Our Story
- Turkic Legal Heritage
Justice Without Borders, Wisdom Without Time. Fighting for justice for over 2000 years
Two Thousand Years in Defense of Justice.
- Timeline
The future is here already
3rd Century BCE
Huns Confederation & Tore
The nomadic Huns, considered ancestral to later Turkic states, governed through tore—an oral legal system based on justice, order, and harmony with the natural and social order. Chinese chronicles (Shiji, Han Shu) describe their laws on property, marriage, alliances, and warfare, enforced by tribal councils (kurultai).
1st Century BCE
Early Turkic Clan Law
Archaeological evidence from the Altai and Minusinsk Basin shows burial rites and clan property customs, indicating regulated inheritance rights and obligations within tribal law.
1st Century
Proto-Turkic Confederations
Emerging tribal unions across the Eurasian steppe adapted töre into structured rules for leadership succession, dispute resolution, and war spoils distribution, laying the groundwork for codified law in later empires.
6th Century
Göktürk Khaganate & Codified Töre (pre-Orkhon era)
The first recorded codification of Turkic customary law under the Göktürks, combining ancient töre with formal state decrees, directly preceding the Orkhon inscriptions.
8th Century
Orkhon Inscriptions
Earliest known written Turkic legal-political texts, commemorating leadership duties, justice principles, and the obligation to protect the people.
10th–12th Centruies
Karakhanid Legal Traditions
One of the first Muslim Turkic states, merging töre (customary law).
11th Century
Kutadgu Bilig
Yusuf Balasagun’s masterpiece on just leadership, moral conduct, and the welfare of citizens.
1072
Divanü Lügati’t-Türk
Mahmud al-Kashgari’s dictionary preserving language, culture, and legal concepts of Turkic society.
15th–16th Centuries
Sultans Mehmed II & Suleiman the Magnificent harmonized Turkic law with Islamic law for an admired justice system.
20th Century
New constitutions blending civil, Islamic, and customary laws, continuing the heritage of justice.
21st Century
Uniting Turkic lawyers, prosecutors, judges, justices, legal scholars and law-related workers to defend rights, promote justice, and honor centuries-old legal traditions.
