Its actually the Europeans since they affected them.
the Crusades originally had the goal of recapturing Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim rule and their campaigns were launched in response to a call from the Christian Byzantine Empire for help against the expansion of the Muslim Seljuk Turks into Anatolia.
The Crusades
The Crusades
Pope Urban II was responsible for assisting Emperor Alexus I (1081-1118) of Constantinople in launching the first crusade.
Many people participated in the Crusades including the Christians and the Muslims. The Byzantines and the Muslim Turks were the most prominent participants in the Crusades.
The Crusades .
The role of pope urban was to convince the Franks to go to the east to assist the Byzantines against the attacks of the Muslim Turks and to liberate Jerusalem -the crusades-
Alexius I, Byzantine emperor, appealed to Christian Europe for military aid against the Muslim Seljuk Turks, who he was afraid were going to overrun his empire and perhaps even conquer Constantinople.
The push for the crusades came when the Byzantine emperor Alexius I asked the Europeans for help against the Selijuk Turks, who were muslims.
The push for the crusades came when the Byzantine emperor Alexius I asked the Europeans for help against the Selijuk Turks, who were muslims.
The first crusades began when the Seljuk Turks Conquered Constantinople.
The Turks were one of many military contingents of the Muslim forces, which also included Kurds, Arabs, and Persians. The Muslims were not taken over by the Turks, but rather the since the Turks were one of the many groups of Muslims, the question is unanswerable.