Those Seljuks from a 1000 years ago have as much to do with today's Turkey, as today's Greek with Agamemnon or his brother in Mykene. - nothing
There are no places in Minor-Asia that haven't been occupied by others before being conquered by e.g. Romans, Byzantines, Seljuks or Mongols - as such today's Turkish people are a mix of everything. Looking at history in regards to e.g. white sheep's and black sheep's contra Ottomans - even belonging to the same Turk immigrant roots they been warring and killing each other for centuries.
It was the Ottoman Turk who conquered and as such united all kinds of Turk tribes and loads of non Turk tribes and kingdoms.
And the great Saladin Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb, btw. was a Kurd. And it was his Ayyubid dynasty that controlled Egypt, Syria, Lebanon etc. and not some Turk tribe.
And before him there was a Hārūn al-Rashīd ibn Muḥammad al-Mahdī ibn al-Manṣūr al-ʿAbbāsī, of the Abbasid caliphate (actually a Persian) who drove of the Umayyad dynasty.
As I said please don't distort history
its you whose distorting history, you want to ignore over a thousand years of Turkic history, because you have a fetish to give a terrorist organisation some lands.
BTW Saladin served in the Seljuk army, his army was comprised mostly of Turks. Even then his rule was minor compared the Turkic rule of the region which eclipses it by about 900 or so years in length.
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Saladin rebelled against Nur ad-Din, and, upon his death, Saladin married his widow and captured most of Syria and created the Ayyubid dynasty. On other fronts, the Kingdom of Georgia began to become a regional power and extended its borders at the expense of Great Seljuk.
And yes others had egypt before the Turks and others had egypt before the arabs all the way back going thousands of years. The point is you place lots of weight on pkk terrorists, but want to ignore a thousand years of Turkic history in the same lands."
Saladin actually betrayed the Seljuks Turks in which his position and status was initially given to him by the Turks. Kurds being given status and prestige via the Turks only to betray them has happened a few times in history.
If the PKK were not committing terrorists attacks against Turkey and looking to take Turkish lands, we probably wouldn't care too much about them in syria or iraq.
give it up man.
Its intereting though on the one hand you didnt know about the thousand years of Turkic history in those lands, but you were quick to bring Saladin and previous dynasties. That tells me you are entirely being selective.
