A thousand pardons, but this conclusion is politicized and nonsensical. The Turks are a central Asian people from the steppes, who displaced from that region in the 8th-9th centuries AD. Following their victory over the Byzantine Emperor at Manzikert in 1071 (which forever broke the Greeks' power), they moved into Asia Minor over the following two centuries and established themselves there for what appears to be perpetuity. I make no normative judgments on this history, which has been well documented by primary documents and by Greek and Arab historians, but linking the current Turkish people with the ancient peoples of Asia Minor is a luaghable conclusion.
Well, I guess that explains why the Turkish government has not emphasized their archaeological sites for tourist purposes, or really tried to enforce their antiquities statutes. I visited a number of sites that no one seemed to know anything about. Any other country would have had guided tours, post cards, armed guards, light shows, and cheap souvenirs.