Issik Qaghan
{{Infobox Monarch
| name = Kara Issik Qaghan
| succession = Qaghan of the First Turkic Khaganate
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| reign = 552 – 553
| coronation =
| full name =
| predecessor = Bumin Qaghan
| successor = Muqan Qaghan
| spouse =
| issue = Ishbara Qaghan
Bagha Qaghan
| royal house = Ashina
| father = Bumin Qaghan
| mother =
| birth_name = Ashina Keluo (阿史那科罗)
| birth_date =
| birth_place =
| death_date = 553
}}
Kara Issik Qaghan ({{zh|t=乙息記可汗|p=Yǐxījì kěhàn}}) was the second ruler of the Turkic Khaganate.
Biography
His personal name was Ashina Keluo ({{Lang-zh|c=阿史那科罗}}) which is reconstructible in Middle Chinese as *kʰuâ-lâ, which is transliterated as either Old Turkic Qara.{{Cite book |last=Golden |first=Peter B. |title=An introduction to the history of the Turkic peoples: ethnogenesis and state-formation in medieval and early modern Eurasia and the Middle East |date=1992 |publisher=O. Harrassowitz |isbn=978-3-447-03274-2 |series=Turcologica |location=Wiesbaden |pages=121}} His regnal name Yixiji was reconstructed by Ahmet Taşağıl as Ilji.{{Cite book |last=Taşağıl |first=Ahmet |title=Kök Tengri'nin Çocukları - Avrasya Bozkırlarında İslam Öncesi Türk Tarihi |publisher=Bilge Kültür Sanat |year=2013 |isbn=9786055261658 |location=Istanbul |pages=128 |language=tr |trans-title=Children of Kök Tengri - Pre-Islamic Turkish History in the Eurasian Steppes}} He is also referred to as Ayi Qaghan (阿逸可汗) in Cefu Yuangui.{{Cite journal |last=Erkoç |first=Hayrettin İhsan |date=2016 |title=Batı Göktürk Kağanlığı’nın Kuruluşu |trans-title=Foundation of the Western Türk Qaġanate |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309859492_Bati_Gokturk_Kaganligi'nin_Kurulusu_Foundation_of_the_Western_Turk_Qaganate |journal=Journal of Faculty of Letters |language=tr |publisher=Hacettepe University |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=}}
During his brief rule, he defeated the Rouran khagan Yujiulü Dengzhu near Mulai Mountain to north of Woye Town (modern Wuyuan County, Inner Mongolia). He is recorded to have sent a tribute of 50,000 horses to Western Wei in May 553. He died the same year after an illness and was succeeded by his younger brother Yandou.{{Cite book |last=Hongsheng |first=Cai |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x13bEAAAQBAJ |title=Sino-Foreign Cultural Exchange: A Historical Perspective |date=2023-11-24 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-003-80491-8 |pages=120 |language=en}}
References
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{{Succession box|title=Khagan of the Turkic Khaganate|before=Bumin Qaghan|after=Muqan Qaghan|years = 552–553}}
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