Well, I'd wager that many, if not most, of them have some degree of Arab ancestry (you get that when you live near each other), the latest genetic stuff I've read says that they're descended from other Middle Eastern peoples. I think the Hittites are the most popular candidate. But given how you had SO much travel through that part of Asia for SUCH a long time (until the Suez canal opened, really), I doubt there's much by way of "genetic purity" among them.
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Most Turks are from Armenian or Greek (Byzantium, Athens, Rhodes, etc.) bloodlines. Anatolia was conquered by people from the Asian Steppe. What comes to mind is the Golden Horde... The conquered people were then converted religiously and culturally. Genetically though, they are still mostly Greeks or Armenians. A minority power of war lords assert military dominance over the majority.
They're mix of many different ethnicities, Central Asian, Middle Eastern, West Asian, Greek etc.
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Turkish people are not Arabs. Turks and Arabs are not the same ethnicity. Turkish people are descendants of Central Asian Turkic people and indigenous people of Anatolia. Arabs are Semitic people of the Middle East.
Turkey has been a crossroad of the world forever, though. So there are a lot of different ethnicities and ethnic mixes in Turkey.
Don't' matter they are still child rapists and pedophiles... They won't even denounce or say sorry for raping all the women and children the raped durring the armania genocide. Where muslims raped and raped anything that moved. Even traded their sex slaves to Qutar and UE
There isn't a more confusing term in this site than the word "race".
No one has a definition for it, yet people use it all the time.
I really do not know, tell me? Of the Greek?
There is not any arab race aswell as there is no any race.
However Turks are a population of eurasian steppe migrated in late 1000 to West Asia and Europe.
Instead Arabs are inhabitants of Arabian peninsula from secon millennia BC.
Anatolian Turks are from Turkic Peoples. Turkish from the Oghuz group of Turkic Nations.
If that was true wouldn't they resemble Arabs?
Uh no. No, I've lived with enough Middle Easterners to know not to mislabel ethnicities.
Is arab a race? I dont know. I call you all towel heads. But only because its funny. :)
Yeah, but many are half European just like Armenians.
They're totally different ethnicities
I don't know bro u tell me
not exactly, theyre kinda their own thing
Arab is an ethnicity not a race.
nope
who knows
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