Ashina clan
According to some researchers (Duan, 1988; Lung, 2011; Davis, 2008; Tang, 2009; etc.), the Göktürks' leading Ashina clan were descended from the Tiele tribe by ancestral lineage. Like the Göktürks, the Tiele were probably one of many nomadic Turkic peoples on the steppe. This view was later supported by Onogawa Hidemi in 1940, who also speculated on a Tiele origin for the Ashina clan.