Turco Persian Posted by Nostradamus While the word Turko Mongol is a commonly used term by historians the word Turkic Persianate appears to be an Iranian invention POV From Bernard Lewis book Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire p29 Even when the land of Rum become politically independent it remained a colonial extension of the Turco Persian culture which had its centers in Iran and Central Asia The literature of Seljuk Anatolia was almost entirely in Persian and when a literature in Turkish first appeared under the early Ottomans it drew its inspiration from Persia and Central Asia and Lewis book From Babel to Dragomans Interpreting the Middle East p44 The center of the Islamic world was under Turkish and Persian states both shaped by Iranian culture So much for an Iranian invention