Ardahan has also non Turkish communities, the balkan turk side would show 2-3% east asian, that is normal for a heavily intermixed one. Maybe he is not even an ethnically Turk, idk.
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Afshar Turkmen from Kirsehir (thought you might be interested)
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Gedrosian: 17.36
Siberian: 5.16
Northwest_African: 1.57
Southeast_Asian: 1.68
Atlantic_Med: 12.38
North_European: 9.61
South_Asian 2.45
East_African 0.26
Southwest_Asian: 12.05
East_Asian: 3.35
Caucasian: 34.13
SSA: 0.75
Distance to: Turk_kirsehir
4.75650081 Turk_South
5.30797513 Turk_Anatolia
5.33397600 Turk_Central_West
5.49085604 Turk_Southeast
5.92325924 Turk_Southwest
6.67808356 Turk_Central_East
6.88944120 Turk_West_BlackSea
7.13635761 Azerbaijani
7.16988842 Turk_Central_Black_Sea
7.81287399 Turk_Northwest
7.96488544 Yoruk
8.08009901 Azerbaijani_Turkey
8.54712232 Azerbaijani_Iran
10.88804390 Turkmen_Iraq
11.27197853 Kurd_Kurmanji
12.45101602 Kurd_Sorani
12.46980754 Zaza
12.72876663 Turk_East
13.47755171 Iran_Khorasan
13.91181512 Talysh_Azerbaijan
14.20567492 Turkmen_Iran
14.20784994 Iranian_Fars
14.62785357 Crimean_Tatar_Mountain
14.89842274 Iran_Central_East
15.00325298 Azerbaijani_Dagestan
Target: Turk_kirsehir
Distance: 1.3874% / 1.38735523 | ADC: 0.25x
54.0 Turk_Southeast
35.4 Turk_Southwest
4.0 Turk_Northwest
2.6 Brahui
1.0 Cambodians
1.0 Canarias
0.6 Balkan_Gypsy
0.6 Moroccan
0.6 Nganassan
0.2 Parsi_India
Target: Turk_kirsehir
Distance: 2.7515% / 2.75146803 | ADC: 0.5x
48.0 Turk_Southeast
47.6 Turk_Southwest
2.2 Turkmen_Iran
1.2 Brahui
0.8 Parsi_India
0.2 Cambodians
Chechen
Gedrosia 23.50 Pct
Siberian 2.07 Pct
Northwest_African -
Southeast_Asian -
Atlantic_Med 6.93 Pct
North_European 19.96 Pct
South_Asian -
East_African 0.44 Pct
Southwest_Asian 3.74 Pct
East_Asian 1.46 Pct
Caucasus 41.87 Pct
Sub_Saharan -
Distance to: Maga
3.56495442 Chechen
3.76875311 Ingush
5.86420498 Azerbaijani_Dagestan
6.39300399 Qumuq
6.83639525 Lezgin
7.20222882 Balkar
7.55335025 Kumyks
7.58877460 Karachay
7.81190118 Avar_Dagestan
8.42438722 Circassian
Target: Maga
Distance: 1.1059% / 1.10593900 | ADC: 0.25x
48.8 Ingush
29.0 Chechen
20.4 Lezgin
1.8 French_Basque
Could be
Btw what's the reason for the Iranian shift of this region? There are cities to the east who show much less Iranian shift (Kayseri, Nigde, Tokat etc..) and they also have lower East Eurasian than Kirsehir.
Cities to the west have similar East Eurasian but less Iranian character.