[US Navy Vet]

No it landed on the Mountains of Ararat. It could be in Turkey, Iraq or Iran(Persia).

[Jack Hydrazine]

Then why are they looking at the Anatolian origins of the Indo-Europeon language instead of around the area or Iraq and Iran?

BTW, how many Ararats are there in the world?

[katana]

That is an interesting connection since Mt. Ararat is on the eastern edge of the Anatolian Peninsula bordering modern day Turkey, Iran, and Armenia (not Iraq). One of those things that make you go "hmmmmm". The conventional wisdom has been that the Indo-European language group originated in the Indus River Valley in India.

And the other posters are correct that the Turkish language is a very late import from the Central Asian steppes with Semitic elements picked up from the Arabic Quran. The language was even (clumsily - Turkish needed a few vowels) written in Arabic script until Atatürk's reforms in the 1920's.