Do you consider me as a native of Turkey?

[Hamilcar]

Okay but why not?

because you're not genetically similar to most anatolians (and your look is also probably different) nor did most of your ancestors participated in turkey's history. That's like asking why are blacks in france not indigenous ?

[Ayetooey]

Your largest component is probably anatolian farmer so yes more native than the iranid-Turkics.

[Nanushka]

I am also in the same position with you as I am the third generation in Turkey but feel just the ways you do, I belong to here not Russia

I have close affinity with the ones there though

[placebo]

%50-55 maybe %60-65 of the population is already immigrant, mixed immigrants or they're different local ethnic group. (like Lazs, Kurds etc.) I'm just 1/4 Anatolian but I consider myself as a native. Your situation is a little more complicated but Turkey is your homeland and that's it. I consider you as native. Because as I said most people in Turkey are not fully Anatolian Turk.

[Smitty]

I don't know enough about Turks and their presence in the Balkans to say. But aren't Balkan Turks mostly Balkan genetically? Basically mutts?

[placebo]

I don't know enough about Turks and their presence in the Balkans to say. But aren't Balkan Turks mostly Balkan genetically? Basically mutts?

Balkan + Turkic but OP is Bosnian. Balkan Turks and Balkan immigrants are different.

[Smitty]

Balkan + Turkic but OP is Bosnian. Balkan Turks and Balkan immigrants are different.

So there is then a further distinction between Balkan Turks and Balkan Moslems? The latter don't become the former?

[reboun]

because you're not genetically similar to most anatolians (and your look is also probably different) nor did most of your ancestors participated in turkey's history. That's like asking why are blacks in france not indigenous ?

Okay but Anatolians' genetics and phenotypes are really diverse. Phenotypically speaking, you can find plenty of Central European looking Turks whereas you can also find plenty of Central/South Asian looking Turks. As placebo said, most of the locals in Anatolia are immigrants.

[reboun]

So there is then a further distinction between Balkan Turks and Balkan Moslems? The latter don't become the former?

By the way, I am not Muslim.

[reboun]

Your largest component is probably anatolian farmer so yes more native than the iranid-Turkics.

Okay but with that logic, Sardinian islanders are even more Anatolian.