You did not disprove the fact that Safavids spoke Turkic and Ismail wrote poetry published by Minorsky in Azeri Turkic None of the facts you brought above disproves either these facts or a slew of Iranica and other references I brought above Nowhere does the page say Ismail is a Turk his grandfather Uzun Hassan was a Turk Ismail was born in Aqqoyunlu Turkic state and we show his background as mixed Turkic Kurdish and Greek There is NO reference above whatsoever to say Ismail was ethnic Persian NONE No reference that he or his ancestors considered Persian that is South Western Iranian dialect as their mother tongue Language used by Uzbeks has no relevance to Safavid discussion Ismail extensively used Chagatay dialect in his poetry oriented to Qizilbash Turkomans This is a fact spelled out by Vladimir Minorsky in his article on Ismail s poetry Read it through the end instead of opening only the last page of the article after pages of his Turkish poetry The problem is you re trying to attribute Iranian to Persian in modern meaning these are different things Safavis were not Persian Dariush4444 Can someone explain Dariush4444 that he needs to read the talk page before blindly reverting the page and inserting clearly baseless ethnic POV in there