Gagauz people admixture

[Mingle]

They don't have any Turkic admixture. They get marginally above noise levels of East Eurasian (Mongoloid), but so do many/most West Eurasians. So their East Eurasian ancestry is probably from Proto-Indo-Europeans, similar to other West Eurasians that get around 1% EE. If they have any Turkic admixture, then its going to be ancient admixture from before their Turkification since they don't have more EE than Romanians or Bulgarians (in many cases even less than them).

[War Chef]

^ That's why I say they were most likely opportunists during the Ottoman-Balkan era. I like the sound of that better than being cucked and spoon-fed a language.

Lots of Balkaners converted to Islam because it gave them special privileges, in the Gagauz case it's possible they spoke Turkish because it gave them some sort of benefit (trade, commerce, etc.). We will never know because they were illiterate communal farmers and fisherman who didn't write down anything.

The resident Turks of the forum will call me a self-hater, but they like to write other people's history. Please spare me your B/S.