While various scholarly perspectives exist regarding the initial ancestral homeland of the Turks, research indicates that the environs of the Altai and Sayan Mountains, specifically their northwestern reaches, constitute the most ancient Turkic territory. Turkic tribes—such as the Huns, Origin Turks, Uyghurs, Oghuz, Kyrgyz, and Tatars—who dispersed across diverse regions through successive migrations, established various polities over a vast geographical expanse; nevertheless, their ancestral homelands were never entirely abandoned.

Although certain Western scholars posit that the Turks were a perpetually migratory nation, regions including Turkestan, the Altai, the Tian Shan (God) Mountains, and the Yayik (Ural) Mountains have historically served as continuous Turkic habitats. Furthermore, linguistic and archaeological evidence demonstrates that the Turks have inhabited these extensive territories since the second millennium BCE, subsequently expanding toward the east, west, and south over time.