Turan is the ancient Iranian name for Central Asia, literally meaning "the land of the Tur". As described below, the original Turanians are the Tuirya Iranian people of the Avesta age. According to Shahnameh's account, at least 1500 years later after the Avesta, the nomadic tribes who inhabited these lands, were ruled by Tûr who was the emperor Fereydun's elder son. In modern discourse, now obsolete, it was primarily an ideological term designating Turkic, Mongolic, Dravidian languages and Ugric languages and people more or less indiscriminately, implying a common ancestry and common culture of the various ethnicities in question. The association with Turkic cultures is also primarily based on the Shahnameh's account. Tur/Turaj(Tuzh in Middle Persian) is the son of emperor Fereydun and is the ancestors
Turancıların dünyadaki bütün Türkleri birleştirerek kurmayı amaçladıkları ülkenin adı
Eski İranlılar tarafından Türkistan ve Tataristan taraflarına verilen isimdir. Turan, eskidenberi Türklerin oturduğu yerlere denirdi. "Türk" ile "Tur" kelimeleri arasındaki benzerlik de bu iki ismin bir asıldan ibaret olduğunu gösteriyor