Do I need to provide a more logical explanation?
Persians have lived along the Bosphoros, in Anatolia, and in the Causcaus for thousands of years. In fact, the Persians have been there longer than the Turks have. Persians conquered the region, lost the region, and re-conquered the region more times than I can count. There have been numerous mass migrations of Persians into Anatolia over the centuries. The most recent such migration followed the 1979 Iranian revolution.
Please do not think that Persia = Iran. Many significant figures in the long history of Persian culture lived outside the borders of modern Iran. Iran (as we know it) is a relatively young state.
As for Turks, they are a multicultural amalgam (much like Americans are). Turks are descendant from the intermarriage of many groups including Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Kurds, Slavs, Arabs, Israelites, and indeed Persians. That's not to diminish Turks' own cultural identity; it's just to point out that the Bosphoros and Anatolia have long been a crossroads for many nationalities. In the past, the word "Turk" only applied to non-Ottomans or only to Sunnis. Turkey is the current political power in the region. The Turkish constitution defines the word "Turk" as anyone who is a citizen of the Republic Turkey irrespective of heritage - not a single ethnic group.
I don't know what else to tell you dude. That's all I got. As for me, I'm going to go eat some Baklava on Saturday. Little known fact: Persians from Turkey make fantastic Greek food!
