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The Turkic Europeans are 3 main ethnic groups that are disputably descended from eastern Turkic tribes that came into Europe during the dark ages, the 3 are:
All three have historical relations that point to a common source (Turkic Ancestry). Out of the three, the Tatars are the least altered from the time the turkic tribes migrated into Europe.
The flags of all three groups share the Green/White/Red horizontal tricolour:
The Turkic languages are a subdivision of the Altaic language group, and are one of the most geographically widespread in the world, being spoken in a vast region spanning from Europe to Siberia.
In the earliest Turkic dictionary extant, the eponymous hero of the Turks, Alp Er Tunga, is identified with the character Afrasiyab ("Frangasyan" in the Avesta) in Persian literature.
Turkic soldiers in the army of the Abbasid caliphs emerged as the de facto rulers of most of the Muslim Middle East (apart from Syria and Egypt), particularly after the 10th century.