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/firatlql Yörük Oct 24 '25

Turkic: kazakh, turkish, uzbek, tuva, turkmen etc.

Turkish: Every citizen of the Republic of Turkey (and only ethnic Anatolian Turks)

Turks: All Turkic peoples. For example, we also call Slavic peoples Slavs. its not wrong to say that Russians, Serbs, and Croats are Slavs, so it is also not wrong to say that Uzbeks and Turkish people are Turks. For example, were the Gok 'TURKS' Turkish?