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No Turks in the region at that point in history. Turks are related to Mongols.

• danieltillett 9y ago
  Most Turks are decended from the original people of Turkey - a bit like Hungary where it is very hard to find any central asian genetic contribution in the modern Hungarian population. Genes != culture.
  • hasenj 9y ago
    Are you saying that modern Turks in Turkey are just Greeks that converted to Islam?
    • danieltillett 9y ago
      Well not Greeks (in the main), but Anatolians I guess. Certainly not Central Asian.
      • panglott 9y ago
        There's a whole Wikipedia article on this, interestingly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_studies_on_Turkish_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_studies_on_Turkish_peo...
    • nurettin 9y ago
      Although culturally Turks prefer the middle asia hun and monolian origin narrative, they are genetically mostly descendants of the anatolians who happened to live and breed there already for many millenia. Those people didn't suddenly disappear. This contrast between culture and genetics is confusing to many turks (me included)
      • hasenj 9y ago
        That's what I think happened to other countries in the region as well. I'm from Iraq and speak Arabic but I don't think my ancestors are from the "Arabian peninsula", we just adopted the language. It also explains why "dialects" of Arabic can be so different.