italian or turkish girls???

[itilvolga]

Sure, my features are MENA. I doubt you look much different to Eastern Turks.

I look what i already am. Why do you wanna discuss it?

[Nazarene]

I look what i already am. Why do you wanna discuss it?

Because the Eastern/Western Turk thing sounds like rubbish and OWD to me.

[itilvolga]

turks also look mena

We look mainly Anatolian. You can see European, MENA, Central Asian looking Turks as well.

[itilvolga]

Because the Eastern/Western Turk thing sounds like rubbish and OWD to me.

What’s OWD about it, can you please explain?

[Nazarene]

What’s OWD about it, can you please explain?

The Western Turks seen to want to associate themsleves more with Greeks and Southern Europeans.

[itilvolga]

The Western Turks seen to want to associate themsleves more with Greeks and Southern Europeans.

Listen. If i were an OWD, i would say that i am fully Western and nobody would know the reality. My mother is already an Aegean local, my paternal grandfather came here around 50 years ago so my father is raised in West of Turkey as well. Culturally, i am Western. Genetically, i am half Western half Eastern. How tf should i call myself to satisfy you? MENA? No way. If my father side came from Southeastern side, probably i would be half MENA. He came from Northeastern side so no way.

[Nazarene]

Listen. If i were an OWD, i would say that i am fully Western and nobody would know the reality. My mother is already an Aegean local, my paternal grandfather came here around 50 years ago so my father is raised in West of Turkey as well. Culturally, i am Western. Genetically, i am half Western half Eastern. How tf should i call myself to satisfy you? MENA? No way. If my father side came from Southeastern side, probably i would be half MENA. He came from Northeastern side so no way.

Mhm I know you're proud of who you are and identify with reality. However, I'm not sure what makes me MENA but a Western Turk or a Northeastern one not. We could throw the MENA label under the bus as it's a very shitty term, but the way Turks try to distance themselves from genetically not too far populations, is hella cringy.

[Borealis]

We look mainly Anatolian. You can see European, MENA, Central Asian looking Turks as well.

anatolian=mena

[itilvolga]

Mhm I know you're proud of who you are and identify with reality. However, I'm not sure what makes me MENA but a Western Turk or a Northeastern one not. We could throw the MENA label under the bus as it's a very shitty term, but the way Turks try to distance themselves from genetically not too far populations, is hella cringy.

Only our Southeastern region is MENA, that’s why we get pissed off when someone calls us as MENA. Only our Thracian region is European but nobody calls us as European that’s a double standard. We are just Anatolians geographically, that’s the reality.

[Nazarene]

Only our Southeastern region is MENA, that’s why we get pissed off when someone calls us as MENA. Only our Thracian region is European but nobody calls us as European that’s a double standard. We are just Anatolians geographically, that’s the reality.

And we are Upper Mesopotamians geographically, I don't feel offended if someone calls me a MENA. It's supposed to encompass the whole region, although we are a very diverse group. Turks are not too far off to Assyrians though, so trying to portray us as something alien is laughable.