he was send to Nuraddin bin Zengi in young age I would not bet that he could not speak turkish..
wikipedia writes he was meternal grandson of Nuraddin..
but to the whole thing I am disapointed.. WTF we have Nuraddin bin Zengi the disinterest for own turkish leaders is very disappointing.. you can ask 1000 turks I doubt that 10% of them knows Nuraddin.. even he was a very religios, Hosbital and university building man who was justice and the one who stopped two mercenaries/crusaders who wanted to take hz muhammed sav body even baybars is not well known the only one who got sultane as a slave
Salahuddins famous part is also pushed by many western ppl like goethe also many false thinking is etablished like he was the one who conquered Jerusalem
maybe as a turk there is no fame for us we were the ones who cleaned ME from crusaders thank you baybars ..
I am not against this labeling but I want to have our leaders honored too..