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

[brunette]

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.

Not really Arabs, Arabs because they didn't really put them into their army. Some Western Turks have Greek or partial Greek ancestry because Pontus is Asia Minor..Either that or some kind of Caucasian ancestry like Armenian or Azeri. The Georgians ( laz tribe from Crimmea ) immigrated there from North Greece also. I've heard that Turks from the Eastern side have Kurdish ancestry not Arabs.

[orangepulp]

In comparison to Arabs vs Euros in the genetic sense, Turks are closer to Europeans but they are not closer to Europeans than to West Asians such as Armenians, Georgians, Assyrians etc..

In comparison culturally, I would say Turks are closer to Arabs than to Europeans due to the same religion they share.

[orangepulp]

Not really Arabs, Arabs because they didn't really put them into their army. Some Western Turks have Greek or partial Greek ancestry because Pontus is Asia Minor..Either that or some kind of Caucasian ancestry like Armenian or Azeri. The Georgians ( laz tribe from Crimmea ) immigrated there from North Greece also. I've heard that Turks from the Eastern side have Kurdish ancestry not Arabs.

Keep in mind that Greeks score significant West Asian genes, so it doesn't always mean that Anatolian Turks have significant Greek ancestry, its more like Greeks have West Asian ancestry.

North Eastern Turks are closer to people of the Caucasus than Western Turks.

North Eastern Turks don't have Kurdish ancestry, My mother is a North Eastern Turk and in her city it is known who is Kurdish and who is Turkish. For example the natives of her city ( Erzurum) are called Dadash. North Eastern Turks have a better affinity with Caucasus people than with Kurds. I know 4 North Eastern Turks including myself ( half North Eastern Turk) and our genetics don't point out Kurdish ancestry.

[brunette]

That can't be right, Armenians and Georgians can't be more genetically genetically European than Turks because they're Christian. You're not Luke under a new account are you, dear?

[Mosov]

But Arabs are diverse also. Turks will have much more in common with Syrians for example than Yemenis.

[brunette]

Keep in mind that Greeks score significant West Asian genes, so it doesn't always mean that Anatolian Turks have significant Greek ancestry, its more like Greeks have West Asian ancestry.

North Eastern Turks are closer to people of the Caucasus than Western Turks.

North Eastern Turks don't have Kurdish ancestry, My mother is a North Eastern Turk and in her city it is known who is Kurdish and who is Turkish. For example the natives of her city ( Erzurum) are called Dadash. North Eastern Turks have a better affinity with Caucasus people than with Kurds. I know 4 North Eastern Turks including myself ( half North Eastern Turk) our their genetics don't point out Kurdish ancestry.

It's both I think i'd say it's down to the Phoenicians also who were from the Near East.

Macedonians I mean the Goths who are Pontic Greeks mixed with Slavs they've been there for centuries.

[brunette]

Well...it depends how long you want to go back, Southern Europeans evolved from Western Asia so there's no such thing as a Western Turk a Greek a Southern Serb a Bulgarian an Armenian or an Southern Azeri ( Nordic Iranian ) or a Georgian Laz, they're just tags it doesn't mean anything.

[Mosov]

Well...it depends how long you want to go back, Southern Europeans evolved from Western Asia so there's no such thing as a Western Turk a Greek a Southern Serb a Bulgarian an Armenian or an Southern Azeri ( Nordic Iranian ) or a Georgian Laz, they're just tags it doesn't mean anything.

Well in the end such labels are just geographical/cultural designations as genetics reflects the geography.

[orangepulp]

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.

That's not true. A user ''Turku'' who posts here did a DNA test and she is from Adana (Southern Turkey) and she does not show any Arab ancestry.
I have seen results of other Southern Turks too, they also don't show any more Southwest Asian than the average Turk.

[brunette]

But Arabs are diverse also. Turks will have much more in common with Syrians for example than Yemenis.

Probably because the Turks populated the levant and there was no such thing as Lebanon Syria and Turkey. It was actually called greater Syria. The French overthrew the Turks and split up Lebanon Syria and Turkey for that reason some Turkish people ( and Armenians ) were forced to move to Lebanon and Syria who were living in Turkey to begin with.