View Poll Results: Are Turks White?

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  • Yes they are White they overlap with quite few Southern European nations and most are of Turkified Anatolian origins

    55 21.74%
  • No they are mxed race, due to being of partial Central Asian origins

    133 52.57%
  • Depends on how you define White.

    89 35.18%
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    Turks are not white. Doy.

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    No they are mixed race, due to being of partial Central Asian and Middle Eastern origins.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Onur View Post
    Jusia, Istanbul is a giant metropolitan city with 15 million population. It`s even bigger than some countries in Europe in terms of geography and economical size.

    Whenever i go there and walk in the streets of it, i keep wondering and saying to myself like "who are these people and masses of crowds, where they have come from?".

    Did you know that the number of people who has been born in Istanbul is less than 3 million out of 15 million total? The people in Istanbul are from all over Turkey with considerable groups of peoples from middle-east, balkans and caucasus.
    Im am aware of this, the thing is that Ive asked this girl because I was also very surprised

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    Turkish people are pretty diverse and I think they do not have a certain stereotypical feature. The overwhelming majority of Turkey is white for sure, but if you analyze it in terms of region, the Eastern region, also with the influence of the Kurdish population are more Middle Eastern-looking.

    Since Istanbul is a metropolitan city with 15 million population (like New York) as Onur said, it hosts many people from various regions. Istanbul is also considered to be a summary of the whole Turkey.

    Turkey resembles America for me.

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    Of the four Turkish people I know in real life, I thought two were Balkan Slavs at first, one of them looks Levantine, and the other is mixed with Bulgarian and Greek.

    So yes, they're white.

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    Turks are definitely not white. We are central Eurasians genetically which rules us out completely. In our culture we do not have the concept of white, we think in Turks non-Turks.

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    Some Chuvash can pass in Fenno-Scandinavia. Those would be considered "White" here I suppose.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack Atlas View Post
    No they are mixed race, due to being of partial Central Asian and Middle Eastern origins.
    You Serbs are not mixed? Do you even know who was your great grandparents? Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks, Hungarians, Bulgarians? and who was your ancestral origins? Iranians, Slavs, Turkic Avars-Cumans or Germanics, Med Latins?

    It`s funny that a Balkanite saying this while it`s quite known that you are the most mixed people on earth with several theories of obscure origins.

    And who in the world is not mixed except Amazon tribes? Even Australian Aborigines are mixed today.


    Quote Originally Posted by Kemalisté View Post
    Since Istanbul is a metropolitan city with 15 million population (like New York) as Onur said, it hosts many people from various regions. Istanbul is also considered to be a summary of the whole Turkey
    No, maybe part of it but Istanbul as a whole cannot be considered as a summary of Turkish people. First of all, there are too many Kurds and other non-Turkish people in there. Let alone Kurds, there are over 100.000 illegal immigrants only from Armenian state.

    You have to come to Aegean, southern med and central Anatolian towns to see the summary of Turkish people. Add the people in Thrace and Blacksea towns as a final ingredient, then voila, here is your Turkish people.
    Last edited by Onur; 11-08-2012 at 01:52 PM.

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    depends on how you define white. if its caucasoid then yes. if its european then some are and some not.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Inquiring Mind View Post
    depends on how you define white. if its caucasoid then yes. if its european then some are and some not.
    Almost right. Many Turks have the Turanid element, a mixture between Mongoloid and Caucasian.

    IMO, Turks are like Kurds, some look white and some don't. It's usually women that look white but it happens to men as well.

    Out of all the Turks I know irl, none of them could pass as European.

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