‘Jesus Was Turkish’: the Bizarre Resurgence of Pseudo-Turkology

A theory that claims multiple leaders – from Jesus to Barack Obama – are actually Turkish and that modern nations are little more than portions of a greater Turkic whole is gaining traction in many countries

 
You would be forgiven for not knowing that former U.S. President Barack Obama was a Turk. Or that Jesus Christ and the Prophet Muhammad were, likewise, of Turkic origin. You would be forgiven for not knowing that Russia is really a great Turkic nation, that Kazakhs and the Japanese are genetically identical or that the legendary English King Arthur was, you guessed it, a Turk.

You would be forgiven because none of this is true. Yet in countries from central Europe to Central Asia and everywhere in between, supposed historical facts like these and the theories they support have made their way from the minds of overzealous and pseudo-academics into national school textbooks, popular culture and, indeed, official government ideology.

Hanging prominently in Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s office, for example, is a 16-pointed star representing his presidential seal, the oldest presidential seal still in use in Europe. Each point represents the “16 Great Turkic Empires,” which include Attila’s Huns, the Uyghur Khanate, the Timurid and Mughal empires and many more. None of which have anything to do with modern Turkey.

 
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