That depends. Spaniards and northern Italians are almost the same as Northern Europeans. Greeks and southern Italians form their own cluster and are not genetically the same as Northern Europeans.
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I agree that Iberians and northern Italians are significantly more displaced to northern Europe genetically than Greeks and southern Italians, however, the latter are still closer to other Europeans than to non-Europeans.
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...guys like you with inferiority complexes
who want to make Turks white
only make Turks look desperate to be European.
atatürk's entire program
was to demonstrate that "the sick man of the bosphorus"
was gone and that turkey was as "modern"
as europe.
his specific warrant to the historical society
was to prove the phenotypes of turkey
were the "progressive" types of europeans
(not any "primitive" types).
the turkish physical anthropologists
published "TURK TARIH KURUMU BELLETEN" in english and turkish
detailing with only european nomenclature and techniques
the "progressive" european phenotypes of turkey.
there were no new or regional phenotypes
discovered or named
by turkish physical anthropologists.
atatürk knew being perceived as european
would greatly benefit turkey (as he envisioned it).
Not quite as for the latter. Greeks and southern Italians are slightly closer to Turks and Levantine groups than are to say English or German for example..
Principal Component Analysis supports this statement in most cases:
https://i.ibb.co/s6yJZx5/CDA4-C0-E9-...746-CD3816.png
Some Greek groups, like Cypriots and Pontic, are without a doubt within the general West Asian cluster.
American racial classifications like white, purple, green, yellow, black are funny at best. I never understood why Europeans imported this stupidity.
This must be read by Hispanic OWDers
Two users have blatant Native or SSA features but light skin