Central Anatolian Kurds
The Germiyanids, were promient Anatolian beylik, consisting of both Turks and Yazidi Kurdish tribesmen, who had been brought to western Anatolia by the Seljuks as militia guards against threatening Turkish tribesmen. Some sources described Germiyanids as Turkish and Kurdish mixed origin others described them as Turkomans. They joined Ottomans in 1428.