Cypriots are Middle easterner?

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Originally Posted by Linet

What i see is that Greeks are alone :lol:...when the others are one on top of the other :laugh:

Sounds like the story of Cynewalds life...

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Originally Posted by Graus

Sounds like the story of Cynewalds life...

But at least we enjoy it.... :smokin:

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They have Levantine influences

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Originally Posted by Jaldaboath

They have Levantine influences

Not just 'levantine influences', they are basically greek-speaking levantines.

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Originally Posted by ButlerKing

Is common to find Cypriots in U.K, I've always considered them as White like Greek, Spanish, Italian type..... but it seems they are more related with the Syrian Arabs, nothing wrong with it just surprised that their European admixture is so small like 13%.

Auteur(s) / Author(s) BAYSAL E. (1) ; INDRAK K. ; BOZKURT G. ; BERKALP A. ; ARITKAN E. ; OLD J. M.
; IOANNOU P. ; ANGASTINIOTIS M. ; DROUSHIOTOU A. ; YÜREGIR G. T. ; HUISMAN T. H. J. ;
Abstract

Revue / Journal Title British journal of haematology ISSN 0007-1048 CODEN BJHEAL Source / Source 1992, vol. 81, no4, pp. 607-609 (1/4 p.)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1390250

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contrast Syrian genetic make-up
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with Cypriot and see how similar they are.

Y-Dna haplogroups are found at the following frequencies in Cyprus : J (43.07% including 6.20% J1), E1b1b (20.00%), R1 (12.30% including 9.2% R1b), F (9.20%), I (7.70%), K (4.60%), A (3.10%).[117] J, K, F and E1b1b

They are do not cluster with Greeks or any other Europeans on the genetic map.

Their closest relatives are Syrians, Druze, Jews and Lebanese.

Recent genetic clustering analyses of ethnic groups are consistent with the close ancestral relationship between the Druze and Cypriots, and also identified similarity to the general Syrian and Lebanese populations, as well as a variety of Jewish lineages (Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Iraqi, and Moroccan) (Behar et al 2010).[52]

http://www.technologyreview.com/news...map-of-europe/

Between, they can be modelable like a mix between Ancient Greeks and Phoenicians, in the perfect line of the Eastern mediterraneans, basically i consider them East mediterranean people, they can be modelable also like 56% Lebanese Christian Greek orthodox and 44% Calabria-Campania, they can't be totally Levantine for the Greeks part and not totally European for the Phoenician part, probably Philistines at one point in their history, were more similar to Cypriots