Neolithic Age (Late Stone Age) 8,500 – 5,000 BCE Historians call ancient Turkey Anatolia. Anatolia likely was exposed to a variety of different early cultures and ideas as a result of these mass migrations. During this period, several settlements began to develop and thrive.
It is obvious that the present Tigris and Euphrates Rivers formed after the Flood, and on top of sediment laid down by the Flood. Thus, the Garden of Eden can't be located in the Middle East (either in Turkey or the Persian Gulf) on top of rocks laid down by the Flood.
Centuries before Christopher Columbus reached the New World, the Aztecs had domesticated a wild game bird that we call the turkey, but they called huexolotl. The turkey was so important to the Aztecs as a source of food that the Indians regarded the bird as a god.
In the beginning of Revelation, John issues letters of encouragement, admonition and warning that he says Jesus instructed him to write to seven church communities in the Roman province of Asia Minor, which is now Turkey. The churches were Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.
Many Christians are unaware of Turkey's unique role in the Bible because Biblical references works usually refer to this strategic peninsula, that bounded by the Mediterranean, Aegean, and Black Seas, as Asia Minor or Anatolia.
Did you know that Iran and Turkey are not Arab countries and their primary languages are Farsi and Turkish respectively? Arab countries have a rich diversity of ethnic, linguistic, and religious communities. These include Kurds, Armenians, Berbers and others. There are over 300 million Arabs.
Lovers of antiquity and the classical world know very well that Asia Minor–modern Turkey–was formerly inhabited by a variety of non-Turkic peoples. Most of these people spoke Indo-European languages and included the Hittites, Phrygians, and Luwians (Troy was probably a Luwian city).
In Greek, it is galopoúla (γαλοπούλα), which means “French chicken”. In Russian, it is called indeyka (индейка), relating to the Native American Indian (индеец). In Indonesian, it is called kalkun and derived from Dutch word kalkoen. And in Turkish, it is called hindi which means “from & related to India,"
What is the closest DNA match to Native Americans?
Overall, the 'Ancestral Native Americans' descended from the admixture of an Ancient East Asian lineage, and a Paleolithic Siberian population known as Ancient North Eurasians. Ancestral Native Americans are most closely related to 'Ancient Paleo-Siberians' and 'Ancient Beringians'.
Turks are closest to OCA (Caucasus) and OME (Iranian and Syrian) groups, compared to other groups or populations such as East-Central European populations (OEC), European (EUR, including Northern and Eastern European), Sardinian, Roma, and Turkmen.
Another book of the bible mentions Turkey with the name of Adramyttium, the book is: Acts 27:2 "We boarded a ship from Adramyttium about to sail for ports along the coast of the province of Asia, and we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us."
Turkestan, also meaning the "land of the Turks", was used for a historic region in Central Asia. Middle English usage of Turkye or Turkeye is found in The Book of the Duchess (written in 1369–1372) to refer to Anatolia or the Ottoman Empire. The modern spelling Turkey dates back to at least 1719.
Although Jesus lived his life in and around the Roman province of Judea, after his death his disciples scattered all over the ancient world to escape religious persecution. Many settled in Turkey and began preaching the Gospel.
Christianity developed out of Second Temple Judaism in the 1st century CE. It is founded on the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and those who follow it are called Christians. Islam developed in the 7th century CE.
The percentage of Christians in Turkey fell mainly as a result of the late Ottoman genocides: the Armenian genocide, Greek genocide, and Assyrian genocide, the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, the emigration of Christians that began in the late 19th century and gained pace in the first quarter of the 20th ...
