Are East-European and Caucasian admixtures underestimated among Turkish people?

[reboun]

I often hear that Turkish people can genetically be modeled as a mix of Central Asian, Anatolian, and Greek. However, East-European and Caucasian admixtures are always forgotten and I think people underestimate those admixtures among Turkish people. There have been migrations from Balkans and Caucasus to Anatolia. Those migrants mostly settled in Western and Northwestern Turkey and eventually they mixed with the locals. Therefore, especially Western and Northwestern Turks have significant East-European and Caucasian admixtures in terms of DNA.

[reboun]

totally agree, all of my friends and me in my hometown looks influenced by east europeans. you can check how i look by clicking the post in my profile called classify balkan turk. Also many poeple in this forum said my grandpa looks germanic.

Even Ankara has significant East-European admixture IMO.

[DomitiusAurelian]

If you're talking about CHG, it's very common among the Turkish people. East European? Not so much. Only among Balkan Turks.

[DomitiusAurelian]

Anatolian Turks are %50-70 Native Anatolian + %20-45 Medieval Turkic. Those with Slavic mixture are usually Balkan Turks.

[reboun]

If you're talking about CHG, it's very common among the Turkish people. East European? Not so much. Only among Balkan Turks.

Why not? There is a lot of migration from Balkans and those people mixed with the locals and therefore affected the autosomal average of provinces they migrated to.

[DomitiusAurelian]

Why not? There is a lot of migration from Balkans and those people mixed with the locals and therefore affected the autosomal average of provinces they migrated to.

Some of us have Balkan ancestry, sure. But it is almost non-existent among most ethnic Turks.

[reboun]

Some of us have Balkan ancestry, sure. But it is almost non-existent among most ethnic Turks.

I really don't think it is rare in Western and Northwestern Turkey. I met lots of people from Western and Northwestern Turkey and most of them have had Balkan ancestry.

[Thracian]

Majority of Balkan Turks settled in Eastern Thrace where another Balkan Turks are majority. For Anatolia, most of them preffered to be neighbour with another Balkan Turks.

Anyways, Caucasian ancestry among ethnic Turks is negligible.

Southeastern European ancestry, on the other hand, is not. Especially for us, Balkan Turks.