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The French are closer to PIE than Anatolian Turks being closer to Bronze Age Altai.
On top of that no Turkic ethnicity comes that close to Northern Europe where the Tatars are the closest, yet they are still considerably far.
So in that case if we take Iron Age Scythians, they are even more European shifted than Yamnaya and Tatars (I remember Witness claiming them to be the 2nd most "Euro" after Balts ) Brown Indo-Iranian race was closer to your dreamland Europe than modern Tatars
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