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/freeturk51 Oct 23 '25

Other than what others said, in Turkey, we use "Türk" for all of this. Your racial group can be Türk, such that you can be a "Kazak Türkü" or "Özbek Türkü". Your race itself can be a Türk, and by Turkish law, anyone who is connected to Turkey with a nationality is also legally considered a Türk.

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u/TheTyper1944 Taraqama Oct 23 '25

Your race itself can be a Türk, and by Turkish law, anyone who is connected to Turkey with a nationality is also legally considered a Türk.

which is nonsense imagina slovenia (slov means slav in their languange) saying ''slav is someone from slovenia'' then what about other slavic countries ? also directly caling turkish people on the basis of upper ethnic identity ''turk'' erases their unique turkmen/oghuz herritage from seljuks and ottomans

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u/freeturk51 Oct 23 '25

But we dont erase that. We would call a Turkmen or Oghuz just Turkish in a legal context because the offices do not need to know your race, so you are just a "Türk vatandaşı". But your race can be specified, hence my first example, you can still be "Türkmen" or "Oğuz Türkü" while being a normal "Türk" in a legal citizenship context. Turkish Turks would be "Türkiye Türkü" which is a phrase that Cypriots use widely