In Turkic literature he is considered to be the same character as Afrasiab in the Persian Epic Shahnameh.Emel Esin, Antecedents and Development of Buddhist and Manichean Turkish Art in Eastern Turkestan and Kansu, The Handbook of Turkish Culture, supplement to volume II, section of the history of art, Milli Eğitim Basimevi, 1967, p. 11.M. Öcal Oğuz, Turkey's Intangible Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey Publications, 2008, , p. 23. He is sometimes mentioned as a khan of Saka (Scythia).William M. Clements, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife: Southeast Asia and India, Central and East Asia, Middle East, Greenwood Press, 2006, , p. 432.  A king's book of kings: the Shah-nameh of Shah Tahmasp , an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF),Which includes the name of the Turks at the time of the formation of the Western and Eastern Khaganates and said of the inter-ethnicity of the Iranians and the Turanians that Tor or Touraj is the son of Fereydoun and Iraj's brother, and shows that the Turks are not Turanians
In Turkic literature he is considered to be the same character as Afrasiab in the Persian Epic Shahnameh.Emel Esin, Antecedents and Development of Buddhist and Manichean Turkish Art in Eastern Turkestan and Kansu, The Handbook of Turkish Culture, supplement to volume II, section of the history of art, Milli Eğitim Basimevi, 1967, p. 11.M. Öcal Oğuz, Turkey's Intangible Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey Publications, 2008, , p. 23. He is sometimes mentioned as a khan of Saka (Scythia).William M. Clements, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife: Southeast Asia and India, Central and East Asia, Middle East, Greenwood Press, 2006, , p. 432. But his name is not mentioned in Shahnameh and for the first time the name of Turk is mentioned after the killing of Sogdians by the Turks and the construction of eastern and western khanates in Sogd, Kushan and Takharistan., fight of khanates with Hephthalites , three son of Fereydoun. A king's book of kings: the Shah-nameh , an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF),Which includes the name of the Turks at the time of the formation of the Western and Eastern Khaganates and said of the inter-ethnicity of the Iranians and the Turanians that Tor or Touraj is the son of Fereydoun and Iraj's brother, and shows that the Turks are not Turanians
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But his name is not mentioned in Shahnameh and for the first time the name of Turk is mentioned after the killing of Sogdians by the Turks and the construction of eastern and western khanates in Sogd, Kushan and Takharistan., fight of khanates with Hephthalites , three son of Fereydoun.
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of Shah Tahmasp