Variation in four Central Anatolian settlements

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Study in 4 settlements (villages) of Central Anatolia
Comparison of Turks, Circassians and Kurds

1. Merkez - Circassians
Merkez is the current political and bureaucratic center with about 6,500 inhabitants, making it the most populous settlement in the region (Devlet İstatistik Enstitüsü 2001). It was probably founded by Çerkez (Circassian) people who had migrated there from the Caucasus region in the 14th century.


2. Eskiköy - Turks
The inhabitants of the oldest known settlement, Eskikoy, claim a pre-Ottoman Karaman ancestry that traces back to a Turkic population that occupied the Konya region during the 13th century (Finkel 2005). To date, no historical records that confirm the connection between Eskikoy and its putative Karaman origin have been found. However, Ottoman records mention the presence of the Eskikoy settlement in the Yuksekyer region and place its foundation at around 1500 C.E.


3. Göçmenköy - Turks
The residents of Gocmenkoy identify themselves with the Avhsar clan of the Oghuz tribe, to which the Kayi and Turkmen lineages also belong (Cahen 1968). Their oral history, supported by local historical records, indicates that these people came from Central Asia in the 16th century.


4. Doğuköy - Kurds
The Kurdish-speaking inhabitants of Dogukoy were the last immigrants to populate Yuksekyer. They purportedly came into the region around 200 years ago from southeastern Turkey.

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and Y-chromosome results


Eskiköy (Turks)
- 25% N and 25% J2a with 3% G and close to 30% of some sort of R1 but mostly R1b.

Merkez (Circassians)
- Haplogroup J1 is largely limited to Merkez; this is not surprising as Merkez is said to have been founded by Circassians, and J1 occurs at a substantial frequency in parts of the Caucasus

Göçmenköy (Turks)
- 57% come from haplogroup L, 13% from haplogroup Q, 3% from haplogroup N thus indicating that the L haplogroups in Turkey are of Central Asian heritage rather than Indian, although these Central Asians would have gotten the L markers from the Indians from the beginning. These Asian groups add up to 73% in this village. Furthermore 10% of these Afshars were E3a and E3b. Only 13% were J2a.

Doğuköy (Kurds)
- J2a (64.5%) in Dogukoy, the Kurdish settlement. This haplogroup is also probably found at a high frequency in Parsis (although technically only J was studied in the relevant study), and I've noted before that a high J2/J1 ratio contrasts West Asian Indo-Europeans from Semitic groups. J2a also occurs at a high frequency in Indian upper caste populations, whereas it is virtually absent in low castes and tribals.