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Why do Anatolians (other than Armenians and Kurds) call themselves "Turks" despite having little Turkic Admixture and that Turks did not Arrive en masse before 1071? Who don't they speak Greek instead of Turkish?

by /u/KalaiProvenheim in /r/AskHistorians

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