Real life Turkish people, my observations.

[Voskos]

Lighter than most Greeks south of thessaly.
Not European-looking at all.
some look med but not similar to Greeks at all.

[Gangrel]

Did you go?

[Bornoz]

Which places have you been to?

[Marmara]

Most Turks don't actually look like Greeks and vice versa, That's a truth.

[Bornoz]

Most Turks don't actually look like Greeks and vice versa, That's a truth.

Non trained eyes may find them similiar but they are quite different actually.
Other than that we are so diverse, they are a lot less.

[Marmara]

Non trained eyes may find them similiar but they are quite different actually.
Other than that we are so diverse, they are a lot less.

Greeks are also very diverse, Turks are more diverse only because Turkey is large and hosts very distinct ethnicities.

[Bornoz]

Greeks are also very diverse, Turks are more diverse only because Turkey is large and hosts very distinct ethnicities.

Still a lot less compared to Turks. I didn't say that they are not diverse already.
Also it is not a very logical move to try to tell the Greeks to me

[Arjana]

How are they lighter than half of greeks while also not looking europan??

Doesnt make sense,

Turks are a very mixed bunch.

They vary a lot from iranian and arab looking to anatolian and balkan looking, some even lighter looking.

More than 60% of turks are anatolian in genetics, but around 20 million if not more are also balkaners ( Albanians, muslim bosnians, and circissians) and also the kurds on the east.

My observations are these.

However a nice bunch.

Turks feel at home among Albanians, the same thing is with Albanians in Turkey and the respect they have for us.

However most Albanians do not feel as aliens in greece at all for example.

[Marmara]

Greeks are a very old people to the region and it shows. The only notable influence to the gene-pool over 2000 years is Slavic and that is slight - topping out in extreme cases at around 17% - but with most - under 5% to nothing at all..

Turkey is a new nation and a very multi ethnic. You get Turks who show there true origins like these which I think is romantic because their faces show their journey across Eurasia from the far east - a story of conquest:







The Turks who have diluted their pure asiatic blood with Armenian are these types imo:









Then you have the Turks clearly mixed with Greeks:





The Turks force converted to Islam 100,000s over the centuries but also many voluntarily converted to pay lower taxes.. so you have paleo christians from all over the east becoming Sunnis and later Ottomans.. in a way the movement is like communism. 1 law - 1 God - 1 religion - 1 people - 1 philosophy - regardless of previous ethnicity. Was a strong Empire. Still is. The Syrians wont be able to dislodge the Turks out of Syria now whatever happens - just watch.

All in all Turks are a mixed bunch and it is interesting the old Ottoman ethos is growing again among their number which for me is based around their age old calling card in Anatolia - Sunni Islam, which unified the Ottoman Empire in the 13th Century. Christians, Alevis and others were never compatible with the true Ottoman ethos but were useful to the Ottomans to varying degrees.

First two don't look Anatolian. They are likely to be more recent Central Asian immigrant (like in 19th century)

Anatolian turanids would look more like this

[itilvolga]

yiep except “non European looking at all“ yes we don’t look European generally, at least i think so but we can’t say “at all” ya know we have Balkan Turks who are generally blonde/light brown haired and blue/green eyed with Balkan features so yeh