` *It would be nice if you avoid weasel words, since this is not the academical way. I'll provide quotations from the sources i listed above related with Turko-Mongol identity of Timurids. Now, i'll make the quotations:  1.``Timurids``, in Encyclopædia Britannica, Online Edition, 2007. Qotation: ``Timurid dynasty (fl. 15th–16th century AD), Turkic dynasty descended from the conqueror Timur (Tamerlane), renowned for its brilliant revival of artistic and intellectual life in Iran and Central Asia.``  2.``Babur``, in Encyclopædia Britannica, Online Edition, 2007. Quotation: ``Babur came from the Barlas tribe of Mongol origin, but isolated members of the tribe had become Turks in language and manners through long residence in Turkish regions. Hence Babur, though called a Mughal, drew most of his support from Turks, and the empire he founded was Turkish in character.``  3.``Central Asia, history of Timur``, in Encyclopædia Britannica, Online Edition, 2007., Quotation: ``... Timur first united under his leadership the Turko-Mongol tribes located in the basins of the two rivers....``  4.``Islamic world``, Online Edition, 2007., Quotation: ``Timur (Tamerlane) was a Turk, not a Mongol; but he aimed to restore Mongol power. He was born a Muslim in the Syrdarya valley and served local pagan Mongol warriors and finally the Chagatai heir-apparent; but he rebelled and made himself ruler in Khwarezm in 1380. He planned to restore Mongol supremacy under a thoroughly Islamic program.``  5.``Timur``, The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.  2001-05. Quotation:``Timur or Tamerlane, c.1336–1405, Mongol conqueror, b. Kesh, near Samarkand. He is also called Timur Leng [Timur the lame]. He was the son of a tribal leader, and he claimed (apparently for the first time in 1370) to be a descendant of Jenghiz Khan. With an army composed of Turks and Turkic-speaking Mongols, remnants of the empire of the Mongols, Timur spent his early military career in subduing his rivals in what is now Turkistan; by 1369 he firmly controlled the entire area from his capital at Samarkand....``  6. Gérard Chaliand, Nomadic Empires: From Mongolia to the Danube translated by A. M. Berrett, Transaction Publishers,2004,p.75  I think these are enough to confirm that Timurids were Turko-Mongols, aren't they? Regards.   `