(click to embiggen)it depicts a new turkish led empire formed through the unlikely pan-turkic/pan-islamic alliance. and they went the overinclusive route. rather than including all the places that are both turkic and muslim, the mapmakers tried to include everywhere that is either turkic or muslim, although it fudges a few places.
for example, notice how areas with turkic-speaking majorities in russia get included, but areas with russian-speaking majorities in kazakhstan do not get excluded. and the map pushes the boundaries of the turco-islamic superstate liberally into east africa from the muslim majority areas along the indian ocean coast into areas that have clear christian majorities (like central kenya). it also squeezes out the christian majority areas along the atlantic coast of west africa (the southern bits of cote d'ivoire, ghana and nigeria). actually, the map-makers seem to be a little confused about africa in general. ethiopia is mislabeled as kenya, kenya is mislabeled as tanzania and tanzania is mislabeled as malawi. and i guess they didn't get the memo that zaire changed its name back to the democratic republic of congo back in 1997.
meanwhile, the mega-turk caliphate excludes lebanon, presumably because of its christian population, even though "there is general consensus that Muslims constitute a solid majority of the [lebanese] population". and then it doesn't exclude israel, where most of the population is jewish and not turkic speaking. (although no self-respecting caliphate map wouldn't claim all of israel/palestine). likewise, all of the predominantly catholic philippines is included (instead of just including the muslim-majority bits in the south)
the country also grabs all of mongolia even though it's not a muslim country and mongolian isn't a turkic language. it is altaic (the larger language family to which the turkic languages belong). but that's not a satisfying answer because it doesn't include other areas with (non-turkic) altaic languages, like korea, japan and northeastern siberia. it doesn't even include all of the places where mongolian is spoken, like northern china. and that's not because the map-makers are trying to be nice to china. they had no problem snatching the areas of western china where the turkic-speaking uighurs live.
as you can tell, i find maps of imaginary super-states to be pretty entertaining. what i don't find them to be is very threatening. every once in a while people flip out when they find a map of some overly ambitious caliphate, or greater aztlan, or whatever. you have to be pretty detached from reality to think those states are every gonna happen. cue jon stewart.
