I'm well aware. It is a steppe custom originally started by Indo-European migrants from the west.
Scythian became an umbrella term for all nomads north-east of the Danube delta.
The Turks stole the hats for themselves just as they stole horse riding, ditched their hunter-gatherer lifestyle for a nomadic pastoralist one and picked up horse archery. TURKS DID NOT COME UP WITH THESE THINGS ON THEIR OWN BUT ADOPTED IT FROM INDO-EUROPEAN MIGRANTS FROM THE WEST.
Oh yeah?
http://www.cossackweb.narod.ru/cossacks/dict.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashlyk
Modern Turkic people only hijacked Scythian culture and way of life. Every accomplishment Turks ever achieved is the credit of the technology brought by Indo-Europeans from the west. I'm not going to waste my time arguing with someone who is convinced about Pan-Turkicist fantasies, I've already been through this with Kipchak_Hakan and Siberian Cold Breeze, who couldn't accept the fact that their ancestors were genocidal maniacs.
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