Turks have spread the rumor, "Japan is planning to join the Turkic States Organization." Some Turkish netizens said, "No wonder it's hard to distinguish between Turks and Japanese in appearance," and that their "food and culture are also very similar." Some Turkish people don't believe this is true, thinking that the Japanese are currently being "incited against immigrants and Muslims," and that "racial discrimination against Turks" is very serious. It might be that the Japanese mistakenly identified Kurds as Turks. Others said that Japanese historians once believed that Japanese and Korean languages both "belong to the Altaic language family and the Turkic branch," so Japan expects Turkey to expand its geopolitical influence, which would allow it to contain China from both the east and west directions. In today's world, since Trump proposed the "America First" policy, nationalism has been on the rise, and Turks are no exception. They feel that reviving the Ottoman Empire is not enough, and they also dream of reaching the Pacific.
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