The land which is today Turkey has been inhabited from very early times, you can your choice from the list below:

leolithic Age (Early Stone Age) 60,0000 - 10,000 B.C.
Mesolithic Age (Mid Stone Age) 10,000 - 8,500 B.C.
Neolithic Age (Late Stone Age) 8,500 - 5,000 B.C.
Calcolithic Age (Copper Age) 5,000 - 3,000 B.C.
Bronze Age 3,000 - 2,000 B.C.
Hatti Civilization 2,500 - 2,000 B.C.
Troy - II Settlement 2,500 - 2,000 B.C.
Hatti and Hittite Principalities Period 2,000 - 1,750 B.C. Great Hittite Kingdom
Hurri Civilization 1,750 - 1,200 B.C.
Troy - VI Civilization 1,800 - 1,275 B.C.
Aegean Migration and Invasion From Balkans 1,200 B.C.
The Anatolian Principalities during the Iron Age 1,200 - 700 B.C.
Urartu Civilization 900 - 600 B.C.
The Civilization of Phrygia 750 - 300 B.C.
Lydia, Caria and Lycia Civilizations 700 - 300 B.C.
Ionian Civilization 1,050 - 300 B.C.
Persian Conquest 545 - 333 B.C.
Hellenistic And Roman Age 333 B.C. - 395 A.D.
Byzantine Civilization 330 - 1453 A.D.
Seljuk Civilization 1071 - 1300 A.D.
Ottomans 1299 - 1923 A.D.
The Turkish Republic 1923 – to date

Suggest you go to your local library and read up on each of the civilizations listed. Note: A library is a building in your place of abode filled with books that you can read free of charge – every town has one - try it sometime, you might learn something.

you see, they dont give deeds for owning 800 000 sq mt of lands for a single nation. just like you cant own the waters you live and swim inside, immigrant whale.

stole lands??? they were for sale??

Turkish people never left motherland,look at the red color

Jesus Christ himself would have turned to be a Muslim too, only if he had lived long enough to see the coming of the true Prophet Mohammad

armenians must convert themselves to Islam, the only true religion of God
only then their land will find peace

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