And that's the problem. That's the dilemma...! Ethnic Turks are still themselves a mix of these "non-Turkish groups" that they're being "replaced" by. It's funny -- They're hating on Levantine/Arabs and yet they've stolen their Semitic religion and so much that they're more fucking Muslim than Arabs themselves. Turks here are incredibly and grotesquely Islamic! Lmao. Reminds me of far-right wingers who go to church and worship a Jew, take notes from a Jewish book, whilst they crap on Jews and Semitic material.
And if you want to be a pure Turanic Turk, then shouldn't you be in Central Asia? Turkey is a melting pot. Turks were never pure. Blame the Ottomans, really!
Here is Sora's ethnic makeup list:
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40 million Turks(60%)
*17 million Kurds(20%)
*5 million Circassians(6%, not necessarily pure ones or Adyghe/Kabardin speakers)
*5 million Zaza(6%)
*4.2 million Muslim Slavs(5%; mainly Bosniaks & some Pomaks)
*3 million Albanians(4%)
*1.5 million Laz + 800k Georgians(totally 3%)
*2 million Arabs(3%%; only native Arabs, not Syrian or other immigrants)
*2.5 million Azeris(3%; only native ones from Eastern Turkey)
*2 million Crimean Tatars(2%, including Balkan Tatars)
*1 million Syrian & Iraqi Turkmens(2%, they settled in Turkey mainly in 90s & 2000s)
*900k Pontic Greeks + 200k Hemshin Armenians (1%, all are Muslims)
*900k Romani (0.9%)
*25k Jews + 10k Armenians + 6k Greeks + 2k Assyrian (totally 0.8% non-Muslim)
**20k Turkmens + 10k Uzbeks + 10k Kazakhs + 5k Uyghurs + 1k Kyrgyz (totally 0.5%, mainly immigrants from Afghanistan came in 80s)
Sources: several charts, especially Joshua Project & TUIK(Turkey's National Statistics Company)
These 40 million "ethnic Turks" are hardly purely Anatolian. They have a little (maybe a lot) of the below groups in them. Same way "Americans" are generally a mix of German, Irish, English and Italian. Those who tick "American" on Census box, I mean.
BTW, this post is not an attack or shade thrown on Turks. I do not mind them at all and I have Turkish buddies, and I think Turkish men are fucking hot! But I just call a spade, a spade.
I can't fucking believe an Italian is saying this. You are so ignorant about Turkish history and its ethnic constituents.
Kurds are pretty much quasi Turks. They make up the Turkish ethnicity. That's like saying "why are so many Americans allowing the Scottish in the USA?" When white Americans have a lot of Scottish in them. A fucking Kurd in Turkey is as "alien" as a fucking Irish or Scotsman in Ohio....
The ignorance...!
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