What if the Turks failed to establish a lasting presence in Anatolia? Will Anatolia remain hellenized, or will other people (like the Arabs) try to take it?
Maybe they'll turn south and invade Mesopotamia or Egypt or something. Plenty of fertile lands in the Crescent.
Just to clarify, when we say 'the Turks' were referring to the whole load of them that crashed into the middle east aye? right from the start and straight from central Asia?
or northern India?It would not be too hard for the Seljuks to repeat this process in another direction instead. You just need a sufficiently weakened neighbour and that can be found in the Levantine Coast or the Steppes of Eastern Ukraine/Southern Russia/Northern Caucasus