You're actually spot on!

Hungarian and Turkish do share some real similarities, even though they’re not closely related languages.

Hungarian is Uralic, while Turkish is Turkic, so they’re not “sister languages,” but they’ve been close cultural neighbours for well over a thousand years.

Although they aren’t technically related, the reason for the resemblance is simple: they lived side by side for centuries.

• The Hungarians and the Turkic peoples were neighbors on the Asian steppes for about 1,000 years (later came the Ottoman occupation as well), so:
• They learned from each other: We borrowed a lot of words from them (e.g., apple, pocket, axe, beard).
• They share the same “logic”: Both languages are structured like LEGO (we add suffixes to the end of words), and both are “melodic” due to vowel harmony.

They’re like two neighbors who aren’t related, but have hung out so much that they now tell the same jokes and have the same style.