Is Turkey Middle Eastern or European?

[Vožd]

Geographicaly East Thrace is in Europe, other parts are conditionally MENA (sometimes Turkey is excluded from MENA, similar to Greece-Balkan question).
Maybe Near East is best to describe Turkey.

[Negah]

Turks are middle easterners

[Zroota]

Middle Eastern: 80%
European: 20%

And yet a few cute Turks here 'insult' Levantines as "butthurt brown MENAs", when the majority of Apricians don't see them any different from MENAs. Gotta love it...

[Zroota]

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.

Not true. Jesus was an ethnic Jew who spoke Galilean Aramaic. So you can say whites are 'slaves' of Jewish religions, since Christianity is a Jewish offshoot. At that time, Arabians were nonexistent in the Levant. Jesus was more akin to Druze, Maronites and Assyrians than to Gulf Arabs or pure Arabians.

Wait, I thought Iranians were inherently Zoroastrian?

[NiccMach]

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

True. If you read Arab travellers, they saw Turks/Turkics as semi-Muslims. Real Turkic traditions and culture were far from Arabic Middle Eastern culture. Both Turks and Iranics were converted to Islam by brutal masssacres, rapes and enslavement. This is why I see Iranics closer to us in Middle East instead of Arabics. Same murderer murdered both people.

[Babak]

True. If you read Arab travellers, they saw Turks/Turkics as semi-Muslims. Real Turkic traditions and culture were far from Arabic Middle Eastern culture. Both Turks and Iranics were converted to Islam by brutal masssacres, rapes and enslavement. This is why I see Iranics closer to us in Middle East instead of Arabics. Same murderer murdered both people.

Well Iranians and Turks had a lot of interactions with each other, which influenced each other through Islam.

[Adamm]

Part of Turkey is European and another part Middle Eastern.

[renaissance12]

Middle Eastern: 80%
European: 20%

And yet a few cute Turks here 'insult' Levantines as "butthurt brown MENAs", when the majority of Apricians don't see them any different from MENAs. Gotta love it...

3O% of Turks could Fit in almost any place of Europe under 5O° of Latitude

[Laag]

Middle Eastern. They are closer to their Arab and Kurd relatives than to Europe.

[Laag]

3O% of Turks could Fit in almost any place of Europe under 5O° of Latitude

In some Southern European countries 70-80% according to some TA members.