Oracle wrote:Some are not too bad... but others (Seljuk?) are really nasty!
So, how many types of Turks are there, and where are they located?
Know thine enemy ... Which are the types which occupy Cyprus?
The Selcuk/Saldjuks. werent that bad. At Malazgirt/Manzikert they defeated the Byzantines captured the emperor and set him free.
See below.
"Battle of Manzikert
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Battle of Manzikert
Part of the Byzantine-Seljuk wars
In this 15th-century French miniature depicting the Battle of Manzikert, the combatants are clad in contemporary Western European armour.
Date August 26, 1071
Location near Manzikert, Armenia (modern Malazgirt, Turkey)
Result Decisive Seljuk victory
Belligerents
Byzantine Empire Great Seljuk Sultanate
Commanders
Romanos IV #,
Nikephoros Bryennios,
Theodore Alyates,
Andronikos Doukas Alp Arslan
Afşin Bey
Artuk Bey
Suleyman Shah
Strength
~20,000[1]
(originally 40,000[2]) ~20,000[3]
(possibly 30,000?)[2]
Casualties and losses
~2,000 dead[4]
~4,000 captured[4]
(more than half deserted) Unknown
[hide]v • d • eByzantine–Seljuk Wars
Kapetrou – 1st Manzikert – Caesarea – Iconium – 2nd Manzikert – 1st Nicaea – Seljuk campaigns in the Aegean – 2nd Nicaea – 3rd Nicaea – Philomelion – Campaigns of John I Komnenos – Myriokephalon – Hyelion and Leimocheir – Cotyaeum – Trebizond – Antalya – Antioch on the Meander
The Battle of Manzikert, or Malazgirt, was fought between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuq forces led by Alp Arslan on August 26, 1071 near Manzikert (modern Malazgirt in Muş Province, Turkey). It resulted in one of the most decisive defeats of the Byzantine Empire and the capture of the Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes.[5] The Battle of Manzikert played an important role in breaking the Byzantine resistance and preparing the way for Turkish settlement in Anatolia.[6]
The battle marked the high point of the initial Turkish incursions and was followed up two years later with a large influx of Turkish settlers and soldiers into Anatolia. However, it has been recently argued that the battle was not the slaughter that many historians, including contemporary writers, have stressed it to be. The brunt of the battle was bore by the professional soldiers from the eastern and western tagmatas, as large numbers of the mercenaries and Anatolian levies fled early and survived the battle.[7] All of the Byzantine commanders, including Romanos, survived to participate in the subsequent numerous civil conflicts that severely weakened the empire's ability to adequately defend its borders.[8] It took a decade of internal strife before Alexios I Komnenos (1081 to 1118) brought stability back to the empire."
As far as I can make out the 'bloodiest' were those that invaded India under Mahmud of Ghazni.(Kharzemshahs)
