[Cronos]

No, I don’t believe that. Turkic ties to Indo-European are only in Western Turkic languages dating from the time the Turks moved west (1000 AD) and much after the Tungushic languages birthed Japanese

[muawiyah]

The Western Turkic languages were in contact with the Romans in areas North of the Black Sea ~ one of the theories about some of the British stories (the Round Table, women warriors, ec) connect the Roman legions in Britain with conscripted feodorati from among Turkic speaking peoples in Khazan.

They were also in contact going back as far as 3000 BC when the "domesticated large horse" showed up ~ EVERYBODY jumped on that sucker!

[muawiyah]

Last note on this ~ you must always remember that the Western Turkic speaking peoples have been moving North and South in and out of the Indus Valley, for THOUSANDS of years.

They usually come in; tax the heck out of everybody; and leave after maybe a short dynasty.

This keeps the Indians all stirred up and probably contributed to their having become so terribly warlike in earlier times.

The Eastern Turkic speaking peoples lived at the Western margins of Chinese civilization. I have no doubt that they maintained linguistic and genetic contact with the Western Turkic speaking peoples through the simple expedient of TRADING BRIDES along the margins of the earliest parts of the Silk Road. But the guys in the East lived in some of the worst climates on Earth.