[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.

[Captain Shady]

Those Celts certainly get around .Even here in the Southland of the USA we have alot of Celtic ancestry.

[TomSmedley]

The Turks are related to central Asian tribes, in fact, that's where we, the Oghuz Turks, originated. ... Asia Minor, has been a crossroads of civilizations. The Celts are one of the less known civs that reached there.

Brent Kennedy's book The Melungeons: Resurrection of a Proud People makes a convincing arguement for Turkish settlers in the Appalachian highlands of the United States. When the Scotch-Irish traveling down the Big Valley got to eastern Tennessee, they encountered a Mediterranean folk who'd got there first. They called themselves "melangeons," a Portaguese term meaning "shipmates" which is apparently cognate with the Turkish expression "melun can" (accursed soul). Perhaps, descendents of the 400 or so galley slaves (shipmates who were accursed souls!) who Sir Francis Drake liberated in South America, and apparently put ashore in North Carolina.

And, let's not forget the incredibly detailed maps of our coasts made by pirate and cartographer, the Turk Piri Ris.

Mr. Kennedy may be trying to hard to make his case, but his book is fascinating reading. Cognates of Turkish terms turn up in Indian place names -- kan tok -- full of blood, for example. (think about it)