Is Turkish language similar to Persian?

Totally different, just 20\% of farsi comes from Turkish especially words which is used in Military and culture. Turkish belongs to Altaic group of languages while farsi belongs to indian family, sub group of indi-iranian. farsi is similar to urdu, dari, kurdish, punjabi, pashton, etc.

Is Farsi or Turkish harder?

In terms of speaking, Persian is easier to learn as it belongs to the same language family as English i.e Indo – European. However, learning to read and write Turkish is much easier because it is written using the Latin script whereas Persian is written in the Arabic script.

When did the first Turkic-Iranian interaction begin?

Peter B. Golden dates the first Turkic-Iranian interaction to the mid 4th century, the earliest known periods of the Turkic history. The origins of the First Turkic Khaganate is associated with Iranian elements. The Sogdian influence on the state was considerable.

What led to the rise of Turco-Persian Islam?

The appearance of New Persian, ascendancy of Turks to power in place of the Persian Samanids, rise of the non-Arabic ulama in the cities, and development of ethnically and confessionally complex urban society marked an emergence of a new Turco-Persian Islamic culture.

What is the Turco-Persian tradition?

The composite Turco-Persian tradition or Turco-Iranian tradition ( Persian: فرهنگ ایرانی-ترکی ‎; Turkish: Türk-İran geleneği) refers to a distinctive culture that arose in the 9th and 10th centuries in Khorasan and Transoxiana (present-day Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, minor parts of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan ).

Was the Persian Empire a Persianate or a Turkic Empire?

It was Persianate in that it was centered on a lettered tradition of Iranian origin, and it was Turkic insofar as it was founded by and for many generations patronized by rulers of Turkic heredity.