Editing Turanism (section)

==Pseudoscientific theories==
{{See|Pseudo-Turkology}}

Turanism has been characterized by pseudoscientific theories.<ref name="Nagy">{{cite book |author-last=Nagy |author-first=Zsolt |author-link= |year=2017 |title=Great Expectations and Interwar Realities: Hungarian Cultural Diplomacy, 1918–1941 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s9ovDwAAQBAJ |publisher=[[Central European University Press]] |page=98 |isbn=978-9633861943}}</ref><ref name="Spectrum">{{cite web |url=http://hungarianspectrum.org/2018/08/13/the-flowering-of-pseudo-science-in-orbans-hungary/ |url-access= |title=The Flowering of Pseudo-Science In Orbán's Hungary |date=13 August 2018 |website=[[Hungarian Spectrum]]}}</ref> According to other opinions the scientific work of the scholar members (like Jenő Cholnoky, Lajos Ligeti, [[Zoltán Felvinczi Takács]] and others) of the Hungarian Turanian Society belonged to the frontline of the scientific life of the era.<ref>FAJCSÁK Györgyi: Keleti Művészeti Kiállítás. Keleti magángyűjtemények, kínai tárgyak a két világháború között Budapesten. In: Tanulmányok Budapest Múltjából. 34. 2009.http://epa.oszk.hu/02100/02120/00034/pdf/ORSZ_BPTM_TBM_34_185.pdf</ref> According to the Turanian or Ural-Altaic kinship theories, "Turanians" include [[Bulgarians]], [[Estonians]], [[Mongols]], [[Finns]], and [[Turkic peoples|Turks]].<ref name="Nagy"/> Though the underlying scientific theories are widely questioned or rejected in contemporary scholarship, Turanism still has extensive support in certain Turkic-speaking countries. Referred to as [[Pseudo-Turkology|Pseudo-Turkologists]],<ref name="Frankle">{{cite book |author-last=Frankle |author-first=Elanor |author-link= |year=1948 |title=Word formation in the Turkic languages |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-JMAAAAMAAJ |publisher=[[Columbia University Press]] |page=2}}</ref> these scholars stamp all [[Eurasian nomads]] and major civilizations in history as being of Turkic or Turanian origin.<ref name="Simonian">{{cite book |author-last=Simonian |author-first=Hovann |author-link=Hovann Simonian |year=2007 |title=The Hemshin: History, Society and Identity in the Highlands of Northeast Turkey |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cl6QAgAAQBAJ |publisher=[[Routledge]] |page=354 |isbn=978-0230297326|quote=Thus, ethnic groups or populations of the past (Huns, Scythians, Sakas, Cimmerians, Parthians, Hittites, Avars and others) who have disappeared long ago, as well as non-Turkic ethnic groups living in present-day Turkey, have come to be labeled Turkish, Proto-Turkish or Turanian}}</ref> In such countries, Turanism has served as a form of national therapy, helping its proponents cope with the failures of the past.<ref name="SB">{{cite book |author-last1=Sheiko |author-first1=Konstantin |author-link1= |author-last2=Brown |author-first2=Stephen |author-link2= |year=2014 |title=History as Therapy: Alternative History and Nationalist Imaginings in Russia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vY00DwAAQBAJ |publisher=ibidem Press |pages=61–62 |isbn=978-3838265650 |quote=According to Adzhi, Huns, Alans, Goths, Burgundians, Saxons, Alemans, Angles, Langobards and many of the Russians were ethnic Turks (p. 161). The list of non-Turks is relatively short and seems to comprise only Jews, Chinese, Armenians, Greeks, Persians, and Scandinavians... Mirfatykh Zakiev, a Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Tatar ASSR and professor of philology who has published hundreds of scientific works, argues that proto-Turkish is the starting point of the Indo-European languages. Zakiev and his colleagues claim to have discovered the Tatar roots of the Sumerian, ancient Greek and Icelandic languages and deciphered Etruscan and Minoan writings.}}</ref>