Another professor told them so, once more : they do not exist, even if they think they do !
At a conference at the University of Gymnias (Baiburt, in Armenian) East Pontus, Professor Yasin Aktay declared to those present that there is no “türk” race, and there is no “türk” nation! 
Gymnias is in East Pontus, on the river Acampsis, on the road between Argyroupolis, Pontus and Theodosioupolis, Cappadocia. You might rightfully say, tis all Greek to me. You have not heard the best of it. The “türk” call Theodosioupolis ‘Erzerum’, which means : the Land of the Greeks !
Professor Yasin Aktay had to be smuggled out of the amphitheatre as the locals, and definitely not autochtones, did not permit him to complete his thoughts. It matters not what these colonials shout or do. They now know that the country is not theirs for the keeping. After nine decades, the truth is slowly coming out. Just like the inscriptions buried in the blood soaked earth of Asia Minor and the whole of Anatolia.
As to the “students” of the local “university” : Dans la foule, l’imbécile, l’ignorant et l’envieux sont libérés du sentiment de leur nullité. Even Kropotkine advised to be kind to the mentally deficient.
We do not know, as of yet, whatever happened to professor Yasin Aktay !