First Y-DNA Results Indicate Turkic Origins for TURK
The first Y-DNA results for the TURK project have been received. Their analysis follows. This and future results will be posted at http://www.turkgenealogy.comhttp://www.turkgenealogy.com . Other males with the TURK surname are encouraged to participate. An effort will be made to identify as many origins for the TURK surname as possible through Y-DNA testing.
A 12-marker Y-DNA test, analyzed by Family Tree DNA for Toni Richard TURK, reveals the following - Locus/DYS/Alleles: 1/393/13; 2/390/25; 3/19(394)/17; 4/391/10; 5/385a/10; 6/385b/14; 7/426/12; 8/388/12; 9 /439/10; 10/389-1/13; 11/392/11; 12/389-2/30. A control test was made with his brother. The results were an exact match.
These Family Tree Y-DNA findings reveal the following results to countries - exact matches: Poland, Silesia, and Slovakia; one step mutations: Poland; two step mutations essentially Eastern European Ashkenazi - LEVITE. The countries stated to have an Ashkenazi connection are: Belarus, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. A review of the literature indicates a distinction between the Cohen Modal Haplotype and LEVITE priesthood lineage. The latter is "a different, less-well defined patrilineal lineage".
The Y-STR databases reveal a direct match in Turkey. Seventy-two matches were found in Europe. Eighty-nine percent of these were from Eastern Europe -- predominately Poland (60%). Nearly all of the remainder were in western Germany.
TURK is a very common surname among Ashkenazi Jews. The surname probably entered the Ashkenazi community to designate Jews from the Turkic kingdom of Khazaria, which was located in Eastern Europe near the Caspian Sea. It flourished as an independent state from about 650 to 1016. Its last power base was the Crimean peninsula. In the ninth century, the Khazarian royalty and nobility, as well as a significant portion of the Khazarian Turkic population embraced the Jewish religion. The downfall of the Khazar kingdom caused many of the Jewish Khazars to flee to the west, particularly to Poland where they were welcomed by the Polish king.
In the 15th and 16th centuries and beyond, many Ashkenazim in Poland, including some surnamed TURK, converted to Christianity. Ashkenazi DNA , almost always, closely match those from Syria, Kurdistan, Greece or Turkey. TURK (and variations) first appeared as a surname in Germany in the 16th century.
The Khazars were a Turkic people, that originated in Central Asia and wrote in a runic script common to Mongolia. By the 5th century they had migrated to the steppes of what is today southern Russia and eastern Ukraine. The royalty of the Khazar kingdom was descended from the Ashina Turkic dynasty. Early Turk tribes were quite diverse, although it is believed that reddish hair was predominate among them prior to the Mongol conquests.
TURK could come from the Hebrew word, "Ter' Oork", meaning "blessed of the hand of the Lord", or from the Khazar Turkic word, "from the Turkic lands". In the latter case, "Turk" derives from the Mongolian for "strong" or "robust".
Ashkenazi is a medieval Hebrew word for Germany. Ashkenaz is claimed by some to be a son of Solomon, King of the Israelites. He is the folkloristic ancestor of the Turkic peoples.
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6784/bookruth.htmlhttp://www.geocities.com/Athens/6784/bookruth.html
2. "Question 13.4: Who were the Khazars? Are Ashkenazi Jews descended from the Khazars?" -
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/judaism/FAQ/07-Jews-As-Nation/section-5.htmlhttp://www.faqs.org/faqs/judaism/FAQ/07-Jews-As-Nation/section-5.html
3. "The Jews of Khazaria", Kevin Alan Brook -
http://www.khazaria.com/brook.htmlhttp://www.khazaria.com/brook.html
4. "Y Chromosomes of Jewish Priests" -
http://www.familytreedna.com/nature97385.htmlhttp://www.familytreedna.com/nature97385.html
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