This person could have been Greek Ptolemaic also. The Ptolemies were Greek.
He also could’ve been a Galatian Celt from not too far away modern Turkey.
King David of Israel is reported to have had red hair also.
It’s little understood that modern-day Turks (and the name of the country) are foreign to that geographical territory, Anatolia or Asia Minor. The Muslim Turks came from northeast of Anatolia about a thousand years ago.