Turks are European

[David24]

A Turkmen horse rider fell in love with a Greek girl, that's when the story started.

And modern day Turks came to existence...

If they're half Greek then they're also half European genetically, unless you don't count Greeks as Europeans which I highly doubt.

[mentalanesthesia]

Anatolian Greeks are not identical to the Greeks from Greece though. They are mostly native Anatolian genetically and not a fully European people.

[TeRRakis]

Genetically speaking Turks are Europeans (Balkans), Caucasians, Anatolians, Middle Easterns, and Central Asians. It depends on what ethnic group they belong to. All of them are considered Turks, no matter their ethnic background.

[Voskos]

Don't know about the rest of the regions but concerning Trabzon it's a common secret in both Greece and Turkey, these guys are just converts.

[TeRRakis]

Don't know about the rest of the regions but concerning Trabzon it's a common secret in both Greece and Turkey, these guys are just converts.

Do you mean Anatolians converted to Greeks?

[Voskos]

Do you mean Anatolians converted to Greeks?

No I mean that native Anatolian Byzantine Christians of Byzantine cultural background converted to Turkish Islam.

[David24]

Anatolian Greeks are not identical to the Greeks from Greece though. They are mostly native Anatolian genetically and not a fully European people.

Anatolian Greeks are similar to Cypriots and Greek islanders, whom are considered European as well.

Don't know about the rest of the regions but concerning Trabzon it's a common secret in both Greece and Turkey, these guys are just converts.

Were they Armenians or Greeks?

[Jana]

They are not. Native Anatolians were genetically west Asian. Only Balkan Turks are pred. European.

[Sora]

WTF?!

AMK YETER LAN! YETER AMK!

[TeRRakis]

Anatolian Greeks are similar to Cypriots and Greek islanders, whom are considered European as well.





Were they Armenians or Greeks?

Yes, but keep in mind that Greeks from Turkey (Izmir and other coastal areas) migrated to these Greek islands, so the sample that had been taken for this project could overlap for this reason.