Native Americans are Turkish. Yup. You can even see pictures of Native Americans hanging on some walls around Turkey. I kid you not. Here’s the deal. A university in Istanbul recently (2008) held a symposium in the U.S. that explored the genealogical connections between Turks and Native Americans. All kinds of well-respected Turks from American and Istanbul universities presented their case on this topic.
Basically, they posited that Turks from Central Asia migrated over the Bering Strait thousands of years ago and settled in the Americas. They go on to say that some of the Native Americans of today descend from this group of people of Turkish origin. One way you can tell—they say—is by looking at commonalities in the language. For example in Eskimo, the word kayak means boat, while in Turkish, kayak means skiing, but kayık means boat. (Bore yourself to death on this topic here.) They’ve also looked at DNA and Y-Chromosomes…etc. Anyway, it’s actually pretty darn convincing as well. You can a five-minute presentation on this topic in the You Tube below.
But let's just pause for one moment, people. Native Americans. Are. Turks.
Really?
I have to say though, that the head Native American who attended the symposium soundly rejected these theories, stating that the language commonalities (over 300 Turkish words had cousins in Native languages) were a result of possible Native American migration that occurred in reverse, when Native Americans went back over the Bering Strait to Central Asia.
Come on, now, seriously? Is that the best you can do? Why would anyone return to Northern Russia? That's crazy talk.
I can honestly say that I have never seen an Indian native to America with the traditional Turkish flat back head, maybe they have grown some shape to the back of their heads over time? but if you look at the modern/ancient day Turk they all have flat heads (at the back) its referred to the frying pan look, when born they are slapped on the back of the head with a frying pan? to get their lungs going? and I have never herd of the ''Flat head tribe''?
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