This paper tries to offer the antithesis for the common concept or the fixed pattern concerning the historical current from the Seljuk Turks to the Ottoman Turks through the mediation of the Rum (Anadolu) Seljuk Sultanate. The Oguz-Turkmen's rebellions under the leadership of the Muslim Sufi Tarikat during the Rum Sultanate period (1077-1307 A.D) were the embryo of a newly-born powerful Turkish Emirate, that is "Karaman Beyligi" in the Tauros mountain area. Accordingly, the birth of this Emirate was the result of the social-religious movement, Babai movement by the Sufi Order in Asia Minor. As the "Karaman Beyligi" continued so long and affected so much to the Ottoman state that it was the strongest and the most troublesome rival against the Ottoman power which intended the hegemony over the Mediterranean World. The writer intends to make clear the following new views in this field. (1) The origin or the lineage of the state-builder of the "Karaman Beyligi", that is, Nure Sufi Bey. (2) The intimate mutual relation between Nure Sufi Bey and Baba Ilyas or Baba Ishak, the big leader in the Sufi movement. (3) Lumber industry as the economic basis ; lumbering, wood-working, charcoal-making and selling wood produced in the mountainous Tauros area.

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