"This genetic research has clearly refuted the once-current libel that Ashkenazic Jews are not related to the ancient Hebrews, but are descendants of the Kuzar tribe — a pre-10th centuryTurko-Asian empire which reportedly converted en masse to Judaism. "Researchers compared the DNA signature of the Ashkenazic Jews against those of Turkish-derived people, and found no correspondence.""The finding of a common set of genetic markers in both Ashkenazi and Sefardi Kohanim worldwide clearly indicates an origin pre-dating the separate development of the two communities around 1000 C.E. Date calculation based on the variation of the mutations among Kohanim today yields a time frame of 106 generations from the ancestral founder of the line, some 3,300 years, the approximate time of the Exodus from Egypt, the lifetime of Aharon HaKohen."
http://www.ou.org/publications/ja/5760winter/cohen%20gene.pdf
http://www.cohen-levi.org/jewish_genes_and_genealogy/the_dna_chain_of_tradition.htm
http://www.cryptojews.com/Comparing_DNA.htm
It would appear that the Turks will be most pleased to know this and the Israelis will remain in denial.
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