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Turks from Kayseri have 6 % Mongoloid admixture on average. The capital of the Sultanate of Rum was Konya not Kayseri.

I was also surprised but I'm also happy about that because the stereotype that Turks from Western Turkey are all Turkiczied Greeks annoyed me very much. You mean that Konya was mostly populated by Turks don't you? Konya was the capital of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum, not Kayseri. Chechens...

Speaking an Eastern Iranian language and having a Pashtun culture makes someone in no sense Turkic. The language is the most important cultural feature of a nation, not the genetic heritage. Turks are mixed just as Iranians, Pashtuns, Arabs, Germans and EVERY ethnicity in this world. It's the...

I wouldn't say that most Uzbeks are that radical Islamic. It's true that Uzbeks feel themselves closer to Islam than other Turkics but they were still under Soviet rule and I also heard that Uzbeks from Tashkent are mainly secular Muslims while the Uzbeks from Samarkand and Bukkara are more...

I've never said that Turks in Turkey are pure. We could say that Turks are mainly a mix between Oghuz Turkic newcomers and Native Anatolians. The main difference between Ghilzais and Turks is that the Ghilzai speak an Eastern Iranian language and the Turks a Turkic language. Ghilzais are also...

I often read in Tajik or Pashtun forums and it seems to me that they don't like each other. Many Tajiks hate it when you name them "Afghan" because this ethnonym is actually used only for Pashtuns as Afghan=Pashtun. Many Tajiks also consider Pashtuns as barbarian Taliban savages. Many Pashtuns...

The Delhi Sultanate is a term used to cover five short-lived dynasties, Delhi based kingdoms or sultanates, mostly of Turkic and Pashtun (Afghan) origin in mediaeval India. The sultanates ruled from Delhi between 1206 and 1526, when the last was replaced by the Mughal dynasty. The five dynasties...

Nationalism is very strong among the "Afghan" people. Tajiks are very proud of their high culture and Persian heritage. Many Pashtuns call Afghanistan "Pashtunistan" and they are very proud of their Pahtunwali culture and Afghan heroes like Ahmad Shah Durrani. Uzbeks alone a very proud of the...

I know that the Mughals were Chagatai Turko-Mongols from Uzbekistan. I use the name "Afghan" only for Pashtuns. I don't believe in something like an "Afghan" nationality and I don't consider Uzbeks, Hazaras, Turkmens or Tajiks who live in Afghanistan as "Afghans".

It's true that Ghaznavids were Turkic but not the Ghorids. It is already accepted by most historians, scholars and linguists that the Ghurids were an Eastern Iranian dynasty The Ghurids or Ghorids (Persian: سلسله غوریان&#8206...

Why shouldn't I seperate them? Afghans and Turks aren't the same. The only thing that connects Afghans with other Turkics is Islam and even with that many Turks take it mainly casual and not radical unlike Afghans

I don't know what you're talking about but I didn't write this text as I qouted it from Wikipedia. India was invaded enough by Turkics and Afghans anyway. Mongols would be too much IMO.

I don't think that the Pashtun Ghilzai tribes are only descendants from the Turkic Khiljis. They seem to be a big mix of different peoples and they are several theories about the origin of Ghilzai Pashtuns. The Ghilzais are a confederation of Pashtun tribes whose origin is unknown. Some...

Yes that's true. The Mongols tried to conquer India but failed because of the Delhi Sultanates and the Khilji dynasty. The commanders and rulers in that time who defend the Indians and India against a Mongol invasion were ironically Muslim Turkics

Could you please tell me how you define backward culture? When it comes the position of women we can easily say that Indians were and are more backward compared to Turkic and Mongol societies. The position of women in steppe nomadic peoples like Turks or Mongolians was always equivalent with the...

Tengrism and Buddhism aren't similar from each other sorry. Buddhism is an atheist religion without a god while Tengrists believed in one supreme sky god called Tengri. Tengrism is mostly characterized by features of Shamanism, Animism, Totemism, both Polytheism and Monotheism. Buddhism is more...

Ghengis Khan was never a Buddhist. He was a Shamanist and he practiced Tengrism which was the ancient religion of all Turkic and Mongolian nomads. The Mongols weren't Buddhists when they wanted to conquer India.

Another ridiculous Pan-Iranist? I don't know what you're talking about. Turks and Mongols lived the same lifestyle and had the same steppe nomad warrior culture but both people weren't and aren't linguistically related to each other

The Mongol invasion of Khwarezmia from 1219 to 1221[1] marked the beginning of the Mongol conquest of the Islamic states. The Mongol expansion would ultimately culminate in the conquest of virtually all of Eurasia, save for Western Europe, Fennoscandia, the Byzantine Empire, Arabia, most of the...

I know that many Indian Hindus see the Muslim Turkic rulers from Delhi Sultanates as barbarian savages but I think that Indians can consider themselves lucky that Turko-Afghan dynasties like the Khiljis protected them. We all know what happened with the people when the Mongols conquered those...