Decline and Internecine Strife
The defeat meant death for Suluk - as soon as he was back in Balasaghun he was murdered at the hands of Baga Tarkan Kül Chor, leader of the Sary (Yellow) Turgesh. This, in turn, laid the foundations for the early demise of the Turgesh empire, who had so far challenged the might of the Caliphate. When Suluk was killed the Kara and Sary (Black and Yellow) Turgesh began a civil war. Kül Chor of the Sary Türgish vanquished his rival Tumoche of the Kara Turgesh and ascended to khanship. In 739 he enriched his criminal record by killing Hin of the Göktürk Ashina clan, the "legitimate" puppet Kaghan in Tang service. The Chinese reacted by supporting the rebellious Kara Turgesh, which in 742 found in Iltutmish Kutlug Bilge a new Kaghan, later succeeded by Tengrideh Bolmysh in 753. This last ruler declared himself a vassal of Moyun Chor, the ruling Kaghan of the recently born Orkhon Uyghur empire. The Turgesh civil war came to a sudden end only in 766, when annals record that the Karluks smashed the Turgesh Kaganate. Their name simply disappears from history.
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