Who are Turks closest to?

**Peterski** · 02-13-2026, 02:52 AM

Which Non-Turkish ethnic groups are ethnic Turks from various provinces of Türkiye genetically closest to?
I checked this.
Below I'm posting Top 10 closest Non-Turkish populations to each region of Türkiye for which I have data:

(I included also a few ethnically Non-Turkish populations from Türkiye)

In alphabetical order:

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Adana
11.21369698 Asia_IR_West-Azerbaijan
12.23734857 Asia_AZE_Azerbaijan:Avg
12.68775394 Asia_SYR_Hasakah-Kurdistan
13.07317100 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
13.19253956 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
13.44330317 Asia_AZE_Aghjabadi-District
13.48717539 Asia_IRQ_Dohuk-Kurdistan
13.98954610 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
14.02407929 Europe_UA_Mariupol-Greeks
14.16213614 Asia_AM_Armavir-Province:Yazidis

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Adiyaman
8.33178852 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
8.77365944 Asia_AZE_Vartashen-Udins
9.09166651 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
9.51499343 Asia_SYR_Hasakah-Kurdistan
9.58732497 Asia_AM_Ararat-Province
9.84539486 Asia_AM_Lori-Province
9.96728147 Asia_AZE_Azerbaijan:Avg
10.24523304 Asia_AM_Armenia-Jews
10.43522400 Asia_IRQ_Dohuk-Kurdistan
10.47864972 Asia_AM_Kotayk-Province

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Aksaray
8.73340712 Asia_AZE_Azerbaijan:Avg
9.08074336 Asia_AZE_Aghjabadi-District
10.52486579 Asia_AZE_Vartashen-Udins
10.97215567 Asia_IRQ_Dohuk-Kurdistan
11.90110499 Asia_IR_West-Azerbaijan
11.90115120 Asia_AM_Armavir-Province:Yazidis
12.14844023 Asia_SYR_Hasakah-Kurdistan
12.65067192 Asia_AM_Ararat-Province
13.04649378 Asia_AZE_Khachmaz-District
13.34838567 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Anamur
10.50260444 Europe_UA_Crimea-Karaites
11.26451952 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
11.58682441 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
12.50684213 Asia_GE_Georgia-Jews
12.52491118 Europe_UA_Mariupol-Greeks
12.57520179 Asia_AZE_Nagorno-Karabakh-Armenians
12.59291865 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
12.70825716 Asia_AM_Yerevan
12.90617682 Asia_AM_Shirak-Province
13.26959683 Asia_AM_Armenia-Jews

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Ankara
10.57632734 Europe_UA_Mariupol-Greeks
10.81344996 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
12.46275250 Europe_UA_Bakhchysarai:Tatlar
13.05453944 Europe_UA_Crimea-Karaites
13.56693775 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
14.73384878 Asia_AZE_Aghjabadi-District
14.98874244 Asia_AZE_Azerbaijan:Avg
15.26228030 Asia_LB_Lebanon-Tripoli:Alavite
15.26943352 Asia_AZE_Tat-Jews-Azerbaijan
15.40868911 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Antalya
12.07635707 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
12.38660163 Europe_UA_Bakhchysarai:Tatlar
12.40314476 Europe_UA_Mariupol-Greeks
15.31921343 Europe_UA_Crimea-Karaites
16.44989666 Europe_GR_Heraklion
16.88752202 Asia_IR_West-Azerbaijan
17.18152787 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
17.27319021 Asia_AZE_Azerbaijan
17.29152104 Asia_TM_Turkmenistan:Avg
17.48855340 Europe_GR_Lesbos

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Artvin-Laz
2.03327322 Asia_GE_Georgia-Adjara
8.00833940 Asia_GE_Georgia-Guria
13.02188926 Asia_AM_Armenia:Medieval
14.77882945 Asia_AZE_Nagorno-Karabakh-Armenians
14.81801269 Asia_GE_Georgia-Imereti
15.00492919 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
15.32113899 Asia_AM_Lori-Province
15.58719346 Asia_AM_Vayots-Dzor-Province
15.67834494 Asia_AM_Syunik-Province
15.85953026 Asia_AM_Yerevan

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Aydin
10.10688874 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
11.51029974 Europe_UA_Mariupol-Greeks
11.73768717 Europe_UA_Crimea-Karaites
12.57249776 Europe_UA_Bakhchysarai:Tatlar
13.41178213 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
14.13670046 Europe_GR_Heraklion
14.54475851 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
14.84371921 Asia_AM_Shirak-Province
14.94320247 Asia_AM_Kotayk-Province
15.06396030 Asia_LB_Lebanon-Tripoli:Alavite

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Balikesir
12.48030048 Europe_UA_Bakhchysarai:Tatlar
13.00266127 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
13.61807622 Europe_UA_Mariupol-Greeks
16.56505056 Europe_UA_Crimea-Karaites
16.74986866 Asia_AZE_Vartashen-Udins
17.06975395 Asia_AZE_Azerbaijan:Avg
17.43214559 Asia_TM_Turkmenistan:Avg
17.53745991 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
17.86560103 Asia_IRQ_Dohuk-Kurdistan
18.00020000 Asia_AZE_Aghjabadi-District

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Bartin
10.36400019 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
11.00717039 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
11.12499438 Asia_AZE_Vartashen-Udins
11.45382469 Asia_AZE_Nagorno-Karabakh-Armenians
11.60333573 Asia_AM_Yerevan
11.79440545 Asia_AM_Lori-Province
12.04910785 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
12.16927278 Asia_AM_Shirak-Province
12.17246894 Asia_AM_Armenia-Jews
12.17317954 Asia_AM_Kotayk-Province

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Bursa
9.71771578 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
10.47670750 Europe_UA_Mariupol-Greeks
11.85865507 Europe_UA_Bakhchysarai:Tatlar
13.74165565 Europe_UA_Crimea-Karaites
15.25568419 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
15.34452019 Europe_GR_Heraklion
15.88307590 Asia_AZE_Vartashen-Udins
15.92085739 Asia_AZE_Azerbaijan
16.14874918 Asia_AZE_Nagorno-Karabakh-Armenians
16.15818678 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Diyarbakir
8.85431533 Asia_AZE_Azerbaijan:Avg
8.91562112 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
8.93296703 Asia_SYR_Hasakah-Kurdistan
8.96133361 Asia_AZE_Vartashen-Udins
9.80991845 Asia_IRQ_Dohuk-Kurdistan
9.93549194 Asia_AM_Ararat-Province
9.94287685 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
10.15080785 Asia_AM_Armavir-Province:Yazidis
10.71918840 Asia_AZE_Aghjabadi-District
10.74507329 Asia_AM_Lori-Province

Distance to: TUR_Edirne:Balkan-Turks
8.06349800 Europe_BG_Smolyan-Province-Pomak
9.30332199 Europe_BG_Kyustendil-Province
9.78064926 Europe_BG_Stara-Zagora-Province
9.88028846 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
9.91259300 Europe_BG_Bulgaria:Avg
9.94073438 Europe_GR_Macedonia
9.95172849 Europe_RO_Romania-Muntenia
10.02097800 Europe_BG_Gabrovo-Province
10.13933430 Europe_MD_Moldova-Gagauzia
10.53629916 Europe_GR_Chalkidiki

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Eskisehir
9.65376610 Europe_UA_Mariupol-Greeks
9.84233712 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
10.62229260 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
10.93728028 Europe_UA_Crimea-Karaites
12.10995458 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
12.37289780 Asia_AM_Yerevan
12.50081197 Asia_AZE_Nagorno-Karabakh-Armenians
12.63756701 Asia_AM_Kotayk-Province
12.67464398 Asia_AM_Shirak-Province
12.93555952 Asia_AZE_Vartashen-Udins

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Gaziantep
11.15806435 Asia_SYR_Hasakah-Kurdistan
11.49857382 Asia_AZE_Azerbaijan:Avg
11.95418337 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
12.13488360 Asia_IRQ_Dohuk-Kurdistan
12.17016434 Asia_IR_West-Azerbaijan
12.40844068 Asia_AM_Armavir-Province:Yazidis
12.49956399 Europe_UA_Mariupol-Greeks
12.77449803 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
13.18262114 Asia_AZE_Aghjabadi-District
13.29389333 Asia_AZE_Tat-Jews-Azerbaijan

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Giresun
6.76752540 Asia_AM_Shirak-Province
8.30051806 Asia_AM_Syunik-Province
8.38174206 Asia_AM_Armenia:Avg
8.80062498 Asia_AM_Armenia-Jews
8.91448821 Asia_AM_Kotayk-Province
8.95163672 Asia_AM_Yerevan
9.54412385 Asia_AZE_Nagorno-Karabakh-Armenians
9.66739882 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
9.79413090 Asia_AM_Lori-Province
10.14298280 Asia_AM_Vayots-Dzor-Province

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Hatay
10.77713320 Asia_SYR_Hasakah-Kurdistan
10.78673259 Asia_AZE_Azerbaijan:Avg
10.85000461 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
11.17898475 Asia_IR_West-Azerbaijan
11.71114853 Asia_IRQ_Dohuk-Kurdistan
12.21539193 Asia_AM_Armavir-Province:Yazidis
12.30845644 Asia_AZE_Aghjabadi-District
12.32910783 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
12.48424607 Asia_AZE_Tat-Jews-Azerbaijan
12.55933119 Asia_AZE_Vartashen-Udins

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Hemsin-Hemshin
8.98790298 Asia_GE_Georgia-Adjara
10.05270113 Asia_AM_Armenia:Medieval
10.60382950 Asia_AZE_Nagorno-Karabakh-Armenians
11.63837188 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
11.81455882 Asia_AM_Vayots-Dzor-Province
11.99165126 Asia_AM_Lori-Province
12.34133299 Asia_AM_Yerevan
12.36916731 Asia_AM_Syunik-Province
13.18421784 Asia_AZE_Vartashen-Udins
13.23485927 Asia_AM_Shirak-Province

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Istanbul
5.29198450 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
7.06725548 Europe_UA_Mariupol-Greeks
11.78526198 Europe_UA_Crimea-Karaites
11.91457091 Europe_UA_Bakhchysarai:Tatlar
13.44248489 Europe_GR_Heraklion
14.14857590 Europe_GR_Lesbos
14.44900689 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
14.66420131 Europe_GR_Chania
14.73189397 Europe_GR_Cyclades
14.77537140 Europe_GR_Crete

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Izmir
9.74725089 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
10.11308558 Europe_UA_Mariupol-Greeks
10.25705611 Europe_UA_Bakhchysarai:Tatlar
13.54022156 Europe_UA_Crimea-Karaites
15.67160490 Europe_GR_Heraklion
15.88188276 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
16.44620929 Europe_GR_Lesbos
16.82111173 Europe_BG_Smolyan-Province-Pomak
17.00858019 Asia_AZE_Vartashen-Udins
17.01622167 Europe_GR_Crete

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Karaman
12.68838839 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
13.16406092 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
13.53522442 Europe_UA_Mariupol-Greeks
13.54601787 Europe_UA_Crimea-Karaites
13.65297770 Asia_LB_Lebanon-Tripoli:Alavite
13.84949097 Asia_AZE_Tat-Jews-Azerbaijan
13.96090613 Asia_IR_West-Azerbaijan
14.25937586 Asia_SYR_Hasakah-Kurdistan
14.40562390 Asia_AZE_Azerbaijan-Jews
14.43846252 Asia_AZE_Azerbaijan:Avg

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Kars-Azeri
9.43705992 Asia_AZE_Vartashen-Udins
9.43872343 Asia_AZE_Azerbaijan:Avg
9.57154115 Asia_AZE_Aghjabadi-District
10.48974261 Asia_SYR_Hasakah-Kurdistan
10.70981326 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
11.37300312 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
11.67494325 Asia_IRQ_Dohuk-Kurdistan
12.08334805 Asia_AM_Armavir-Province:Yazidis
12.08707574 Asia_IR_West-Azerbaijan
12.23555883 Asia_AM_Armenia:Medieval

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Kastamonu
12.21697999 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
12.53140455 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
12.73064806 Europe_UA_Mariupol-Greeks
12.86223542 Asia_AZE_Vartashen-Udins
12.98760563 Europe_UA_Bakhchysarai:Tatlar
13.22630712 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
13.74590484 Asia_AZE_Nagorno-Karabakh-Armenians
13.97186459 Asia_AM_Lori-Province
14.01646175 Asia_AM_Yerevan
14.37776408 Asia_AM_Kotayk-Province

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Kayseri
10.21301131 Asia_AZE_Vartashen-Udins
10.76634571 Asia_AZE_Azerbaijan:Avg
10.96517214 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
11.07762159 Asia_AM_Ararat-Province
11.48752367 Asia_IRQ_Dohuk-Kurdistan
11.56378398 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
12.13674586 Asia_AZE_Nagorno-Karabakh-Armenians
12.22928861 Asia_AZE_Aghjabadi-District
12.24420271 Asia_IR_West-Azerbaijan
12.26982885 Asia_AM_Lori-Province

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Kirikkale
11.13462617 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
11.48745403 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
11.57020311 Europe_UA_Mariupol-Greeks
12.32135139 Europe_UA_Crimea-Karaites
12.79877338 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
12.83312900 Asia_AM_Yerevan
12.91170399 Asia_AZE_Vartashen-Udins
13.25624758 Asia_AZE_Nagorno-Karabakh-Armenians
13.31480755 Asia_AM_Kotayk-Province
13.36576223 Asia_AM_Lori-Province

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Kirsehir
10.56562350 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
11.15136315 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
11.95243908 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
12.04046511 Europe_UA_Mariupol-Greeks
12.17181581 Asia_AZE_Nagorno-Karabakh-Armenians
12.25069386 Europe_UA_Crimea-Karaites
12.49246173 Asia_IR_West-Azerbaijan
12.71322146 Asia_AM_Yerevan
13.05285792 Asia_AZE_Vartashen-Udins
13.16530288 Asia_AM_Armenia-Jews

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Konya
9.27251854 Europe_UA_Mariupol-Greeks
9.74414696 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
12.14372678 Europe_UA_Crimea-Karaites
12.29969512 Europe_UA_Bakhchysarai:Tatlar
13.37444952 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
13.90337010 Europe_GR_Heraklion
14.57242945 Asia_AZE_Nagorno-Karabakh-Armenians
14.65443960 Asia_AM_Yerevan
14.78529675 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
14.85770844 Asia_AZE_Vartashen-Udins

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Manisa
9.51015247 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
9.72583158 Europe_UA_Mariupol-Greeks
11.65724238 Europe_UA_Bakhchysarai:Tatlar
12.19416664 Europe_UA_Crimea-Karaites
13.54170964 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
13.85454077 Europe_GR_Heraklion
14.91600483 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
15.28704680 Asia_IR_West-Azerbaijan
15.48021318 Asia_AM_Yerevan
15.50059031 Asia_AZE_Azerbaijan:Avg

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Mardin-Province:Assyrian
5.69888586 Asia_IRQ_Nineveh-Plains:Assyrian
5.69969297 Asia_IR_Urmia-County:Assyrian
6.34710170 Asia_IRQ_Mosul-Assyrian
6.66033783 Asia_AM_Armenia:Avg
6.99047924 Asia_AM_Gegharkunik-Province
7.75200619 Asia_AZE_Azerbaijan-Jews
7.81932862 Asia_AZE_Mountain-Jews-Azerbaijan
8.42929416 Asia_GE_Georgia-Jews
8.68304670 Asia_IRQ_Iraqi-Jews-Iraq
9.42328499 Asia_AM_Shirak-Province

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Mersin
13.88425007 Europe_UA_Mariupol-Greeks
14.33576646 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
15.02502912 Europe_UA_Crimea-Karaites
15.15168307 Asia_AZE_Azerbaijan:Avg
15.20470651 Asia_AM_Armavir-Province:Yazidis
15.27052389 Europe_UA_Bakhchysarai:Tatlar
16.06808327 Asia_IR_East-Azerbaijan:Yarsanis
16.06967641 Asia_IRQ_Dohuk-Kurdistan
16.11688245 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
16.19509494 Asia_SYR_Hasakah-Kurdistan

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Mugla
9.53726900 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
9.90939453 Europe_UA_Mariupol-Greeks
11.70341830 Europe_UA_Bakhchysarai:Tatlar
12.09857843 Europe_UA_Crimea-Karaites
13.38712068 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
13.94855548 Europe_GR_Heraklion
14.72407892 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
15.01307097 Asia_IR_West-Azerbaijan
15.30886018 Asia_AZE_Azerbaijan:Avg
15.31166549 Asia_AM_Yerevan

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Nevsehir
7.03288703 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
8.00840808 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
8.91755572 Asia_AM_Armenia-Jews
9.02375753 Asia_AM_Lori-Province
9.27680441 Asia_AM_Kotayk-Province
9.38956868 Asia_AM_Shirak-Province
9.62374148 Asia_AM_Yerevan
9.62855649 Asia_AZE_Nagorno-Karabakh-Armenians
9.71808623 Asia_AM_Syunik-Province
9.80795086 Asia_AM_Vayots-Dzor-Province

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Osmaniye
8.84842359 Asia_IR_West-Azerbaijan
10.45496533 Asia_SYR_Hasakah-Kurdistan
10.97804627 Asia_AZE_Azerbaijan:Avg
11.63916234 Asia_IRQ_Dohuk-Kurdistan
12.08294666 Asia_UZB_Uzbekistan-Jews
12.11360805 Asia_AM_Armavir-Province:Yazidis
12.42798053 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
12.58878866 Asia_AM_Ararat-Province
12.84983657 Asia_IRQ_Shekhan-Kurdistan:Yazidis
12.99016936 Asia_AZE_Azerbaijan-Jews

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Rize-Greeks
5.78503241 Asia_AM_Shirak-Province
6.95292744 Asia_AM_Syunik-Province
7.39832413 Asia_AM_Yerevan
7.61938318 Asia_AM_Armenia-Jews
7.80629233 Asia_AM_Armenia:Avg
7.87678869 Asia_AM_Lori-Province
8.08828165 Asia_AM_Kotayk-Province
8.14714674 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
8.17564065 Asia_AZE_Nagorno-Karabakh-Armenians
8.47826043 Asia_AM_Vayots-Dzor-Province

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Samsun
10.71378085 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
11.44302408 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
11.49635160 Asia_AZE_Vartashen-Udins
11.59655121 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
11.90260056 Asia_AZE_Nagorno-Karabakh-Armenians
12.00547375 Europe_UA_Mariupol-Greeks
12.04000000 Asia_AM_Yerevan
12.25641057 Asia_AM_Lori-Province
12.48884702 Asia_AM_Kotayk-Province
12.51849831 Asia_AM_Shirak-Province

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Sinop
10.03503363 Asia_AZE_Nagorno-Karabakh-Armenians
10.63820944 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
10.67794924 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
10.93412548 Asia_AZE_Vartashen-Udins
11.12038668 Asia_AM_Yerevan
11.32897612 Asia_AM_Armenia:Medieval
11.69692267 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
12.08596707 Asia_AM_Lori-Province
12.34874892 Asia_AM_Shirak-Province
12.46465403 Asia_AM_Armenia-Jews

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Sivas
8.58636128 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
9.52372301 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
10.32649021 Asia_AM_Kotayk-Province
10.47122247 Asia_AM_Lori-Province
10.63970864 Asia_AZE_Nagorno-Karabakh-Armenians
10.71442486 Asia_AM_Yerevan
10.74772069 Asia_AM_Shirak-Province
10.86710173 Asia_AM_Armenia-Jews
10.94087748 Asia_AZE_Vartashen-Udins
11.02351577 Asia_AM_Syunik-Province

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Trabzon-Greek
7.16432830 Asia_AM_Shirak-Province
7.66829838 Asia_AM_Syunik-Province
8.34456709 Asia_AM_Armenia-Jews
8.67926264 Asia_AM_Yerevan
8.70893794 Asia_AM_Lori-Province
8.88958942 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
8.94225363 Asia_AZE_Nagorno-Karabakh-Armenians
9.02039356 Asia_AM_Vayots-Dzor-Province
9.09244192 Asia_AM_Kotayk-Province
9.17426836 Asia_AM_Armenia:Avg

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Trabzon-Turk
7.45415991 Asia_GE_Georgia-Adjara
9.19035908 Asia_AM_Armenia:Medieval
9.49062696 Asia_AM_Syunik-Province
9.53797672 Asia_AM_Shirak-Province
9.70673993 Asia_AM_Armenia-Jews
9.70850143 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
10.04107066 Asia_AZE_Nagorno-Karabakh-Armenians
10.06491927 Asia_AM_Lori-Province
10.18686900 Asia_AM_Vayots-Dzor-Province
10.53008072 Asia_AM_Yerevan

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Tunceli-Zazas
4.34451378 Asia_IRQ_Dohuk-Kurdistan
5.25122843 Asia_AZE_Azerbaijan:Avg
5.29097345 Asia_SYR_Hasakah-Kurdistan
6.22642755 Asia_AM_Armavir-Province:Yazidis
6.79056699 Asia_IR_East-Azerbaijan:Yarsanis
6.81456528 Asia_IR_Talesh-County
7.18519311 Asia_IRQ_Erbil-Kurdistan
7.30183539 Asia_IRQ_Shekhan-Kurdistan:Yazidis
7.46052947 Asia_AM_Ararat-Province
7.69110525 Asia_IRQ_Bartella-Kurdistan:Shabaks

Closest 15 Non-Turkish populations to Kurds from Turkey:

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Turkey-Kurdistan
4.59505169 Asia_AZE_Azerbaijan:Avg
4.62066013 Asia_SYR_Hasakah-Kurdistan
4.71742515 Asia_IRQ_Dohuk-Kurdistan
5.35538047 Asia_IRQ_Erbil-Kurdistan
5.60909084 Asia_IRQ_Shekhan-Kurdistan:Yazidis
5.80715076 Asia_IR_Talesh-County
5.85249519 Asia_AM_Armavir-Province:Yazidis
6.22833846 Asia_IRQ_Bartella-Kurdistan:Shabaks
6.81484409 Asia_IRQ_Sulaymaniyah-Kurdistan
7.06746772 Asia_IR_East-Azerbaijan:Yarsanis
7.13777977 Asia_IR_Semnan
7.48218551 Asia_IR_Tehran
7.50695677 Asia_IR_Lorestan
7.78358529 Asia_IR_Isfahan
7.94132860 Asia_IR_Yazd

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Van-Province-Armenians
1.67023950 Asia_AM_Armenia:Avg
2.94971185 Asia_AM_Gegharkunik-Province
3.43125342 Asia_AM_Shirak-Province
4.11497266 Asia_AM_Kotayk-Province
4.23607129 Asia_AM_Syunik-Province
5.11682519 Asia_AM_Armenia-Jews
5.70548859 Asia_AM_Vayots-Dzor-Province
6.27110038 Asia_AM_Lori-Province
6.37133424 Asia_AM_Yerevan
6.88365455 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Yozgat
8.78273875 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
9.45768471 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
9.79398285 Asia_AZE_Nagorno-Karabakh-Armenians
9.79401348 Asia_AZE_Vartashen-Udins
10.16219464 Asia_AM_Yerevan
10.28345273 Asia_AM_Lori-Province
10.57807638 Asia_AM_Kotayk-Province
10.90177050 Asia_AM_Shirak-Province
11.04794551 Asia_AM_Armenia:Medieval
11.10490882 Asia_AM_Syunik-Province

Distance to: Asia_TUR_Zonguldak
9.16917117 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
10.05980616 Europe_UA_Mariupol-Greeks
11.74686341 Europe_UA_Bakhchysarai:Tatlar
13.28281597 Asia_GE_Caucasus-Jews-Georgia
13.45415178 Europe_UA_Crimea-Karaites
14.33823211 Asia_AM_Tavush-Province
14.39341863 Asia_IR_West-Azerbaijan
14.40099997 Asia_AZE_Vartashen-Udins
14.42049930 Europe_GR_Heraklion
14.50046896 Asia_AZE_Azerbaijan:Avg

**Peterski** · 02-13-2026, 10:00 PM

Based on this, do you think that Turks are Europeans (as Hektor12 claims)?

**Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas** · 02-13-2026, 10:50 PM

I think the conclusion is that they are more of an intermediate between European and Asian than strictly European. The samples from Europe that are closest to them are almost all from strange minorities that almost no one has heard of and that are not really of European origin, despite living in some regions of Europe (the Tatar peoples, for example).

**Aspirin** · 02-13-2026, 11:26 PM

Originally Posted by Peterski

Distance to: TUR_Edirne:Balkan-Turks
8.06349800 Europe_BG_Smolyan-Province-Pomak
9.30332199 Europe_BG_Kyustendil-Province
9.78064926 Europe_BG_Stara-Zagora-Province
9.88028846 Europe_UA_Sudak:Yaliboylu
9.91259300 Europe_BG_Bulgaria:Avg
9.94073438 Europe_GR_Macedonia
9.95172849 Europe_RO_Romania-Muntenia
10.02097800 Europe_BG_Gabrovo-Province
10.13933430 Europe_MD_Moldova-Gagauzia
10.53629916 Europe_GR_Chalkidiki

Real Turks acording to TA Turks

**NSXD60** · 02-13-2026, 11:59 PM

Turks are like the so-called Balts, save that they have a majority Med component mixed with Mongol, while the former have a PIE base mixed with said Mongol, with the proviso that Turks began as Mongols, unlike the Balts who were originally PIE. Turks should be called MEDgols, and Balts PIEgols.

**Hektor12** · 04-03-2026, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by s2k

Based on this, do you think that Turks are Europeans (as Hektor12 claims)?

I see this now, why nobody PMed me? Anyways.

1-Why do you count eastern non-Turkic ethnics and even Kurds but not western/europeans? Is it because theyre too beautiful to call Turk in your deep psychological complexes and insecurities?

2-Unlike you, my view on racial composition on Turks isnt a romantically biased, imaginary one. I see Turks as what they are, not like what i want them to be. Here you can find it but im %100 sure that you wouldnt dare do that.

Originally Posted by Hektor12

Now i dont want to look offensive, irritating or look like coercing people into something that they dont like so i want to let hard facts talk.

This is hard facts=

What do i see here? I see a lot of "Turks" penetrated into european cluster, in other words strictest definition of white. And in the future, there will be more, as Balkanites pulling us toword europe and also consider marriages with Russians, Germans, other europeans etc.

**Hektor12** · 04-03-2026, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by NSXD60

Turks are like the so-called Balts, save that they have a majority Med component mixed with Mongol, while the former have a PIE base mixed with said Mongol, with the proviso that Turks began as Mongols, unlike the Balts who were originally PIE. Turks should be called MEDgols, and Balts PIEgols.

A 2023 study suggested that modelled Sintashta-like ancestry is a major component of modern-day Turkic populations, especially in the western part of the Eurasian continental mass.[65] Historically, the Iranic‐speaking groups of the Central Steppes were progressively replaced by Turkic‐speaking populations from around the 2nd-3rd centuries CE.[66]

Most modern Turkic populations are a combination of an original Ancient Northeast Asian ancestry (ANA), best represented by Empress Ashina, with the later addition of Sintashta-like ancestry, and marginally with a generally small amount of Chinese Yellow River ancestry.[65] In the westernmost Turkic populations, ancestry is also exclusively derived from the Sintashta component, suggesting a significant part of the Turkic character of these populations is the result of cultural rather than demic diffusion.

**placebo** · 04-03-2026, 08:06 PM

As average mostly we are genetically closest to Azeris, Coastal Crimean Tatars and sometimes some Northern Caucasian ethnicities. But it depends regionally. Depending on the situation, there are also Turks who are genetically somewhat close to Anatolian & Pontic Greeks, Balkan ethnicities, Armenians, Georgians, Kurds and Iranians.

I think the most accurate thing I can say is that a Turkish is genetically closest to another Turkish. Mostly region doesn't matter except few places.

**Rumata** · 04-03-2026, 08:15 PM

Turkey could have a lot of Circassian genetics but no one knows how big it could be since everyone is counted as a Turk there.

Also, Mariupol Greeks came there from Crimea while there were Greeks from Anatolia who in big numbers migrated to Georgia around 150 years ago.

**placebo** · 04-03-2026, 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by Rumata

Turkey could have a lot of Circassian genetics but no one knows how big it could be since everyone is counted as a Turk there.

Also, Mariupol Greeks came there from Crimea while there were Greeks from Anatolia who in big numbers migrated to Georgia around 150 years ago.

There are many Circassians but not as many as people exaggrate. There are more Albanians and Georgians in Turkey than Circassians. Also probably more Bosnians than Circassians as well. However these test results don't include non-Turks.