Turks (Turkey)

its like ethnicity isnt strictly genetic and is based more on language that is imposed from the top and doesnt actually change the genetic composition of the people living there or something

It's a physical crossroads between three major sections of the world. There gonna be some demographic shifts over time.

>>2531495

Today's Anatolians have the same genes as the ancient Anatolians. They just speak an Asian language now and practice an Arabian religion.

>>2531495
Race mixing

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>>2531612
the turkish language moved from oghuz migrants during the great seljuq empire, which dissolved into a bunch of beyliks in anatolia afterwards
the first picture shows turks living in central asia, and they still look like that
during the ottoman era the upper classes looked like that (pic related)
assumably the majority of the population looked similar

>>2531495
That last group can't be Turks.
All the Turks I know either look Southern European or Kazakh. Maybe the diaspora is different but I've never seen an Arab looking one ever.

>>2531632
*assumably the majority of the population looked similar to how it did before the Seljuks invaded
I worded that poorly

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Turks have always been "white".

>>2531495

The "Turks" of Turkey are just cosplayers. They're not real Turks.

Similar to the FYROM "Macedonians".

Someone post that meme

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>>2531698

>>2531502
>It's like
People that start a sentence like that should be shot desu

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>>2531495
Turks were Mongols?

>>2532123
they are cousins. similar language, tradition, religion.
Turks still use central asian names for their children etc.(cengiz, batu, kaan)

>>2531685
he's Georgian tho