  Was this Talk even reviewed? The founder is Iranian. They originally spoke an Iranian language. They existed in the region of Azefbaijan prior to the Turkic people. There is nothing but their current language that is Turkic. They are about as Turkic as a Turk is Arabic or Iranic for the amount oc their language that is either Semitic or Indo-Iranian. A large amount of words and phrases. But I digress. They have absolutely no qualities of being Turkicexcept for their current language. You may as well add Mughals to historic Iranian peoples and Hazaras to modern Iranian peoples.