For which people is the term “Western Turk” is used for?

[princeton90]

Balkan Turks? Turks from Western Anatolia? Western Turkic speakers? All of them? Some of them?

[princeton90]

[Arūnas]

Paleo branch

[mentalanesthesia]

It's used for turks from western anatolia.

[mentalanesthesia]

Paleo branch

overused joke

[reboun]

Turks from Western Anatolia

[DarkSecret]

We don't use such definitions among ourselves. But Western Europeans and North Americans use that term to define Turks who are from Western Anatolia or Thrace and/or living a secular life.

[DarkSecret]

Turks from Western Anatolia

Hello again! Why did they ban you?

[reboun]

Hello again! Why did they ban you?

Hello. I was banned because some verbal attacks towards two members.

[Demis]

In real life, we generally use this term for “cities to the west of Ankara,” where generally social order and economic welfare are better than the rest of Turkey.