Only a small initial invading force was made up of actual Seljuk Turks from central asia. over time, they recruited large numbers of soldiers from byzantium and the balkans, and very quickly what became the ottoman state was basically made up mostly of byzantine “renegades” who defected to the turks. over time, those turks intermarried with the anatolian greeks and balkan people so they just got diluted into the population.

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