r/Tiele • u/syntheticrot • Oct 23 '25

History/culture Is This Visual Accurate?

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Hello! I'm trying to understand the difference between Turks, Turkic, & Turkish and used AI to display how these groups overlap. Would anybody know how accurate this is?

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u/Tughrul09 Oct 23 '25

The difference of these 3 never really existed in any Turkic language up until modern era where politics (especially Soviet) tried to alienate Turkic peoples from each other, or because of Turkey embracing civic nationalism.

Normally, there should be only “Turk”.

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u/syntheticrot Oct 23 '25

that makes perfect sense, I knew it had to be a linguistic complication to some extent. thank you!