Why people say Greeks and Turkish look alike?

[Hektor12]

What's up with having EV13? It's just the European subclade of one of the world's oldest haplogroups, I belong to EM123 lol

Its fine but its tbh gives me the cold feeling that i get when i say im Turkish in europe. Like a warm atmosphere turns into a howling blizzard in miliseconds.

[Tauromachos]

Its fine but its tbh gives me the cold feeling that i get when i say im Turkish in europe. Like a warm atmosphere turns into a howling blizzard in miliseconds.

Don't worry be Turkish

[Hektor12]

Don't worry be Turkish

Its not me its the people. Im quite proud of being Turkish. (dont ask why you be proud of something you didnt choose)

My surroundings after people learn that im Turkish. (only in europe):



This is a real-life experience.

[Demis]

Turkey also have more Gorids, Alpines, Balkan-Borrebies, Dinarids. Number of Turkish people of Balkan ancestry is not rare.

I mostly agree with you, I just don’t think Balkan immigration increased Alpines dramatically unlike Gorids or Balkan Borrebies as this type already existed in a visible amount here.

[Chocolate_Hound]

Turkey (Sivasspor Football Club): http://www.sivasspor.org.tr/tr/a2takimi
Sivas is a city in Central Anatolia. I know that Central Anatolia is more MENA than West Turkey, but Anatolia is part of Turkey as well, sorry.

Turkish players:

They look borderline North Indian not Turkish.

[Odelia]

They look borderline North Indian not Turkish.

They look Iranian, Azeri to Afghan - That corridor! Turks will look like that because they're so fucking mixed!

Some Turks look Greek. Some look Iranian. Some look Armenian. Some look Levantine. Others would look Slavic. And some would look straight out Mongolian. It's a diverse mishmash nation, not sure why that's so controversial to state! Blame the fucking Ottoman empire!

[Rémy]

They don't necessarily look alike in term of facial traits but they are about as dark as the other in term of skin color:

[Roy]

Because they both eat lamb.

[Klamar]

Just to put my head above the parapet: didn't the Interwar population exchange blur the distinctions between Greeks and Turks to some extent, given that religion NOT ethnicity was its basis?

Not much, my complexed British friend, half of the Greeks who went to Greece were from Thrace, and the rest were mostly from Pontus. And Balkan Turks don’t look like Greeks at all.