`  == Amuca tribeThe  ==  The ``Amuca tribe`` in Turkish: ``Amuca Kabilesi``  Amucalar, is one of the nomadic Oghuz Turks tribes, of the Ottoman Empire, which moved from Anatolia to the Balkans. At the end of 14th Century , this clan established a settled life in Ottoman Thrace. Today they live in Kırklareli Province. The first founded village of this tribe was Keşirlik, located in the Mahya Dağı.  ==Meaning of the word== ``Amuca - Uncle``, is the old adage word, that means the father's brother. ``Kabilesi - tribe``, have passed the word was used and the records of the Ottoman Empire as Amuca Tribe. Today, more often, ``Amica Tribe`` is said to be.  ==Origin== Amuca Tribe, belongs to the longitudinal Kayı tribe. This Clan ``Amuca kabilesi`` to be described, they are derived from relatives of the Ottoman Dynasty. Amucalar, descendants of Gündüz Gazi and Saru Batu Savcı Bey, the Older son's of Ertuğrul.  If you are asked this tribes: ``You are the descendants of whom?`` This Folk is mentioned: We ``Amucalar``, descendants of Ertuğrul, trough his son's Gündüz Gazi and Saru Batu Savcı Bey, who was the oldest Brother's to Osman I. They speak a dialect of old Ottoman Turkish language.  ==Family tree== *Kara Han ** Oghuz Khan *** Gün Han **** Kayı Han ***** Sarkuk Alp ****** Gök Alp ******* Kaya Alp ******** Suleyman Shah/(Gündüz Alp) ********* Dündar Alp ********** Dündar Bey ********* Gündoğdu ********* Sungur Tekin ********* Ertoğrul ********** Gündüz Gazi, Founder of the Amuca tribe *********** Aktimur/(Akbaş Bey) ************ Gündüz Noyan ************* Kaydu  ************** Çinkim *************** Samdup **************** Talib  ***************** Cebe ************* Temelün Hanım ************* Yulun Hanım ************ Yesugan Hanım *********** Aydoğdu Alp ********** Saru Batu Sacvi Bey *********** Bayhoca *********** Süleyman Bey ************ Hatice Hanım ************* Hamza ************** Mehmet ************* Mustafa ************** Osman ************* Ilaldı Hanım ************* Fatma Hanım  ==Religion and Culture== Mostly Amucalar are follower Bektashi Order from the Tarikat of Sheikh Bedreddin, but also few Members are Sunni muslim of Maturidi. Mostly male Members of the Amuca tribe are ``high and loose`` Circumcised with 13 year's. The yağlı güreş/Oil wrestling, is very a common Sport in this tribe.  ==Prominent People of the Amuca tribe== *Gül Baba, (died 1541), also known as Cafer, was an Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet and companion of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent who took part in a number of campaigns in Europe from the reign of Mehmed II onwards *Sultanzade Mehmed Pasha *President: Hoca Salih Mehmed Efendi of the Provisional Government of Western Thrace *Ziya Songülen *Ersin Faikzâde (international volunteer, a singer and a writer)  *Emirzâde Şaban Bey Efendi (1908–1980), born in Harmanli in Bulgaria, was the son of Mahmut Bey and Habibe Hanım . He was the nephew of Ziya Songülen and a Member of the Amuca tribe also a descendant of Sultanzade Mehmed Pasha and Saliha Sultana.  In the Turkish-Bulgarian War, settled his Mother in 1912 to Babaeski/Turkey.  He had an older brother Emirzâde Hasan Bey. His father died when he was four years old, and together with his older brother grew up with their uncle. His mother was a maid of Sehzade Abdülhalim and went along with him and his family into exile in France in 1924. He was married with Nemzade Hatice Hanım, and a follower of Sunni Islam.    His wife Nemzade Hatice Hanım (1911–2000), born in Hasköy/Haskovo in Bulgaria, was the daughter of Mehmed Ali Paşa and Fehime Hanım Karakoç.   Mehmed Ali was a descendant of of the Karakoçlu/Black Mutton Clan.   Fehime was the Granddaughter of Abdi Pasha.   In the Turkish-Bulgarian War, settled her family in 1913 to Babaeski/Turkey. She was married with Emirzâde Şaban Bey, and was a follower of Sunni Islam.  ==Princely to the throne of the House of Amuca from the former Adrianople Vilayet trough Sultanzade Mehmed Pasha== *Emirzâde Yüksel Sarmaşık, (b.1963, Turkey - d.1985, Turkey), *Emirzâde Yücel Salih Sarmaşık, (b.1970, Turkey) *Emirzâde Zafer Sarmaşık, (b.1977, Turkey) *Emirzâde Can Timur Sarmaşık, (b.1978, Germany) *Emirzâde Kerem Sarmaşık, (b.2006, Turkey)  ==NOTE== The princes of the house of Amuca are no claimants to the throne of the Ottoman dynasty, and they make no claims.  ==Haplogroup of Oğuzhan== Because so many Turkish-people today claim to be a descendant of Oghuz Khan, male members of the Amucalar, descendants of Gündüz Gazi, the older brother of ``Osman I, tested their Y-DNA. Genetic history of the Turkish people, shows that the common ancestor ``Ertuğrul``, belonged to haplogroup: R1a=6.9% - Typical of Central Asian, Caucasus, Eastern Europeans and Indo-Aryan people.  ==See also== http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amuca_Kabilesi  ==Sources of Oghuz Khan Haplogroup== http://www.ysearch.org/search_view.asp?uid=XWBWW&viewuid;=FTEMF&p;=1        Category:History of the Turkic peoples Category:History of the Turkish people Category:Oghuz Turks [[Category:Turkic tribes`