[4] Artuk Bey was one of the commanders of the Great Seljuk Empire army during the Battle of Manzikert in 1071.
In 1075, Artuk captured on behalf of the Byzantine Empire the Norman rebell Roussel de Bailleul and handed him over to the future emperor Alexios Komnenos.
In this campaign he quarreled with the commander-in-chief Fakhr al-Dawla ibn Jahir who tended to make peace with Marwanids.
[7] Artuk left the battle field and attended to Tutush I who was Malik Shah's discordant younger brother in Syria in 1084.
In 1086 he was instrumental in defeating Suleiman ibn Qutulmish, the sultan of Seljuks of Rûm in the battle of Ain Salm between Süleyman and Tutush.