Hunting down the similar words between Japanese & Turkish

It is a common myth in Turkey that the Japanese and the Turks shared a common root at some point in history. There are several reasons for this belief: the historical proximity of pro-Turkic tribes to the Japanese is an important reason, and the similarity of the languages is also an argument. There were even some linguists who proposed that Asian languages had a common root, known as the Altaic language theory. However, this theory has been abandoned by the linguistic community, at least to my knowledge. The contemporary perspective is that the two languages don’t share a common root.