Turkish speaking Christian Balkans

Anyway the Balkans end up with Turkish as the dominate language while remaining Christian

How would this effect the rise of nationalism among the Christian population
 
My understanding is that nineteenth century balkan nationalism was based on religion, not language. So Greek speaking Muslims were viewed as Turks, and any Turkish speaking Orthodox Christians were viewed as Greeks. Even the 1920s population exchanges were done on the basis of religion. So there probably were Tukish speaking Christians in the Balkans and Anatolia. I'll do some research to see if there are any numbers.
 
An Ottoman PoD is way too late for the Balkans overall to switch to Turkish speaking; it only happened IOTL in small areas where Turkish settlers outnumbered locals, and they’re not going to flip to Christianity.

If you want Christian Turkish speakers in the Balkans, the Gagauz in Moldavia might serve as an example. Their origins are disputed, but supposedly either originate from the original Turkic Bulgars that founded the first Bulgarian Empire or else from Anatolian Turks that settled in the Second Bulgarian Empire in the thirteenth century. In other words, I’d suggest having there be Turkish migration into the Balkans during a period of Christian rule, so that the populace converts rather than changes language.
 
If you want Christian Turkish speakers in the Balkans, the Gagauz in Moldavia might serve as an example. Their origins are disputed, but supposedly either originate from the original Turkic Bulgars that founded the first Bulgarian Empire or else from Anatolian Turks that settled in the Second Bulgarian Empire in the thirteenth century. In other words, I’d suggest having there be Turkish migration into the Balkans during a period of Christian rule, so that the populace converts rather than changes language.
Or else from Bulgarians who switched to speaking Turkish during the Ottoman rule. Seems the most likely version, considering culture and genetics. But this is unlikely to work on a large scale, there are not enough Turks to achieve sufficient dominance of the Turkish language needed.
 
Or else from Bulgarians who switched to speaking Turkish during the Ottoman rule. Seems the most likely version, considering culture and genetics. But this is unlikely to work on a large scale, there are not enough Turks to achieve sufficient dominance of the Turkish language needed.

Even the Gagauz in Moldavia?

I agree that getting the Balkans to speak specifically Turkish is ASB, but a Turkic language with a much earlier PoD isn’t out of the question; say, a steppe horde a la Hungary overrunning Romania and then Bulgaria before the 11th century.
 
Or else from Bulgarians who switched to speaking Turkish during the Ottoman rule. Seems the most likely version, considering culture and genetics. But this is unlikely to work on a large scale, there are not enough Turks to achieve sufficient dominance of the Turkish language needed.
There's also the fact that the Christian populations of the Ottoman Empire were generally more literate than the Turks for much of the Empire's history - that's a significant barrier to language conversion.
 
Even the Gagauz in Moldavia?
The Gagauz in Moldavia (and Ukraine) immigrated from the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century after Bessarabia became Russian, at the same as many Bulgarians did. A Russian statistical publication from 1859 calls them "Bulgarian refugees from Dobruja, speaking Turkish and writing in the Vlach [Cyrillic] Alphabet".
 
So, the OP basically is asking if we have a more widespread version of the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karamanlides, which is definitely possible. To make it work for the Balkans requires getting it to work in Anatolia itself first, which I personally needs a Seljuk-era POD as well as multiple ancestral origins from a wide variety of people, including both Greeks and Turks alike.
 
My understanding is that nineteenth century balkan nationalism was based on religion, not language. So Greek speaking Muslims were viewed as Turks, and any Turkish speaking Orthodox Christians were viewed as Greeks. Even the 1920s population exchanges were done on the basis of religion. So there probably were Tukish speaking Christians in the Balkans and Anatolia. I'll do some research to see if there are any numbers.
Whose nationalism? Practically the entirety of the Christian Turkish population sided with Turkey and broke ties with the patriarchate of Constantinople, and many, many more Greek Muslims actively faught for Greece during the war than did for Turkey. They were told to eat a dick afterwards, but that wasn't because of their identities being misplaced. More enlightened men like Kemal and Venicelos recognized this, but in the end failed to advocate for them in the face of political convenience and masses to please.
 
Or else from Bulgarians who switched to speaking Turkish during the Ottoman rule. Seems the most likely version, considering culture and genetics. But this is unlikely to work on a large scale, there are not enough Turks to achieve sufficient dominance of the Turkish language needed.

I'd be curious instead of Old Church Slavonic if the Byzantines insisted the Bulgarians and other Slavic tribes use Greek in church services. Of course you may end up with Bulgarians speaking a Greek derived language but perhaps they would be more willing to adopt Turkish without Old Church Slavonic
 
I'd be curious instead of Old Church Slavonic if the Byzantines insisted the Bulgarians and other Slavic tribes use Greek in church services. Of course you may end up with Bulgarians speaking a Greek derived language but perhaps they would be more willing to adopt Turkish without Old Church Slavonic
The Medieval Europeans using Latin in church service did not lead to them adopting the Latin language, so I don't see why this would have such an effect. In fact during most of the Ottoman rule Greek did become the liturgical language in the Bulgarian lands, without managing to replace Bulgarian.
 
The Medieval Europeans using Latin in church service did not lead to them adopting the Latin language, so I don't see why this would have such an effect. In fact during most of the Ottoman rule Greek did become the liturgical language in the Bulgarian lands, without managing to replace Bulgarian.
You know, not necessarily in terms of the OP, but as an aside/tangent, I've always been fascinated by what would happen if you had Greeks transitioning towards speaking a Slavic language. So basically something similar to Urum (a Turkic language with strong Greek influence, cf. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urum_language ) but from a different branch of the Indo-European family. Even more curious if it was a peripheral variety of Greek which provided the substratum.
 
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