The title is absurd: Turkish is an Altaic language.
Why folks outside the Turkish Republic accept the conceit of Ataturk and his political heirs that everything inside the bounds of the modern Republic of Turkey is “Turkish”, when most of the history and much of the culture even after the region was overrun by the Turks was Greek, Armenian, Kurdish, Roman, Persian,. . . always mystifies me. The sort of willful historical ignorance, endemic among Americans, that can’t see further into the past than WW II, I suppose.
True, Turkish ia an Altaic language but it spread into modern day Turkey from Asia. The languages spoken prior to that were not Altaic. The Turkish language has nothing to do with this article.
Ataturks objective, and that of his nationalist predecessors, was to cleanse Turkey of all alternative cultures and create a homogenous, unified Turkish nation-state.
Turkish is a relative newcomer to Anatolia. Before the Turks arrived, there were Lydians, Lycians, Hittites, Luwians, etc and they spoke languages within the Indoeuropean subgroup called Anatolic Languages. Not closely related to modern Turkish at all.