Is Turkey Middle Eastern or European?

[Dacul]

Most Turkic ethnics from Turkey score as highest admixture Anatolian.
That is SE European, not Middle Eastern.
They also have Caucasian admixture, which is again European not Middle Easterner.
From a cultural point of view, they are not Middle Easterners either.
If you want to make an opinion about how Turkey is, maybe you should visit the country and spend at least 1 week there?

And if you think Middle East is not civilized and so on,it depends on the country, but in most cases,is at least civilized if not very civilized.
Irak and Iran are not actually part of the Middle East.Ok Iraq can be included in the Middle East, but Iran,no.
Middle East is Israel and the Arab countries from the area.

[Pigling]

Even regular Southern Europeans today have high amount of Middle Eastern influence genetically speaking, let alone Turks.

[LoLeL]

Middle Eastern and Brown

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[lonewolfcypriot]

Turkey is Asian genetically, geographically, religiously and historically, however the context of this thread is clearly not centred around geography as the country is un-doubtly in Asia. Kemalism may have slightly Europeanised Turkey by introducing western traits into the nations character nevertheless when one thinks of Anatolia, they don't necessarily associate that image with Europe. The climate of Turkey is more akin to that of Southern European than that of its neighbours in the South. If you look at a map, Turkey is a mostly Green country with many forests whereas Iraq has almost no forests. For Simplicity purposes though I would say that Turkey is MENA because that is how its always been.

[lonewolfcypriot]

Occident

[Dacul]

Turkey is Asian genetically, geographically, religiously and historically, however the context of this thread is clearly not centred around geography as the country is un-doubtly in Asia. Kemalism may have slightly Europeanised Turkey by introducing western traits into the nations character nevertheless when one thinks of Anatolia, they don't necessarily associate that image with Europe. The climate of Turkey is more akin to that of Southern European than that of its neighbours in the South. If you look at a map, Turkey is a mostly Green country with many forests whereas Iraq has almost no forests. For Simplicity purposes though I would say that Turkey is MENA because that is how its always been.

Original Tukic people that came from Altai mountains were rather related to Fino-Ugric people,not to Asian people.
However, the Ottoman Turks came from Altai, South, through Persian Empire and after had contact with the Arabs.
From my knowledge Persian Empire was IndoEuropean as ethnicity and part European part West Asian as genetics.
Ottoman Turks got mixed , methinks mostly with Persian/Iranian people.
But they got most of their DNA from the conquered area of Byzantine Empire/Eastern Roman Empire.
The conquered people were from Eastern Roman Empire and were European people.
Turkey got lots of children from Romania and Balkans as tribute and I think at least 10% of current Turkey DNA comes from these children from Romania and Balkans if not almost 20%.

[rajputprincess]

Geographically middle East genetically mixed of middle East Europe and central asia culturally got influence from both but they have unique culture which is different from both middle eastern and European.

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[Tigranes]

Middle-European

[itilvolga]

Neighter. Only our Thracian Region is European and Southeastern Region is Middle Eastern. Other parts are just Anatolian geographically.

[Tigranes]