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Some individuals are. They took a lot of janissaries from the Balkans. And had Greek Byzantine heritage and native Anatolians before. But they seem to have more heavily West Asian/Middle Eastern influences in the east, along with some Central Asian Turkic in the center-east.
They are quite a diverse population.
They have a strange identity issue though. I literally met some Turks that looked like freaking Osama bin Laden who got mad when people said they weren't white (going to school in the US). They were literally brown with huge black eyebrows. Sure, many Turks, especially in the western regions, might be essentially white, but those guys sure weren't. Why can't they take things on a case by case basis?
I don't think Turks as a whole are "whiter" than Greeks, that's silly. If you compare the entire breadth of both populations, no way. Look at crowds from the eastern half of Turkey. Also, genetically, they tend to plot further away from the rest of Europe and there is a gap between them and Greeks.
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