Let me tell you this historical fact:
1940s when there was a british separatist plan they used prince Mehmet Ali tevfiq to discredit king Farouk. The king said we are Turkish descendants. He even printed a book saying that Mehmet Ali wasn’t Albanian or Greek a pure Turk.
So the British used this reportage in Mosawer magazine to support the separatists with the claim that we were kurds.
The problem here is the book that they talk about says clearly that Mehmet Ali said to his vistors we are from konya. İbrahim pasha adds we are from Arapgır there is no kurds here. There is only Turks.