Southern Turks or Northern Iranians?

**princeton90** · 04-17-2021, 11:27 PM

Which of these two groups is darker than the other one?

**Tooting Carmen** · 04-17-2021, 11:59 PM

They're about the same.

**chinshen** · 04-18-2021, 12:24 AM

Northern Iranians are darker.

**reboun** · 04-19-2021, 10:15 AM

I first thought this is a Septentrion thread

Not sure but Northern Iranians might be darker.

**Sora** · 04-19-2021, 10:26 AM

Southern Turks are lighter, I guess. Because the most common phenotypes in Southern Turkey are Alpinid, Med, Atlanto-Med & Turanid phenotypes. And according to what I've observed is Southern Turkey is the 3rd place where lighter people are found in the country(1st is Northwestern Turkey & 2nd is Black Sea region).

But Northern Iran seems to have mainly Iranid, Orientalid & Armenoid phenotypes which are darker.

Source: Humanphenotypes.net and some statistics