why are turks offended if you call them mideastern

[Danishmend]

wow your dumb as hell. and so touchy, First off you caught a titty tantrum. you assumed I was making a claim. And second I even admitted that turks look like they have origin in central asia. Second I know turkey is by the balkans. In fact My haplogroup J2 is supposed to have originiated around that area between turkey and the balkans.

I wasn't even referring to you, dominican

[Taiguaitiaoghyrmmumin]

I wasn't even referring to you, dominican

no but Im american too Turkey boy

[Mortimer]

ok thanks, i understand now better. but i view northafrica, west asia and arab world as similar under the group "mideast" but i see now that turks and westasians dont like to be associated with arabs etc.

[Kemalisté]

Anatolia has historically been considered a region on its own; the civilizations that dominated around here had nothing to do with the Middle East. No matter if you accept it or not Turkey is a heir to these civilizations.

I'm not denying Middle Eastern influence in modern Turkey but there's a bunch of other influences other than that. Why are they ignored and what makes the Middle Eastern influence more special so that Turkey can be considered Middle Eastern?

Turks are offended because you stupid ignorant racist people are unable to distinguish between Turks and Arabs and consider anything associated with Islam "Middle Eastern".

[Mortimer]

Anatolia has historically been considered a region on its own; the civilizations that dominated around here had nothing to do with the Middle East. No matter if you accept it or not Turkey is a heir to these civilizations.

I'm not denying Middle Eastern influence in modern Turkey but there's a bunch of other influences other than that. Why are they ignored and what makes the Middle Eastern influence more special so that Turkey can be considered Middle Eastern?

Turks are offended because you stupid ignorant racist people are unable to distinguish between Turks and Arabs and consider anything associated with Islam "Middle Eastern".

im just trying to understand, and yeah im ignorant i dont know there are differences, also berbers and persians say the same that they arent arabs etc. but to me they are similar people, but i dont view mideast or arabs as bad or negative, i think they have great civilisation

[Mortimer]

i mean i know there are differences not that i dont know it, but to me they are kin people

[random]

It has do with the fact the Middle East is Semitic/Arab dominated region. I personally see the Middle East and will include them as Middle Easterners because they are part of the Oriental civilization, which had an Arabian root but a Persianate cultural influences, and the Ottomans were a Persianate and patrons of Persian culture. They might be offended because it brings about negative prejudices and want to distance themselves from it and are to extent Westernized. Though I would agree that countries like Armenia and the Caucasus are not the Middle East, apart from Azerbaijan which has a lot of Persian cultural influence which connects ultimately to the Oriental/Islamic Middle Eastern civilization. Turkey is geographically in the Middle East and Europe, it's transition, some embrace it others don't it depends on the person.

Arabian roots to the " Oriental civilization ? give me a fucking break. Arabs had a big role in the ME civilizations between the late 600s-1000s, before and after this time period arabs were and became irrelevant.

[Kemalisté]

i mean i know there are differences not that i dont know it, but to me they are kin people

How are Turks kin to Arabs? we are originally from Central Asia.

[SKYNET]

genetically they're mixed, and in racially issues, too. Linguistically + culturally, they're Altaic Central Asians and geographically they're western Asians. These all make them a unique people to me

[Taiguaitiaoghyrmmumin]

How are Turks kin to Arabs? we are originally from Central Asia.

probably because they were both islamists and the fact that the ottomon empire included sorrounding middle eastern countries.