[weikel]

Hmmm I thought the Turks were more closely related to the mongols then anyone else( explaining their great fighting ability).

[a_Turk]

The Turks are related to central Asian tribes, in fact, that's where we, the Oghuz Turks, originated. The article talks about the history of the land we conquered about a 1000 years ago. That land, Asia Minor, has been a crossroads of civilizations. The Celts are one of the less known civs that reached there. Others include Greeks, Macedonians, Romans, Hitites, and so on.

[Jacob Kell]

Actually, the Turkic and Mongol peoples are racially different from each other. Mongols are Mongoloid, and Turks are Turanid caucasoid. Their languages are related and their styles of combat are similar, but so are all other steppe peoples.

[eleni121]

I thought the Turks were more closely related to the mongols

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They are mongols...Turks are latecomers to the region...celts have nothing to do with the tribal Turks who first arrived in Asia Minor around 1000 AD.