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  • There is however a long history of relatively friendly (for the region) contacts with middle east cultures and there was a turkic minority in Poland until sometime in the late 19th century (their descendents are still around, they just don't speak a turkic language anymore). DIVAN.

  • The Thirteenth Tribe book has been proven to be incorrect; Ashkenazi Jews are not turkic but are in fact descended form the Semite Jews in Germany since the Middle Ages and before and the genetic evidence for this exists.


  • The Hun. word is 'ostor' and I believe it is a turkic or Alanic loanword. BECS.

  • It got changed to choinak--a combination of the local word for tea, and a much more pleasant to the turkic ear version of "nik." CHAINIK.


