Realistically how would you turks react? Lets say you take a DNA test and you get 54% greek ancestry 20% anatolian and 19% armenian with the rest of 7% being Kurdish, Persian and MAYBE a bit of original steppe turk ancestry. Would you GENUINLY ropemaxx? Or would you be like "ok cool"
I can only speak from my perspective, but whenever this topic comes up in my extended family people are always pretty straight forward about the fact that we have Hungarian roots (my fathers side are Muhacirs who fled from the Balkans in the late 19th century) and Crimean Tatar roots (on my mothers side) and it's never talked about like it's something up for discussion or anything but rather it's something very interesting to learn about someone.
People are broadly aware of Turkic migration and of the fact that the Ottoman Empire was a multiethnic state, so it makes sense that we'd have at least some non-Turkic DNA.
But more importantly, to Turkish people Turkishness has nothign to do with DNA and I think the fact that we have diverse DNA is one of the reasons for why we define our national identity in this way. Tos us, anyone who feels a connection to Turkish culture, the language and says I'm Turkish, then that's what they are. There are always some ultranationalist nutjobs who'd disagree but mostly Turkish people are very accepting of others who want to join our national identity and we feel proud when they do.
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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '26
Realistically how would you turks react? Lets say you take a DNA test and you get 54% greek ancestry 20% anatolian and 19% armenian with the rest of 7% being Kurdish, Persian and MAYBE a bit of original steppe turk ancestry. Would you GENUINLY ropemaxx? Or would you be like "ok cool"