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Because they had to speak it to sustain "governor" status of Western Balkans. You don't have to speak it now, and you don't speak.Turkish language is measurement for nothing. I have info that my older ancestors spoke Turkish.
I can speak only for Balkan Turks as I have no detailed information on Anatolian Turks. My recent collection on y and mt-dna of Balkan Turks indicated 15% to 25% of Y-DNA can be considered Turkic; and 25% to 35% of mt-DNA can be considered Turkic. This was what I expected considering Balkan Turks in average models like 75% Native and 25% Central Asian. Haplogroups are in the same parallel as well.It is a myth created by 1930 Turkey that Turkish speaking inhabitants of Balkans and Anatolia are of Turkic origin.
Just because we have your Q Y-DNA which is Turkic same can not be said for 90% of your Turkish friends.
Anyway, noone denied the so called native heritage here and that's why they are called Balkan Turks.
Nomadic Seljuks are also called themselves Rum. Were they Greeks as well?Ottoman Turks surely called their language “lisan-ı Türki” or “Türkçe” i.e. the Turkish language, but after all, Americans call their language “English” and not “American”.
Poets writing in Turkish, living in Ottoman lands would call themselves şuara-yı Rűm, that is, Roman poets, or the poets of Rome.
Anatolia and the Balkans were always Diyar-ı Rum i.e. the lands of the Romans or the Roman lands or simply Rum, i.e. Rome.
That's what I was trying to explain to that Pole guy that Ottomans are not Central Asian people but a people who mixed with Turks in between 10th and 13th century where
Using the name Rum such occassionally is a kind of respect towards Greeks. Besides personally supporting this behaviour I add again noone denies the native heritage. It is you who try to deny Turkic heritage. But yes, Ottomans were a mix of Turks and natives where they conquered. That's a correct statement.
Ottomans mixed with you and the child ended up as being Turk and lived in Anatolia or Istanbul. Moreover, this was not a mass movement happened between communities but only in regards of inidividuals. Today's Bosniaks who live in Bosnia has no Turkic heritage.their Central Asian impact, even if mixed with South Slavs should be 1-3% and Ottomans DID MIX with us.
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