Cities of the Medes
Of the Medes the Columbia Encyclopedia says;
Some scholars claim they were an Aryanized people from Turan. Turan is in West Turkestan. The Bucharian Jews claim to be of the Ten Tribes, (see Ben-Zvi, The Exiled and the Redeemed.
This may indicate that the cities of the Medes mentioned in II Kings 17:6 and 18:11 were in the region of West Turkestan. Cf. “Gozan,” “Khalakh.”