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Yes, and Europe and Asia have long been (and still are) connected along most of their border.
Besides, humanoid fossils around the Black Sea from the late miocene are nothing new. There have been several already, including Ankarapithecus, Graecopithecus and Ouranopithecus macedoniensis. The late miocene (from which this recent find is) was a long time ago, there is very long way from there to the first homo species. Not to mention many depopulations and migrations due to geological and climate events, incl. glaciations, periodic drying and flooding of the Mediterranean, climatic changes in Africa, etc.
Scientific papers tend to speak of Eurasian apes. Headlining “ancestors of African apes and humans evolved in Europe” and implying that the “out of Africa” hypotheses was wrong all along, has a politicising, even jingoistic slant that shouldn’t go unchallenged.
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