Whose side was Hittites on during the Trojan War?

M.Osman Korfmann's excavation work and his publications proved that Troy/Ilios/Wilusa/Trauivsa is a settlement with Anatolian features, and in this context it is a city of utmost importance in the political, military, and economic system of the period. Especially in the Hittite-Wilusa relationships, we see that this connection has lasted at least four hundred years. The fact that Troy is an important trade center in this aforementioned system is now accepted by archeologists and Hittitologists. In Homer's Iliad, there is a list of allies that fight on the side of the people of Troy against the Greek armies. In this list, we find the names of twenty two Anatolian clans. The defenders that came from the region to defend Troy during the Trojan War and the defenders that came from all over Anatolia to defend the Dardanelles during the Dardanelles Campaign of the First World War show striking resemblance.

Among the names of those who came to defend Troy, we do not directly find Hittites. Due to the fact that the sources in Hittite archives have become silent after 1200s B. C. E, we cannot give a definitive answer to this question; however, because they have a history of three hundred years of friendship, we can speculate that Hittite soldiers too fought to defend Troy, with whom they shared the same culture.