[RightWhale]

It is possible that some Turks were in Anatolia 2000 BC. Everybody else was.

[ClearCase_guy]

That is true. It is equally true that 9th Century (AD) Turks may have brought some very old artifacts with them when they left Central Asia.

Certainly commentators at the time, one thousand years ago, thought that a new people was arriving.

[SunkenCiv]

Anatolian Roots Seen for Indo-Europe Language Tree
Reuters
Nov 26 2003 2:40PM

Indo-European languages, which include Greek, Latin, English and Sanskrit among many others, originated thousands of years ago but their roots have been hotly debated by experts. One theory is that nomadic Kurgan horsemen from the steppes of Asia started the spread of Indo-European languages about 6,000 years ago during their conquest of Europe and the Near East. But other experts believe it started in Anatolia, now in Turkey, and expanded with the spread of agriculture... David Searls of the Bioinformatics Division of GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals said Gray and Atkinson calibrated and cross-validated branchings of the language tree against known historical events.