damm1t
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Surprisingly, the first mention of turkish origin is found in China historical record and not by Turkic means. Even the name Turkic is properly originated from Chinese in Mandarin "Tujue"
You guys never stop amaze me with your "3 digit" IQs... Before the recorded history is a mystery and nobody knows about it and you claim here that first mention of the word Turk found in chinese sources so the name Turk is given by chinese? You can't even realise that old chinese sources could used that name because the name was already exsisted...
Scenario probably happened like that;
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Random Turkic tribe chief: -Ok guys come over here I have things to share..
Tribe folks: -Yea what's that about chief?
Random Turkic tribe chief: -Well.. We live together since the time being, we fight, eat, drink together... but how will we call ourselves? We don't even have a name...
Tribe folks: - (Silence... grumbling...) -Right -He is right - Why we didn't think about it? -Hmm...
Random member of the tribe: Chief... Those people who are hiding behind the great wall call us something like Turk...What about it?
Random Turkic tribe chief: Are you sure of that? Go ask again!
(10 min later)
Random member of the tribe: I tried chief! But they don't show themselves... I told them that I want to ask something but they didn't show up, I just saw some hiding heads behind the wall...
Random Turkic tribe chief: Hmmm.. Sounds interesting.. OK. From now on, we call us Turks, tell everyone!!
Tribe Folks: YEEAHHH!
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The first known mention of the term Turk applied to a Turkic group was in reference to the Göktürks in the 6th century. A letter by Ishbara Qaghan to Emperor Wen of Sui in 585 described him as "the Great Turk Khan." The Orhun inscriptions use the terms Turk and Turuk.
Old Turkic: