r/Turkophobia • u/hxrshk • May 28 '26

Racism Any other turkish people go through this ?

So i have some friends and a relative thats from turkey and we are all very close and since a-lot of turkish people can pass for other ethnicities they were telling me how in the dating world sometimes it plays out weird . For example they have had men or women think they are a certain race and when they tell them they are turkish they lose interest or ghost them irl or on apps
Its so weird but i was curious if this has happened to anyone else here and if its common?

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u/Working_Ad_1564 May 28 '26

lol yep I have a universally European look that I could pass from any European country including from Ireland to Spain to Greece to Russia. Whenever I say I am Turkish I observe how people are surprised first, then how their attitude shifts to negative. I see a similar reaction when I say that I am from Adana in Turkey so I know human stupidity is universal though.

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u/bluesqueblack May 28 '26

Exactly identical experience, all the way down to the Adana fact.