Hüseyin Kocaman, son of Mustafa (Kör Mustafa) of the Kılıç Aliler. İnsaf, Fındık and Ali are three of her children.

Here I would like to add a note. In fact, this is a duty of mine. I knew the late Mustafa Dede (Kör Mustafa). I had conversations with him. He had told me that in the First World War he fought on the Palestine Front as an artillery sergeant, that they were taken prisoner by the British, and that years later they were freed from captivity [?].

There is a record that Ehan [?] bibi, the elder sister of Mehmet Ağa of the Killiler family, was a bride of the Abidin Ağalar. She is the mother of Kaçer Dayı Süleyman.

Of the İpşir Ağalar, Güllü, daughter of Hacı Ali Ağa, is married to Halil Emmi (Halil Kutlu) of the Kamber Ağalar. She is the mother of Hasan Kutlu and the sister of Paşa Dayı (Hoca).

Of the Abidin Ağalar, Zehra Bacı, daughter of Abbas Ağa, is married to Hacı Emmi (Hacı Güner) of the Killiler. She is the mother of bank manager Abidin Güner.

I consider that I have completed my notes here. I wish to close by stating that I will try to pass on to the relevant places any notes that may yet emerge from my archive.

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Through marriages, the large families in Mezirme village have become one whole family. Blood ties have formed.

As the population increased and the literacy rate rose, the families naturally sent people away to live elsewhere. As things stand now, the Başağalar have spread to every part of the country, chiefly Ankara, İstanbul and İzmir. The other families have met the same fate.

If I am to make one assessment of the Başağalar, it is this: past mistakes and neglect have caused the strength of the family to weaken and the bonds within the family virtually to break. Unity has disappeared.

Now, the foremost efforts and duties of us, the eighth generation, and especially of the ninth generation and the generations to come, must be to secure the unity of the BAŞAĞALAR family.

When the Büyük Başağa family (his son Küçük Başağa, his grandsons Hasan Ağa, Abidin Ağa, İpşir Ağa, Süleyman Ağa, Hamza Ağa), which at the end of the 1830s had begun to migrate from Keskin, probably towards Mesopotamia (Mosul, Kirkuk), arrived in the Upper Euphrates basin with a population of around sixty (60),

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it was settled in the Mezirme area by the Governorate of Harput. This family is a Turkmen family.

In the 1830s and in earlier periods, Turkmen tribes migrating from south-western Turkmenistan and the Khorasan region reached Anatolia, the south-east, and the Kirkuk and Mosul regions in convoys.

It is likewise probable that the reason for Büyük Başağa’s migration back from the interior of Anatolia was the aim of joining those of the Turkmen tribes to which he belonged who had migrated to Mesopotamia.

It would make me very, very happy if a large family genealogy could be produced that also covers marriages and in which the names of women as well as men appear. At the very least, if we call the genealogy I have prepared the Main Genealogy — based on the available information and taking into account other known documents and information whose accuracy has been confirmed — then from our generation onwards, family genealogies should be produced in keeping with the Main Genealogy and passed on from generation to generation.

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I have always thought this: when the Surname Law came out in 1934, would it not have been magnificent if we, as the Başağalar family (surnames: Oktay, Koç, Öztürk, Yalçın, Yılmaz), had taken BAŞAĞAOĞLU as our surname? Would this not also have secured the unity of the family? I have information — though it needs confirming — that, although there was a wish to take this surname, it was not possible.

If the other families of Mezirme village, with whom ties of kinship have formed over time, have genealogy work of their own, it would again make me very happy if it were preserved and developed, or if they were to undertake such work.

I greet everyone who is of the BAŞAĞALAR family or who regards themselves as belonging to this family, wish them health, happiness and success, and bow with respect in the spiritual presence of the BAŞAĞALAR. I remember with mercy those who have passed on to God’s mercy. May their resting place be paradise.

July 1984 — Ali Yalçın, Staff Colonel, İzmir (this is the last page)

Why a second edition

1. The many requests for additions after the first-edition genealogy of the Başağalar family was sent to the families; the later realisation that some had been inadvertently left out of the schematic drawing; the work done to include our women in the genealogy having been deemed sufficient; and thus the wish to be able to fulfil our duty also to all our mothers who could be identified and confirmed, and to the young generations, the mothers of the future.

2. To give the genealogy even more meaning by writing down, in the form of short notes, the information about the Başağalar recorded in documents, known and compiled since the 1830s.

3. Documents relating to the Başağalar: A. The Ottoman title deeds (koçan) (tapu) from the 1840s for the lands and pastures allocated by the Governorate of Harput on behalf of the Ottoman State and for the Ayrancı and Zabıt summer pastures (yayla). Unfortunately, the fate of the title deeds, which were kept in a chamois-leather pouch at the Ali Ağalar, has been unknown since the late 1950s. B. The paper/document, wrapped in leather, in which the family’s past was written in brief phrases, found placed in the juniper-wood main beam when an upper storey was added in 1953 to the single-storey house belonging to Ali Ağa. Ali Yalçın, who witnessed its discovery and its reading, sent the written information to many families in 2014.

4. Concerning the Başağalar: what we heard as stories from our family elders in our childhood, the information gained from chance events we witnessed, moreover the fact that we have very many martyrs and the pride in this, and in particular the reasons for the migration from the Atayurt (ancestral homeland). While I was at secondary school, putting the family genealogy into writing had emerged in me (retired Lieutenant General Ali Yalçın) as an enthusiasm and a goal. First of all, inquiry, research and the gathering of information were carried on name by name, starting from Başağa, the eldest known member of the family. With the beginning of my professional life (1960), repeatedly verifying the information I had with those in the family who were alive and in good health, continuing the inquiries in order to reach new information, and also, to the extent the opportunities afforded by our professional duties allowed, drawing up the framework of the genealogy took quite a long time. Although it is written in my notes that there were many martyrs in the Başağalar family, it has not been possible to name all the martyrs. Our assessment that there were martyrs among those of the generation of the known and confirmed martyrs whose lines did not continue, and also in earlier generations, cannot be wrong.

5. It is understood that the extended family to which the Başağalar belong lived in south-western Turkmenistan and north-eastern Khorasan, and this was the Atayurt. The extended family, which had supported the Ottomans in the Ottoman-Russian War of 1828–1830, was forced to migrate from its homeland in the 1830s as a result of the increasing Russian threat and danger after the lost war. One group migrated to Anatolia, another to the Mosul-Kirkuk region. Part of the group that came to Anatolia separated after Erzincan and reached the Ordu and Samsun areas, while the other part, which included Başağa, settled in the Keskin area at the beginning of the 1840s. When a dispute arose with the local people here a few years later, our forefather Başağa separated from the group and, at a quite advanced age, left Keskin with his family of five generations, most probably in order to migrate towards Kirkuk-Mosul. (We understand this from the notes found in 1953 and from the accounts that confirm them.) While the family was halting in the upper Euphrates region during the migration, it was settled by the Governorate of Harput in the area of Mezirme village under the name of the Başağalar family. This is ANATOLIA.

6. The established inhabitants of the region were Armenians; they lived together without problems and learned a great deal from one another. If a truth must be acknowledged and given its due here, it is this: the Başağalar learned fruit and vegetable growing in particular from their Armenian neighbours. In time the Armenians migrated to Malatya and its surroundings. Our friendships continued in later generations as well. By recording a particular memory of mine here, I shall have fulfilled a duty. I had Vartan Dayı, who lived in Fethiye, build the grave in Fethiye village of my late mother (Güllü Yalçın), who died young in 1956. From him I heard fine and honouring words about the Başağalar. May God rest Vartan Dayı’s soul. Our Armenian friends mostly transferred the lands they owned to the Başağalar by selling them.

7. After the Başağalar, some of the Turkmen families that moved through internal migrations within Anatolia settled in the village with the help of the Başağalar. In time, from the fifth and more particularly the sixth generation of the Başağalar onwards, mutual marriages with these families began, ties of kinship by marriage and by blood steadily increased, and unity was formed. The surnames of these families are: Kutlu, Yıldırım, Başaran, Çelik, Güner, Ercan, Erol, Özerol, Köse, Şahin, Kocaman, Fırat, Erhan, Çakır, Uçar and Tuna.

8. From the third generation onwards, the Başağalar family began to be known, by branch, after the names of Başağa’s grandsons İpşir Ağa, Süleyman Ağa (later Ali Ağa) and Abidin Ağa, as the İpşir Ağalar, the Süleyman Ağalar (Ali Ağalar) and the Abidin Ağalar, and this continues. The BAŞAĞALAR umbrella (çatı) IS THE MAIN TRUNK OF THE FAMILY TREE. What are the names of Başağa and Küçük Başağa? In Central Asia it is a tradition in Turkmen families for the eldest son to be called BAŞAĞA and the other sons AĞA. Of course they also had names. Proceeding from the information and accounts recorded as notes since 1953, and on the basis of information also confirmed in 1961 (the statements of our grandfather Yusuf Ağa, one of the grandsons of Bektaş Ağa; of our grandfather Abbas Ağa, one of the grandsons of the Abidin Ağalar; and of a great many of our elders whose names I am unable to write), the most reasonable course is for us to accept, with a very high probability, that BÜYÜK BAŞAĞA’s name may have been İPŞİR and KÜÇÜK BAŞAĞA’s name SÜLEYMAN. It is also a fact that, in the course of the life that began in Anatolia, the name BAŞAĞA gradually changed to PAŞA.

9. The family, whose numbers steadily grew and which was engaged in farming and animal husbandry, became known in the region and became the central village. The Başağalar, whose circumstances were very good until the end of the 1800s, gave a great many of their grown sons as martyrs in the wars during the collapse of the Ottoman State; as a result they largely lost the livelihood they derived from farming and animal husbandry and fell into hardship. From the first years of the new State of the Republic of Türkiye, founded after the national struggle won under Atatürk’s leadership, having benefited from the opportunities of the state on the path of development and enlightenment, they are advancing along a bright path.

10. I wholeheartedly believe that the motto of everyone who descends from the Başağalar family and counts themselves as belonging to this family is this: We are proud to be of the Başağalar lineage. We will live for ever loyal to Atatürk’s way of thinking and to the democratic, secular, social State of the Republic of Türkiye. “Ne mutlu Türküm diyene.” (“How happy is the one who says ‘I am a Turk’.”)

11/01/2022 — Of the 8th generation of the Başağalar and the 6th generation of the Ali Ağalar, born 1940, retired Lieutenant General Ali Yalçın

Explanatory notes

1. The term Ağa has customarily been used in the family as a traditional title / epithet and does not derive from any privilege.

2. With the Surname Law (1934), five surnames were adopted among the Başağalar. The Abidin Ağalar took the surnames Oktay and Koç, the İpşir Ağalar Öztürk and Yılmaz, and the Ali Ağalar Yalçın. The surnames have been numbered 1–5 as indicated below: 1. Oktay 2. Koç 3. Öztürk 4. Yılmaz 5. Yalçın.

3. In the genealogy, the married surnames of our women — those known from earlier generations, those identified later and those of later generations — are also given separately in brackets.

4. The continuity of the genealogy’s connection with the past, on the basis of lineage and tribe, is very important. As the families multiply and expand, continuity should be ensured by renewing the genealogies of the extended sub-families at intervals of 2–3 generations or as needed, without losing the connection to the main genealogy. We may also call this idea of ours a consequence of urbanisation and even of globalisation.

5. In this second-edition genealogy, the names of a total of 963 family members from Başağa onwards are included.

6. The genealogy dated 2022 has been named the Second Edition Main Genealogy. Endless thanks to the valued members of the Başağalar, old and young, who gave me great help in preparing the expanded second main genealogy.

7. This expanded second-edition genealogy of the Başağalar family was prepared digitally at the Aygün Architecture Office in İzmir over a long period, carefully and in coordination, through the devoted work of Architect Ali İhsan Aygün, Architect Gamze Aygün and Architect Ahmetcan Aygün. On my own behalf (Ali Yalçın) and on behalf of the members of the Başağalar, I thank the esteemed Aygün family and offer them my appreciation.

Ali Yalçın, retired Lieutenant General, 11.01.2022