Relations between the Mongols and the Turks are difficult to call even now, what to say about the Middle Ages, when between them regularly broke out bloody armed conflicts, ending with the fact that the winner invariably absorbed the defeated. Against this background, the attitude of Genghis Khan and his descendants to the Turkic peoples, whom he regarded only as a tool in achieving world domination, is understandable, but there are no rules without exceptions and the author of this very exception was the same Genghis Khan, who brought closer to himself the Turkic people Jalair, who lived in Transbaikalia.
Jalair warrior.
Since the fall of the Xianbi state in 181, the Transbaikal lands were part of the Turkic world, being its distant, but no less valuable outskirts, which was clearly shown by the events that followed the collapse of the Turkic, two East Turkic, Uigur and Kyrgyz Kaganates. Fleeing from feuds and famine, Turks fled to the outskirts of the once great power, including Transbaikalia, where they were met by tribesmen who had settled there earlier. Seeking to gain a foothold on the banks of the Onon River, where most of the Turkic refugees eventually settled, they allied themselves with the Nirun-Mongols, joining them as an independent tribe of Jalairos.
Nirun-Mongol warriors.
Since the Nirun-Mongols were the most ardent and consistent supporters of a united Mongolia, the Jalairo became their faithful allies in this cause, having distinguished themselves in the wars waged by Temujin (Genghis Khan) with other Mongol tribes, so, Jalairo was one of the four nukers of Genghis Khan Mukhali, who led the Mongol troops during the fight with the Kereits and the campaign to Central Asia. The Jalairs actively participated in the Mongol conquests, as a result of which they were included in the five aimags, whose duties included direct service to the great khan, besides the area of their settlement stretched from the Amur River to Messopotamia.
Mukhali Monument in Ulan Bator.
Middle East in the XIV century (the state of Jalairids — light green).
During the Mongol Empire the Jalairids enjoyed certain privileges: they were included in the apparatus of administration, they were widely settled on the territory of Chagatai and Hulagu uluses, but with its collapse the Jalairids began to have problems. Part of the Jalairs, lifted from the place by the wind of change, eventually joined the locals, taking an active part in the ethnogenesis of the Mongols, Buryats, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Uzbeks and Hazaras, but most of them went to Iran, where they founded their own state, which existed until 1468, when it became part of the confederation Kara-Koyunlu, which, in fact, begins the history of modern Iran and Azerbaijan.
Flag of Kara-Koyunlu.