While Turkish culture has inherited many attributes from their Central Asian Turkic forebears and Arab-Muslim brothers, they also share much with the Greek peoples who used to inhabit Thrace and Anatolia and are genetically closest to those European groups.
Turks are closest to native Anatolian populations with which they share in common with Greeks, rather than Greeks in particular, since those were first Hellenized as a result of Greek and Roman conquests then Turkified by Turkish ones.
RoT Turks’ ethnicity and culture cannot be separated from the history of Anatolia, which is a pitfall the Turkish govts loves to dive head first (Erdog govt also ignores Central Asian roots, but that’s another story).
While Turkish culture has inherited many attributes from their Central Asian Turkic forebears and Arab-Muslim brothers, they also share much with the Greek peoples who used to inhabit Thrace and Anatolia and are genetically closest to those European groups.
true, this community note gets rated 5 pinnochios, because, like you say, turks are 63% genetically white and 46% culturally white.
Turks are closest to native Anatolian populations with which they share in common with Greeks, rather than Greeks in particular, since those were first Hellenized as a result of Greek and Roman conquests then Turkified by Turkish ones.
RoT Turks’ ethnicity and culture cannot be separated from the history of Anatolia, which is a pitfall the Turkish govts loves to dive head first (Erdog govt also ignores Central Asian roots, but that’s another story).