Do Bosniaks have Arab ancestry?

[Vrazijadivizija]

Are there Bosniaks who might have Arab ancestry..well yes but i dont think the % is high but rather very low.

[Hektor12]

Are there Bosniaks who might have Arab ancestry..well yes but i dont think the % is high but rather very low.

I know that some Arabian jihadists permanently settled in Bosnia after the war, but this is different.

[MandM]

I do belive a few have, i know one that has a Syrian ancestor, he came to Bosnia during the ottoman empire and that is how his lineage started, and if my memory serves we right i do think a have one bosnian at work that also has some middle eastern ancestor. But bosnians as hole dont have it,

[Mejgusu]

No, they don't have any. On the other hand there are some in Syria/Levante with ancestry from Bosnia who came during Ottoman era.

[JosephK]

It depends, really, on what National Geographic is interpreting as "Arab". Bosniaks, like all Balkan and Southern Euro people, have elevated MENA compared to Northern/Western Euros. So NatGeo may interpret that (as well as S Euro or Med) as Arab.

[Leto]

Someone tell Angry Foreigner to upload his data to Gedmatch. We'll see if he has anything unusual.

[Adamm]

Maybe he has some elevated Natufian ancestry which can pop up as 'Arab' ancestry.

[reboun]

I don't think Bosniaks have significant Arab ancestry. They might have Turkish ancestry but I have been told that it is not significant at all. Nevertheless Bosniaks are honorary Turkish according to most Turks and Bosniaks themselves.

[StonyArabia]

Not really. The NatGeo is not really a good test. I believe they might have more Turkish ancestry. There are certain Christian European groups that actually have Arab ancestry more so than Bosnians. The Natgeo is not a good test because it overestimated the Arabian admixture in Iranians, and it underestimated it in North Africans. If he did 23andme it would have been better. Arabs/Arabians did not settle the Balkan areas.

[RenaRyuguu]

no they don't