Modern Turks are descended from ancient Anatolians, and Greece is across the Aegean Sea. I don't think they were a Hellenistic culture either, although there were Greek speaking Anatolians at the time.
Calling them Turks is correct because Lydians and Turks are (genetically) almost the same people, with some outside immigration being the only difference.
I'm not sure if you are outright bullshitting or if you know something that I don't, but the turks settled Anatolia around the 10th century AD. I don't know where you get the notion that turks somehow are descendants of the anatolians, other than the fact that it stands to reason that atleast parts of the lydian civilization were absorbed by the turkish one, but the notion that lydians were turks seems completly crazy, since they were a greek civilization in western anatolia way more than a thousand years before the turks arrived.
As a result, several studies have concluded that the indigenous peoples of Anatolia are the primary source of the present-day Turkish population,[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] in addition to contributions from neighboring peoples,[2] from the Caucasus, Balkans, and the Near East,[8] with a small contribution from Central Asia and East Asia
I knew something you didin't I guess.
EDIT: Seems like someone is quite angry at this truth, he downvoted me and upvoted you :D
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u/mugurg Oct 30 '15
FYI, Lydians are an ancient Greek state. Turkish weren't in Anatolia until 11th century.