Asia Minor, or Anatolia, has been occupied by humans for many thousands, tens of thousands, of years. The Turkic speakers, coming in from the steppes and plains north and west of China, are just the latest arrivals. Muslim bands who eventually built the Osmanli (Ottoman) Empire. Before them there were "Neanderthals", unknown brands of modern humans, Hittites, Greeks, Celts (Galatia is named for speakers of a relative of Gaelic), Persians, Romans ...
The archaeological finds on that land between the Black Sea and Western Med go incredibly deep.