Turks, who are they closer to: Europeans or Arabs?

[Mordid]

Hey Forrest Kinglsey, I think Turks are closer to Poles.. Don't you agree?

[Damião de Góis]

Turks are still closer to Europeans than to Levantines. The Druze are quite distant to Turks and other West Asians, them alongside the Samaritans. So the answer would be the same in regards to other Levantine groups, the exception would be some Assyrians who might be present, but in general the answer would be no.

You should look better at the genetic plot i posted...

[safinator]

Genetically they are closer to Euros especially Western ones.

[Libertas]

With respect, the terms used here, "European" and "Arab" are too vague.

Do we mean Swedish or Maltese and Saudi Arabian or northern Sudanese?

[hajduk]

Safinator was here

[xaxa]

middle-eastern is not exclusive to Jarabs

Ignorant thread.

[brunette]

Turks are still closer to Europeans than to Levantines. The Druze are quite distant to Turks and other West Asians, them alongside the Samaritans. So the answer would be the same in regards to other Levantine groups, the exception would be some Assyrians who might be present, but in general the answer would be no.

Not really, the Druze are Circassians Jumblat clan are at least. They were the ruling Monarchy in the Levant during the Ottoman Empire.

Armenians Georgians Azerbaijanis etc other Caucasians are the most like them in West Asia IMO other than that Balkan Europeans. Maybe some of them are pulling towards North Europe genetically who knows.

[brick]

There are myriad ancestries within Turkey, so it's pointless to make a sweeping statement on this subject. I guess those Turks who are from places such as the Trabzon area, which has many inhabitants of Greek and Laz ancestry, are more related to Europeans, whereas those who hail from places like Antakya or Diyarbakir (Southeastern Turkey) are more likely to be of full or partial Arab ancestry and therefore more akin to Arabs.

[Mosov]

Europeans:

God this is hard to read, I can't see where Armenians cluster in this.

But it basically shows what most genetic clustering shows. Geography. Genetic clustering reflects geography.

[Mosov]

I think Georgians, Armenians, Kurds, Turks, Azeris will tend to belong in a seperate Anatolian/Caucasian group while Arabs/Levantine people belong to a separate group, while Persians I would place maybe as separate group.