Turks Say Native Americans Are Turks
Our friend Artyom has finally updated his blog – iArarat – and posted information on Turkish attempts to claim that Native Americans are Turks.
The latter theory, although with apparent roots in early Kemalist fabrications that the entire world civilization (with the exemption of unimportant Armenians, Jews and black Africans) was created and influenced by the Turks, is hoped to convince politicians of Native American descent to lobby for Turkish interests – that is to deny the Armenian Genocide.
Genetic Anthropologist on 03 Feb 2008 at 5:28 pm #
I’m not sure about the Turkish connection to Native Americans. The genetic evidence does not support such a theory, although I guess if you go back far enough in time – such as the middle to late Pleistocene – then there may be some connection (but so would there be with Asians, Caucasians, Tibetans, Mongolians, and the like).