oghuz turks are a branch of turkic peoples. during the early medieval ages most of them were nomads and their political structure was tribal. there were 22 or 24 oghuz tribes. the tribes were listed in a number of medieval books with islamic sources calling muslim oghuzes as turkmen by the 10th century. they were also mentioned in oghuz legend. according to mythology there were 24 tribes in two main groups. each group was represented by three brothers and each brother was supposed to have four sons. in this classification kınık tribe is the descendant of deniz khan who in turn was in the group of üçok.