Are Turks White?

[StonyArabia]

Mehmet Oz is a great role model, does anyone if he is really of Adyghe descent I did hear that claim very often.

[Demhat]

Mehmet Öz belongs to Haplogroup J2 as far as I know.

[Siberian Cold Breeze]

And also we have a skin color definition can be translated "wheat color" or "wheatish " very common here ..it is not meditarennean tan, olive (esmer) or brown ..

[Sophie]

Average Anatolian Turk is olive, like this

[Wolverine]

True, but ethnic Turks often look White, although the Kurdish minority does not they look Iranian. Though some might say the same about certain parts of South Europe, do you agree or disagree with that.

TURKS ARE NOT WHITE!!!

How many times do we have to say this? Why do you even have to compare them with Kurds? If you go back 2300 years, Kurds were blondes and were the lightest people in the Middle East, while Turks were very dark and dirty nomads in Siberia and Mongolia.

If they look white today, then that's the results of raping Greeks, Aryans, Bosniacks, Kurds, Albanans, Georgians and Armenians, even after that, they still don't look white at all, maybe at the most 1% of them look white, that doesn't make them white nevertheless.

[Prince Carlo]

West Asian component is indeed closest to North European.

Actually both West Asian and Caucasus are found in Northern Europe in the 10% range so they are not that alien to Europe. What really matters is the West Asian component/non West Asian components ratio in one population.

PS the South West Asian component is a mixture of Southern, West Asian and 1-2% SSA alleles.

[Annihilus]

Actually both West Asian and Caucasus are found in Northern Europe in the 10% range so they are not that alien to Europe. What really matters is the West Asian component/non West Asian components ratio in one population.

PS the South West Asian component is a mixture of Southern, West Asian and 1-2% SSA alleles.

Yes looking at ratio's is the only way you can keep your artificial genetic pureness of Europe alive.

[Kemalisté]

TURKS ARE NOT WHITE!!!

How many times do we have to say this? Why do you even have to compare them with Kurds? If you go back 2300 years, Kurds were blondes and were the lightest people in the Middle East, while Turks were very dark and dirty nomads in Siberia and Mongolia.

If they look white today, then that's the results of raping Greeks, Aryans, Bosniacks, Kurds, Albanans, Georgians and Armenians, even after that, they still don't look white at all, maybe at the most 1% of them look white, that doesn't make them white nevertheless.

Could you provide any sources for all those claims ?

[ZephyrousMandaru]

Well if you got brown people,that is from med admixture,since west-asian/caucasian admixture is giving a pretty white skin tone.
(take for example Georgia which are whiter on average than Romania,Bulgaria,Spain and so on -they have mostly west asian/caucasian admixture there).
Also east-asian admixture is giving white skin tone.
I saw there is plenty of med admixture in Turkey.
So real turks are not brown,I am reffering to the mix of caucasian + east asian people.

Georgia is also situated far north, and has a cold, mountainous climate. Which explains why they're light-skinned. That "Mediterranean" component is probably from the Eastern Mediterranean and is related to Southwest Asian. And as far as I know, Southwest Asian only peaks in the Arabian Peninsula.

Furthermore, most of the alleles that are responsible for phenotype are in coding region. Which constitute about 1-10% of your genes, the rest of the 90 or so percent are in the non-coding region. Phenotypic pattern of inheritance is basically random. So you can't honestly link your genotype as a 100% manifestation of your phenotype, with any degree of confidence whatsoever.

[archangel]

some of us are some of us not actually ıt depends actually ın north europea only blond blue eyed people are considered.Though in america Türks seem white to americans.and İn middle east people(arabs,iranians,kurds....) consider us white.So all in all geography depends on this issue