Why do some Turkish people find it offensive that I identify myself as Turkish?

[Anonymous]

My parents are from Iran and Iraq. However, I was born in Turkey and I am Turkish citizen. I also feel myself Turkish. So, why do some Turkish people find it offensive that I identify myself as Turkish? Turkish people are mix of almost every ethnicity and being Turkish is not about race.

[AltaiTurk]

Being a Turk is about blood.
Yes we are mixed but it doesn't matter who we are mixed with. We speak a central Asian languge and have a central Asian culture and only accept and follow heritage of our central Asian ancestors.
We dont care who we are mixed with.
If your ancestors dont came from central asia then you are not a Turk.
Also we hate iranians. Its very hard for a Turk to accept a albanian, arab, persian, greek, armenian, any slavic etc. as his own.
We can even accept somalians as our own but these ethnicities will not get accepted in turkey.

[Anonymous]

Probably because they see you as not being an ethnic Turk since your parents aren't.

[Asker]

But Turkishness is cultural, it is not about race.

[MAKAROV-666]

Its racial.
If you can't trace your roots to central Asian turk tribes you are not a turk.
An arab or persian can never be a turk
Now tell me which tribe you belong? None right
I am from avshar tribe of oghuz turks.

[Celtero]

I dunno, people are dumb sometimes. It's like when people are born in the US and don't call themselves American.

[MAKAROV-666]

Arabs and persians are hated in Turkey as much as greeks and armenians

[Tyffen]

It's the same when Somalians say their Norwegian...

It's dumb

[AltaiTurk]

Actually we would accept a somalian as our own. We have somalian migrants in turkey and most of them is hardworking people much better and civilized than those syrian ones.
But a iranian especially a persian would not get accepted. We hate iranians for historical reasons

[Tyffen]

Somalians are some laziest and uncivilized people in my country

[Tyffen]

Some of the**

[Asker]

But being Turkish is not something about race, it is cultural.

[MAKAROV-666]

Its racial.
If you can't trace your roots to central Asian turk tribes you are not a turk.
An arab or persian can never be a turk
Now tell me which tribe you belong? None right
I am from avshar tribe of oghuz turks.

[Tyffen]

@MAKAROV-666

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[up_64]

It's like a Nigerian having a child in Europe and expecting problem to call it European. It's not.

[Asker]

But being Turkish not about race. It is about culture.

[MAKAROV-666]

No its about race.
If you dont trace your roots to central Asian turk trives you are not a turk.
turk arab or persian can never be a turk

[TheSpartan]

That’s because you’re not ethnically Turkish.

[Asker]

But being Turkish is cultural. It is not something about race.

[TheSpartan]

Of course it’s racial.

[MAKAROV-666]

Its racial.
If you can't trace your roots to central Asian turk tribes you are not a turk.
An arab or persian can never be a turk
Now tell me which tribe you belong? None right
I am from avshar tribe of oghuz turks.

[Anonymous]

Turks are generally disliked I guess