Are the Trojans related to the Turks?

Research on this topic goes as far back as the seventh century. These works sometimes consist of various different ideas depending on their ideological and cultural leanings. Especially after the period in which Turks started to become powerful and to spread around in Anatolia, the desire on the part of the Europeans to know the Turks and to be able to explain their origin played an important role in terms of the relation of Troy to the Turks. However, all the recent studies show that there is no blood relationship between Trojans and the Turks.

Nevertheless, writers such as Haluk Şahin make a cultural and spiritual connection between the Trojans and the Turks by proposing that Trojans continued to live in different places in the region after the city was abandoned. This view is also a continuation of those who define themselves as "Blue Anatolians" since the 1960s, such as Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı "The Fisherman of Halicarnassus". Its theoretical proponent is Sabahattin Eyüpoglu, and its academic counterpart is Azra Erhat, who translated Homer's works from Greek to Turkish.