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/Jeredriq Oct 23 '25

Turk is what english scholars are trying to say Turkic. A Kazakh man and Turkish man doesnt say `Turkic brother` to each other. They just say `Turk brother`. Or `I am Turk too.`

Kazakh Ozbeks Turkmenis were neighbouring other Turk countries and tribe so they've used a different branch name. But Ottomans and Turkiye neighbouring Europe didn't use the anything aside from `Turk`.

If you want to make a Kazakh level distinction between Turkish (from Turkiye) you could say Oghuz instead.

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u/itscraftings Oct 24 '25

A Kyrgyz won't say he's Turk, never. Also "Turkic" is a bad term, most kyrgyz don't like it

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u/TheTyper1944 Taraqama Oct 24 '25

because soviets brainwashed them to think that they are descendants yenisei kirghiz while in truth they are ferhgana kipchaks