More turkic states in Europe

In OTL Europe, there are only two or three (it depends of your criteria) independent countries with a turkic language being spoken by the majority of the population, and both of them are only partly in Europe (Turkey, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan to some degree). But if there were more turkic states in this continent. For example: if the Magyar tribes were assimilated by turkic tribes before arriving in the carpatian basin? Or if Bulgaria either had kept the old turkic Bulgarian language or developed a dialect during the dominions of the Ottomans, but still kept a separated national identity? This and other possibilities.
 
Well, old Bulgaria is an option, Hungary as well. But that might cause lots of butterflies altering other Turkic movements... maybe.

Other options are Crimea as a Tatat state. Western Thrace as a Turkish State but not bound to Turkey. Dobruja used to have a large Turkish population as well, they could have an own state in theory. But their population might be too low and Islamic to survive in the late 19th century.

And then there is a state for the Gagauz. A Turkic Christian state... now that is interesting.
 
Other options are Crimea as a Tatat state. Western Thrace as a Turkish State but not bound to Turkey. Dobruja used to have a large Turkish population as well, they could have an own state in theory. But their population might be too low and Islamic to survive in the late 19th century.

Agreed. You'd need an interesting POD but you could probably carve a couple states out of the Black Sea region and up into modern Russia.
 
For example: if the Magyar tribes were assimilated by turkic tribes before arriving in the carpatian basin? Or if Bulgaria either had kept the old turkic Bulgarian language or developed a dialect during the dominions of the Ottomans, but still kept a separated national identity? This and other possibilities.
There's an immediate problem with Bulgarians, and essentially complex and super-complex chiefoms with a Turkic dominant componant in Balkans : they didn't as much replaced or integrated Slavic chiefdoms than they included them into their structure. A bit like Avars before them, this had the distinct result of having Slavic people adopting originally non-slavic indentities (Crovars, Croats, etc.) and in this case Bulgars. Christianization of Bulgaria with use of Old Slavonic was also pretty much, IMO, dooming Danubian Bulgar into irrelevance.

I think you'll need to either prevent some Turkic peoples to enter Balkans, or to have Turkic people with a distinct enough identity and structural basis for this entering in.
In the first case, a good choice would be Kumans/Kipchaks in the Pontic Steppe up to Danube : while they did included Vlach or Slavic ensemble, it seems it was less crushingly so than what happened in Balkans and the odds having without Mongols coming in, at least a distinct Kipchak-issued minority in the region comparable to Crimean Tatars, possibly more, are there.
Conversly, more Turkic peoples integrated within Mongol super-chiefdoms could end with more minorities as Nogai Turks (or these being more present).

On the other hand, Turkic settlement or acculturation in Balkans is fairly possible with Ottomans : @Koprulu Mustafa Pasha already mentioned prime suspects with Gagauz, Crimean Tatars, Dobruja and Thrace : you could see other places but these are the "best" choices to reinforce and make like viable distinct ethnies (apart from Thrace, which I think is too close from the cores of Ottoman Anatolia to be really considered different IMO).
 
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