by hasanaggi » Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:40 pm
Ok i've got some time to kill so here goes.
Who is a Turk?
Once upon a time, many moons ago, at school, during libray studies, in an encylopeadia, i chanced upon an entry entitled "The Five Tribes of Europe".
It has since occurred to me that if Europe had or has tribes what about the other continents, well....Asia for example has Chin, Indie, Arab, Jew, Rus,Turkic etc...
Americas and Australiaia are made of indeginous and settlers.
Well The five european tribes of Europe according to this article were roughly:
Celt............ Scots, Irish, Welsh, some French.
Romance.....French, Italian, Spanish
Germanic.... German, Dutch, Danes,
Greek......... Greek
This seemed all straight forward and easy to comprehend, the fifth tribe however was not so simple. The Fifth Tribe whose name i dont remember was a mixture of three ethnicities Maltese, Finnish and Turkish. This tribe came from Asia, those that settled in modern day Turkey bacame Turks. Others kept moving and settled in Malta and others settled in Finland.
Now i dont know wether or not this is true, its something which i read.I found it hard to believe turks and finns were connected. Turks and Maltese maybe but turks and finns never. However i have met on two different occasions Finnish people who told me they were taught in school of their ancestry and they were aware of their Turkish and Maltese connections. So i guess there is some credence to the article.
So who is a turk? well someone decended from that tribe i guess and settled in modern day turkey, or those who settled since either in Turkey or the Ottoman Empire and chose to become Turk and their descendants.
the above may be true, it may not, i dont know. Its what ive read.
On the other hand there is alway The Turkic group itself, which you can research yourself if you so wish.
hope this goes someway to answering the question.