The Turkish Tribes of Eurasia

Until recently Turkish textbooks claimed that most people living from England to Outer Mongolia are really ‘Turks’. Government maps published as late as 1991 show almost the whole of the Eurasian world as having been inhabited by ‘Turks’ at one time or another. A government hand-out of the late 1980s claimed that ‘the Turkish tribes were scattered over an area of 18 million square meters between the 20^th century B.C. and the 20^th century A.D., and founded sixteen empires.

Until recently Turkish textbooks claimed that most people living from England to Outer Mongolia are really ‘Turks’. Government maps published as late as 1991 show almost the whole of the Eurasian world as having been inhabited by ‘Turks’ at one time or another. A government hand-out of the late 1980s claimed that ‘the Turkish tribes were scattered over an area of 18 million square meters between the 20^th century B.C. and the 20^th century A.D., and founded sixteen empires.