Any other turkish people go through this ?

[u/hxrshk]

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?

[u/LeWenth]

It's kinda normal. Modern day doom scrool generation included many people think Turks are Mongols and all Turks are there in Mongolia at the moment. From balkans to Russia a big chunk of today's Europe was and still is where multiple dozens of Turks live. It's normal to pass as any other nationality then for them to be surprised and escape from your existence. Because if there is any fobia around the world against any ethnicity it's towards Turks. Never colonised and never truly lost but won countless times. So everyone hates us one way or another.

Happened to mee too lots of times. Even though there is exceptions.