The Seljuk Turks are from the Central Steppes and lacked a sophisticated understanding of art so they copied from those they conquered, especially Armenians. Their cemeteries feature tombstones resembling Armenian Khachkars. While Khachkars have mostly been destroyed, the Seljuk ones survive.

In Bitlis on the shores of Van, I guarantee you that most of those sculptors were Armenians.

>Lacked a sophisticated understanding of art

Bro why are you adding this? It’s so unnecessarily racist.

Yes, surprise surprise the Seljuks were influenced by Armenians. A lot of Ottoman art was.

More likely then not they didn’t even copy, but convert Armenians built those, or Christian Armenians built them by getting paid, like the Balyan’s built mosques.

**Not only that, a simple google search will correct your misinformation**

>Although the tombstones are known as Seljukid era, **according to the governorship of Ahlat they belong to the era of the Shah-Armens, Ayyubid dynasty, the Mongol and the Safavid eras.**

Also:

>Among these, only the Kale cemetery has Ottoman tombs.

So it wasn’t fully “Seljuk”

You are not only misinforming people here, but adding in your little spice of unnecessary hatred.

Because you would not say the same about us “copying” Arabic culture:

>This dogmatic choice was also reflected, after the Arab occupation, by the creation of a new type of stela, **the khachkar**, or cross-stone, an emblem of Armenian spirituality and Christology.12 From the 9th century onward, Armenia was covered with thousands of khachkars on which the cross is always sculpted as a tree of life, and never as the instrument of the human sufferings of Christ. Over time, the edg- es of these stelae were covered with a wide band adorned with in- terlaces where, while expressing the hope of eternal life, a kinship bond was established with the world of Islam. These interlaces be- came denser and tended to cover the entire available surface. **At the beginning of the 11th century, a new motif appeared under the foot of the cross: two flared palmettes, placed horizontally [fig. 10a], to which an Arab origin can be attributed.**

Or the fact that you yourself **are misattributing** Armenian built architecture as something stolen:

>Indeed, “despite a dearth of names and masons’ marks pertaining to Armenian craftsmen” (McClary 2017, 31), the inscriptions engraved on a few Seljuk and Ilkhanid buildings of Anatolia seem to indicate an Armenian origin, hypothetical for some architects, and certain for two of them. Particularly important is a group of builders from Khlat (in Armenian), Khilāt (in Arabic), Ahlat (in Turkish), an Armeni- an city and a port on the northwestern shore of lake Van, whose population was in part Islamized.

Or **erasing** Armenian culture:

>**Note that the local Turkmen rulers, in the 12th-early 13th century, called themselves ʻShah-i Armenʼ (King of Armenians). See further about Khlat’s medieval Muslim cemetery and the very close links between its stelae and khachkars.**

https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/media/pdf/books/978-88-6969-469-1/978-88-6969-469-1-ch-05_Buxliq2.pdf

Pseudohistory is not a good look. And just because Our neighbors do it, doesn’t mean we have to do it too. You can start with the link above.

And maybe get a degree before talking.

They copied Armenian and Persian rugs too.

They went Led Zeppelin but didn’t have Bonzo