Posted on 06/13/2021 12:52:23 PM PDT by euram
The Turkish DNA Project, an online endeavor to track Turkish genetics, is enraged at the popular genealogy site Ancestry.com and has called for it to be boycotted for stating an inconvenient truth: many, and possibly most, modern Turks are the descendants of the Greeks who once formed the overwhelming majority of the population of the land that is now Turkey. In this as in so many other instances, the truth hurts, but that doesn’t make it any less the truth.
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And the others are Caucasian Armenians.
That explains the prison guard in Midnight Express.
Enraged Turks....keep moving.
Well, at least they’re not French.
My DIL is supposedly half Greek and half Polish. We did her ancestry test and she’s 48% Scandinavian, about 25% Eastern European, and a little German and English. I mean I traced her great grandparents to a little town in Greece from where they emigrated to America...and yet absolutely no Greek ancestry. Turns out Albanians and Vikings had a huge presence in Greece for centuries so there’s very few pure Greek ppl in that country. Her dad was super shocked, lol.
Wouldn’t be bad being Greek. Where do they wish they were from?
It would be interesting if there had been DNA testing back in the 20s when they did the Great Reset after World War I. Turks who lived in Greece had to go back to Turkey. Greeks who lived in Turkey had to go back to Greece.
Would explain various similarities...
“Historical” information from my maternal grandmother’s side of the family had my grandmother as mostly Lebanese. Her daughter (my aunt) was tested a couple of years ago and found out she’s close to 50% Greek/Italian, which we believe to be Greek when looking at the family history very closely. All sorts of reasons why people called themselves a certain nationality back in the day.
That’s a Babylon Bee level title there!
Convert or pay the second-class citizen tax and get nowhere in society - how you convert locals to Muslim Arabs/Turks (depending on which country we are talking about).
Then after generations of referring to your family as Arab/Turk Muslim, it is an “insult” to know your family was really just traitors to the locals.
those tests are based on probabilities and are not to be taken as conclusive.
Mine came back with a percentage Native American which is nonsense. My grandparents were immigrants from Eastern Europe.
....and the people of Türkiye have Raki...
Talk to actual people from Greece and Türkiye and, just like the booze, you'll find more similarities than dissimilarities.
I got an idea, let’s go to war over Cyprus again.
Majority Greek? No, Turkoman, Kurds and Cossacks.
Throw in a Syrian or two...
5.56mm
The Turks raped their way across Asia and eastern Europe for 1000 years, capturing slaves and selling them in the Istanbul markets.
My early childhood was spent in Istanbul and I have kept an interest in things Turkish ever since. I have always believed that the Turks and Greeks of today are essentially the same people except for their religion. Their traditional foods are almost identical even, with the Turkish versions being a little heavier.
Greeks who converted to Islam. Damn…
This reminds me of why Nathan Bigby divorced his wife after so many years of marriage.
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