The effect of women on warfare in Medieval Turkish States (Great Seljuks, Harzemshahs, Seljuks of Turkey, Timurids, Akkoyunlular and Karakoyunlular)

This thesis examines the impact of women on politics and warfare in the Middle Ages and explains the importance of women's presence in politics. Throughout the Middle Ages, women played influential roles in political decision-making, methodology and even in the struggle for the throne. However, these roles were often overshadowed by the male-dominated political environment and were not sufficiently recorded in historical records. The thesis on the effects of women on politics and the effects of women on war in the Great Seljuk State, Khwarezmşahlar State, Anatolian Seljuk State, Timurid State, Karakoyunlu and Akkoyunlu State consists of twelve main topics. Our thesis explains the importance of the wives, mothers, daughters and sisters of the medieval sultans in politics and the influence of women in state politics, their position within the state and their influence in the palace. These women shaped the politics of the state with the important duties they assumed in the internal and external relations of the state. While these women sometimes saved the state with these duties they undertook, sometimes they brought the state to the point of destruction due to their ambitions. These women sometimes strengthened the state through political marriages, and sometimes these marriages led to a cause for war. Understanding the impact of women on politics and wars in the Middle Ages is important not only from a political history perspective, but also from a social and cultural perspective. Women's political decisions