Is Turkey Middle Eastern or European?

[Teutone]

People need to learn about Orient and occident.

[Oghuz]

Turkey has its own identity much like Arabs or Iran. No one in this region needs titles like European or anything.

[Tigranes]

Turkey much like Arabs.

[Veles]

Turkey is mainly Southern Europe

[Bakha]

Turkey has its own identity much like Arabs or Iran. No one in this region needs titles like European or anything.

Iran lost his own identity after converting to muslim (hostile arab religion) totalitarian state. You guys cant even call urself pure persians-iranians untill you freedom yourself from arabic religion invasion.

[Oghuz]

Iran lost his own identity after converting to muslim (hostile arab religion) totalitarian state. You guys cant even call urself pure persians-iranians untill you freedom yourself from arabic religion invasion.

Religion is a mental state not ethnic identity. If we go by your theory than whites all over the world are mental slaves of Arabs because Christianity came from guess where ? Jesus looked more like me than any of his current European followers.

Islam that Iranians follow today was given to us by (Azeri, Kurdish, Persian) Saffavid Empire.

Persians are like 50 % of Iran. No iranian can claim Iran as an ethnically pure persian state because it never was that. I am not persian myself.

We are inherently Muslims and no one can undo that.

[Oghuz]

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double post

[Voskos]

West asian+european.

[sean]

The modern country of Turkey is sat upon Anatolia which was once Greek.

Turks are Asiatic, they are also Muslim. Thus Middle Eastern.

[Ayetooey]

Part of it is European (Thrace/Istanbul), part of it is middle eastern (southern Anatolia), part is Caucasus (North-East black sea); rest is just broadly west Asian.