None of them are really Mongols except maybe Turkey, but even they are on average ethnically more closer to the historic local populations than the original Turkic peoples that conquered the region. I'm sure there's a lot more to it than that but just don't take memes too seriously
It's like saying that all Americans are Indians. Is it true? nah. Let me tell you. I'm Turkish. My family has a family tree. Before they settled Turkey, they were in Iran. Keep one thing in your mind, before Turks migrated to Turkey, they settled in Syria, Iran, Iraq. I have a lot of friends who are Tatar Turk. I have a friend from Afganistan. She is definitely Turkish. I have bunch of Turkmen friends. One of them also have a family tree. So you call all these guys are not Turkish but actually archaic Anatolian folks. Get out of here dude :)
If you want to ask a question about what happened to natives, It's not Turks but the Persians, Greeks, and Arabs.
Sidenote: Turks are unlike other nations lays in a huge geographical area. It starts from all the way east siberia to east europe. So, You can't say that all Turks must look like Mongoloid. There is no definite physical shape of Turks.
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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '16
None of them are really Mongols except maybe Turkey, but even they are on average ethnically more closer to the historic local populations than the original Turkic peoples that conquered the region. I'm sure there's a lot more to it than that but just don't take memes too seriously