About Turks and Arabs?

**princeton90** · 01-06-2022, 07:36 AM

Even though Turks do not have Arabian admixture, why do many many Turks look Arab/North African?

**Kaspias** · 01-06-2022, 07:41 AM

I have never seen an ethnic Turk who looks like an Arab? Mediterranean-shifted North Africans and Turks may have a slight overlap but it still strikes to a trained eye.

**StonyArabia** · 01-06-2022, 07:42 AM

Originally Posted by princeton90

Even though Turks do not have Arabian admixture, why do many many Turks look Arab/North African?

They don’t.

**nee4speed111** · 01-06-2022, 08:18 AM

Kurds can sometimes look west-Asianish, but that is due to shared neolithic Iranian ancestry. But actual Turks look nothing like ethnic Arabs, some north shifted levantines can pass as turkish though.

**Hektor12** · 01-06-2022, 08:22 AM

**Avicenna** · 01-06-2022, 09:02 AM

Ethnic Turks overlap more with northern levantines, iranics and Caucasians than North Africans / gulf Arabs / southern levantines .

For instance, I think Turks can agree that this is a typical ( not only this type but one of ) Anatolian Turkish look , and I would never look at him and mistake him for a Arab or north African .

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**Ylla** · 01-07-2022, 11:34 PM

Originally Posted by Avicenna

Ethnic Turks overlap more with northern levantines, iranics and Caucasians than North Africans / gulf Arabs / southern levantines .

For instance, I think Turks can agree that this is a typical ( not only this type but one of ) Anatolian Turkish look , and I would never look at him and mistake him for a Arab or north African .

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Yes because of his eyes, turkic ancestry shows.