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Re:The first genome data from ancient Egyptian mummies by danieltillett on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @05:41AM (#14451319)
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.
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Re:The first genome data from ancient Egyptian mummies by hasenj on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @06:10AM (#14451395)
Are you saying that modern Turks in Turkey are just Greeks that converted to Islam?
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Re:The first genome data from ancient Egyptian mummies by nurettin on Thursday June 01, 2017 @01:17AM (#14458159)
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)
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Re:The first genome data from ancient Egyptian mummies by hasenj on Thursday June 01, 2017 @06:36AM (#14459203)
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.
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Re:The first genome data from ancient Egyptian mummies by danieltillett on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @08:24AM (#14451896)
Well not Greeks (in the main), but Anatolians I guess. Certainly not Central Asian.
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Re:The first genome data from ancient Egyptian mummies by panglott on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @09:43AM (#14452407)
There's a whole Wikipedia article on this, interestingly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_studies_on_Turkish_peo...
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