Historically, was Turkish identity in Ottoman Empire also associated with Islam?

[Rainn]

To be clearer, did every Ottoman citizen who follows Islamic faith count as a Turk regardless of ancestral origin?

In Levant, Arabian identity is mostly associated with Islam because Islam came to the region via Arabians. AFAIK, Islam came to Anatolia with Turkic invasions and therefore I am curious if the situation was similar in Ottoman Empire too.

[mentalanesthesia]

I might be wrong but to my knowledge Ottomans called nomadic Turkmens and Turkish speaking settled peasants of Anatolia who are a mix of Turkmens and Anatolians as Turks. It didn't applied to every Muslim in the empire (a muslim Greek wasn't called a Turk. He was called a muslim). Westerners used the label more generally and more like an imperial and religious identity (converting to Islam was called "becoming Turk").

[Fedora]

To be clearer, did every Ottoman citizen who follows Islamic faith count as a Turk regardless of ancestral origin?

In Levant, Arabian identity is mostly associated with Islam because Islam came to the region via Arabians. AFAIK, Islam came to Anatolia with Turkic invasions and therefore I am curious if the situation was similar in Ottoman Empire too.

In Anatolia and Balkan Turkishness was associated with muslim, a Slavic convert might have called himself "Turk" but this definietly wasn't the case in West Asia among Arabs....

[Fedora]

Also in one census of 19th century Syria the settled people in cities were recorded as Syrians and the nomadic bedouins as Arabs eventhough linguistically both were same the same people.
Same was applied to settled Turks and nomadic Turks. Settled ones were just recorded as muslims, nomadic ones as Yörük/Türkmen.