Thread by @craoft

Reading history of #Turkmens.

🔴Turkmens are the Oghuz nomadic tribes that islamized, 10th century AD
🔴Oghuz moved from Mongolia into present-day Central Asia on 8th century AD

🔴Later they migrated westwards into present-day Azerbaijan and #Turkey

Turks = Mongols Seljuk Turk

Conclusion about Turks and Turkey

🟠Turks are NOT natives of Anatolia or Central Asia
🟠Turk / Turkmen is the name of islamized Oghuz
🟠Oghuz are of Mongol Seljuk, Uyghur origin
🟠Oghuz origin are the Mongol Altai Mountains

Turks have no connection with Turkic Khaganate or Göktürks except they were tribes within the territory of these Khaganates.

Western Turkic Khaganate = Onoq budun
First Turkic Khaganate = Idi Oqsız Kök Türük
Göktürks = Türük Bodun

Turk is a later term same as the term Byzantine

Turk term origin:

1. Islamized Oghuz named Turkmen
2. Turk is mispelling of Turuk, however Turks are not Turuk but that's how Arabs called the islamized Oghuz, and Turuk who islamized later.

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3. The term Turk/Turkic in history, comes later, defines language characteristics (even far distant) among different people in a vast territory. Even people that are not connected, if there are distant linguistic characteristics and are from that territories can be called Turkic.

..3.. This is because there is no written or definite history from that vast region. These populations left no history and we only rely on other sources, like Chinese sources.

So the so called "Turkic" populations very often they are not connected or related to each other.

So Keep in mind

☑️Turks from Turkey (modern Turks) are a mixture of Janissaries mixed with Turkish women, Turks and Janissaries mixed with slaves, and all that mixed. And of course native populations that Turkified.

☑️Prior that, Turks were Seljuks, Mongols Seljuk Turk, Seljuk Turk, Turkmen. They called themselves Seljuk, Arabs called them Turkmen or Seljuk Turk. These were Oghuz people mixed with Iranians and Persians.

☑️Seljuks prior mixed with Iranians, were an Oghuz tribe which islamized and break from the other Oghuz tribes Seljuks took their name from their leader, Seljuk.

☑️Oghuz were of Mongol, Uyghur origin tribes that moved on 8th century AD from Mongolia to Central Asia.

☑️Oghuz in Mongol Altai Mountains or around, were a dominion of Xiongnu.

Timeline of the Turks

1👉Oghuz (Mongol, Uyghur origin) at Mongol Altai Mountains
2👉Oghuz moved from Mongolia to Central Asia (8th century AD)
3👉Mongol Seljuks, an Oghuz tribe, islamized, break from other Oghuz
4👉Seljuk, Seljuk Turk, Turkmen, islamizd Oghuz mixed with Iranians

5👉 Mongol Seljuks Turk, moved westwards at present-day Azerbaijan and Turkey
Ottoman Turks are Mongol Seljuks Turk, Janissary mixed with Turk women and slaves, all that mixed

6👉 Modern Turks are the Ottoman Turks and Turkified populations. Oghuz, Seljuk element have declined, because of the Janissary, Turkified and other native populations. Greek, Armenian, Kurd, Iranian, Syrian, Assyrian element rise-up among the Modern Turks which they are unaware.