Are Turks racially compatible?

[Geminus]

Maybe some of them fit in with South-Europeans but most of them don't fit in North-Central-Europe

[Vasconcelos]

Some of them can look quite European.

Well, not that one.

[Rereg]

Some of them can look quite European.

If you want I can show you Nordid Indians.

[Romanion]

Turks have nothing in common with Arabs. Arabians don't cluster with any European group, and like I have said even when they are mixed with Europeans they are quite distant. Though I am speaking about genuine Arabians not Levantines.

What does genetics have to do with culture?

[poiuytrewq0987]

If you want I can show you Nordid Indians.

That was not my point. My point is that Balkans and Anatolians have intermixed for centuries. We are hardly distinct in looks. If Turks aren't racially compatible with Europeans then Balkans aren't either.

[Romanion]

That was not my point. My point is that Balkans and Anatolians have intermixed for centuries. We are hardly distinct in looks. If Turks aren't racially compatible with Europeans then Balkans aren't either.

What does genetics have to do with culture?

[riverman]

Same question could be asked about

Rumanians
Greeks
Finns
some Portugese
etc
Basically the question can't be answered without a set definition of 'European'.

[poiuytrewq0987]

What does genetics have to do with culture?

Since the early twentieth century, "balkanization" has signified the often militant fracturing of territories, states, or groups along ethnic, religious, and linguistic divides. Yet the remarkable similarities found among contemporary Balkan popular music reveal the region as the site of a thriving creative dialogue and interchange. The eclectic interweaving of stylistic features evidenced by Albanian commercial folk music, Anatolian pop, Bosnian sevdah-rock, Bulgarian pop-folk, Greek ethniki mousike, Romanian muzica orientala, Serbian turbo folk, and Turkish arabesk, to name a few, points to an emergent regional popular culture circuit extending from southeastern Europe through Greece and Turkey.

While this circuit is predicated upon older cultural confluences from a shared Ottoman heritage, it also has taken shape in active counterpoint with a variety of regional political discourses. Containing eleven ethnographic case studies, Balkan Popular Culture and the Ottoman Ecumene: Music, Image, and Regional Political Discourse examines the interplay between the musicians and popular music styles of the Balkan states during the late 1990s. These case studies, each written by an established regional expert, encompass a geographical scope that includes Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Romania, Greece, Turkey, Serbia, and Montenegro. The book is accompanied by a VCD that contains a photo gallery, sound files, and music video excerpts.

http://www.amazon.com/Balkan-Popular.../dp/081086021X

Enjoy.

[Arne]

They are close to Dusan.

[safinator]

Rather not i think.