Heirs of Khazaria: Turkey?

I’ve put forward a version of a theory, that while Jews did not collect any substantial Khazar genes in the main, the Jews passing through southern Russian, likely did collect a lot of “West Asian” or European genes from the slaves of the Khazars: European women. However, there is another later complication with the collapse of the Khazars, and the formation of the modern Russian state; the later invasion of the Oghuz Turks, who, may have collected a remnant of the Khazars into themselves.

The Khazars were never a single ethnic group, but a multi-ethnic confederacy, obviously, with Europeans “on the bottom.” I would think of them similar to “the Dominion” in Star Trek. Sure, you have the Kagan on top, but beneath you have Bek, and beneath them you have the Tarkhans and Tuduns, along with tributary rulers and tribal chiefs. Under them, you had the Ilteber, who would represent each conquered people: Slavs, Bulgars, Alans, North Caucasians, and Finno-Ugric groups.

A. C. S. Peacock has researched and discussed that early Seljuk dynastic traditions placed Seljuk’s father, Duqaq, within or in contact with the Khazar political world. That may mean military service, vassalage or political affiliation; in this context my own personal guess would be that vassalage usually implies that some kind of biological contact is going on. The Old Testament names among Seljuk’s sons, Israel, Michael, Moses and Joseph, have encouraged speculation about Jewish-Khazar influence, but they cannot prove ancestry or religion by themselves.

Following the collapse of Khazaria, portions of its multiethnic population were probably absorbed into neighbouring Turkic confederations, including the Oghuz. The Oghuz were already neighbours, sometime vassals and sometime enemies of Khazaria. In 965, Oghuz forces participated with Sviatoslav’s Rus in the attack that shattered Khazar power. Cambridge History of Inner Asia Afterward, the Khazar population did not disappear. Peter Golden writes that they blended into Turkic peoples, with nomadic Khazars being absorbed into later tribal confederations. Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia