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No I'm not claiming the [Altaic
hypothesis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic_hypothesis) so try not to
bring that up in answers.

Still there are grammatical similarities between Japanese and Turkish such as
agglutination and use of postpositions rather than prepositions. My knowledge
of Japanese helped me get some basic Korean even though they are not
established to be related either so I am interested in finding some detailed
comparison that may help me shoehorn my Japanese knowledge to get me started
in Turkish too... and for more general understanding of both languages.
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Is there a study available on the similarities between Japanese and Turkish grammars?
I don't know much (or any) Turkish, but I can tell you this: a long time ago,
my linguistics department used to offer a Turkish course, and my Japanese
professor (a native speaker) used to be a student back then. He told us that
the course was quite tough, since most "students" there were actually Ph.D
students and other professors at the department, but he found Turkish quite
similar to Japanese. So there's probably at least some truth to what people
say about the similarity of both these languages. This similarity doesn't have
to indicate any genetic relation, by the way: I find Quechua strikingly
resembling Japanese, but it's hard to imagine any contact between the ancient
Inca and the ancient Japanese.
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I've done some cursory searching through LLBA and have come up with a number
of studies comparing the Japanese and Turkish grammars... there are
undoubtedly many, many more, however. A brief selection of these studies
follows (though I'm not sure how useful it will actually be, as many studies
can be difficult to find copies of):

>   * Allen, S., Ozyurek, A., Kita, S., Brown, A., Furman, R., Ishizuka, T., &
> Fujii, M. (2007). Language-specific and universal influences in children's
> syntactic packaging of manner and path: A comparison of english, japanese,
> and turkish. Cognition, 102(1), 16-48.
>   * Demirci, K. (2006). Japanese compound verbs and their turkish
> counterparts: Verb+verb. [Japonca'daki Birlesik Fiiller ve Turkcedeki
> Fiillere Benzerlikleri: fiil+fiil] Bilig - Turk DunyasI Sosyal Bilimler
> Dergisi, 38(summer), 123-136.
>   * Ido, S. (2002). An alternative description of incomplete sentences in
> turkish and other agglutinative languages. Turkic Languages, 6(2), 157-191.
>   * Sener, S., & Takahashi, D. (2010). Argument ellipsis in japanese and
> turkish. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 61, [np].
>   * Simpson, A., Hwang, H., & Ipek, C. (2009). The comparative syntax of
> double object constructions in japanese, korean, and turkish. MIT Working
> Papers in Linguistics, 58, 41-62.
>

I've specifically tried to leave out any studies regarding the Altaic
hypothesis as you requested. As for full comparisons of Japanese and Turkish
grammar, I highly doubt that such a thing exists, due to the sheer scope of it
all.
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