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If the people of modern day Anatolia are called “Turks” because of their adoption of a Turkic language/culture, why are Turkic speaking people of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, etc not also called Turks, especially considering those places are closer to where Turkic language/culture originated?

by /u/Spirited-Pause in /r/AskHistorians

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