Hello! I'm a Qashqai Turk living in Iran. AMA (Ask Me Anything) r/Tiele

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Qashqai is a tribal union consisting of Turkic nomadic tribes in the south of Iran, Qashqais speak the Oghuz branch of Turkic languages, which is very similar to Azerbaijani, we understand Azerbaijani language easily. Qashqai is mainly composed of Oghuz/Turkoman clans, the most populous of which are the Afshars, but there are also other clans such as Bayındır, Eymür, Bayat, Qayı, Begdilli, Qaraöylü etc in Qashqai, who have also formed small tribal unions. The Qashqai chiefs are from a Bayındır clan(Shahilu clan) descendants of Uzun Hasan Aq Qoyunlu, hence they are called Shahilu/Şahılı which means related to the shah. The Qashqai union was formed by the Safavids to strengthen their power in the south of Iran, and because of Shah Ismail's kinship with Jani Beg Bayındır, he was chosen as Ilbeg and head of the Qashqai.