Which have more Greek ancestry: Turks or Greece's northern neighbours?

[Dorian]

I always assumed this. That many Turks are the descendants of the Turkified Hittites + Turkic and other influences. I also thought that the Hittites were a people that was related to the Greeks due geography and language but that the Hittites were not ethnically Greek themselves (but rather Greekified later on, just like they were Turkified). After making contacts with the Greeks, they intermixed and became Hellenized, Greek speaking, Christian Anatolians.
The Anatolian language group was the first branch of the Indo-European tree that broke away, but still was related to the Hellenic branch.

This is what I always thought, but I am not sure if it's (entirely) true.

+Hittites were hittitized( )

[valentinavalley2]

I always assumed this. That many Turks are the descendants of the Turkified Hittites + Turkic and other influences. I also thought that the Hittites were a people that was related to the Greeks due geography and language but that the Hittites were not ethnically Greek themselves (but rather Greekified later on, just like they were Turkified). After making contacts with the Greeks, they intermixed and became Hellenized, Greek speaking, Christian Anatolians.
The Anatolian language group was the first branch of the Indo-European tree that broke away, but still was related to the Hellenic branch.

This is what I always thought, but I am not sure if it's (entirely) true.

Hittites were never Greeks to begin with, more likely Greeks committed genocide on them and hellenised a lot of them. It wouldn’t be surprising if Greeks helped Turks “force” Hittites to change their identity or cleanse them Hittites off the map, we know through ancient sources Greeks and Hittites were histories greatest enemies.

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[Dorian]

Hittites were never Greeks to begin with, more likely Greeks committed genocide on them and hellenised a lot of them.


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[Hapanuwa]

Post a classification thread.

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...rk-from-Afyon)

Would appreciate if you guys could classify me

[Leto]

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...rk-from-Afyon)

Would appreciate if you guys could classify me

You show some Eastern European/Slavic and even Latino (Brazilian type) features, strangely enough. Not stereotypically Turkish, let alone Middle Eastern in my book.
Thanks for sharing.

[Tauromachos]

Hittites were never Greeks to begin with, more likely Greeks committed genocide on them and hellenised a lot of them. It wouldn’t be surprising if Greeks helped Turks “force” Hittites to change their identity or cleanse them Hittites off the map, we know through ancient sources Greeks and Hittites were histories greatest enemies.

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[Hapanuwa]

You show some Eastern European/Slavic and even Latino (Brazilian type) features, strangely enough. Not stereotypically Turkish, let alone Middle Eastern in my book.
Thanks for sharing.

Interesting how many people say that I have Latino (and in particular Brazilian) features. I wonder where it comes from. Maybe because of my lips?

Also do you guys know how I can look Eastern European when I have no Eastern European ancestry and am typical for the average Western Anatolian Turk?

[Pater Patota]

Interesting how many people say that I have Latino (and in particular Brazilian) features. I wonder where it comes from. Maybe because of my lips?

Also do you guys know how I can look Eastern European when I have no Eastern European ancestry and am typical for the average Western Anatolian Turk?

You're still newbie about genetics, boy.Phenotype ≠ Genotype.

[Petros Houhoulis]

Hittites were never Greeks to begin with, more likely Greeks committed genocide on them and hellenised a lot of them.

The Greeks ma'am did not commit any genocide upon the Hittites. Alexander the Great conquered their homeland long after they were gone, but he didn't stay for long there. Then the Romans came and the area was partially Hellenized during the Roman era.

It wouldn’t be surprising if Greeks helped Turks “force” Hittites to change their identity or cleanse them Hittites off the map, we know through ancient sources Greeks and Hittites were histories greatest enemies.

The Hittites went out of business long before the formation of the Greek identity. The Achaians invaded Troy, but Troy was not a Hittite town in the first place. The Hittites collapsed from the Sea Peoples' invasion, and some of them were indeed proto-Hellenes, but those Sea Peoples didn't settle around Hatussa, they settled in the Levant and parts of Egypt, and of course Greece itself.

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[TheForeigner]

Wasn't all of Asia Minor, excepting Armenia, Greek speaking and Orthodox Chrisian, so basically Greek when the Turks came out of Central Asia? Turks must have more Greek blood than any non-Greek Balkaners.