Do you know if Turks are Asian or white?

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Do you know if Turks are Asian or white I'm just curious because I have a friend who was born in Europe and says he is white but other guy says Turks are not white they are Asian :S

jacquesvol · Accepted Answer

Turks are white Asian, with some exceptions.

White and Asian are not mutually exclusive. Israeli too are white and geographically Asian. So are many inhabitants of the former USSR.

Asia is located to the east of the Suez Canal and the Ural Mountains, and south of the Caucasus Mountains (or the Kuma-Manych Depression) and the Caspian and Black Seas.[4][5] It is bounded on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean and on the north by the Arctic Ocean.

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Geographical Asia is a cultural artifact, an imprecise concept causing endemic contention about what it means. In contrast to Europe, Asia is the largest and most culturally diverse of the continents in the seven-continent system.[9] It does not exactly correspond to the cultural borders of its various types of constituents.

(source: Wikipedia link )

To cut a long story short: there are many kinds of Asians, including white Asians.

And there is more than one kind of Turks too, from Continental Europe (Istanbul) to Uighurs in China:

#-in Turkey, link

#-in Turkmenistan, link

#- in East Turkestan (also Uighurstan, Eastern Turkistan, Chinese Turkestan), link

PLEASE,

STOP TRYING TO CLASSIFY PEOPLE ON SUPPOSED ETHNICITY OR RACE, , it's plain B.S.

Teoman243 · Accepted Answer

Turkish is a national term.. Turkey is a multi-ethnic country, but if you ask the Turks (Turkic).. minimum %55, max %70 people of the republic of Turkey are Turkic origin..

According to proto-Turkic graveyards, genetically Turks are R1a and R1b people.. someone said that Turks are Celt, you can say that Turks are related to Celt based on their R1b haplogroup. I'm Blacksean Turkish and descended from Turkic Cumans..

We Cumans are R1b-L23 people genetically, Celts are R1b too just like other White Europeans.. and being white is related to climate ;) Oghuz Turks are R1a people and

R1a genetic is high among Central Asian Turkic nomads, Iran-Afghanistani-Tajik-Pakistani-Northern Indian-Lebanese people.. Because they're descended from Oghuz Turkic mameluke empires like Safavids-Ghaznavids-Khwarezmians-Gurids[R1a] and Mongol/Turkic Mughals[R1b-m73]. You can look at the map of R1b-L23(Turkic Cuman) map on the google. People of the racial tribe of R1b-L23 are originally blonde with blue-eyes.
R1a and R1b are cognate to each other.
Ottoman and Seljuk founders are of Oghuz Turkic origin too.

wildchild1 · Accepted Answer

Wow look at these answers ha ha Just proves how uneducated, ill-informed and ignorant the majority of people are about the rest of the world. First off, your question does not make sense. "White or Asian"? I think you mean white or brown, or European or Asian. Turkish people, in appearance, are white. They can vary from having olive skin to even very very fair skin. There are a fair amount of blond people there also, and many people with green/blue eyes, although obviously this is not as common as brown eyes and hair. This is something people are surprised by when a person reveals that they are Turkish. Turkey is between Europe and Asia, but this does not mean that the people in Asia look typically Asian ie. they don't have Asian features at all. They look white, like the rest of Turkey, but have tanner skin because it's hotter in the east. A lot of people consider to be a European country, and they are in talks of joining the EU (although this so unlikely). Anyways, you can tell the other guy he needs to get his facts straight. Your friend is European. Hope this helps

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Both of my parents are Turkish. If you're talking about how we look physically, we are white. I am porcelain skinned actually, when I don't have a tan. Most Turkish people are olive skinned though, very much like Italians and greeks. If you mean which continent it's in, it's part Asia, part Europe. The two sides are separated by the Bosphorus bridge. Your friend is right, the other guy doesn't know what he's talking about, since I assume he thinks Turkish people are brown. Not the case

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

turkey is in Europe as I'm sure you know. But I wouldn't call them white, I would call them middle eastern not cause of the location but cause most of them are Muslims and look like arabs. And I have noticed that turks sometimes write they are Asian and sometimes they are white, so maybe if you are from istanbul you are considered white while if you are from the Muslim parts of turkey you are considered Asian or middle eastern.

aMuse · Answer

They are a mixed people like most of central asian/middle eastern peoples. The Otoman Empire (Ottoman Turks) stretched from the Ural mountains to the plain of Turkistan of China. It's people's included the Turkmens, Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Mongols, Seljuk Turks, Tartars, etc. all of which were united by a common language, not a skin color. There was mixing between races in the empire to create what exists today. The are for the most part a cross between Mongoloid and Caucasoid major races.

TheUglyOne · Answer

Turkey is considered part of Europe, even though it straddles two continents. But, some modern day support dropping the idea of Europe and Asia being two separate continents, being that they are geologically a single well-connected landmass. At least Africa is separated by a tiny land connection, and North & South America likewise. But, that will never happen because of pride and jingoism on both continents.

DutchAtheist · Answer

White. The caucasus are actually very close to Turkey so yes, Caucasian. Although the mayority of the country lies in Asia, that does not mean people are ethnically Asian. Even indiginate Afghans are considered white.

lace1228 · Answer

First Asian isn't a color.   Most Turks are white however skin color isn't why a person would be turk, it is because they are born in Turkey. Just like I'm a Canadian because I was born in Canada .

ElijahCynicism · Answer

Turks are of Celtic descent, they're as white as I am. But they are asian, they're from the Asian continent. They're just not Mongoloid like Chinese or Burmese people

Deft_maiden · Answer

Turks are white Asian, an long with Middle Easterns and Indians.

Konnour · Answer

They're brown. But their ancestors were asians, as all traces of their (linguistic) origin point to the area deep within Asia.

Cool-Relax · Answer

The government classifies people of Middle Eastern descent as white, not Asian.

peace-love-couture · Answer

Non-white Caucasian So white, but they aren't Anglo or Nordic

Anonymous · Answer

78.5% of Turkish people are some variation of "White" The left over portion are some variety of "Asain/Black"

freebeach · Answer

Such a stupid question, whatever they call me I don't care, I'm not look like an asian.

Anonymous · Answer

Middle Eastern.

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