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I don't find that surprising at all because Uighurs are generally very conservative and religious even more than Uzbeks. They also don't drink alcohol unlike Kazakhs or Kyrgyz who are heavy drinkers.

The national hero of Tatarstan Söyembikä (also spelled Söyenbikä, Sujumbike, pronounced [sœˌjœmbiˈkæ]; Cyrillic:Сөембикә) (1516 – after 1554) was a Tatar ruler, xanbikä. She was the regent of her son Kazan khan Ütämeşgäräy in (1549–51), the daughter of Nogay nobleman Yosıf bäk and the wife of...

Baloch people are culturally and linguistically Iranian just like Persians, Gilakis, Lurs and Kurds. You don't need to exclude them from the Iranian Meta-ethnicity just because they're Sunnis

Topic is about Turkic countries forming an some type of joint Armed forces.... "Türk Dili Konuşan Ülkeler İşbirliği Konseyi 4. Zirvesi" has not nothing to do with it. They discussed about energy, transportation and culture not about millitary stuff. Yeap, but they are the black sheep of the...

Most Turks are neutral about Pakistan. The only Turks who feel kinship with Pakistanis are neo-ottomanists or hardcore Muslims but they see every Muslim folk as "brother" anyway. Most Turks I know have a neutral view about Pakistan

I'm not surprised that Turks view the influence of Pakistan as mainly negative. The average Turk sees Pakistan as another terrorist state that interpretates Islam wrong.

No it shouldn't become a mosque because there is a blue mosque, where Muslims can prey just 100 metres away from the Hagia Sophia. The Hagia Sophia reflects the unique history and culture of two world empires. It's the symbol of Istanbul and it was a wise decision from Ataturk to change the...

The Timurid dynasty (Persian: تیموریان‎), self-designated Gurkānī [3][4][5](Persian: گوركانى‎), was a Sunni Muslim Persianate[6][7] dynasty of Turco-Mongol lineage[7][8][9][10] which ruled over modern-day Iran, the Caucasus,Mesopotamia, Afghanistan, much of Central Asia, as well as parts of...

The Battle of Köse Dağ was fought between the Seljuk Turks of Anatolia and the Mongols on June 26, 1243 at the defile of Köse Dağ (Ch'man-katuk Armenian: Չման-կատուկ), a location between Erzincan andGümüşhane in northeast Anatolia, modern Turkey,[9][10] that ended in a decisive Mongol victory...

The Kara-Khanid Khanate (Persian: قَراخانيان‎, Qarākhānīyān or خاقانيه‎,Khakānīya, Chinese: 黑汗, 桃花石) was a Turkic dynasty that ruled in Transoxiana in Central Asia, ruled by a dynasty known in literature as theKarakhanids (also spelt Qarakhanids) or Ilek Khanids.[3] Both dynastic names...

Well, Chuvash is basically distinct to all Turkic languages That's the reason why scholars believe this: The conclusion that Chuvash belongs to the Oghuric branch of Turkic arises from the reasoning that the vocabulary shows the language to belong to the r- and l- type which is typical for all...

I don't think so. Most scholars, turkologists and linguists classify the Chuvash language as Oghur Turkic language just like Khazar, Avar and Bulgar languages but they are not so sure about the Hunnic language Here is something interesting about Chuvash language Chuvash (Чӑвашла, Čăvašla; IPA...

The Oghur Turkic languages are an interesring and special case for the Turkic language family. The Oghur languages broke off from Common Turkic languages like Oghuz, Kipchak, Karluk and Siberian Turkic around 500 BC. The only surviving language of the Oghur languages is the Chuvash language...

Let's look at the ancestors oder modern Volga Tatars Volga Bulgaria, or Volga–Kama Bulghar, was a historic Islamic Bulgar state that existed between the seventh and thirteenth centuries around the confluence of the Volga and Kama rivers, in what is now European Russia. The population was mostly...

The Muslim conquest of Transoxiana or the Arab conquest of Transoxiana[3] was the conquest of Transoxiana by the Muslim Arabs as part of the Muslim conquests. Battles between Muslims and Turks[edit] As a corollary to the Muslim conquest of Persia, the Muslims became neighbors of the city states...

Why are they Turkish? Uyghurs have their own language which belongs to the Turkic language family. They are not Turks. They are Uighurs. It's like saying that Serbians are Russians because both speak Slavic languages

Yes it is. The Uzbek language has the most influence from Arabic and Persian from of all Turkic languages

It is even disputed by many linguists if the Altaic language family even exists. That means it is not proven whether the Altaic languages are genetically related to each other like the Indo-European or Uralic languages or just a so called "Sprachbund". Oh and many linguists don't consider...

After the Turkic migration to Iran pretty much yes but the "Turkic" dynasties of India are not comparable to the Turkic empires in Iran as the Turkish rulers of India were a small elite who got quickly assimilated into several Soth Asian ethnic groups. All Muslim dynasties of Hindustan used...

Seljuks are the ancestors of Turks and Azeris. They could speak Persian but they still considered themselves as Turkish. The Khwarazmian rulers were all Turkic Ilkhanate was obviously Mongol Timurids were mixed Turkic-Mongols Safavids were probably the most Iranian but the rulers were still...