The myth goes that once upon a time the Chinese raiders eradicated all nomads in the central asian steppes, but left one boy alive after severing his arms and legs. This boy was found and nursed back to health by a female wolf. We are their offspring.
Once our nation became too populous for the hidden valley where the wolf had hidden the boy, we started looking for a way out, but could not find one. Then another wolf showed us a passage through a cave, but it dead ended into a wall of iron. Our mythical blacksmith ancestor started a fire and smelted it down. Thus we were set free to spread to the four corners of the earth.
The Turkish word for wolf is "Kurt." The Turkish word for "to save" is "kurtar." Our national animal is a wolf.
On our language: A strict terminological distinction should be drawn between Turkic, the name of a language family, and Turkish, the name of a language. Although Turkish is by far the largest language in terms of speakers in the Turkic family, it accounts for only some 40% of the total number of speakers of the Turkic languages. The main geographic locations of Turkic languages are: 1) Turkey, 2)the Caucasus and NW Iran (e.g. Azerbaidjani), Central Asia and southern Siberia (e.g. Uzbek, Kazakh, Turkmenian, Kirghiz) and on the Volga (e.g. Tatar). One Turkic language (Yakut) is spoken in northern Siberia - gotto see them, they look like Native Americans! In addition there are substantial Turkic-speaking communities in NW China (Uighur and Kazakh) - who are presently really screwed by our good friends the communist Chinese..
The verb final sentence structure of Turkish is employed by Yoda :^D
The external genetic relationships of the Turkic family remain controversial. The most widely accepted affiliation is with the Mongolian languages (in Mongolia, northern China and parts of Russia) and the Tungusic languages (siberia and northwestern China), to form the Altaic phylum. Bolder hypotheses would extend the Altaic phylum eastward to include Korean, perhaps even Japanese; or northwards to include the Uralic family (incl. Hungarian and Finnish) to give a Ural-Altaic phylum.
And here's a study which concerns itself with the ancient runes of Europe and Asia:
Ancient Turkish script used in Central Asia and the Primitive Norse futhark in Europe, as well as other scripts have all stemmed from a common origin in a very remote past. 
This boy was found and nursed back to health by a female wolf. We are their offspring.
The Romans immediately come to mind.
Very interesting read, thank you. One of the guys in my unit married a ethnic Turkish Chinese refugee. She was extremely beautiful, I remember she had exquisite green eyes. I believe the term is cok guzel gozler? When I met her is when I found out how widespread the Turkish language family really was. I believe there was some talk that Finnish might also be Turkic?