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 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 Am