New Turan forum

american turks have opened a new Turan forum.

cool, is it in english

It seems like a racists' nest. I will keep an eye on it though.

I've been posting there for a long time. It's great.

Originally posted by Feanor It seems like a racists' nest. I will keep an eye on it though.

I goy banned for saying that on another forum

^^Sounds like Network54 

Taken from Turania:

What is Turan:

Turan is the ancient Iranian name for Central Asia, literally meaning "the land of the Tur". The original Turanians, an Iranian people appear in the Avesta age as described below. According to Shahnameh's account, at least 1500 years later after the Avesta, the nomadic tribes who inhabited these lands, were ruled by Tur who was the emperor Fereydun's elder son. In modern discourse, it is primarily an ideological term designating Turkic, Mongolic and Ugric languages and people more or less indiscriminately, implying a common ancestry and common culture of the various ethnicities in question. The association with Turkic cultures is also primarily based on the Shahnameh accounts referring to inhabitants of Turan as Turks.

Who are the Turanians:

The Turanian Tribes originate from a large area in Central Asia between Mongolia and Turkistan, the origin of several west surges of attacking tribes. One group of these Turanians which moved west were called Turks. Those who settled down in Russia were called Tartars, while those who remained at the borders of China, and moved west, were called Mongols. The arrival of these tribes, who were tent-living nomads.

The waves of Turanian tribes, including the Huns, Seljuk Turks, Mongols, Turkmens and the Ottoman Turks, into the Middle East and Asia Minor were staggered and became constantly stronger and larger.

Right across northern Europe and Asia, from the Baltic to the Pacific and from the Mediterranean to the Arctic Ocean, there stretches a vast band of peoples to whom some ethnologists have in the late 19th and early 20th century assigned the name of "Uralic-Altaic race" (no longer in use) but who are more generally termed as "Turanians". This group embraces the most widely scattered folk - the Ottoman Turks of Constantinople and Anatolia, the Turcomans of Central Asia and Persia, the Tartars of South Russia and Transcaucasia, the Magyars of Hungary, the Finns of Finland and the Baltic provinces, the aboriginal tribes of Siberia, and even the distant Mongols and Manchus .

The Turanians have certainly been the greatest conquerors and empire-builders that the world has ever seen: Atilla and his Huns, Arpad and his Magyars, Isperich and his Bulgars, Alp Arslan and his Seljuks, Ertogrul and his Ottomans, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane with their "inflexible" Mongol hordes, Baber in India, even Kubilai Khan and Nurhachu in far-off Cathay - the hoof-print of the Turanian "man on horseback" is stamped deep all over the palimpsest of history.
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Background info on Tur:
Tur is a character in the Persian epic Shahnameh. He is the second son of the legendary Iranian king Fereydun and brother of both Salm and Iraj. His name, meaning brave, was given to him by his father when the young prince bravely fights the dragon that had attacked him and his brothers. When Fereydun divides his empire among his sons, he gives Turkistan and China to his second son Tur. This is the beginning of the nation of Turan, the neighbor and rival of the Iranians. Some of the most important characters of Shahnameh, such as Afrasiab, are his descendants.

Originally posted by kafkas Taken from Turania: <snip> The Turanians have certainly been the greatest conquerors and empire-builders that the world has ever seen: Atilla and his Huns, Arpad and his Magyars, Isperich and his Bulgars, Alp Arslan and his Seljuks, Ertogrul and his Ottomans, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane with their "inflexible" Mongol hordes, Baber in India, even Kubilai Khan and Nurhachu in far-off Cathay - the hoof-print of the Turanian "man on horseback" is stamped deep all over the palimpsest of history.

Or, in other words, yet another we-are-better-than-you club?