turkic peoples

Today most Mongolic languages are found in and around Mongolia proper, with the one major exception being Kalmyk with a few others. In total, they have roughly 7 million speakers. The Turkic languages are spread out as far west as Thrace, as far west as central China, and even stretching north...

As in the title, what happens if the Turks stay located in their homeland on the Steppe instead of migrating out into Eastern Europe, Greater Iran and India. I am particuarly interested in the effects of no Oghuz expansion (Seljuks, Turkmans, Dehli Sultanate etc.).

I was reading about the Safavid Era conversion of Iran to Shia Islam, and my first thought was to try and come up with a wild alt-hist where something similar happened there but with a form of Christianity instead. To my understanding, before Ismali I, what is now Iran was mostly Sunni, and...

Your challenge is to have the majority of the Turkic peoples be Zoroastrian.