Yes, Whites were the original inhabitants of Anatolia. Not only the Greeks, Trojans, Lycians, Hittites and Romans, but also the Celts used to have a presence in what is now called Turkey.   Do the Turks belong in Europa? HELL NO! The Turks don't even belong in Turkey!! You talk as if Turks were Negroid or Mongoloid. Nah; check out genetic tests, when we were in Central Asia, we already were Caucasian (mixed with Iranic tribes); then, when we came to Anatolia, we've become fully Caucasionxs.           Ancient Mummy Found in Mongolia The spectacular find of the frozen remains of a Scythian warrior in Mongolia by an international team of archeologists could shed new light on ancient life. Some of those findings will be the subject of a major exhibition in Berlin next year.  Scientists in Berlin this week gave their first major press conference about the spectacular discovery of a frozen mummy in Mongolia's Altai mountains. The frozen corpse, embedded in permafrost, is considered one of the greatest archeological finds since climbers came across the mummified remains of Ötzi, the ice man, in an alpine glacier. The corpse of the Scythian warrior could help provide clues about how people lived 2,500 years ago and about what illnesses they suffered.   Note that turkish tongue is Altaic too, and the mummie is from there.  And moreover, the Greeks you point out are mixed with Ethiopiean people and they carry African blood and turks don't (moreover); so turks are more Caucasians than some of your very europeans;  Do I even need to point the mongoloid-yellow blood in ukraine russia lituania etc.. (lagodian-mongol skull and n haplogroup) which is 10 times higher than in turkey.    So, even if Turks don't belong to europea, europe belongs to us; because we've invaded it many times; the nicest women over all the territories were selected for us; so that way, we got supremacy on subjugated people.     Many of you probably don't know the achievements of turks, read here down our proud past:       Operations in the Atlantic Ocean Starting from the early 17th century, the Ottoman fleet began to venture into the Atlantic Ocean (earlier, Kemal Reis had sailed to the Canary Islands in 1501, while the fleet of Murat Reis the Elder had captured Lanzarote of the Canary Islands in 1585). In 1617 the Ottoman fleet captured Madeira in the Atlantic Ocean, before raiding Sussex, Plymouth, Devon, Hartland Point, Cornwall and the other counties of western England in August 1625. In 1627 Ottoman naval ships, accompanied by corsairs from the Barbary Coast, raided the Shetland Islands, Faroe Islands, Denmark, Norway and Iceland. Between 1627 and 1631 the same Ottoman force also raided the coasts of Ireland and Sweden. In 1655 a force of 40 Ottoman ships captured the Isle of Lundy in the Bristol Channel, which served as the main base for Ottoman naval and privateering operations in the North Atlantic until 1660, when Ottoman ships appeared off the eastern coasts of North America, particularly being sighted at the British colonies like Newfoundland and Virginia.    When Englishmen were building their sun-never-over british empire; and were pushing their language to the world, here the british island we've occupied for 5 years, from which we've launched raids on Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Norway etc....     http://apu.mabul.org/up/apu/2008/11/...00626o7qjw.png    as you can read in the link, our ships have been seen, off from American and Canadian shores.  you might wonder, why haven't Turks sent colonist over there and here ?  Just because we had not enough Turks in our empire, the already existing Turks were spread a bit everywhere. So Ottomans pushed us to assimilate and mix so as we become more numberous. in fact, just like the Aryans in india, we were a superior Caste.  No Turk has ever used another Turk as slave, all turks were aristocratic, we all were nobel race. Just a few % of Turks were ruling an empire having stretched for Arab deserts to Hungary, from Algeria to Rus Kiev.    And people like English, French, etc.. had enough population to send there, because they were like today's African people (negroes), they made 10 children per women, it was why Europe was overpopulated and we turks, because of our mass disadvantage, we have had to steal the kids of serbs, bulgars, romanians etc... to make them ours and use them on the front line of our armies to safeguard    And yes the weak pope was afraid of Turks and Turks were something like God to him; read he tells it when he says that when our brave guys were sacking the italian cities, to make understand that their is no way to oppose turkish supremacy, he the pope, was afraid and just busy to try to strengthen other places    ps: check out the genetic data, the closest people to ancient anatolians are modern Anatolian turks. so we belong to there; also more interesting, a genetic similarity exists between us and ancient Etruscans, the non-Indo-European people having civilized europe (ancient romans were shepherd, etruscans -so turks- gave them thier culture); so, today, there is a genetic tie between tuscan people from central italy and us, turks.      //////    finally,   most of you seem to be ignorant (sorry but that's obvious).  when we besieged Istanbul, to make it Turk; the Byzantines called us to be the troyans coming here to take the revenge of destroyed Troy.   And our Emperor, Mehmet 2 the Conqueror told, yes we're descent of troyans and we're here for revenge.  Have troyans' offspring (as their is also blood tie) managed to take the revenge of their ancestors ?   Yeah, in a terrible way.    So, as said, turks are not the poor people (blacks and yellows) that you mistreat here by telling backward etc.. turks are great; have done great and will do great. And even if the last turk on earth ceases to exist, that won't change.  We're the ones chosen by God (God cursed the evil Jew and selected the Turk), to punish the pope. Pope told crusaders, God will help you against Turks. Why haven't Pope's God saved Pope's army ? in 1444 Varna, in 1396 Nicopol, in 1526 Mohaç plain... or even before, during 3rd crusade haven't Turks annihilated 90% of the 100.000 Crusaders that dared to Anatolia (Friedrich Barbarosa) ? whereas weak Arabs got slaughetered by a few Crusaders haven't Turks destroyed the Crusade states in Middle East ?     When Turks doing all this, where was Pope's God to save him ??????  LOL :) :)        And Turks don't need to be declared European, there are already approx. 4.5 million Turks all over Europe (ethnic minorities in Balcans and immigrants in Western). Get used to it; there will be more; last time I checked, it was Norway who was asking skilled 100.000 Turks to Turkish State. There are more and more Turks in the USA and Canada too; don't worry the US census classify them as White Europeans LOOOOOL :)