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Turks from Sibeia migrated into Central Asia and Anatolia. The Turks from Anatolia migrated throughout Europe creating the Gagauz and Iber Turks.The Iber Turks settled into modern day France and Iberia bringing their culture, language, religion, and customs with them.

Most Iber Turks spoke an early dialect of Ottoman Turkish, a language that was mixed with Turkic, Arabic, Persian, and Slavic words and grammar. They practiced Shia Islam just like the Azeris and Qashqais, The Iber Turks were oppressed by the Spanish, Portuguese, and French and were sent back to Russia, Turkey, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Millions were sent back. During the years of oppression, the leftover Iberian Turks had to make it seem like they were native Iberians. Many were forced to learn Spanish, Portuguese, French, Basque, Catalan, and or Galican. Many of them converted to Roman Catholicism.

People still spoke the language at home and still practiced Shia Islam underground. Houses were being used as mosques and get-together places. Folk Dance, folk music, weddings, and a lot of cultural ideas were still practiced despite the oppression.

Iberian Turkish is apart of the Ural-Altaic language family. Iberian Turkish is a Turkic language under the Oghuz branch. Iberian Turkish has had many language influences like French, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, and Arabic have all been added into the language. There is a small Iberian Turkish community, of about 100,000 people, in Manila, Philippines and many Tagalog and Ilacano loan-words have entered that dialect.

Mutual Intelligibility -

Iberian Turkish-Ottoman Turkish = 70%

Iberian Turkish-Gagauz Turkish= 60%

Iberian Turkish-Modern Turkish = 40%

Iberian Turkish-Qashqai Turkish = 50%

Iberian Turkish-Azerbaijani Turkish = 35%

Iberian Turkish-Turkmenstani Turkish = 30%

Iberian Turkish-Kazakh = 10%

Iberian Turkish-Kyrgyz= 15%

Iberian Turkish-Uzbek = 25%

Iberian Turkish-Uighur = 20%

Iberian Turkish-Sakha = 2%

Iberian Turkish-Spanish = 30%

Iberian Turkish-Catalan = 40%

Iberian Turkish-Portuguese = 25%

Iberian Turkish-French = 5%

Iberian Turkish-Maghrebi Arabic = 25%

Nowadays the Iberian Turks are trying to secede from the Kingdom of Spain and become its own nation or to join Morocco.