Until recently history was written as Baibars who defeated the Crusaders and Mongols, put it bluntly not Saladin, the Seljuks which Saladin was a part of were a Turkic empire that practically change the face of the Islamic world, Ottomans in European, Mughals & Delhi Sultanate in India etc, Safavids in Persia, if it wasn't for the Seljuks Turks today the Muslim world would have been majority Shia and wiped out along the coast of the med.
There is a systematic and dishonest propaganda going on to wipe off the name of Turks from history. Babur himself calls himself a Turk, Timur, Baibars etc all did and were but what you hear "they were from so and so tribe" as if the common layman will know what these tribes are.
You dont see the same approach towards Arabs i.e "he was from banu this and banu that" it is simple, they were Arabs or Persians "he was of the lurs or tajiks" its simple they were Persians etc funnily this propaganda is also being done by none other then supposed Muslims who want to claim Turkic history as theres.
Various European sources call Saladin the Turk.
Plus he also had Turkic heritage and was trained by the Zengids who were Oghuz Turkic themselves.
Saladin is a Turk hence why I find it insulting people calling him a Kurd. Can Kurds even build such an empire like Saladin of course not.
Saladin pretty heavily defeated the crusaders and took Jerusalem his biggest mistake was not wiping them off the map which would lead to defeats in the Third Crusade.
One thing Baybars got right was wipe out the crusaders for good with no mercy.
When it comes to the Turkic empires a lot of people are already wiping out their Turkic heritage and origin. Europeans have already began to claim the Ottoman Empires as theirs due to various Sultans having white skin and having European mothers.
To the Europeans, Arabs, Kurds, Indians, Persians, Chinese and other Non Turks. Us Turks are incapable of building an empire. What bullshit the Turks were nomadic even by being nomads they still built empires despite living in tents.
Germanics, Slavics, Celts, Vikings and other various Barbarian peoples all lived in huts none of them even built an empire like nomadic Turks before Islam.
Bulgarians have also been wiping out the Turkic heritage of their history by saying the founders of Bulgaria are not Turkic. Bulgarians have also been spreading their filth in Volga Bulgaria by telling the Volga Bulgarians they are not Turk.
Our history is getting wiped out and hijacked!!
guy was a Khazarian Jew who accepted Islam, all of his 4 sons had Jewish names.
