What do Turks think of Genghis Khan?

[Borealis]

I heard Genghis is a popular name in Turkey but Genghis Khan slaughtered millions of Muslims, mainly Iranic peoples and not Turkic but still.

[Blondie]

90% of "mongol" army was turkic, the Golden Horde and others were turkic states with mongol leader elite.
And i think turks don't even care about the mongol destruction of arabic and iranic areas, because they don't like these peoples, also they have no "muslim brotherhood" identity. Turkey is one of the most secular muslim country in the world, same as Albania or Bosnia.

[Bornoz]

Turks him as one of the most important figures in their history.

[Karaton]

Mostly sympathetic. Nobody really cares how many Arabs or Iranians he killed.

[archangel]

He was the man

[itilvolga]

He’s a great role model militarily.

[Voskos]

He was a sexy.

[Chelubey]

I would say an unpopular opinion. I think his role was negative for the Turks. He beat many Turkic states. It seems to me he contributed to the archaization of the life style of a part of the Turks, who gradually abandoned the predatory non-progressive lifestyle. In the end, his empire quickly collapsed, and in place of this empire formed weak states, which were conquered by neighbors in the end.
He exhausted Turkic ethnic groups and slowed down their development. He was turkic/mongolic Stalin or Hitler. The secret of his military success was the widespread use of terrorist methods.

[Karaton]

I would say an unpopular opinion. I think his role was negative for the Turks. He beat many Turkic states. It seems to me he contributed to the archaization of the life style of a part of the Turks, who gradually abandoned the predatory non-progressive lifestyle. In the end, his empire quickly collapsed, and in place of this empire formed weak states, which were conquered by neighbors in the end.
He exhausted Turkic ethnic groups and slowed down their development. He was turkic Stalin or Hitler. The secret of his military success was the widespread use of terrorist methods.

Where are you from? Are you fully Kazan Tatar?

[Chelubey]

Where are you from? Are you fully Kazan Tatar?

Yes, fully. From Russia.