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I'm not talking about an artificial political identity when I said there isn't a collective Turkic identity. I was talking about how there isn't a collective "cultural" identity that Turkic speakers share among themselves. You are right about Turkic speakers harboring diverse ethnic makeups each of their own but you like to forget that us Anatolian Turks are the most differentiated from rest of the Turkics. Our culture diversity is also eat more pronounced when compared to other Turkics too. One (significant as it effects indirectly other aspects of culture) example would be how we Anatolian Turks haven't had a period of significant nomadic settlement for centuries whereas Central Asians either transitioned to sedentary lifestyle due Russian imperialism to or still practise nomadic lifestyle.

Most of our genes (The remaining %75) comes from pre-Turkic Anatolians.

Your proposed Turkic identity is flawed as us Anatolian Turks are not a horde made up of tribes we are a nation bound tightly by common language, religion ( no longer) and ideals. Turkification in Anatolia was mostly a sociopolitical phenomena but mediated mostly by Islamization rather than how is operated in Central Asia and beyond with "high degree colonization and submission and expulsion of natives".

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